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(AP) Federal authorities have accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon they intended to use against opponents of Israel.Prosecutors say 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford, of Galway, and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight, of Hudson, have been charged ...
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(AP) Pope John Paul II has moved a step closer to sainthood.A Vatican official says a commission of theologians approved a miracle attributed to his intercession, clearing a key hurdle. The case now goes to a commission of cardinals and then ...
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(AP) Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she now supports gay marriage, becoming the third Senate Republican to do so.Murkowski says she believes same-sex marriage will encourage family values. She says she supports the right of all Americans to marry the person ...
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(AP) FBI Director Robert Mueller (MULL-er) says the law enforcement agency uses drones for surveillance but does so rarely.In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller says the bureau is developing guidelines for drones and that the privacy implications of ...
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(AP) Two U.S. Senators, the winner of a Nobel Prize for peace, a labor leader and the owner of a professional tennis team are among the people being honored with a national prize for public service.Recipients of the 2013 Jefferson Awards ...
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(AP) Unmanned aircraft have helped rescue stranded hikers, worked to contain wildfires and gathered data at nuclear accidents. One helped a Russian tanker find its way through Arctic ice to bring oil to a stranded Alaskan community.These remote-controlled planes have many ...
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(AP) Italy's first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base.Cecile Kyenge, a Congolese-born doctor who has lived in Italy since 1983, has been the target of racist diatribes ...
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(AP) A French diplomat says officials from the United States and other countries will meet in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday to decide how to respond to requests for help from the Free Syrian Army.The diplomat says the meeting will involve government ...
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(AP) Large-scale protests have engulfed Turkey and Brazil, which are thousands of miles apart, but share some traits such as being new democracies with a growing middle class. Here's a look at the protests in both countries, highlighting the similarities and ...
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(AP) Secretary of State John Kerry leaves Friday to visit seven countries on a trip focusing on global issues such as the Syrian crisis, Middle East peace and the West's standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.The State ...
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(AP) Las Vegas police are switching radio systems after spending two years and $42 million on a network that led to complaints of dropped calls and dead zones.The Las Vegas Sun reports ( http://bit.ly/190JDKE) the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's fiscal ...
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(AP) A newspaper in Virginia is removing the word "Democrat" from its name because of the nation's increasingly divisive politics.In an editorial (http://bit.ly/102C4gg) published Wednesday, The Fauquier (faw-KEER') Times-Democrat announced it would now be known as the Fauquier Times. The editorial ...
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(AP) A chronology of events in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters union:____ July 30, 1975: Hoffa leaves his Lake Orion home about 1 p.m. and makes a stop to visit a friend in Pontiac. He arrives ...
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(AP) A Washington state father who discovered his 15-year-old daughter was being wooed on Facebook by a man twice her age took matters into his own hands.He hatched a ruse that drew the 30-year-old Federal Way man to Spokane earlier this ...
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(AP) The publisher of North Dakota's Grand Forks Herald plans to retire next year.Mike Jacobs has been with the newspaper for 35 years and has been publisher since 2004. He was the Herald's editor when the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize ...
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(AP) The FBI has spent this week digging up a field in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago. He was last seen outside a restaurant about 20 miles from the ...
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(AP) Israel has decided to export 40 percent of the natural gas it expects to produce from offshore wells, keeping a larger amount for local use than expected.The figure, announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, is lower than the ...
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(AP) A new report says homeowners trying to avoid foreclosure must wait too long for their loan modification applications to be reviewed by some of the nation's top mortgage servicers. Such delays can plunge borrowers deeper in debt.Joseph A. Smith, the ...
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(AP) Senators are seeking cost-cutting opportunities in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a troubled testing record that military leaders say America cannot afford not to build.Chairing the hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin on Wednesday ...
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(AP) A Las Vegas police officer is suspended without pay pending dismissal after being accused of unlawfully obtaining prescription painkillers.An aide to Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson says Officer Ramin Allen Amely is expected to take a plea deal July ...
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(AP) A Milan court has convicted the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion.The pair were found guilty Wednesday of failing to declare euros 1 billion ($1.3 billion) in income tax to authorities. The court sentenced them both to ...
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(AP) Washoe County deputies are investigating after some students at a Catholic high school in Reno ingested an illegal substance at a "Safe and Sober" graduation party.The acting president of Bishop Manogue High School, Jim Toner, tells the Reno Gazette-Journal ( ...
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(AP) The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for burial.Ibragim Todashev, 27, was fatally shot in late May in Florida while being ...
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(AP) China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies.The two countries' agriculture ministers signed the ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is challenging Americans and Europeans not to become complacent even though the Cold War is over.Obama is speaking at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous speech in the once-divided city.Obama says ...
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