| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | How bad are spending cuts? | | Forced government spending cuts, known in Washington jargon as sequestration, took effect a month ago amid doomsday predictions of freed criminals, weakened borders and a crippled military. |
| Murray: I'm a scapegoat in death | | The doctor convicted in Michael Jackson's death, speaking from his jail cell, said he "did nothing wrong" and unexpectedly serenaded Anderson Cooper. |
| Evan Ebel disabled ankle monitor | | It took five days for Colorado authorities to realize a parolee disabled his ankle monitor and fled, beginning what investigators would later say was a deadly crime spree that ended in a shootout in Texas, according to records released Tuesday. |
| Prosecutor killings | | As state and federal investigators flood this north Texas county searching for clues in the killing of two prosecutors in two months, the 100,000 people who live here can do little but nervously watch, and hope. |
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