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President Barack Obama confronted a trio of controversies Thursday, pledging to work with Congress to ensure the IRS doesn't abuse its power, urging legislators to provide more money to strengthen security at U.S. diplomatic outposts and promising to seek "a balance" between national security and a need to protect freedom of the press.

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President Barack Obama says the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, has submitted his resignation in the aftermath of an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups.

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A stroller carrying a 14-month-old girl rolled off a slanted train station platform and fell onto the tracks Wednesday, but the girl's mother leaped onto the tracks to rescue her with the help other passengers, transit officials said.

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 Officials awaited daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury.

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A judge has declined to throw out a murder case against a man charged decades after an infamous 1979 child disappearance in New York City.

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House Speaker John Boehner wants to know, "Who's going to jail over this scandal?"

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Attorney General Eric Holder could face tough questioning today by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on topics ranging from the government's handling of intelligence before the Boston Marathon bombings to the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press.

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A man charged with murder decades after one of the nation's most infamous child disappearances is due to learn whether a judge believes there's enough evidence to bring the case to trial.

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A new criminal defense lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will continue to cooperate with investigators but says he plans to keep quiet about the details of her case publicly because that could hurt the investigation.

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Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries.

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