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Air Force Test Paves Way for Hypersonic Cruise Missile

14 minutes ago |AOL News

U.S. Air Force

(May 26) -- The Air Force today successfully completed the first test of an air vehicle that may someday lead to a weapon that travels at up to six times the speed of sound. Known as the X-51A WaveRi ...

Can Obama Really Trust Global Institutions?

23 minutes ago |AOL News

Mike Groll, AP

WASHINGTON (May 25) -- Underlying President Barack Obama's new National Security Strategy is a simple bottom line: It takes a global village to heal the world. Cowboy diplomats? Time to ride into the ...

Would You Want to Live in a Serial Killer's House?

43 minutes ago |AOL News

(May 26) -- If you're in the market for an "excellent handyman's special," you might want to check out a two-story ranch-style house that's for sale in East Meadow, N.Y. What the property listing doe ...

'Transformer' Touted as Next-Gen Combat Drone

1 hour 32 minutes ago |AOL News

(May 26) -- It takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane and doesn't need a pilot. That's what one U.S. aerospace company is proposing as the latest in combat drones. Maryland-based American Dy ...

Late-Day Slide in Stocks Sends Dow Below 10,000

1 hour 57 minutes ago |AP

NEW YORK (May 26) -- A drop in the euro set off a late-day slide in stocks Wednesday and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its first close below 10,000 in nearly four months. The Dow, up 135 p ...

NY Cigarette Recycling Plan Would Put Butts to Work

2 hours 2 minutes ago |AOL News

Justin Sullivan, Getty Images

(May 26) -- Even with U.S. smoking rates near a historic low, you don't have to look far to find a spent cigarette on the ground. Cities and towns have for years launched anti-littering public-awaren ...

Ark. Police Mourn Officers Slain by Armed Teen, Dad

3 hours 25 minutes ago |AOL News

Mike Brown, Commercial Appeal /Landov

(May 26) -- West Memphis, Ark., Police Chief Bob Paudert has returned to work, but his force is two men short. The department is still mourning the loss of two officers -- including Paudert's son -- ...

'People Are Funny' Host Art Linkletter Dies at Age 97

3 hours 28 minutes ago |PopEater

Damian Dovarganes, AP

(May 26) -- Art Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97.

BP Begins 'Top Kill,' Concedes 'Failure' to Protect Coast

4 hours 20 minutes ago |AOL News

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BATON ROUGE, La. (May 26) -- BP began its unprecedented effort to plug a mile-deep blowout in the Gulf of Mexico -- a "top kill" operation that will pump heavy fluids into its gushing oil well. The ...

Freezing Away Fat Is Popular Procedure

4 hours 25 minutes ago |AOL News

Jeff Haynes, AFP / Getty Images

(May 26) -- Just in time for swimsuit season, some Americans desperate to trim their waistlines are opting for a new cosmetic procedure that freezes off the body's fat cells. Cryolipolysis has been a ...

Activist Pleads Guilty in Sen. Landrieu Phone Case

4 hours 58 minutes ago |AOL News

Patrick Semansky, AP

(May 26) -- Conservative activist James O'Keefe and three accomplices who were arrested in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office during their "sting operation" pleaded guilty today to misdemeanor charges of en ...

Netanyahu to Meet Obama at White House Next Week

5 hours 6 minutes ago |AOL News

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JERUSALEM (May 26) -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel may not have brought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an invitation to his son's bar mitzvah here Friday, but he brought something even ...