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Extremists capture Jordanian pilot
Islamic State militants Wednesday gather for a photo with a captured pilot, center, wearing a white shirt in Raqqa, Syria. Islamic State group militants captured Jordanian pilot Mu’ath Safi Yousef…
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Severe storms slam the South, killing at least 4
Traffic is blocked on U.S. 98 East near Columbia, Miss., after a tornado touched down around 2:30 p.m., Tuesday. Gov. Phil Bryant declared an emergency for two southeastern counties where…
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Ukraine peace talks start in Minsk
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, left, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko address the media in the Ukrainian Presidential office in Kiev, Ukraine.Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press The talks are to discuss how to…
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Health official: Enrollment off to good start
Congress wanted subsidies to be available in all states
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More outages plague North Korea’s Internet
A South Korean student looks at a picture showing how cyber warfare is going to be waged in the future in the Korean Peninsula if another Korean war breaks out.Ahn…
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HONOLULU – Call it a holiday gift from Pele. Lava from the mountain believed to be home to the Hawaiian volcano goddess has stalled on its slow creep toward a…
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BEIRUT – The search for a negotiated settlement to the Syrian civil war is gaining steam, as President Bashar Assad’s forces feel increasingly squeezed on the battlefield and Islamic extremist…
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Florida passes N.Y.’s population
Figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau show that Florida has at least 19.9 million residents. The number is likely higher since the Census uses the population as of…
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Experts warn of torture impact
Doctors: Stress, fear can change structures in human brains
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U.S. economy accelerates and helps lift Dow to 18,000
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday in New York. U.S. stocks pushed further into record territory on Tuesday as the Dow Jones industrial…
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Drone approvals bedeviled by warnings and conflict
Efforts to draft regulations for drones by the Federal Aviation Administration led senior officials to overrule objections from some of the agency’s safety inspectors, according to documents and emails obtained…
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Study sheds light on sleep problem
Glowing electronic gadgets may be keeping you awake
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U.S. home sales dropped sharply in November
Chuck Beckley/The Sun Journal<br><br>construction continues on a 72-unit complex being built in New Bern, N.C. The National Associated of Realtors reported Monday that home sales fell to their lowest level…
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As Air Force fixes nuke flaws, future debated
Air Force Lt. Jerome White stands at the door of his missile launch capsule 100-feet under ground where he and his partner are responsible for 10 nuclear-armed ICBM’s in north-central…
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Police departments on alert after cop killings
A New York City police officer on Monday looks over a makeshift memorial near the site where fellow officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered in the Brooklyn borough…
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MINNEAPOLIS – A group of wolf experts disputed Monday that gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are endangered or that a judge’s ruling will help the region’s population spread…
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LANSING, Mich. – Christians and Satanists put up competing displays Sunday on the Michigan Capitol grounds as Christmas week got underway. The Detroit chapter of the Satanic Temple set up…
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Killer of policemen had criminal history
Unions’ messages warn rank-and-file of change in tide
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Killing of two officers triggers backlash
Giuliani blasts president, NYC mayor for anti-police rhetoric
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Some religious conservatives push not to serve gay people
Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. He is one of many business owners in the country that has taken…
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Maryland woman’s gift to old dogs rewards her, too
But all that changes when they feel Polvinale cup their faces for the first time. Polvinale, a 68-year-old former librarian, and her husband, Joe, a business owner, opened their house…
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KanKemwa Green of Mankato, Minn., participates in a protest at the Mall of America on Saturday.AARON LAVINSKY/The Star Tribune BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Demonstrators chanting, “Black lives matter,” converged in the…
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It’s now on to the next generation
changes a chance to breach divide for young in Cuba, U.S.
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Castro says detente won’t change Cuba’s system
Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban rafter who was at the center of a bitter custody battle in 2000 between relatives in Miami and his father in Cuba, attends the closing…