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US: Living dead man's family must repay benefits 08/19/2014 11:00am • FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) -- The government wants to recoup benefits paid to the daughters of a man who was declared legally dead and then turned up alive years later.Donald Miller Jr. disappeared in the 1980s, and a death ruling in 1994 allowed his family to get Social Security benefits. When the 62-year- NBC's Brian Williams taking on new competition 08/19/2014 07:20am • DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Wearing shades as he walked back to work following a pizza lunch recently, Brian Williams ducked into Rockefeller Center and passed a tour guide who noted the celebrity sighting to his group: "Ladies and gentlemen, there's Tom Brokaw."The television Voters head to polls for special election Tuesday 08/18/2014 12:04pm • WASHINGTON - Tuesday is Election Day for some voters in Fairfax and Arlington counties. A special election Aug. 19 in the 48th House District will fill a seat left vacant by Del. Robert H. Brink, D-Arlington, who has taken a position with Gov. Terry McAuliffe's administration. Republican David M Montana Democrats choose new Senate candidate 08/17/2014 10:46am • MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Democrats on Saturday selected a little-known state lawmaker named Amanda Curtis as their candidate for U.S. Senate after Sen. John Walsh dropped out amid plagiarism allegations from his time at the U.S. Army War College.Curtis, a first-term r IRS failed to do background checks on contractors 08/15/2014 03:38pm • STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The IRS failed to do background checks on some private contractors who handled confidential taxpayer information, exposing more than a million taxpayers to an increased risk of fraud and identity theft, a government investigator said Thursday.In Gunmen wreak havoc in Caracas emergency rooms 08/14/2014 02:26pm • HANNAH DREIER Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- At first, the operating room doctors thought the quiet man in jeans was a distressed family member. One shouted at him to leave as another fought to save the gunshot patient unconscious on the table.The anesthesiologist was the first to see t 2 Alaska GOP US Senate candidates debate 08/14/2014 02:40am • BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- The two more conservative Republicans running for U.S. Senate in Alaska sought to distinguish themselves Wednesday evening in a rare head-to-head debate less than a week before the primary.Joe Miller and Mead Treadwell agreed on several issues, in Column: What is 2-step verification, and how do I use it? 08/13/2014 12:28pm • By Ken Colburn, Data Doctors PHOENIX -- Question: What exactly is 2-factor authorization and how do I use it? In my previous post, I outlined the steps everyone should take to protect themselves from password thieves, and that included using 2-factor authentication. It should be fairly ev Israel targeting mosques hurts Gaza social fabric 08/13/2014 07:38am • HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Only the minaret still stands after an Israeli airstrike reduced Gaza's Al-Qassam Mosque to a heap of concrete, iron rods and dust. Hours after the pre-dawn attack, rescue workers searched in the rubble, residents gathered -- a Police won't release name of officer who shot teen 08/13/2014 07:08am • ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton pressed police Tuesday to release the name of the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in suburban St. Louis, and he pleaded for calm after two nights of violent protests over the young man's death.Police sai US budget deficit running 24.2 percent below 2013 08/13/2014 05:56am • MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government ran a lower deficit this July than a year ago, keeping it on course to record the lowest deficit in six years.The July deficit was $94.6 billion, an improvement of 3.1 percent from a year ago, the Treasury Department rep Western countries struggling to keep tabs on terrorists 08/11/2014 06:55pm • WASHINGTON -- Every day, terrorists trained in Syria and Iraq travel freely back to their homes in Europe and the U.S., and counterterrorism officials can't keep up with all of them. "The more I work, the worse it gets," says Gilles de Kerchove, European Union counterterrorism coordinator. Market up slightly ... Facebook fight ... Kansas pension settlement 08/11/2014 06:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stocks registered gains today as investors focused on corporate news instead of geopolitical worries. Kinder Morgan surged after announcing that it would combine a group of businesses that it controls to create the fourth-biggest U.S. energy company by market value. Banana sell Navy professor resigns after racy photo inquiry 08/11/2014 05:58pm • JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A U.S. Naval War College professor has resigned following an investigation into a complaint that he took a racy photo that wound up online.John Schindler voluntarily resigned his post as a professor of national security affairs, effective Correction: GOP-2016-Social Conservatives story 08/11/2014 05:00pm • AMES, Iowa (AP) -- In a story Aug. 9 about potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates attending a conservative summit in Iowa, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Sen. Ted Cruz said the country should "appeal Obamacare." Cruz said "we should repeal Obamacare."A corrected version of the st