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WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department (search) will not gain authority to order shootdowns of threatening aircraft over the nation’s capital, officials said Tuesday, eliminating possible confusion between its role and the Pentagon’s during emergencies. Questions over whether Homeland Security could take down planes surfaced after a single-engine Cessna (search) …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Federal Trade Commission is urging the Motion Picture Association of America to reconsider guidelines that allow some PG-13 movies to be marketed to young children, following a complaint by an advocacy group that the blockbuster film “Transformers” was inappropriately advertised to children as young as 2. …

JAIPUR, India – Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead. Authorities suspect Islamic militants were behind the blasts, and they moved quickly to stop …