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Obama insists his health-care plan ‘is working’
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Obama insists his health-care plan ‘is working’

June 8, 2015

U.S. President Barack Obama Monday told reporters covering the G-7 conference in southern Germany that Congress intended for his Affordable Health Care Act to provide subsidies for all Americans, not…

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June 7, 2015

DANNEMORA, N.Y. – Two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks, Gov.…

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June 7, 2015

ELMAU, Germany – A top European Union official said Sunday that Greece’s creditors didn’t deliver a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to end the standoff over the country’s international bailout, disputing how the…

Thousands protest G7 summit in southern Germany
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Thousands protest G7 summit in southern Germany

June 6, 2015

A police officer’s eye is rinsed by a colleague after he had contact with an irritant during a protest Saturday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, against the G-7 summit Sunday and…

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World Brief

June 6, 2015

ROME – Naval vessels from Italy, Britain, Ireland and other countries steamed toward the waters off Libya on Saturday, bracing for the latest wave of migrants needing rescue from smugglers’…

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June 6, 2015

WILMINGTON, Del. – Politicians, military leaders and celebrities from across the country came to bid farewell Saturday to former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, whose death at age 46 opened…

Probe will give insight  on Pluto’s ‘ornery teens’
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Probe will give insight on Pluto’s ‘ornery teens’

June 5, 2015

Scientists are anxiously awaiting New Horizon’s approach to Pluto so they can learn more about the distant dwarf planet and its five known moons. Pluto’s smaller moons, Styx, Nix, Kerberos…

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June 5, 2015

Aziz BAGHDAD – Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death…

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June 5, 2015

NEW YORK – Google will release monthly reports on the performance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the 12 accidents that involved the vehicles. Google described all…

Hall of fame honors six game-changers
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Hall of fame honors six game-changers

June 5, 2015

The Strong/National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., is already accepting nominations for next year’s inductees into its World Video Game Hall of Fame. The museum inducted the first entries…

Germanwings co-pilot visited several doctors
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Germanwings co-pilot visited several doctors

June 5, 2015

Marseille, France, prosecutor Brice Robin told relatives of the victims of the Germanwings airliner crash on Friday that they will begin receiving bodies of the crash victims next week.Claude Paris/Associated…

China suspected in massive breach of federal personnel data
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China suspected in massive breach of federal personnel data

June 4, 2015

The Homeland Security Department said in a statement Thursday that personnel data from the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department had been hacked.Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press file photo…

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June 4, 2015

WASHINGTON – China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American…

U.S. might deploy missiles in Europe to counter Russia
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U.S. might deploy missiles in Europe to counter Russia

June 4, 2015

Russia’s plans to deploy cruise missiles the United States says would violate a nuclear missile treaty is leading the Obama administration to consider steps that could reignite the Cold War…