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Barack Obama called on Tuesday for changing federal bankruptcy laws to help military families, seniors and victims of natural disasters, and accused John McCain of repeatedly siding with the banking industry when Congress acted on the issue.
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A zoo in suburban Chicago plans to reopen an exhibit where 16 stingrays died last week when a malfunction let the tank’s water get too warm.
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A man convicted of murder for failing to seek medical help for his handicapped daughter for more than a week after she suffered third-degree burns in a scalding bath...
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Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead,...
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The State Department’s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have...
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A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.
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The State Department’s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have...
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A naturalized U.S. citizen accused of helping to lead an Iranian terrorist group must face trial on a charge of providing material support to terrorism, a federal judge...
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A paralyzed man claimed in a lawsuit Thursday that seven Chicago police officers dragged him from a car and beat him unconscious when he was too slow to obey their...
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U.S. Attorney Troy Eid says escaped convict, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house east of Denver on Thursday in an apparent...
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A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus.
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AP, San Diego
Two Marines apparently killed one of their Camp Pendleton comrades in a dispute over stolen drug money, prosecutors said Thursday.
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AP, San Diego
Two Marines apparently killed one of their Camp Pendleton comrades in a dispute over stolen drug money, prosecutors said Thursday.
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AP, Nashville
Country singer Chris Cagle has been found not guilty of domestic violence after his girlfriend refused to testify against him.
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Charges have been dismissed against a Camp Pendleton Marine sniper accused in the shooting deaths of two Syrians in Iraq.
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Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix.
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AP, San Diego
If you haven’t heard of “Twilight,” ask a teenager. The best-selling young-adult book isn’t bound for the big screen until December, but fan...
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Police and the World Trade Center site’s owner sketched out a security agreement Thursday that settles a turf war over who will protect ground zero against...
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Baylor University regents on Thursday fired the school president, the second in three years to leave amid clashes with the faculty at the world’s largest Baptist...
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President Bush on Thursday nominated Paul S. Diamond to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, withdrawing his earlier pick for the job after she drew...
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Microsoft’s CEO defended the software maker’s decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed little light Thursday on specific...
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Laws in all but a handful of states give the public access to government e-mail. But what if that e-mail was intentionally deleted or routinely purged?
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The ex-head of Britain’s MI5 domestic spy agency said Tuesday she opposes Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plans for tougher new anti-terrorism laws.
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Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed changing bankruptcy laws to fast-track the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect people recovering...
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AP, Powder Springs
Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed changing bankruptcy laws to “fast-track” the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect...
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A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday said France’s legal framework for prosecuting terror suspects is too broad, resulting in too many arrests based on...
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Having lived with racism every day of my life, I’m sure my mentality has been altered by my knowledge of the way many of my fellow Prince George citizens think about...
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British Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that an opposition lawmaker’s decision to trigger a special election to protest planned terrorism laws is a farce.
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In a rare public comment, the head of Britain’s MI5 domestic spy agency said Monday it has not offered the government any advice on contentious proposals for...
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Grenada is amending its finance laws as the Caribbean nation prepares to relaunch its offshore sector.
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Massachusetts is the latest state to consider putting a new crime on the books: rape by fraud. Currently, a sex act only qualifies as rape if physical force is used. We...
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AP, Philadelphia
A judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the city from enforcing five gun-control ordinances pending a challenge from the National Rifle Association.
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AP, Philadelphia
A Philadelphia judge has temporarily blocked the violence-plagued city from enforcing its new gun-control laws.
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A parliamentary group is functioning on a couple of oil-related outline bills, one to restore the state-run oil business and another to fight oil smuggling, said senior...
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A parliamentary committee is working on a pair of oil-related draft bills, one to re-establish the state-run oil company and another to fight oil smuggling, a senior...
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Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that...
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Britain is monitoring 11 people under a strict house arrest program used to limit the activities of suspected terrorists, a minister said Thursday.
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AP, Salt Lake City
Bar patrons in Utah, which has some of the nation’s strictest liquor laws, will soon be able to get 50 percent tipsier off one cocktail. Be warned, though: no...
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British lawmakers agreed Thursday to allow a house arrest program for suspected terrorists to continue for another year, but warned the system could begin to resemble...
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Five men who stored explosives manuals and suicide bombing videos on their computers were released from jail this week after a British court quashed their convictions...
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