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9/11 hate crime victim's kin become US citizens

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) -- Anum Hasan has seen many conflicting visions of America: the hope of a better life that brought her family from Pakistan, the hate-filled act that ended her father's life in the name of American vengeance; and an outpouring of compassion that her family has come to feel is the true face of the country they now call home....
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9/11 hate crime victim's kin become US citizens

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) -- Anum Hasan has seen many conflicting visions of America: the hope of a better life that brought her family from Pakistan, the hate-filled act that ended her father's life in the name of American vengeance; and an outpouring of compassion that her family has come to feel is the true face of the country they now call home....
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War effort hits new low; Karzai at "end of rope"

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's at "the end of the rope," and a majority of Americans feel the same way....
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Admin. outlines options on birth control coverage

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration signaled Friday it's willing to help insurance companies offset the cost of providing free birth control to women working at church-affiliated institutions like hospitals and colleges....
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Admin. outlines options on birth control coverage

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration signaled Friday it's willing to help insurance companies offset the cost of providing free birth control to women working at church-affiliated institutions like hospitals and colleges....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Admin. outlines options on birth control coverage

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration signaled Friday it's willing to help insurance companies offset the cost of providing free birth control to women working at church-affiliated institutions like hospitals and colleges....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Experts: Soldier might have post-traumatic stress

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
They are questions already being debated: Did the soldier suspected of killing Afghan villagers have post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD? And did the people who sent him back to war after he was injured properly determine he was mentally fit to return?...
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Details emerge about US suspect in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
His identity is as shadowed now as the night the Army says he crept into a pair of slumbering Afghan villages and slaughtered 16 civilians whose safety he was charged to protect....
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Ex-Rutgers student guilty in webcam suicide case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student convicted Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be headed off to prison in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties and unintended consequences in the Internet age....
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9 men indicted in Ohio in fraternity hazing case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Nine men have been indicted in a fraternity hazing case on charges that they beat two Youngstown State University pledges to the point that they wound up hospitalized....
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O'Reilly Factor: "Drug testing for unemployment benefits?"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35

O'Reilly Factor: Drug testing for unemployment benefits? Transcript:

O'REILLY: "Kelly File" segment tonight. Two very hot topics, a call for the U.N. to investigate U.S. voting laws. What?

But first, the Arizona Senate approves a measure requiring a drug test for anyone applying for unemployment benefits in that state. Here now, attorney and Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly. All right so tell me about Arizona. What do they want?

MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: So they want to test unemployment recipients for drug use.

O'REILLY: Why?

KELLY: But they only want to test those whom they have a reasonable suspicion about, if they have reasonable cause to believe you might be on drugs. And if you got arrested…

APNewsBreak: New security for US troops

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have assigned "guardian angels" - troops that watch over their comrades even as they sleep - and have ordered a series of other increased security measures to protect troops against possible attacks by rogue Afghans....
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Radio's 'This American Life' retracts Apple story

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
CHICAGO (AP) -- The public radio program "This American Life" is retracting a story broadcast in January about Apple's operations in China, citing "numerous fabrications."...
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Weird weather: heat, twisters, 250K tons of snow

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's weather is stuck on extreme....
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Obama birth control policy options

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is laying out options for carrying out the president's compromise on free birth control for women working at church-affiliated institutions like hospitals and colleges....
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CBO: Obama budget produces 2013 deficit of $977B

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new analysis of President Barack Obama's budget for next year says the deficit scenario for next year isn't as rosy as the White House figured last month....
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US wants Iraq to stop arms reaching Syrian gov't

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration expressed concern Friday that Iranian planes may be ferrying weapons over Iraq to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, and asked Baghdad to cut off its airspace to any such flights....
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Ex-Rutgers student guilty in webcam suicide case

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student convicted Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be headed off to prison in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties and unintended consequences in the Internet age....
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Court says no TV cameras at health care arguments

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court rejected requests from news organizations Friday for live, televised coverage of this month's historic arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, but agreed to release audio recordings of the proceedings on the same day....
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Fla man owned plane that crashed in NC, killing 5

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:35
FRANKLIN, N.C. (AP) -- A private jet owned by a Florida businessman that crashed in western North Carolina struck the ground, flipped and burst into flames, killing the five on board, officials said Friday....
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