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AP Photos: Americans honor troops for Memorial Day

|Monday, May. 28, 2012

Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed flags on 42,000 graves. At Dover Air Force Base, the remains of fallen soldiers are returned to their families. In Afghanistan, the top U.S. commander reads a 23-year-old's letter to his family that he had prepared to be read in the event of his death.Read more

Campaigns mine online data to target voters

| |Monday, May. 28, 2012

Voters who click on President Barack Obama's campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites they visit. Voters searching Google for information about Mitt Romney may notice a 15-second ad promoting the Republican presidential hopeful the next time they watch a video online.Read more

Obama to honor fallen troops on Memorial Day

| |Monday, May. 28, 2012

President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the nation's fallen warriors on Memorial Day, attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and honoring those who died during the Vietnam War.Read more

Quotations of the day

|Monday, May. 28, 2012

"It's difficult to imagine that the Syrian government would not only shell and mortar but also use point-blank execution against 40 plus women and 30 plus children under age 10. This is definitely the atrocity that has to be investigated." - Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Alexander Pankin on allegations that the Syrian government attacked residential areas of the town of Houla.Read more

Tropical Storm Beryl could snarl holiday traffic

| |Monday, May. 28, 2012

Tropical Storm Beryl threatened to snarl traffic on Memorial Day as it brought drenching rain, winds and the possibility of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coast.Read more

AP News Alert

|Sunday, May. 27, 2012

Tropical Storm Beryl making landfall in northeastern Fla.; rain, winds lash coast.Read more

Quebec students, government to resume negotiations

|Sunday, May. 27, 2012

Quebec students and the provincial government return to the bargaining table on Monday in a high-stakes attempt to put an end to a months-long dispute over tuition hikes that has led to clashes with police and mass arrests.Read more

Missing La. student's bike found under bridge

|Sunday, May. 27, 2012

A missing Louisiana woman's bicycle has been found in a remote, swampy area under a highway bridge in Iberville Parish, about 25 miles from the spot where she was last seen eight days earlier.Read more

Video captures plane before it crashes, killing 4

| |Sunday, May. 27, 2012

Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said Sunday.Read more

3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho

| |Sunday, May. 27, 2012

Hours after their plane crashed on a steep and snowy mountainside in Idaho, a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter were airlifted to safety by National Guard rescuers.Read more