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FAA forecast: High air fares most of this decade

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday....
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Stock rally helps regain wealth lost in recession

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans are climbing further out of the hole they sank into during the Great Recession....
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House was immediately involved in the Agriculture Department's decision to ask USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to resign in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal e-mails released by the administration....
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Pat Robertson: pot should be legal like alcohol

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed....
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APNewsBreak: Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend....
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Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but not as feared

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed landmark legislation to cover the uninsured, a new poll finds his health care overhaul is neither better liked nor better understood....
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released Obama administration e-mails show the White House was more active than believed in the Agriculture Department's decision in 2010 to seek the resignation of federal employee Shirley Sherrod....
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Libyan PM denies training Syrian rebels

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Libya's prime minister on Thursday denied Russian allegations that his government is hosting and supporting a training camp for Syrian rebels but said his country stands with the people of Syria opposed to President Bashar Assad's regime....
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Panel: US should rethink nuke emergency plans

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. should customize emergency plans for each of the nation's 65 nuclear power plants, a change that in some cases could expand the standard 10-mile evacuation zone in place for more than three decades, an expert panel is recommending....
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Obama, GOP governors share many views on education

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A funny thing is happening between President Barack Obama and many Republican governors when it comes to improving America's schools: They are mostly getting along....
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Investigators seek answers in Tulsa plaza shooting

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Investigators were trying to determine Thursday what led a 23-year-old man to pull a handgun in a downtown Tulsa plaza and begin firing in the air, sending people fleeing for cover and leading to a clash in which he, a sheriff's deputy and a bystander were shot and wounded....
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Texas vulture study upends forensics

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) -- For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours....
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FAA forecast: High air fares most of this decade

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

FAA forecast: High air fares most of this decade

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

NJ Muslims file federal suit to stop NYPD spying

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

2 children found living in abandoned bus in Texas

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
SPLENDORA, Texas (AP) -- Two children who were found living in a stench-filled abandoned school bus near Houston, its windows blocked and the lot around it covered in trash, are in the custody of Texas child welfare workers, officials said Thursday....
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2 children found living in abandoned bus in Texas

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
SPLENDORA, Texas (AP) -- Two children who were found living in a stench-filled abandoned school bus near Houston, its windows blocked and the lot around it covered in trash, are in the custody of Texas child welfare workers, officials said Thursday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights....
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Homeless youth: the next battle for gay equality

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
NEW YORK (AP) -- Iro Uikka clutches his throat as he describes the violent clash that led to spending his nights sleeping in New York City subway cars....
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Mich.: $1M lotto winner cut from food assistance

Wed, 2024-11-27 08:39
LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) -- State officials say a Detroit-area woman who won a $1 million lottery prize but continued to get food stamps has been removed from the food assistance program....
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