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A heart device might save your life but leave you miserable. That awful possibility is the reason for new advice urging doctors to talk more honestly with people who have very weak hearts and are considering pumps, pacemakers, new valves or procedures to open clogged arteries....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A senator with socialist leanings was among the first. Then there was Jerry of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. Stephen Colbert has tweeted in favor. And now people in at least 52 Vermont communities will use the bully pulpit of that New England institution, Town Meeting Day, to push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that corporations are not people....

MARYSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- This tiny Indiana farm town has no mayor, no school and no shopping center. And after last week's deadly tornadoes, it has virtually nowhere left to live....

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- As if gas prices weren't high enough, several states across the U.S. are looking to raise fuel taxes they say are needed to pay for roads and bridges that are outdated, congested and in some cases, dangerous....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Fifteen-month-old Angel Babcock seemed to be the miracle survivor of a deadly tornado that killed her parents and two siblings when she arrived Friday night at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky. Though critically injured when the twister scooped her up and deposited her in a field, Angel was opening her eyes. Hospital workers said that was a hopeful sign....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Members of an Islamic coalition stood in front of police headquarters with signs Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, saying the agency is doing what is necessary to protect the city - and Muslims....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States and Israel agree that diplomacy is the best way to resolve the crisis over potential Iranian nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama said Monday, an optimistic view that Israel's leader declined to publicly endorse....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Mets' owners must pay up to $83 million to the trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff investors, a judge said Monday, though he expressed doubt that the trustee will succeed in proving at a trial this month that he's entitled to as much as $300 million more....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his male roommate kissing another man days before the roommate killed himself has publicly apologized for the first time....

MOSCOW (AP) -- The Obama administration on Monday congratulated the Russian people for turning out to vote in big numbers in this weekend's presidential election but said it was concerned by allegations of massive fraud and pointedly did not mention victor Vladimir Putin by name....

CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney's allies are hoping Super Tuesday's powerful imprint on the Republican presidential nomination will bring clarity, at long last, to the fractious contest and rouse Republicans behind their front-runner. But that's strictly up to voters across the nation, weighing in on the most consequential day of the campaign to date....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Radio host Rush Limbaugh says his apology to the Georgetown law student he called a "slut" was sincere but he also is joking that he got a busy signal when he called his show to join advertisers who are abandoning it....

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- Crews pulled the body of a 4-year-old boy from a narrow, 30-foot-deep hole in Carlsbad early Monday, nearly two days after he disappeared while playing outside his home next door, state and local authorities said....

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico State Police say crews have recovered the body of a 4-year-old boy who fell down a hole in a Carlsbad neighborhood....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Venezuelan actress Eliana Lopez has become a symbol in a domestic violence case that has cast a shadow across the career of her husband - San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi....

WILLOW, Alaska (AP) -- To a rousing send-off from fans, dozens of dog sled teams took to the trail for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, embarking on a near thousand-mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he doesn't want war but insists he would attack Iran if that was the only option left to stop that nation from getting a nuclear weapon....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, is speaking at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....

CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney's allies are hoping Super Tuesday's powerful imprint on the Republican presidential nomination will bring clarity, at long last, to the fractious contest and rouse Republicans behind their front-runner. But that's strictly up to voters across the nation, weighing in on the most consequential day of the campaign to date....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will speak at the high school graduation ceremony in Joplin, the Missouri city slowly recovering after being struck by a devastating tornado a year ago....