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Congress OKs bipartisan bill changing doctors’ Medicare fees

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday defended a Senate vote passing a bipartisan bill that headed…

April 14, 2015

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Russia-Iran deal draws criticism at G7 meeting

Foreign ministers for the Group of Seven nations are meeting in Luebeck, Germany, to prepare for the full G7 meeting…

April 14, 2015

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House approves legislation to ease rules on home loans

The House first voted 263-162 on a bill to ease some curbs on lending for mobile and modular homes. Lawmakers…

April 14, 2015

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WASHINGTON – The same Internet access now available on most commercial flights makes it possible for hackers to bring down…

April 14, 2015

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Booster rocket fails to make soft landing

Supplies launched to space station

April 14, 2015

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Beachgoers not alone at beach

They were among the more than 315,000 items of trash picked up from New Jersey’s 127-mile coastline in 2014 by…

April 14, 2015

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Obama acts to take Cuba off terror list

Congress can still vote to block move

April 14, 2015

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U.S. to tell certain travelers if on no-fly list

The Obama administration will begin telling some suspected terrorists if and why they are on a list of tens of…

April 14, 2015

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Iran blocks Saudi pilgrimages

Country claims 2 male pilgrams were abused

April 13, 2015

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World Briefs

PARIS – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called Monday for emergency government surveillance powers in case of an exceptional threat,…

April 13, 2015

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U.S., Israel protest missile sale to Iran

Russians call system ‘purely defensive’ weapon

April 13, 2015

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LOS ANGELES – One of California’s largest water wholesalers moved forward Monday on a plan to reduce the amount of…

April 13, 2015

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Stun guns’ role in police shootings questioned

Nonlethal weapons may give officers ‘false reassurance’

April 13, 2015

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‘Time has come for our generation’

to seek GOP presidential nomination

April 13, 2015

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Rev. Al Sharpton thanked the mayor and police chief in North Charleston on Sunday for…

April 12, 2015

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Clinton offers hints on campaign

2016 hopeful sets her sights on working families, middle class

April 12, 2015

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Hotel soap to the rescue

It began about seven years ago as a tiny operation with a few friends and family in a single-car garage…

April 12, 2015

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling the massacre…

April 12, 2015

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Islamic State destroys 13th century B.C. ruins

striking down, blowing up ‘signs of idolatry’

April 12, 2015

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‘Thunder lizards’ may be coming in from the cold

Brontosaurus may be separate species after all

April 11, 2015

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Studies offer clues to moon’s origin

An artist’s rendering shows how the moon may have been formed after another planet collided with a very young Earth…

April 11, 2015

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California delta’s water mysteriously missing

Who’s been stealing it away?

April 11, 2015

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WASHINGTON – A precautionary lockdown of the U.S. Capitol was lifted after about two hours Saturday following a suicide by…

April 11, 2015

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Obama, Castro open new era of diplomacy

U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro addressed future relations between the two countries at the Summit of…

April 11, 2015