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Wis. DA likely to show video of emaciated girl

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin prosecutors are expected to play a video in court Tuesday that shows an emaciated 15-year-old girl telling police her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, leaving her to fend for herself off scraps she found on the floor or in the garbage....
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Wis. DA likely to show video of emaciated girl

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin prosecutors are expected to play a video in court Tuesday that shows an emaciated 15-year-old girl telling police her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, leaving her to fend for herself off scraps she found on the floor or in the garbage....
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Summations coming in Rutgers webcam spying trial

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A jury in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will have to wrestle with some relatively untested legal issues when it gets the case....
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Summations coming in Rutgers webcam spying trial

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A jury in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will have to wrestle with some relatively untested legal issues when it gets the case....
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Man to answer charges in NYC pipe-bomb terror case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Muslim convert is due to answer rare state-level terror charges after being accused of building a pipe bomb in New York City to try to attack police, soldiers and other government targets....
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Man to answer charges in NYC pipe-bomb terror case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Muslim convert is due to answer rare state-level terror charges after being accused of building a pipe bomb in New York City to try to attack police, soldiers and other government targets....
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Dartmouth student's claims put hazing in spotlight

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Things have only gotten messier at Dartmouth College in the weeks since a former fraternity brother went public with hazing allegations involving swimming in and swallowing vomit....
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Analysis: Obama tested by events outside control

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is the economy election, right? Tell that to the world....
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Senate ready to pass highway programs overhaul

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is poised to pass an overhaul of highway and transit programs that gives states greater flexibility over how they spend federal aid, streamlines environmental regulations to get projects built faster and seeks to generate greater private investment in transportation projects....
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Senate ready to pass highway programs overhaul

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is poised to pass an overhaul of highway and transit programs that gives states greater flexibility over how they spend federal aid, streamlines environmental regulations to get projects built faster and seeks to generate greater private investment in transportation projects....
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Obama, Cameron to attend NCAA tournament game

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Basketball fan-in-chief President Barack Obama is giving British Prime Minister David Cameron a front-row seat to March Madness, taking his European partner to an NCAA tournament basketball game in Ohio, an election swing state....
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Reporter killed in Syria recalled as truth seeker

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) -- Journalist Marie Colvin was remembered Monday as a fearless seeker of truth by mourners from media mogul Rupert Murdoch to the immigrants who counted on her dispatches from their strife-ridden homelands to make a difference in global policy....
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Reporter killed in Syria recalled as truth seeker

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) -- Journalist Marie Colvin was remembered Monday as a fearless seeker of truth by mourners from media mogul Rupert Murdoch to the immigrants who counted on her dispatches from their strife-ridden homelands to make a difference in global policy....
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Justice Dept opposes a 2nd voter ID law, in Texas

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A photo ID requirement for voters in Texas could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of registered Hispanics, the Justice Department declared Monday in its latest move against Republican-led voting changes in many states that have drawn protests from minorities, poor people and students....
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Shootings further dent Americans' support for war

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The weekend massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier, newly undermines the rationale for a war that a majority of Americans already thought wasn't worth fighting. But the Obama administration and its allies insisted Monday the horrific episode would not speed up plans to pull out foreign forces....
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Shootings further dent Americans' support for war

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The weekend massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier, newly undermines the rationale for a war that a majority of Americans already thought wasn't worth fighting. But the Obama administration and its allies insisted Monday the horrific episode would not speed up plans to pull out foreign forces....
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Love letters reveal Nixon's sensitive side

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 22:52
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) -- When Richard Nixon first met his future bride, he was so smitten he pined for her night and day, he schemed of romantic getaways and he put it all down in writing....
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