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Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
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Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
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House fire in northeast Ohio kills 4; no survivors

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WARREN, Ohio (AP) -- A man, woman and two girls died Saturday in a house fire in northeast Ohio, fire officials said....
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House fire in northeast Ohio kills 4; no survivors

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WARREN, Ohio (AP) -- A man, woman and two girls died Saturday in a house fire in northeast Ohio, fire officials said....
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AP Sources: CIA-led force may speed Afghan exit

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Pentagon officials are considering putting elite special operations troops under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, just as they were during last year's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, sources told The Associated Press....
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Iran trumps Palestinians as top US-Israel issue

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Peace talks with the Palestinians dominated President Barack Obama's meeting last year with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but will barely warrant a mention at their White House session Monday or in speeches to a powerful pro-Israeli lobby. Iran is now the issue commanding urgent attention....
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Storms demolish small towns in Ind., Ky.; 38 dead

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WEST LIBERTY, Ky. (AP) -- Rescue workers with search dogs trudged through the hills of Kentucky, and emergency crews in several states combed through wrecked homes in a desperate search Saturday for survivors of tornadoes that killed dozens of people....
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Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
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Afghan attacks on US troops undermine trust level

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Afghan duplicity has cost the lives of six American troops over the past week and betrayed the trust that's an essential element in the international coalition's formula for winding down the decade-long war....
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Obama recasts birth control debate on own terms

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is casting the contraception controversy as an issue of women's rights, not religious freedom, seizing on what backers see as a political gift from Rush Limbaugh to firm up support from women and young voters, groups essential to his re-election hopes....
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YouTube phenomenon has girls asking: Am I pretty?

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
NEW YORK (AP) -- The young girl shows off her big, comfy koala hat and forms playful hearts with her fingers as she drops the question on YouTube: "Am I pretty or ugly?"...
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BP begins to put spill behind it with settlement

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
NEW YORK (AP) -- BP's settlement deal with thousands of victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a major step toward putting the worst oil spill in U.S. history behind it....
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Obama recasts birth control debate on own terms

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is casting the contraception controversy as an issue of women's rights, not religious freedom, seizing on what backers see as a political gift from Rush Limbaugh to firm up support from women and young voters, groups essential to his re-election hopes....
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Baby found alone in Indiana field after storms

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Police say a baby girl found alone in an Indiana field after Friday's massive, tornado-spawning storms has been identified and remains in critical condition at a Kentucky hospital....
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Hundreds honor student killed in Ohio shooting

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Hundreds of people stood shoulder to shoulder along the street on a cold, windy Saturday morning to honor one of three teenagers killed in a high school shooting....
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Hundreds honor student killed in Ohio shooting

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Hundreds of people stood shoulder to shoulder along the street on a cold, windy Saturday morning to honor one of three teenagers killed in a high school shooting....
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Hundreds honor student killed in Ohio shooting

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Hundreds of people stood shoulder to shoulder along the street on a cold, windy Saturday morning to honor one of three teenagers killed in a high school shooting....
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Forecasters say Saturday storms 'life threatening'

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- In an unusually early and strong warning, national weather forecasters cautioned Friday that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the nation from Texas to Minnesota this weekend....
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YouTube phenomenon has girls asking: Am I Pretty?

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 14:54
NEW YORK (AP) -- The young girl shows off her big, comfy koala hat and forms playful hearts with her fingers as she drops the question on YouTube: "Am I pretty or ugly?"...
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