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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have finished the day higher, clawing back some of the ground they lost last week. Investors were encouraged by solid earnings from Citigroup and a pickup in retail sales last month. The government reported earlier today that U.S. retail sales notched their biggest increase since 2012 in March. February's numbers were also revised higher. The S&P 500 rose 14 points, with energy stocks rising the most. The Dow gained 146, while the Nasdaq rose 22 points.

WASHINGTON (AP) — According to the numbers-crunchers in Congress, the new health care law's health insurance subsidies are going to cost a little less than previously thought. The Congressional Budget Office now predicts the subsidies will total a little more than a trillion dollars over the next ten years, instead of the almost $1.2 trillion it had estimated earlier. Analysts say it's a result of tighter cost controls by insurance companies offering plans on the health care exchanges.

NEW YORK (AP) — The highest honors in American journalism are being given to the newspapers that broke the stories about the government's sweeping surveillance efforts -- stories that were based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The Washington Post and The Guardian were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in public service today. The prize for breaking news went to the Boston Globe for its coverage of the Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A cargo ship for the International Space Station will remain Earthbound for a while longer. With just over an hour before liftoff today, the Space X company called off the planned launch because of a rocket leak. A new launch date hasn't been set, but the next opportunity would be on Friday. The launch had already been delayed a month for various reasons.

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Neighbors of Megan Huntsman in Utah don't understand how she could have concealed a half-dozen pregnancies over a ten-year period. Police say Huntsman has told them she killed six of her newborns immediately after they were born, by either strangling or suffocating them, and then packing the bodies inside boxes in the garage of her home. A seventh baby appears to have been stillborn. Her estranged husband made the discovery Saturday while cleaning out the garage. Huntsman is in custody on six counts of murder.

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