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Forecasters say Saturday storms 'life threatening'

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
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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EPA heightens scrutiny of Pa.'s Marcellus Shale

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers....
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EPA heightens scrutiny of Pa.'s Marcellus Shale

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers....
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Job creation driving highway bills in Congress

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lure of roads, bridges, buses and trains isn't enough anymore to drive an expensive transportation bill through Congress. So to round up votes, congressional leaders are pitching the bills as the hottest thing around these days: job generators....
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40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race begins in Alaska

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WILLOW, Alaska (AP) -- To a rousing send off from fans, dozens of dog sled teams took to the trail for the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, embarking on a near thousand-mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness....
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Job creation driving highway bills in Congress

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lure of roads, bridges, buses and trains isn't enough anymore to drive an expensive transportation bill through Congress. So to round up votes, congressional leaders are pitching the bills as the hottest thing around these days: job generators....
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Obama signs insider trading ban by lawmakers

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday barring members of Congress, the president and thousands of federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job, calling it an embodiment of the fundamental American value of fair play....
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AP source: Holder will address targeted killings

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil....
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AP source: Holder will address targeted killings

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

EPA heightens scrutiny of Pa.'s Marcellus Shale

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Deportation a risk in Rutgers webcam trial

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Jurors deliberating in the hate-crime trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of webcam spying against his roommate won't be deciding just whether he'll go to prison - they also could indirectly determine whether he's deported to his native India....
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Issue not aired in Rutgers webcam trial: Suicide

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- For all the attention Tyler Clementi's suicide got, it has a place only at the edge of the invasion-privacy trial of the roommate who's accused of using a webcam to spy on his intimate encounter with a man....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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Indiana baby dropped in field by tornado dies

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- An Indiana toddler found in a field after violent tornadoes died Sunday after being taken off life support, ending a hopeful tale for survivors in the Midwest and South picking through the storms' devastation....
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AP source: AG Holder to address targeted killings

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to outline the legal framework for the use of lethal force in targeted killings of Americans overseas in a major speech at Northwestern University law school, an Obama administration official said Sunday night....
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New Mexico police find child's body in hole

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- A search for a 4-year-old New Mexico boy led authorities Sunday to a deep, narrow hole in a neighbor's backyard where a police spokeswoman says a detective located the body of a child....
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40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race begins in Alaska

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
WILLOW, Alaska (AP) -- Fans lined the starting chute and filled the cold Alaskan air with cheers for their favorite mushers - some leaning forward to exchange high-fives - as 66 teams took to the trail Sunday in the official start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race....
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BP settlement includes new health claims process

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
BOOTHEVILLE, La. (AP) -- A settlement that BP is hammering out with victims of the massive Gulf oil spill finally provides a system for monitoring health concerns and compensating people whose illnesses are found to have a link to the disaster....
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BP settlement includes new health claims process

Tue, 2024-11-26 23:38
BOOTHEVILLE, La. (AP) -- A settlement that BP is hammering out with victims of the massive Gulf oil spill finally provides a system for monitoring health concerns and compensating people whose illnesses are found to have a link to the disaster....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US