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Obama turns to NYC celebrities for campaign cash

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama soaked in the support - and the campaign cash - of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to fill its fundraising coffers....
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EPA sets tighter standards for soot pollution

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to a lawsuit from 11 states, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new air quality standards to lower the amount of soot that can be released into the air....
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US Olympic uniforms could shave time off sprints

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Olympic track and field athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter sprint times - a difference that could have elevated Walter Dix from bronze to the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics....
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Forest chief says wildfires show urgency for restoration

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As firefighters battle blazes in New Mexico and Colorado that have forced evacuations and destroyed hundreds of structures, the U.S. Forest Service chief is renewing his call to restore forests to a more natural state, where fire was a part of the landscape.

Experts say a combination ...

Grassley to Holder: Prove claim about Bush-era gun probe

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee challenged Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday to "produce any evidence" proving his claim that a prior attorney general knew about a gunrunning investigation during the Bush administration or apologize "if no such evidence is available."

Sen. Chuck Grassley of ...

APNewsBreak: Rubio book says he almost quit race

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio was on the verge of dropping out of the 2010 race for Senate, convinced that then-Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity, power and money would be too much to overcome in a Republican primary. He was also afraid any future political ambitions would be crushed by Crist's supporters, Rubio wrote in his autobiography to be released next week....
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APNewsBreak: Rubio book says he almost quit race

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio was on the verge of dropping out of the 2010 race for Senate, convinced that then-Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity, power and money would be too much to overcome in a Republican primary. He was also afraid any future political ambitions would be crushed by Crist's supporters, Rubio wrote in his autobiography to be released next week....
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APNewsBreak: Rubio book says he almost quit race

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio was on the verge of dropping out of the 2010 race for Senate, convinced that then-Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity, power and money would be too much to overcome in a Republican primary. He was also afraid any future political ambitions would be crushed by Crist's supporters, Rubio wrote in his autobiography to be released next week....
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Sandusky accuser: I screamed in vain from basement

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The prosecution's case in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial neared its conclusion on Thursday after just four days of testimony, with three more accusers taking the witness stand, including a young man who said the former Penn State assistant football coach raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's home....
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Sandusky accuser: I screamed in vain from basement

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The prosecution's case in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial neared its conclusion on Thursday after just four days of testimony, with three more accusers taking the witness stand, including a young man who said the former Penn State assistant football coach raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's home....
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Accuser says Sandusky called himself the 'tickle monster'

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Three more accusers took the stand at Jerry Sandusky's sex-abuse trial Thursday, one of whom said the former Penn State assistant football coach called himself the "tickle monster" before embracing him in a shower and another who said he was forced into sex acts during more than ...

AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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Yosemite's falling-boulder risks

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. | Falling boulders are the single biggest force shaping Yosemite Valley, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the national park system. Now swaths of some popular haunts are closing for good after geologists confirmed that unsuspecting tourists and employees are being lodged in harm's ...

US Olympic uniforms could shave time off sprints

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Olympic track and field athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter sprint times - a difference that could have elevated Walter Dix from bronze to the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court's decision Thursday to approve the release of 20,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America documents will give the public its deepest look at people flagged by the organization as suspected child molesters and show how Scouts kept them out of leadership....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court's decision Thursday to approve the release of 20,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America documents will give the public its deepest look at people flagged by the organization as suspected child molesters and show how Scouts kept them out of leadership....
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Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
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Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:24
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
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