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New ACA challenge heads for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul are taking yet another challenge to the law…
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Republicans view Trump as most electable
WASHINGTON — Republican voters view Donald Trump as their strongest general election candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK…
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Obama: Limit standardized tests
WASHINGTON — Addressing one of education’s most divisive issues, President Barack Obama on Saturday called for capping standardized…
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For Palestinians, social media is source of news – and anger
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Four dailies, eight TV stations and scores of radio stations report on the current…
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Wisconsin GOP abolishes secret corruption probes
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans are moving at breakneck speed to abolish secret investigations into political corruption such…
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Obama vetoes $612 billion defense bill in rebuke to GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vetoed a sweeping $612 billion defense policy bill Thursday in a rebuke…
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Under GOP grilling, Clinton seeks to close book on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton strove to close the book on the worst episode of her tenure as…
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Teacher, student killed in stabbing attack on Swedish school
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A sword-wielding masked man who students thought was playing a Halloween prank stabbbed four…
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Pentagon: American killed in raid to free Iraqis held by IS
IRBIL, Iraq — Acting on word of an “imminent mass execution” by Islamic State militants, dozens of U.S.…
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Israeli man shot dead after being mistaken for attacker
JERUSALEM — A Jewish Israeli man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli soldiers who suspected…
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Russia shows military might in Syria, also pushes diplomacy
HEMEIMEEM AIR BASE, Syria (AP) — As Russia unleashed waves of warplanes Thursday from this air base in…
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Probe finds EPA error caused mine spill
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for a 3 million-gallon…
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APNewsBreak: Former Subway pitchman’s victims get $1 million
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ten victims of former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle have received a total of $1 million…
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Fatal shooting of 4-year-old began with traffic lane dispute
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Alan Garcia had just picked up his two children from school when it happened.…
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Major drug tunnel found on US-Mexico border in California
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities seized 12 tons of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of…
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Netanyahu causes uproar linking Palestinians to the Holocaust
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked an uproar in Israel on Wednesday for suggesting that a World…
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Assad-Putin meeting signals push to end crisis
MOSCOW — Bashar Assad’s surprise meeting with Vladimir Putin could signal that Russia ultimately seeks a political settlement…
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Superseding indictment has new details in Islamic State case
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five Minnesota men accused of plotting to join the Islamic State group are now charged…
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Muslim spokesman: As boy departs, Muslims feel ‘under siege’
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The decision by the family of a Texas teenager to move to Qatar is…
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Bush would move Interior Department to the West
RENO, Nev. — Jeb Bush said Wednesday that he would rein in regulation at the Interior Department as…