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Hundreds evacuated as Colo., NM fires grow

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) -- Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves from a sanctuary....
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US Mint strikes 9/11 medals as memorial fundraiser

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- The U.S. Mint worker dons surgical gloves as she sprays down the large silver pieces like flowers in a garden. They clank and jingle in the tray as liquid beads up on their mirror-like surfaces and they are sent on their way, to be transformed into medals in memory of the Sept. 11 attacks....
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CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C....
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Stabbed Ohio woman hits child with car, both dead

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A woman was stabbed during an argument while sitting behind the wheel of a car, tried to drive away and struck her attacker's 2-year-old daughter, authorities said Friday. The woman and the girl both died, and the toddler's mother was found naked several blocks away and arrested....
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Georgia woman learns toll of flesh-eating bacteria

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
ATLANTA (AP) -- Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this."...
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Facebook jumps, slumps on first day of trading

Facebook investors gave the stock a resounding thumbs down on the first day of trading.

In the most anticipated technology initial public offering since Google in 2004, Facebook's stock on Friday never lived up to the hype the company had hoped for, closing at $38.23.

"Investors figured out it was ...

Bully victim's poem prompts healing after 25 years

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) -- A woman's poem about being bullied in a California school 25 years ago has brought her former classmates to tears. Now, they've created a scholarship fund in her name and raised $800 to fly her back to California for a class reunion....
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Obama touts $3B in pledges to help feed Africa

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world....
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Mental health an issue near end of stabbings trial

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A psychologist says a lack of empathy shown by a Michigan serial stabbing suspect when discussing victims is a key factor in his belief that the man is criminally responsible for his actions....
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Jury begins deliberations in John Edwards case

 

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A jury started weighing Friday morning whether John Edwards committed a crime when money from two wealthy donors was used to hide his pregnant mistress during the candidate's run for the 2008 White House.

Jurors heard about 17 days of testimony, a lot of focusing ...

Jury begins deliberations in John Edwards case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-15 07:31
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A jury started weighing Friday morning whether John Edwards committed a crime when money from two wealthy donors was used to hide his pregnant mistress during the candidate's run for the 2008 White House....
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