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After dismal debate, Bush seeks ways to steady campaign
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Jeb Bush emerged from the third Republican debate as a candidate in crisis, with supporters…
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Plane catches fire at Florida airport; 1 burned, others hurt
DANIA BEACH, Fla. — A jet plane’s engine caught fire Thursday as it prepared for takeoff, and more…
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Prep school graduate gets a year in jail for sexual assault
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A graduate of an exclusive New England prep school was sentenced Thursday to a…
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Manhunt intensifies for fugitive in Kentucky, Tennessee
WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. (AP) — A Kentucky fugitive accused of shooting at police in two states remained on…
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‘Person of interest’ in missing boy case
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man charged with child pornography after a search of his home found pictures of…
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Insurgents vs. mainstream
BOULDER, Colo. — Marco Rubio bid forcefully for control of the Republican Party’s establishment wing in Wednesday night’s…
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Fresh starts as GOP taps new speaker, OKs budget deal
WASHINGTON — House Republicans embraced a new leader Wednesday and swiftly consented to a major budget-and-debt deal to…
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Protest erupts during World Indigenous Games in Brazil
PALMAS, Brazil — A noisy demonstration broke out Wednesday during the 100-meter dash competition at the World Indigenous…
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Austria to build fence along Slovenia border
VIENNA — Austria, a strong critic of fences built to cope with Europe’s migrant influx, on Wednesday announced…
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Ukraine faces years of dependence on Western aid
VELYKI PRYTSKY, Ukraine — Looking on from her vegetable patch at the motorcade of U.S. Secretary of Commerce…
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Sheriff fires deputy for tossing teen across classroom
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A deputy who flipped a disruptive student out of her desk and tossed her across…
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Army blimp breaks loose, drifts over Pa.
MUNCY, Pa. — An unmanned Army surveillance blimp broke loose from its mooring in Maryland and floated over…
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Hastert pleads guilty, acknowledges hush-money scheme
CHICAGO — Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to evading banking laws in a hush-money scheme, averting a potentially…
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Astronaut completes spacewalk right before setting US record
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s yearlong spaceman, Scott Kelly, chalked up his first spacewalk Wednesday just hours…
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Shortchanged Sandy victims seeing some cash 3 years later
NEW YORK (AP) — Many people who complained a federal insurance program shortchanged them after Superstorm Sandy swamped…
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Mega beer merger bets on the rise of African drinkers
LONDON — Charles Kwara and his friends sit around an earthenware pot, sipping a frothy gray drink through…
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‘Womenomics’ makes small chips in Japan’s glass ceiling
TOKYO — Two years after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made women’s advancement a top policy priority, statistics suggest…
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Carter: US is retooling fight against IS
WASHINGTON — Signaling a possible escalation of U.S. military action in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Ash Carter…
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China warns US Navy after ship sails by Chinese-built island
BEIJING — A U.S. Navy warship sailed past one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea…
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American killed in Palestinian attack
JERUSALEM — An American educator who marched for civil rights in the 1960s and advocated coexistence between Muslims…