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Obama warns of 'ups and downs' in job market

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is warning that the U.S. job market will still face "ups and downs" despite news Friday that the economy added 120,000 jobs last month....
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US hiring slows amid uncertainty about economy

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work....
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Board seeks Marine's dismissal in Facebook case

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president's face on a "Jackass" movie poster....
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Md. high court poised to hear lesbian divorce case

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maryland's highest court is poised to hear arguments in a precedent-setting case involving two women who married in California but were denied a divorce in Maryland, which does not currently allow same-sex weddings....
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Brother of Ohio soldier: 'we are a nation at war'

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The brother of a U.S. soldier who was among three central Ohioans killed in an Afghan suicide bombing says Americans shouldn't forget "we are a nation at war."...
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C. Guard guns sink ship adrift since Japan tsunami

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- A U.S. Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into a Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since last year's tsunami, sinking the vessel in the Gulf of Alaska and eliminating the hazard it posed to shipping and the coastline....
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Board seeks Marine's dismissal in Facebook case

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president's face on a "Jackass" movie poster....
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NRC chief heads to sickly Calif nuke plant

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The twin reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant have been sidelined, more than 300 tubes that carry radioactive water will be scrapped because of excessive wear, and investigators are trying to figure out why tubing is rattling inside the lungs of the plant - its massive steam generators....
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Oikos University students awaiting word on classes

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Students at the tiny Christian college where a gunman killed seven people and wounded three in a rampage this week are waiting for a police probe to advance enough to allow them to return to class....
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US hiring slows amid uncertainty about economy

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work....
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Fourth straight month of strong US hiring expected

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy probably generated more than 200,000 jobs in March, capping the best four months of hiring since before the recession....
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Military board says Marine should be dismissed

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page has committed misconduct and should be dismissed, a military board recommended late Thursday....
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Ohio rabbi's books tied to Holocaust survivors

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud....
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3 soldiers from Ohio killed in Afghan attack

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Sgt. 1st Class Shawn T. Hannon felt it was a privilege to serve his country and was proud to be a soldier, a job he did nearly 20 years while also working as a lawyer, his family said....
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Ex-Tyco CEO loses parole bid in New York

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....
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Ex-Tyco CEO loses parole bid in New York

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski on Thursday lost a bid to get out of the prison where he's serving time in one of the corporate world's most notorious fraud cases, with parole officials calling his role in the $100-million-plus scheme a "glaring violation" of shareholders' trust....
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Coast Guard cannon fire sinks Japanese ghost ship

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The long, lonely voyage of the Japanese ghost ship is over....
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Co-worker: Steve Powell spoke of Utah camping trip

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, an attorney said Thursday....
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Co-worker: Steve Powell spoke of Utah camping trip

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, an attorney said Thursday....
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A bold move in the small world of college chess

Fri, 2024-11-29 16:48
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit....
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