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Chinese craft blasts into space on docking mission

A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 10 astronaut capsule lifted off as scheduled at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT)…

June 11, 2013

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Grandma, 72, shoots at intruder, misses in Calif.

Jan Cooper, of Anaheim, fired one shot from her .357-magnum Smith & Wesson revolver around 12:30 a.m. Sunday as a…

June 11, 2013

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Istanbul clashes go into night

30,000 protesters gather in park; police use force to clear the area

June 11, 2013

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Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield

Iraqi border posts along the Syrian frontier are coming under attack, and Syrian truck drivers have been singled out and…

June 11, 2013

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Ariz. police piece together fatal shooting by boy

Justin Stanfield Thomas, 34, had traveled from Phoenix to a friends home on Friday to pick up some of his…

June 10, 2013

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River breaches levee in Germany

least 22 deaths have been reported

June 10, 2013

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Korea talks raise hopes; history may scuttle them

SEOUL, South Korea The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore…

June 10, 2013

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Transplant group rejects lung rule changes

The executive committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network held a teleconference to consider children who seek to qualify…

June 10, 2013

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Feds to comply with NY morning-after pill ruling

The Department of Justice, in the latest development in a complex back-and-forth over access to the morning-after pill, notified U.S.…

June 10, 2013

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Senate moves toward votes on immigration bill

The two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon are on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the…

June 10, 2013

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Atty: Worker in Pa. bldg collapse misused machine

Attorney Kenneth Edelin said in a statement that contractor Griffin Campbell hired excavator operator Sean Benschop because of his experience…

June 10, 2013

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NSA leaker could be latest to seek help in Iceland

This North Atlantic island nation has welcomed eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer, WikiLeaks secret-spiller Julian Assange and the online freedom…

June 10, 2013

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Records show past turmoil in Calif. gunman’s home

Documents obtained Monday quote the mother of John Zawahri describing his father as verbally abusive and controlling during their marriage.…

June 10, 2013

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Fla. suspect’s lawyer walks fine line

George Zimmerman, left, talks to Seminole County Investigator Robert Hemmert in Seminole circuit court during a pretrial hearing, in Sanford,…

June 8, 2013

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Man, 28, dies at protest outside Iranian embassy

A senior Lebanese military official says clashes have erupted outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, between protesters opposing Hezbollah’s…

June 8, 2013

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Attorneys slam demolition work in Pa.

Lawyers and consultants walked gingerly on piles of debris, indicating to photographers and videographers what they wanted documented. Meanwhile, other…

June 8, 2013

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