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Clinton warns NKorea to reform or face backlash

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning that North Korea's new young leader must transform his impoverished country for the better or face a backlash from its oppressed people....
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Md. cannibalism suspect charged in earlier attack

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A grand jury has indicted a Maryland cannibalism suspect on more a serious charge of attempted murder in a different attack at a Baltimore university dorm....
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Military star power endorses high seas treaty

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Proponents of a treaty governing the high seas rolled out military star power Thursday to try to lift the prospects for a long-spurned pact that faces strong conservative Republican opposition....
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Middle-income family spends $235,000 to raise baby

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For $235,000, you could indulge in a shiny new Ferrari - or raise a child for 17 years....
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CDC: Motorcycle helmet laws reduce deaths

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- Fewer motorcyclists die in states that require helmets, and the costs to society are lower too, according to a new federal study released Thursday....
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Senate confirms nominee to El Salvador

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to El Salvador as election-year pressure from Hispanics helped break a stalemate over the selection....
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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to recognize gay troops

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking gay pride month just as it marks other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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Coca-Cola to begin business in Myanmar

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. plans to open for business in Myanmar, following the U.S. decision to suspend investment sanctions to reward the military-dominated country for democratic reforms....
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Nationwide manhunt in progress for NY surgeon

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The search for a trauma surgeon and former military weapons expert who disappeared after the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend in a Buffalo hospital escalated into a nationwide manhunt Thursday, with authorities warning law enforcers and the public he could be armed and dangerous....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday approved the release of 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child molesters within the organization for more than 20 years, giving the public its first chance to review the records....
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US: Russian helicopters are refurbished, not new

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is acknowledging that the Russian helicopters Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said represented an escalation in the Syrian conflict were actually returning to Syria after being refurbished and are not new tools against Syrian opposition groups....
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NYC police investigate Brown-Drake brawl report

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City police investigated a report Thursday of a bar brawl involving hip-hop stars Drake and Chris Brown and their entourages in which bottles flew and five people were injured....
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Senate panel blocks new rules on foreign workers

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 04:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several Democrats on a key Senate panel have voted with Republicans to temporarily block new labor-friendly Obama administration rules for seasonal foreign workers who often perform backbreaking labor at low wages....
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