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Company behind Keystone XL pipeline wants to suspend application
The company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S Gulf Coast says it wants to suspend its application for the project while it works with Nebraska…
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In Newark, Obama to call for breaking cycle of incarceration
President Barack Obama Monday is expected to discuss his plans to make it easier for former prison convicts to find employment once they are released.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press With his…
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U.S. factories grow at slowest pace in 2½ years; hiring falls
Oil field companies have cut bank on new orders for steel pipe and other equipment used to build new oil rigs because of the decline in oil and natural gas…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Fred Thompson, a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee for eight years who also acted in feature films and on television, has died, his family said in a…
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Haitians are serious about Halloween
Country flows into cemeteries to mark Voodoo day of the dead
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Cruz hopes to build momentum following successful GOP debate
“How about this time we nominate as Republicans a candidate as committed to conservative principles as Barack Obama is to liberal principles?” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told attendees of a…
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Russian plane broke up high in the air over Egypt, officials say
Russia held a national mourning for the plane crash victims on Sunday. Mourners gathered at Dvortsovaya Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Metrojet charter crashed Saturday morning 23 minutes…
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DENVER – An art project to drape fabric panels along a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River has passed another hurdle. The Colorado Supreme Court has denied a request for…
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Study: Major hospital has drug mishaps in half of all surgeries
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that 124 of the 277 operations they watched in 2013-2014 included at least one medication error or drug-related incident that harmed a patient. Among…
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Molinaro WESTON, Conn. – The month before his parents disappeared, police say Kyle Navin wrote that he had the “perfect plan” to get “$ for life.” Then, a few days…
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Goodbye, TP: My experiment in generating minimum trash
This is the trash Darshan Karwat has produced in 2015.The Washington Post The average American produces more than 4 pounds of trash and recyclables per day, about 1,500 pounds per…
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MANAMA, Bahrain – The United States ramped up its support for Syria’s opposition with a pledge of nearly $100 million in fresh aid on Saturday. The American promise of cash,…
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No survivors in Russian airliner crash Saturday
claims it brought down plane with 217 passengers on board
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California fines water suppliers for failure to cut back
A worker washes a car at Bob’s Car Wash in Roseville, Calif. To reduce water use, owner Nancy van Overbeek says the facility has upgraded its recycling and reclamation system…
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At least 1 dead after Texas pummeled again by heavy storms
Alyssa Crawford, left, helps her mother, Deidre Russsell, center, and Marsha Zwillig, evacuate after their home flooded on Bluff Springs Road Friday in Austin, Texas.Deborah Cannon/Austin American-Statesman More than 16…
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Polanski WARSAW, Poland – Roman Polanski beat a U.S. attempt to extradite him as a Polish judge ruled that the nation’s law forbids sending the filmmaker back to the United…
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Fewer Americans support religious objections
56 percent say clerks should issue same-sex marriage licenses
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NASA photos captured images of a an icy eruption on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The rings of Saturn are visible as the Cassini spacecraft prepared for a close flyby of the…
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U.S. consumer spending records weakest gain in 8 months
Economists are expecting consumer spending will remain on track in the fourth quarter after it slowed at the end of the third quarter. The Commerce Department said Friday the consumer…
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We’ve passed the 18,967th day since an American president died in office – a new record
President John F. Kennedy, with his daughter, Caroline, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, was the last president to die in office. A Washington Post analysis…
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Pakistani quake victims call for help
Pakistani volunteers are working to recover from last week’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Mingora, Pakistan. The quake hit the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and killed more than 390 people.Naveed Ali/Associated Press “I…
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WASHINGTON – Paul Ryan became the 54th speaker of the U.S. House on Thursday in a day of high political theater, a young new leader for a fractured Congress, charged…
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – An international tribunal ruled Thursday that it can take on a case between China and the Philippines over disputed territory in the South China Sea, overruling…