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(AP) Reading, writing, `rithmetic _ and PE?The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and treat physical education as a core subject.The report says only about ...
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(AP) The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.WHO officials have reported another fatal case of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, in central Saudi Arabia, but ...
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(AP) Secretary of State John Kerry says he's all in for Palestinian shwarma.Kerry chomped one of the meat sandwiches after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.Asked what toppings he wanted, Kerry said, quote, "I want everything. I'm all ...
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(AP) The University of Nevada is honoring its longtime, former football coach by putting his name on the stadium.Nevada president Marc Johnson announced on Wednesday the home of the Wolf Pack will now be called Chris Ault Field at Mackay Stadium.The ...
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(AP) Authorities say a man has been arrested after claiming to be a member of the Walt Disney family and giving away invalid Disneyland passes.Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the man called himself "Stephen Disney" and had a fake driver's ...
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(AP) A former elementary school teacher who was on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives is due in federal court on a child pornography charge.Eric Justin Toth is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon in Washington.He was arrested in ...
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(AP) Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.Investigators from the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority arrested ...
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(AP) The father-in-law of missing Utah mother Susan Powell won't be released from prison Thursday, the Washington state Corrections Department said.Steve Powell has been serving time on voyeurism charges for secretly recording images of young neighbor girls. He was sentenced in ...
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(AP) A band of thunderstorms is battering the Oklahoma City area and slowing cleanup operations in the southern suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes earlier this week.The National Weather Service said Thursday that the storms ...
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(AP) Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians _ descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago _ and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said ...
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(AP) An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.The Thursday report by ISNA quotes an unnamed official in Iran's ...
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(AP) A court has banned what would have been Ukraine's first gay-pride demonstration.Kiev's district court on Thursday upheld a suit by city authorities, who argued that the rally would disturb annual Kiev Day celebrations and spark violence.Last year, organizers canceled the ...
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(AP) A Virginia landmark and tourism attraction once owned by Thomas Jefferson is up for sale.The privately owned Natural Bridge, north of Roanoke, is being put on the market, along with Natural Bridge Caverns and a 150-room hotel.Roanoke-based Woltz & Associates ...
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(AP) Russia's top military officer has voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel cuts in non-nuclear precision weapons.Thursday's statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to ...
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(AP) The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States.Ibragim Todashev, ...
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(AP) Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house.The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday the China Airlines flight landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International ...
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(AP) A senator says repeated sexual assaults in the military allow a culture to continue.Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand (KEHR'-sten JIHL'-uh-brand) of New York addressed the latest case at West Point. An Army sergeant is charged with secretly taking pictures and video of ...
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(AP) A former prime minister whose party won Bulgaria's May 12 election says his party doesn't have enough seats in parliament to form a stable government.Boiko Borisov made that decision Thursday, saying his center-right GERB party only has 97 of parliament's ...
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(AP) A 27-year-old transient who claimed he was under the influence of demons when he robbed Bank of America branch in Douglas County has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.District Judge Tod Young sentenced Jarell Williams on Tuesday ...
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(AP) Southern Nevada law enforcement officers who died on duty since 1905 are going to be remembered at a twilight ceremony involving family members and friends at a commemorative site in Las Vegas.Las Vegas police community affairs specialist Jennifer Knight says ...
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(AP) The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overnight.The military said on Monday that the gunfire did not cause any damage or injuries. The military says it believes the fire was accidental.Israel has found itself ...
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(AP) The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of conflict."That comment came after a meeting with socialist President Nicolas ...
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(AP) Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a ...
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(AP) The administrator of the Boston Marathon victims' compensation fund says so far just five people have filed applications for a portion of the $30 million the One Fund has already collected.Kenneth Feinberg tells the Boston Herald ( http://bit.ly/16NBzM4) that the ...
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(AP) The parent company of the world's largest online poker website is left with nothing for its troubles after paying an $11 million advance to a struggling Atlantic City casino the company intended to buy.A New Jersey judge ruled Friday that ...
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