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This year has been anything but routine in Boston, after the deadly marathon bombings and the chaotic manhunt. But tonight, the traditional July Fourth show will go on as the Boston Pops performs amid bursts of fireworks. While the music and pyrotechnics will be familiar, the scene and mood are different.

A new handheld console doesn't have the appeal of the Nintendo Switch or the power of the Steam Deck, but it's got nostalgia and novelty galore.

President Bush was on the road Wednesday touting the $2.77 trillion budget he sent to Congress this week. The president found a receptive audience of business leaders in Manchester, N.H. But an independent survey of state voters at the end of December put Mr. Bush's approval rating at 36 percent.

The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a briefing of Bush administration officials on the decision to allow a state-run company from the United Arab Emirates to run cargo operations at several U.S. seaports. Many lawmakers from both parties are angry that they weren't consulted before the deal was made.

Seven Russian sailors remain trapped in a mini-submarine below the Pacific Ocean. Planes carrying robotic undersea vehicles from the United States and Great Britain landed in Russia's Far East on Saturday to aid in the rescue.

In all the noise and shouting over the NSA data gathering, the unspoken assumption is that the public must be outraged. But in fact, much of the public seems indifferent, and the political fallout may be less predictable than it seems.

Studies show that testing women in their 40s could save a small percentage of lives. But to some public health officials, it isn't worth the possible harm the excess testing causes. Cancer survivors and advocacy groups say the screening tool isn't perfect, but it's worth the risk.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine struck lines prohibiting cities from banning flavored tobacco and on mandatory vaccine bans at universities. But the income tax cut and the exemption to the state's main business tax stay in, though he did veto provisions related to those items.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is making a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina. The state's January presidential primary will be the first held in the southern U.S. and could provide a key test of Obama's viability with black voters.

Lance Cpl. Brian Parrello was 19 when he was killed by an IED; he was the only member of his platoon who didn't come home from Iraq. Since then, his fellow Marines have grown close to his parents.