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Surprise finding: U.S. has major decline in gun violence
The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, and Spike Lee, second from left, lead a march to Times Square for the prevention of gun violence on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in New…
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House committee calls Secret Service an agency in ‘crisis’
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, Thursday said a new report shows the Secret Service agency is “in crisis” and “strong leadership” is needed to…
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Military to open remaining combat positions to women
Defense secretary opens final combat jobs to females
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UN says Iran worked on nuclear weapons
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Wednesday released the results of a report supporting U.S. assertions that Iran had done some preliminary work on nuclear weapons…
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NEW YORK – Shoppers spent more than $3 billion online this “Cyber Monday,” making it the biggest online shopping day ever. Research firm comScore said shopping by phone, laptop or…
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LONDON – British lawmakers voted by a wide margin Wednesday to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria, after Prime Minister David Cameron…
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Developing nations balk at carbon plans
India, Brazil don’t want to set new emissions goals
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BP supervisor pleads guilty to misdemeanor in 2010 oil spill
A large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. An explosion on the oil rig released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf…
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Senate GOP health law repeal delivers wins to party’s wings
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday told Democrats and President Barack Obama that a Senate bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act is their chance “to make amends for…
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U.S., NATO discuss Russia’s military role in Syrian war
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday to discuss the issue of a Russian warplane downed by a Turkish fighter jet at the…
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Obama wants climate deal to have teeth
leaders say U.S. won’t be legally bound by any final agreement
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U.S. pledges aid to help island nations
The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean are only about 6 feet above sea level in most places. Scientists say climate change poses a serious threat to many island nations.Rob…
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WASHINGTON – Black Friday set a record for the number of firearms background check requests received by the FBI. The FBI says it processed 185,345 gun background checks last Friday,…
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Transportation spending bill heads for vote
The House and Senate will vote this week on a new five-year transportation bill.Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press file photo The bill, unveiled Tuesday, would also put an end to the cycle…
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Facebook CEO marks baby’s birth with big donation
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are planning to donate most of their fortune to a new company that will work to make a “world better than…
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PARIS – A woman was arrested Tuesday in a Paris suburb for suspected links to an intermediary to the only man charged in connection the Paris attacks, according to two…
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Pipe bomb explodes in Istanbul, wounding 5 at rush hour
Riot police secure the area Tuesday after an explosion on a highway overpass near a subway station, wounding five people, in Istanbul, Turkey.Cagdas Erdogan/Associated Press The bomb was left at…
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Toymakers are tracking more data about kids
VTech, a Hong Kong-based company that sells baby monitors and digital learning toys such as children’s tablets, announced over the weekend that the data for 5 million “customer accounts and…
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World leaders focus on future in Paris’ climate summit
“We should ask what will we say to our grandchildren if we fail,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said as the UN climate summit opened under heavy security on the…
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Cyber Monday sales losing some luster
Still, Monday is expected to be the biggest online shopping day ever, with estimates that it will rack up more than $3 billion in sales. There were some outages, including…
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CHICAGO – An online threat against the University of Chicago that led the school to cancel all classes and activities on Monday appears to have been motivated by the fatal…
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Japanese vessel to kill 333 minke whales for ‘research’
Most of the whales won’t end up in laboratories, but on dinner plates. Japanese officials claim that the specimens will be used to study the health and migration patterns of…
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Turkey won’t apologize over Russian warplane downing
Russian honor guard carry the coffin with the body of Russian Lt. Col. Oleg Peshkov, after being transported from Turkey, at a mourning ceremony in Chkalovsky military airport outside Moscow…
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Obama: U.S. leads climate change fight
President Barack Obama heads to a historic United Nations Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget, outside Paris, hoping to marshal strong global action against climate change.Laurent Cipriani/Associated Press file photo…
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What you hate about waiting in line isn’t the wait at all
It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manhattan had a problem. The tenants complained of an excessively long wait for the elevator when people arrived in the…