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(AP) After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court.The Senate on Thursday confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court is considered ...
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(AP) Leonard Marsh _ the co-founder of the Snapple beverage brand _ has died at age 80.Snapple was founded in New York as Unadulterated Food Products in 1972, selling natural fruit juices to health food stores. Marsh started the business with ...
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(AP) Baz Luhrmann's big screen adaption of "The Great Gatsby" is shining a spotlight on Roaring Twenties glam fashions, from drop-waist dresses and head scarves to crisp bow ties and spectator shoes. But you don't need a wallet the size of ...
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(AP) Kerry Kennedy has joined farmworkers protesting outside Wendy's shareholder meeting in New York City.The protesters said Thursday they want Wendy's to sign an agreement to safeguard working conditions for Florida tomato pickers.Other fast-food chains including McDonald's and Burger King have ...
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(AP) McDonald's once again faced criticism that it's a purveyor of junk food that markets to children at its annual shareholder meeting Thursday.The world's biggest hamburger chain has been looking to keep up with changing tastes as people increasingly opt for ...
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(AP) When Chris Williams found out he was the No. 1 ranked amateur golfer in the world, it came in the same way he's learned about many of the other accolades in his career.Someone else told him."It was when my buddy ...
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(AP) For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept ...
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(AP) A prosecutor says a woman on trial in Tucson contaminated her hospitalized infant daughter's intravenous lines in an attempt to get attention from the girl's father.The Arizona Daily Star ( http://bit.ly/12xG3Qo) reports that 23-year-old Blanca Reneis Montano is charged with ...
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(AP) Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program.In a confidential report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said this week that Iran has ...
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(AP) Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets.But its rich history and contributions to Islamic art has languished.The city has seen some of its ...
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(AP) A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case.During a hearing Thursday Chiheb ...
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(AP) A government spokesman says at least 15 people were injured, four of them by bullet wounds, during a protest in Guinea's capital between opposition parties and security forces. The clashes are the latest iteration in the ongoing fight between the ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is condemning what he calls an "appalling attack" that killed a British soldier Wednesday.Two men have been accused of butchering the soldier with knives and a meat cleaver on a London street while horrified bystanders watched.Obama said ...
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(AP) Turkish lawmakers on Thursday began debating a bill that bans all alcohol advertising and tightens restrictions on sales of such beverages _ a proposal the government insists is aimed at protecting the young from the ills of spirits but which ...
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(AP) Kerry Kennedy has joined farmworkers protesting outside Wendy's shareholder meeting in New York City.The protesters said Thursday they want Wendy's to sign an agreement to safeguard working conditions for Florida tomato pickers.Other fast-food chains including McDonald's and Burger King have ...
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(AP) A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.The U.S. Geological Study says populations of frogs, salamanders and toads have been ...
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(AP) Ralph Nader has lost his bid to punish Democrats he has accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine during his failed presidential run in 2004.On Thursday, Maine's highest court affirmed a judge's dismissal of several counts of ...
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(AP) A San Francisco State University professor is drawing scrutiny for a class assignment that asked students to create a political campaign ad.The San Francisco Chronicle reports ( http://bit.ly/14CHwr5) Joe Tuman gave the students the option to create the ad for ...
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(AP) South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya's post-election violence in 2007-08 ...
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(AP) Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally objectionable, such as certain types of contraception.The arts-and-crafts chain ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of commerce is facing scrutiny in the Senate for her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001 and as a beneficiary of family offshore trusts in the Bahamas.Billionaire business executive Penny ...
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(AP) A well-known firm that advises big shareholders on how to vote in elections for company directors is paying a $300,000 fine to settle federal civil charges of failing to protect clients' confidential voting information.Institutional Shareholder Services agreed to the penalty ...
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(AP) Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
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(AP) Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a boy missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured a day earlier at a St. Paul park.St. Paul Assistant Fire Chief Jim Smith told reporters that crews found ...
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(AP) The parents of a 2-year-old boy who fell into a wild African dogs exhibit and was mauled to death last fall have sued the Pittsburgh zoo.The lawsuit filed Thursday claims that officials had ample warning that parents routinely lifted children ...
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(AP) Former World War II Army squad leader and Medal of Honor recipient Vernon McGarity has died at the age of 91.Taylor Loeffel, a spokeswoman for Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, says McGarity died of cancer Tuesday night in Memphis.President ...
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(AP) A criminal court in Macedonia's capital has sentenced 86 employees of a road management company to prison terms ranging from eight months to more than six years for involvement in a massive highway toll scam.A court announcement says the defendants ...
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(AP) The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered nine months ago after a salmonella outbreak is making nut butter again.Sunland Inc. Vice President Katalin Coburn tells the Portales News-Tribune ( http://bit.ly/10OJvDX) the company's products could be back on store shelves ...
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(AP) Another round of military base closings is going nowhere in Congress.The Obama administration wants another round. But the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee passed a bill Thursday to block any base closings in the U.S.Republican Robert Wittman of Virginia is ...
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(AP) The head of the European golf tour has apologized for using the term "colored" during a live television interview in which he was reacting to the spat between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia.European Tour CEO George O'Grady said Thursday that ...
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