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Iran, Syria among topics for G-8 and NATO

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers stepped outside discussions of European economic woes and Afghanistan that will dominate a long weekend of summitry for a look Friday at options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria....
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France's Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job....
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Wake for Mary Kennedy held amid apparent rift

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- The two sides of Mary Richardson Kennedy's grieving family faced off in court Friday, just hours before she was mourned at a wake at the estate where she committed suicide....
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Neighbors: Highway shooting suspect a regular guy

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
TUNICA, Miss. (AP) -- To hear his neighbors tell it, James Willie was just a regular guy who sometimes played with the neighborhood kids. Police describe him as a cold-blooded killer who stalked his victims on dark stretches of Mississippi's highways and shot two of them dead....
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Feds say Colorado wildfire started on camp stove

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
LIVERMORE, Colo. (AP) -- Warm, dry weather hindered hundreds of firefighters Friday as they battled a blaze in northern Colorado that federal officials say started with a camp stove....
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Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
CHICAGO (AP) -- Hundreds of protesters broke away from a large rally and began marching through Chicago streets Friday, taunting police and shouting about everything from bank bailouts to nuclear power - a prelude to even bigger demonstrations expected after the start of a NATO summit....
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Clemens key accuser: `I misspoke' about evidence

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee's story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can....
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Clemens key accuser: `I misspoke' about evidence

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee's story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can....
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Clemens key accuser: `I misspoke' about evidence

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Roger Clemens' lawyer jabbed his left index finger and hammered away, relentlessly attacking Brian McNamee over his personal life and accusing the government's chief witness of "making up this stuff on the fly." The attorney finally sprung his trap and pointed out what appeared to be a flaw in McNamee's story about the collection of evidence that turned up in a beer can....
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Obama stance adds fuel in marriage battlegrounds

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage has emboldened activists and politicians on both sides of the issue, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states and serving as a rallying point in others where gay marriage votes are being held this fall....
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Obama stance adds fuel in marriage battlegrounds

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage has emboldened activists and politicians on both sides of the issue, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states and serving as a rallying point in others where gay marriage votes are being held this fall....
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CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C....
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APNewsBreak: Loretta Lynn married at 15, not 13

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show....
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France's Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job....
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Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy....
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Feds say pilot tried to bring gun on plane in NY

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a flight at Buffalo for New York City with a loaded revolver in his bag, and authorities believe he'd been flying with it for two days....
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Military trainer jet crashes in Calif., 1 dead

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2024-12-01 04:28
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) -- A privately owned training jet on contract to the military crashed Friday in Southern California, killing the civilian pilot, authorities said....
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