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More Hispanic Americans are proficient in English
Hispanics are proficient in English
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Kerry empty-handed after Putin meeting
Ministry: Russia not to blame for tensions with U.S.
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SANAA, Yemen – With cargo ships poised to launch a desperately needed aid operation in embattled Yemen, a five-day humanitarian cease-fire began Tuesday night, just hours after Saudi-led coalition warplanes…
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3 Revolutionary War soldiers are identified
The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot said in a statement last weekend that a researcher studying pension files of American Revolution veterans has identified Capt. Joseph Burgess of the…
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Nepal is rocked by new quake
A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers was reported missing while delivering disaster aid in northeastern Nepal, U.S. officials said, although there have been no…
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U.S. records biggest budget surplus in 7 years
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew’s Treasury Department on Tuesday reported the largest monthly budget surplus in seven years.Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press file photo In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department…
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Putin praises pact with Hitler
That’s what he did standing next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow on Sunday. During the Soviet era, the official line was that Stalin had little choice but to…
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LAKE MARY, Fla. – The man who called 911 to report he was involved in a shooting with George Zimmerman appears to be the same person involved in a road…
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KUMANOVO, Macedonia – Macedonian authorities Monday jailed 30 people captured in a weekend gun battle in a northern town that left 22 police and suspected ethnic Albanian militants dead, at…
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Crews search for missing after twisters hit Texas, Arkansas
Deven McManaman helps remove inventory from SMS Racing Sunday after the store was heavily damaged following a storm in Denton, Texas. Several Great Plains and Midwest states were in the…
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Chief: Memo wouldn’t have changed cartoon contest response
Raheem Peters, left, and Joseph Offutt, center, hold a sign and a U.S. flag as Conner McCasland, kneeling, makes a poster across the street from the Curtis Culwell Center where…
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The deaths of Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate stunned this small city in southern Mississippi. On Sunday morning, bloodstains still marked the street where the two…
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Petty theft has long history at White House
take anything from placeholders, towels to spoons
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GREENVILLE, S.C. – Republicans making their pitch to be the party’s 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader.…
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MONROVIA, Liberia – On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time when Liberia would be free from one of the world’s…
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South Dakota visit makes it 50 states for Obama
President Barack Obama applauds the graduates of the Class of 2015 while delivering the commencement address at Lake Area Technical Institute on Friday in Watertown, S.D.Associated Press Barack Obama met…
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PARIS – Saudi Arabia declared a unilateral cease-fire in Yemen that would start May 12 and urged Shiite rebels and their allies to stop fighting. It was unclear if the…
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WASHINGTON – Federal aviation officials acted within their authority in allowing airline passengers to use cellphone and other electronics during takeoffs and landings, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The…
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U.S. agrees to probe police in Baltimore
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday that the Justice Department will conduct an investigation of the Baltimore Police Department’s practices in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, a…
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NSA’s bulk collection of telephone data ruled illegal
Patrick Semansky/Associated Press file photo<br><br>U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday said her department is working with Congress on how it could reauthorize a section of the Patriot Act that…