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FILE - This April 15, 2013 file photo shows actress and musician Sarah Brightman in New York. Brightman plans on becoming the first recording artist to venture into space en route for the International Space Station sometime in the next two years. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP, File)

Sarah Brightman plans on upcoming space journey

If you called Sarah Brightman a space cadet, it would probably make her smile. That's because she plans on becoming the first recording artist to venture into space en route to the International Space Station sometime in the next two years. The classically trained singer-actress always wanted to explore the ...

Massachusetts State Police walk out of the woods of The Smith Neck Farm in Dartmouth, Mass. on Friday, May 3, 2013 as federal, state and local authorities on Friday searched the woods near the UMass-Dartmouth campus as part of the marathon investigation. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, John Sladewski)

Boston bomb suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday. Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev's "gunshot wounds of torso ...

US orders new visa checks for arriving students

The U.S. Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the country has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston Marathon ...

Hill aides: White House recalculates spending cuts

The White House budget office is recalculating how to apply automatic spending cuts for a handful of agencies, freeing up almost $4 billion for the Pentagon and another $1 billion or so for other agencies like the Homeland Security Department and NASA. Capitol Hill aides familiar with the White House ...

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., right, accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gestures as he speaks during a bipartisan group of leading senators to announce that they have reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rubio says a new immigration bill he helped write needs stronger border security provisions or it will fail in the House and may even have trouble getting through the Senate. Rubio, who is the chief emissary to conservatives on the contentious legislation, said he’s been hearing concerns in recent days that more work is needed to boost the bill’s language on the border and he said he’s committed to trying to make those changes.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rubio seeks to boost border language in new bill

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says a new immigration bill he helped write needs stronger border security provisions or it will fail in the House and may even have trouble getting through the Senate. Rubio, who is the chief emissary to conservatives on the contentious legislation, said in a radio ...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel escorts British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond into the Pentagon, Thursday, May 2, 2013, through an honor cordon prior to their meeting.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hagel: US rethinking possibly arming Syrian rebels

The Obama administration is rethinking its opposition to arming the rebels who have been locked in a civil war with the Syrian regime for more than two years, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday, becoming the first top U.S. official to publicly acknowledge the reassessment. During a Pentagon news conference ...

President Barack Obama leaves Air Force One upon his arrival at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Obama is traveling on a three-day trip to Mexico an Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, Mexican president talk economy, security

Acknowledging uncertainty ahead, President Barack Obama said Thursday the U.S. will cooperate with Mexico in fighting drug-trafficking and organized crime in any way Mexico's government deems appropriate. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto emphasized that the security relationship must be expanded to focus on trade and commerce. Appearing alongside Pena Nieto ...

House chairman renews criticism of VA bonuses

A House committee chairman renewed his criticism Thursday of the bonuses paid to senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department and called on the VA to recoup a nearly $63,000 bonus given to an official who oversaw a Pittsburgh hospital where an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease killed five veterans. Rep. ...

Navy unveils first squadron of drones

The Navy is inaugurating its first squadron with unmanned aircraft, formally adopting drone technology amid debate over its growing use in warfare. Military officials will launch the maritime strike squadron called "Magicians" on Thursday at the Naval Air Station North Island base on Coronado, near San Diego. The squadron will ...

Princess Tarinan von Anhalt works on one of her paintings Tuesday, April 30, 2013 on the West Palm Beach, Fla. airport tarmac. Princess Tarinan von Anhalt's creative process involves hurling paint into a Learjet engine, splattering the colors onto a canvas to create the abstract designs for which she has become known. Tuesday's demonstration is part of an event by a private jet services company and an art group to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Learjet. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Artist replaces paintbrush with jet engine thrust

The hurricane-force thrust from a jet engine pushes Tarinan von Anhalt into the air as she splatters an array of colors into the wind and onto a blank canvas to create the abstract designs she has become known for. Instead of paintbrushes, she uses $10 million jet engines from a ...

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