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(AP) Democrats seal 60-vote majority to advance health care bill; Landrieu, Lincoln to vote 'yes'WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing ...

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Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby

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(AP) A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.Expectant father Randolph Bresnik and Michael Foreman were so far ahead despite their late start and interrupted sleep the night before _ false fire and decompression alarms ...

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5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping

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(AP) Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.Long Beach Police Lt. Ty Hatfield says one of the victims told Poly High School officials they were groped on their breasts and buttocks during a ...

Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients

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(AP) A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder.Capt. Michael Fontana was accused of administering excessive dosages of painkillers to speed the patients' deaths.Presiding over the court martial Saturday, Col. William Burd said Fontana was not ...

Suspicious note and package found at Fort Benning

2 hours, 57 minutes ago

(AP) A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat.Bob Purtiman says a soldier found the note and package Thursday morning in an outdoor gazebo. The soldier immediately told a supervisor, who called 911.Purtiman would ...

Lawyer: Ex-Air Force nurse sped patients' deaths

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(AP) A prosecutor has told a court martial that a former Air Force nurse killed three terminally ill patients with excessive medication because they were not dying quickly enough.Capt. Michael Fontana could face life in prison if he is convicted of murder.During closing arguments Saturday at Lackland Air Force Base, Capt. ...

A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US

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(AP) Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.He pulls a protest sign from his maroon 1961 Volkswagen van _ he has 30 to 40 stashed inside _ and joins a one-hour peace vigil at the Benton County courthouse in Corvallis, Ore. Epley ...

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Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

4 hours, 56 minutes ago

(AP) Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.When the machine is fully operational, its magnets will control the beams of protons and send them in opposite directions through two parallel ...

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

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(AP) Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online _ stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said in a ...

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More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving

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(AP) The AAA auto club says a few more Americans will be traveling away from home for Thanksgiving this year, though most people are making their holiday treks by car.The group says about 33.2 million people will travel by car this year, a 2.1 percent jump from 2008. The numbers were ...

EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

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(AP) Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset and pet llama, and see an ...

NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare

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(AP) A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.Multiple media outlets reported a federal jury found 21-year-old Larry Whitfield not guilty of murder Friday in the death ...

Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers

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(AP) Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness. Now some say the situation is getting worse.A poor economy and cuts to institutional programs threaten to overwhelm personnel trained to deal with crime and vehicle accidents, not mental crises.In Burlington, Vt., ...

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Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal

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(AP) Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however, Ukraine's economic collapse has produced a potential multibillion-dollar bonanza. In an era of climate ...

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Report finds wide disparities in gifted education

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(AP) A new report says gifted children are being ignored in the U.S., as most federal education funding goes to help struggling students learn the basics."State of the States in Gifted Education," released Nov. 12 by the National Association for Gifted Children, says many states and counties are then left to ...

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