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U.S. Top News: U.S. Postal Service ends fiscal year with smaller loss of $5 billion

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11/15/2013
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U.S. Postal Service ends fiscal year with smaller loss of $5 billion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service ended its 2013 fiscal year with a loss of $5 billion, down from nearly $16 billion the prior year, the mail agency said on Friday.
Prosecutor to make announcement on fatal Michigan porch shooting
(Reuters) - A county prosecutor was expected to announce on Friday whether charges will be filed against a suburban Detroit man who police said fatally shot a woman on his porch who had come to his house seeking help after a car crash.
One dead after fire hits Chevron Mississippi refinery
(Reuters) - A Chevron Corp worker was killed on Friday after a fire broke out at a cracking unit at the major U.S. oil company's 330,000 barrel per day Pascagoula, Mississippi refinery in the early morning hours.
Exclusive: U.S. official in July feared HealthCare.gov 'crash'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost three months before the botched launch of HealthCare.gov, a U.S. health official expressed frustration with a main contractor working on the website, fearing quality assurance issues could "crash the plane at take-off," according to government documents obtained by Reuters.
Anlaysis: In Texas courtroom, a battle resumes over race
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Last June the U.S. Supreme Court faced a question it has wrestled with repeatedly for more than a generation: When may universities consider a student's race in making admissions decisions?
CIA collecting data on international money transfers: media
(Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is collecting records of international money transfers under the same law that the National Security Agency uses to collect Americans' phone and Internet records, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Woman arrested after bomb found at Washington state hospital
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A 43-year-old Washington state woman was arrested after a bomb was found in a vehicle parked in front of a hospital roughly 30 miles outside of Seattle, the Bremerton Police Department said on Thursday.
Pennsylvania paper retracts editorial panning Gettysburg Address
(Reuters) - A Pennsylvania newspaper on Thursday retracted an 1863 editorial that dismissed President Abraham Lincoln's now revered Gettysburg Address delivered during the U.S. Civil War as "silly remarks" deserving a "veil of oblivion."
50 years after JFK's death, daughter takes public office in Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, arrived in Japan on Friday to take up her first high profile job in public office, making a late start to a political career for which her family is renowned.
U.S. Navy to declare Boeing's P-8A spy plane ready for use: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is expected to announce soon that Boeing Co's P-8A aircraft, a long-range maritime surveillance plane based on the company's 737 airliner, is ready for initial operational use, sources familiar with the program said.
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