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Survey: Big growth in Medicaid enrollees in expansion states

ATLANTA — States that opted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act saw enrollment increase on average…

FILE - In this June 9, 2015 file photo, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves the federal courthouse in Chicago. A deadline for Hastert's legal team to file pretrial paperwork passed with nothing new filed, suggesting the former House speaker could be close to a plea deal that would avert a trial and help keep details of the hush-money case secret, legal experts said Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Christian K. Lee, File)

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Former House speaker Hastert to plead guilty

CHICAGO — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert intends to plead guilty in a hush-money case linked to allegations…

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Cable news pundit charged with fraud; ties to CIA disputed

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Maryland man who offered national-security commentary on Fox News has…

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Trump, Carson threaten boycott of debate

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson are threatening to boycott the next GOP debate…

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Gowdy defends Benghazi panel after latest GOP criticism

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House committee investigating the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, forcefully defended the panel’s…

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Scottish prosecutors: 2 Libyans are Lockerbie bomb suspects

LONDON (AP) — A quarter-century after one of the worst terror attacks in British history, prosecutors say they…

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Obama extends US military mission in Afghanistan into ’17

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama leaves office in 15 months, he’ll hand his successor military conflicts in…

A Palestinian protester throws back a tear gas canister that was fired by Israeli troops during clashes near Ramallah, West Bank, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. In the current wave of violence, eight Israelis have been killed in stabbing and shooting attacks, as of Thursday. Thirty-one Palestinians have been killed, including 14 identified by Israel as attackers, and the others in clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Israelis, Palestinians in a panic amid violence

JERUSALEM — A wave of stabbing attacks has spread fear in Jerusalem and much of Israel, shattering the…

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AP: US analysts knew Afghan site was hospital

WASHINGTON — American special operations analysts were gathering intelligence on an Afghan hospital days before it was destroyed…

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Coates, Yanagihara are among National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK — Ta-Nehisi Coates’ best-selling “Between the World and Me” and Hanya Yanagihara’s sleeper hit “A Little…

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Odom’s spiral leaves ex-NBA star fighting for his life

LAS VEGAS — Lamar Odom didn’t last long at the glittering intersection of championship success and Hollywood celebrity.…

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Tesla’s autopilot lets cars drive, change lanes themselves

DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla Motors is leapfrogging competitors with a new autopilot system that lets…

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Wal-Mart stock plunges after profit warning

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart stock had its biggest one-day drop in nearly three decades after the world’s…

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Study: Calcium, vitamin D pills don’t prevent colon growths

A major study finds that taking calcium or Vitamin D pills does not help prevent growths that can…

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Attorneys: Law forced woman to sue nephew over medical bills

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman who sued her 12-year-old nephew for $127,000 over injuries she received when…

Bruce Leornard, left, and Deborah Leonard, center, enter the courtroom of before their arraignment, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 in New Hartford, N.Y. The central New York couple have been charged with fatally beating their 19-year-old son inside a church, and four fellow church members have been charged with assault in an attack that also left the young man's brother severely injured, police said Tuesday.  (Mark DiOrio/Observer-Dispatch via AP)  ROME OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

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Police: Brothers were beaten in church to make them confess

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. — Two teenage brothers were brutally beaten in church — one fatally — in an…

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Astronomer resigns over sexual harassment

SAN FRANCISCO — A prominent astronomer resigned Wednesday from the University of California, Berkeley, after an investigation found…

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Big 3 airlines flexing their political muscle in Washington

WASHINGTON — U.S. airlines have ramped up an aggressive lobbying campaign that seeks nothing less than converting the…

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Prospective speakers multiply in House as all wait on Ryan

WASHINGTON — Every day another Republican lawmaker seems to wake up and decide that he — and in…

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More VW woes: New diesels have suspect software

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators say they have a lot more questions for Volkswagen, triggered by the company’s recent…