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WASHINGTON , Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is in a Washington hospital after shoulder replacement surgery following a bicycle accident. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg says the 74-year-old Breyer is expected to make a full recovery following the operation Saturday. Breyer injured his right shoulder in a fall Friday near the Korean War Veterans Memorial.

LONDON , Anti-war protesters demonstrated Saturday outside a Royal Air Force base used to control drone flights over Afghanistan. Until this week, British drones were operated only from a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada. The Ministry of Defense announced Thursday that a new drone-operating squadron had begun operating from RAF Waddington in eastern England.

The FAA said Saturday it is ending its furloughs of air traffic controllers, and said all service should be back to normal by Sunday night. Congress on Friday passed a bill ordering President Obama to cancel the furloughs, which had thrown airports into chaos and had enraged travelers.

KABUL, Afghanistan , A plane crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four international service members, NATO said. Initial reporting indicated there was no enemy activity in the area at the time, but coalition personnel secured the site and the cause of the crash was being investigated, NATO said.

BOSTON , The FBI has concluded its search of a landfill near a Massachusetts college where the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was a student. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says the two-day search ended Friday. Eimiller wouldn't say what investigators were looking for or whether they recovered anything from the landfill.

TUPELO, Miss. , A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has been arrested in the case, according to the FBI. Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested about 12:50 a.m. Saturday at his Tupelo home in connection with the letters, FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden said.

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KABUL, Afghanistan , The Taliban on Saturday announced the start of their spring offensive, signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and fighting easier. The statement comes toward the end of a month that already has been the deadliest of the year.

PYONGYANG, North Korea , North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.

DENVER , Recreational marijuana isn't officially legal yet in Colorado, but there's already talk of making it illegal again. A proposal under discussion in the state legislature would place a repeal measure on the November ballot. The repeal would take effect only if voters refused to approve a second measure to fund state costs associated with marijuana regulation.

WASHINGTON , The family of an former Marine detained in Iran is asking Secretary of State John Kerry to step in and demand his release. The mother, sister and brother-in-law of Amir Hekmati have been in Washington this week, meeting State Department officials and members of Congress.

A senator in New Jersey wants to recoup revenues lost from gas taxes on electric car drivers with a new fee that would charge them by the mile for their travels. The electric car tax would go toward state maintenance costs, USA Today reported. But the proposal is likely to dissuade buyers from making the move to clean-fuel cars.

A cautious White House said Friday it is trying to "firmly establish" that Syria's dictator has used chemical weapons against his opponents, a day after the Obama administration told lawmakers that the Syrian regime likely has launched attacks with the deadly gas sarin.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. , A federal appeals court has upheld a Missouri law banning protests within 300 feet of funerals but has struck down a broader law that could have kept protesters even further away. The decision Friday by a panel of the 8th U.S.

China's first aircraft carrier will get its first test on the high seas, as officials announced that Beijing will get a second, and even third, carrier soon, Chinese state media reported. The carrier Liaoning, which has been testing and training at Qingdao naval base in east China, is ready for its maiden ocean voyage, Col.