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FILE - In this April 24, 1984, file photo, Steve Jobs, left, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, center, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the new Apple IIc computer in San Francisco. Apple has turned 40, and it's a very different company from the audacious startup that Jobs and Wozniak launched in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)

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Apple strong at 40, but are best years behind it?

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple turned 40 on Friday, and it’s a very different company from the audacious startup…

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Anti-abortion movement unified in rebuke of Trump

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s remark that women getting abortions were they to be banned should be punished…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign stop, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in Appleton, Wis. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Trump stumbling in Wisconsin as forces coalesce against him

MADISON, Wis. — Next Tuesday’s Wisconsin presidential primary is emerging as a crucial lifeline for Republicans desperate to…

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Violent times encourage step to right in some nations

BRUSSELS — The Brussels attacks have given a boost to the far right in Belgium and beyond, and…

Indian rescue workers search for bodies inside a mangled car recovered from a partially collapsed overpass in Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 31, 2016. A long section of a road overpass under construction collapsed Wednesday in a crowded Kolkata neighborhood, with tons of concrete and steel slamming into midday traffic, killing several and injuring many. (AP Photo/ Bikas Das)

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Overpass collapse kills 21, traps many in India

KOLKATA, India — A long section of an overpass under construction collapsed Thursday in a crowded Kolkata neighborhood…

President Barack Obama listens as French President Francois Hollande speaks during their meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Obama, Xi vow to narrow differences, work on N. Korea

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged Thursday to cooperate to confront the North…

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Drug maker reconsidering $20M North Carolina factory

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s governor met Thursday with gay-rights advocates bearing a letter signed by more than…

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California lawmakers OK highest statewide minimum wage

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Thursday approved the nation’s highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour…

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War on women? GOP silent as Trump lashes out at reporter

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Frustrated Republicans grappled privately with new fears about Donald Trump’s impact on their party…

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After Brussels, leaders tackling threat of nuclear terrorism

WASHINGTON (AP) — Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with…

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Egypt requests extradition of detained hijack suspect

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Egypt formally asked Cyprus on Wednesday to extradite a detained Egyptian man who authorities…

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Resolution in FBI-Apple case prolongs larger legal battle

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI’s victory in breaking into a San Bernardino killer’s iPhone without Apple’s help…

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Obama turns attention to growing opioid abuse problem

ATLANTA — The trajectory of opioid deaths in the United States is trending in the wrong direction and…

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Hijacking of Egypt plane by ‘unstable’ man ends peacefully

LARNACA, Cyprus — An Egyptian wearing a fake explosives belt who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and forced…

FILE -- In this Sept. 8, 2015 file photo, children play amid the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen's conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade a year ago. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

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An infant’s 5-month life points to hunger’s spread in Yemen

HAZYAZ, Yemen — The baby was born in war, even as planes blasted his village in Yemen. Five…

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Police charge Trump manager with battery

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Police charged Donald Trump’s campaign manager with simple battery Tuesday as a videotaped altercation…

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Tied 4-4 after Scalia’s death, high court gives unions a win

WASHINGTON — In the clearest sign yet of the impact of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, U.S. labor unions…

Oscar-winning actress Duke dies at 69

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Oscar-winning actress Duke dies at 69

NEW YORK — Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in “The…

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Justice Department cracks iPhone

WASHINGTON — The FBI said Monday it successfully used a mysterious technique without Apple Inc.’s help to hack…

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With echoes of 2008, Sanders vows to fight as path narrows

MADISON, Wis. — If there’s anyone who understands how Bernie Sanders feels right now, it might just be…