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(AP) Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.The Canadian government said that new U.S. country of origin labeling regulations announced ...
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(AP) Researchers examining the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut say they have found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among workers.The researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University ...
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(AP) The run-up in stock prices this year could tempt even the most hands-off investor to wade into their 401(k) and make some changes.The Dow Jones industrial average, Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes are each up more than 20 ...
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(AP) Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death ...
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(AP) A parking garage partially collapsed Thursday outside a shopping mall in suburban Maryland, and officials said one construction worker died after being trapped under a concrete slab.Montgomery County rescuers worked to stabilize the structure for more than four hours to ...
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(AP) A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner was replaced Thursday as director of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told ...
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(AP) Procter & Gamble says it is replacing CEO Bob McDonald with former CEO A.G. Lafley, effective immediately.Lafley, 65, served as CEO at the world's largest consumer goods maker from 2000 to 2009. He will also take the chairman title.McDonald, who ...
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(AP) Consumers will soon see labels on their meat telling them where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has required country of origin labels on seafood since 2005, and meat and other products since 2009.But the ...
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(AP) Schoolchildren from New Jersey shore communities battered by Superstorm Sandy will join Michelle Obama for a garden harvest next week.The White House says the first lady will also be joined Tuesday by students who helped plant the crops last month.The ...
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(AP) A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers is in full view again with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of using tactics that might tempt Democrats to change Senate rules that now protect the minority party.How to deal ...
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(AP) U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner says he is resigning from Congress effective in August to take a post with the University of Alabama system.Bonner, a six-term Alabama Republican and a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced his resignation Thursday afternoon. ...
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(AP) New York police say three accomplices to a brutal monthlong kidnapping of a businessman have fled to Ecuador.Police said Thursday that detectives were also looking for a man in New York City. He was seen on surveillance footage at a ...
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(AP) A New Hampshire woman convicted of using her teenage daughter to produce child pornography has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.The 43-year-old Manchester lawyer didn't testify at her trial but said at Thursday's sentencing her world crashed and her ...
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(AP) Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney.Detective David Holmes says the department has had the tapes for a couple of weeks and Robbery-Homicide Division and the Los Angeles County district ...
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(AP) Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved.The investigation involved 10 people who became sick and were admitted to hospitals ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama defended the United States' use of drone attacks as an important part of the U.S. counterterrorism policy on Thursday but signed new presidential policy guidelines to spell out for Congress and the public the standards that the ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is providing more Hurricane Sandy disaster relief to New York, increasing the share of public assistance that the government will pay from 75 percent to 90 percent of the cost.The change would mean a significant increase in ...
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(AP) The marketing people at Chevrolet make no secret of the goal for the new diesel version of the Chevrolet Cruze: Take sales from Volkswagen.In fact, they're rolling out the car in 13 markets where VW sells the most diesel versions ...
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(AP) Merck & Co. says it is ending development of an experimental Parkinson's disease drug because the drug wasn't working.Merck says it reviewed initial data from three late-stage clinical trials and did not find evidence preladenant was more effective than a ...
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(AP) Campbell Soup says it's buying Plum Organics, which makes food for babies and kids, for an undisclosed amount as it looks to move into faster-growing categories.The company, based in Camden, N.J., had been struggling to increase sales of its canned ...
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(AP) Almost every pro golfer has a story about an ill-timed phone ring or camera click that ruined a shot.The Memorial is taking steps to minimize those distractions.The tournament, which tees off next week, will have a cadre of volunteers in ...
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(AP) Fuzzy Zoeller says he's "paid his dues" after his infamous remarks about Tiger Woods ordering fried chicken for the Masters champions dinner, and believes similar comments made by Sergio Garcia will eventually blow over.Garcia apologized to Woods after saying at ...
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(AP) Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to send a former Michigan Supreme Court justice to prison for bank fraud.The U.S. government filed a sentencing memo in the case against Diane Hathaway ahead of a hearing next Tuesday in Ann Arbor ...
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(AP) The attorney for a New York man imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s says his client doesn't have the virus that causes AIDS.Nushawn Williams' lawyer says Williams' blood was recently examined by the ...
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(AP) Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing.Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder announced on Thursday that 36-year-old Henry Burrell, of ...
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(AP) The Christian Brothers have agreed to pay more than $16 million to people who were molested as children by members of the U.S. religious order.The settlement was announced Thursday by attorneys for the Roman Catholic group and for more than ...
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(AP) Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas.The force says two women and seven men in the city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira are in custody ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen in his renewed effort to close the prison.Obama suspend transfers there in January 2010 after a would-be bomber attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound flight ...
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(AP) The U.S. is expressing concern over increased attacks on religious minorities in Indonesia, but human rights groups accuse Washington of downplaying the problem as it looks to forge stronger relations with Jakarta.Muslim-majority Indonesia has emerged as Southeast Asia's most robust ...
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(AP) BIG PLANS: Johnson & Johnson says it's poised by 2017 to seek regulatory approval for a dozen new medicines and two dozen variations of existing ones.BIG IMPACT: Two experimental medicines could transform current treatments. One is an antidepressant that appears ...
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