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(AP) The Highway Patrol says up to 30 people have suffered injuries in the collision of a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest Ohio.A state police spokeswoman told The Associated Press early Wednesday that 1-75 south of ...
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(AP) Will gamers want One?After four years of development, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One entertainment console and touted it as an all-in-one solution for playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be central ...
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(AP) Detroit auto factories are forgoing their traditional two-week summer break and speeding up production to meet buyers' growing demand for new cars and trucks.Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday that 21 of its North American factories will shut for only one ...
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(AP) A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief.The new title for Kim Kyok Sik came in a dispatch Wednesday from the North's Korean Central News Agency ...
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(AP) Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of slain civil rights activist Malcolm X, has been buried at a cemetery in suburban New York.A spokeswoman for the family said Shabazz was laid to rest near his grandparents at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale ...
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(AP) Sergio Garcia is apologizing for saying he would "serve fried chicken" while making a joke about having Tiger Woods over for dinner.The British newspaper The Guardian reports Garcia was asked in jest while on stage at the European Tour's awards ...
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(AP) Alabama health officials say a mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in the southeastern part of the state.In a statement, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Mary McIntyre says seven people have been admitted to ...
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(AP) North Korea says that a "special envoy" for leader Kim Jong Un has left for China.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch Wednesday that the envoy was Choe Ryong Hae.There were no other details. Choe ...
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(AP) Los Angeles County prosecutors say they want to retry five former officials in the city of Bell who were accused of corruption and overpaying themselves with public funds.Spokeswoman Jean Guccione (goo-chee-OH'-nee) said Tuesday that prosecutors want a retrial after jurors ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama says a far-reaching immigration overhaul approved by a Senate panel is largely consistent with his own principles.He says the bill meets the challenge of fixing a broken U.S. immigration system.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill in ...
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(AP) Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech.The president was not exposed to ...
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(AP) Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of ...
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(AP) A look at the 867-page immigration overhaul bill approved Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee:___BORDER SECURITY_The bill sets goals of surveillance of 100 percent of the border with Mexico, and catching or turning back 90 percent of would-be crossers._Within six ...
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(AP) Japan reports its trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import costs.The preliminary figures reported by the Finance Ministry on Wednesday showed exports rose 3.8 percent from the ...
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(AP) The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council.In ...
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(AP) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar's government has made progress in reducing the recruitment of children into the armed forces but still needs to stamp out the practice.Ban's comments came as Myanmar President Thein Sein was making a landmark visit ...
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(AP) A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.The clause is common in divorce cases in Texas and other states. It prevents a divorced ...
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(AP) Volkswagen is replacing the fuel tank covers on more than 200,000 of its diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. and Canada to remind owners to fill their tanks with diesel _ not gasoline.The company said Tuesday it's taking action after ...
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(AP) New York City police say there have been two more reports of possible anti-gay attacks, following the killing of a gay man taunted with homophobic slurs.Police spokesman Paul Browne says the attacks occurred Monday and early Tuesday.In one, a 45-year-old ...
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(AP) Lives were forever changed in a few short minutes as a large tornado battered the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens. The storm tore apart one elementary school and severely damaged another; it ...
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(AP) A Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Hawaii whose months-long disappearance lead to a massive search is admitting to desertion, saying he spent three months camping in the mountains of Oahu and didn't plan on ever returning to his job.Petty Officer ...
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(AP) Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is ducking questions about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment.The video has not been released publicly and there is no way to verify whether it ...
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(AP) Republicans controlling the House are pressing ahead with slashing cuts to domestic programs far deeper than the cuts departments like Education, Interior and State are facing under an already painful round of automatic austerity.Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security and the Pentagon ...
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(AP) The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.New details on the administration's budget request for next year and other expenses emerged on Tuesday. The cost of ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he plans to appoint Clark County elections chief Larry Lomax to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a panel designed to improve voters’ access to the polls. Lomax, who earlier this year announced his ...
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(AP) Selected quotes on the Royal & Ancient and U.S. Golf Association approving Rule 14-1b, which bans in 2016 the anchored stroke commonly used with long putters:"We are doing what we think is right for the long-term benefit of the game ...
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(AP) A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on cellphone video has pleaded guilty in exchange for a two-year prison sentence.Uriel Landeros had faced felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges accusing him ...
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(AP) A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto Rico.Puma Energy Caribe LLC says 56 gas stations across the island will participate in the program starting Wednesday. ...
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(AP) The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not ...
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(AP) The federal government has given the job of compiling statistics used by the State Department to analyze trends in global terrorism to an academic group, a move that may complicate accurate unclassified assessments of patterns of terrorist activity for years ...
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