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July Fourth weekend fires up highest gas prices since 2008
Prices will average about $3.68 a gallon for regular grade, up 17 cents from last year but below the all-time $4.11 record set in 2008. Rising crude oil prices have…
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U.S. takes gay rights global, despite an unsure welcome
More than 15,000 people marched during the Euro Pride gay pride Saturday in Oslo, Norway. President Barack Obama’s administration has taken the U.S. gay-rights revolution global, using American embassies across…
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Heat record for May broken worldwide
A mahout and his elephant head toward the River Tawi on a hot May day in Jammu, India. Large regions across north India experienced a heat wave in early May.…
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Pelosi holds little hope for immigration reform BROWNSVILLE, Texas – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border that she holds little hope that…
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Iraq forces launch push for insurgent-held city
People inspect buildings damaged by an Iraqi government airstrike in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday, where the Iraq military carried out three airstrikes on the insurgent-held city.Associated…
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Benghazi suspect pleads not guilty
In a 10-minute hearing held amid tight security, Ahmed Abu Khattala spoke just two words, both in Arabic. He replied “yes” when asked to swear to tell the truth and…
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Pot shortages could be dire in Washington
Randy Oliver, the chief scientist for Analytical 360, works in the company’s new cannabis analysis laboratory, in Yakima, Wash., which is the only lab that has been certified to test…
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VA review finds ‘significant and chronic’ failures
Susan Walsh/Associated Press<br><br>A review of the Veterans Affairs health-care system that was ordered by President Barack Obama has concluded that there are “significant and chronic systemic failures” that the VA’s…
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Astronauts getting out-of-this-world treat
Lavazza’s and Argotec’s “ISSpresso” machine will be the first real Italian espresso machine on the International Space Station and will be a welcome addition for many astronauts who have complained…
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Iraqi lawmakers urged to pick new leader
A photo on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s website shows militants leading away captured Iraqi soldiers after the militant group captured a base in Tikrit, Iraq.Islamic State…
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Iowa Supreme Court ordered the nation’s leading chiropractic college on Friday to make accommodations to allow blind students to complete degrees, in an important victory…
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Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier funding OK’d
The Golden Gate Bridge’s board approved a $76 million funding package to install a safety net to prevent people from jumping off the bridge. There have been more than 1,400…
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Soldier’s story shows tragedy of World War I
Bayne left his wife, Katie, with four young children in Brisbane and a prescient letter of regret: “What a dammed fool I was to ever have enlisted.” Bayne lies alongside…
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New push to get girls interested in computer sciences
Teacher assistant Margarita Sokolova, second from left, helps Giuliana Zautta, 17, of Menlo Park, Calif., during a Girls Who Code class at Adobe Systems in San Jose, Calif. Girls Who…
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U.S. moving to end its use of land mines
U.S. soldiers sweep for land mines outside Tikrit, Iraq. The Obama administration announced it will no longer produce land mines and that it intends to sign a treaty banning their…
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Obama rips GOP in election-year economic salvo
President Barack Obama blamed Republicans for blocking Democratic proposals to help create jobs and improve economic conditions for the American middle class. The president visited a job training center in…
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U.S. population growth tilts toward Asians
For the second consecutive year, net immigration by Asians topped that of Hispanics, the agency reported. About 338,000 Asians immigrated to the U.S. in the 12 months ending July 1,…
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WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., who cut to the core of the 1973 Watergate hearings when he asked, “What did the president know and when did he…
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High court tosses abortion-protest law
Anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen stands at the edge of a painted buffer zone outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Boston. The Supreme Court threw out the buffer zone requirement in…
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Sodexo cafeteria workers to regain health coverage
Julie Pemberton, a cashier at Curry College near Boston, is looking for a new apartment because her health insurance premiums have increased by more than $200 a month since the…
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Pressure grows for al-Maliki to step down
Iraqi Christian families gather at a social club in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq, after fleeing Sunni militants who are advancing toward Baghdad.Associated Press Increasingly, al-Maliki’s former allies believe…
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired three short-range projectiles Thursday into the waters off its east coast in a possible move to stoke tensions with Seoul, a South Korean…
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Thousands flee Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling on Russia to stop fighters from flowing into Ukraine from Russia. As a truce agreement is set to expire, thousands of Ukrainians were crossing…
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High court limits president’s appointments power
The Supreme Court Thursday dealt President Barack Obama a setback by limiting presidents’ power to make temporary appointments while the Senate is in recess.Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press file photo The high…
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Sen. Baker, who queried Nixon on Watergate, dies
Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker called his years as Senate majority leader the high point of his career, which included serving as senator from Tennessee and chief of staff…
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Bear falls through skylight, eats birthday cupcakes
A 180-pound young bear fell through the skylight into the living room of a suburban Juneau, Alaska, home on Wednesday during a baby’s first birthday party – and proceeded to…
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Work takes backseat to U.S. soccer game
America, big sporting events trump the daily grind
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Fears of wider Mideast war grow
Kurdish fighters battle Sunni militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Tuz Khormato, 62 miles south of the oil rich province of Kirkuk, in northern…