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Private spacecraft to haul groceries

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.

If this unmanned flight and others like it succeed, ...

Zimmerman's account of killing corroborated

ORLANDO, Fla. — Medical and autopsy reports released Thursday corroborate George Zimmerman's account that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense after the teenager attacked him.

As part of a massive release of evidence by the prosecution, an autopsy report on Trayvon found evidence of marijuana in his system, as Mr. ...

Romney's April money suggests GOP rallying for him

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney and his Republican Party raised $40 million in April, an unexpectedly strong haul in the first month of the general campaign that illustrates enthusiasm within the GOP and threatens President Barack Obama's overwhelming cash advantage....
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Romney's April money suggests GOP rallying for him

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney and his Republican Party raised $40 million in April, an unexpectedly strong haul in the first month of the general campaign that illustrates enthusiasm within the GOP and threatens President Barack Obama's overwhelming cash advantage....
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Ky. weighed politics, medicine in inmate's surgery

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security, politics and even the possibility of inviting scorn from Fox News pundits....
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Ky. weighed politics, medicine in inmate's surgery

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security, politics and even the possibility of inviting scorn from Fox News pundits....
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4 shot, 2 dead, in west Louisville neighborhood

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Police say two of four people have died after being shot on a street corner in a west Louisville neighborhood where more gunfire rang out while officers were investigating....
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Canadians squall about Vermont wind energy project

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) -- The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity....
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US forecasters say heat will stay on this summer

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- And the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S. And that's a bad sign for wildfires in the West....
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AP source: RFK Jr.'s estranged wife hanged herself

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- The Kennedy family, so practiced at public mourning, is grieving again after the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. hanged herself at her home in suburban New York....
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Michigan boy finds finger piece in Arby's sandwich

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan teen finishing off his Arby's roast beef sandwich chomped down on something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out....
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Obama requesting help to pay for Afghan army

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for Afghanistan will be a central focus of the summit President Barack Obama is hosting Sunday and Monday in Chicago....
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Closing arguments in John Edwards corruption trial

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A prosecutor used John Edwards' own stump speech against him in closing arguments at his corruption trial Thursday, saying the presidential candidate violated campaign finance laws meant to protect "the two Americas" in order to cover up a lurid sex scandal....
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Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-14 20:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law....
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Mich. boy finds piece of finger in Arby's sandwich

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan teen made a grisly discovery after biting into an Arby's junior roast beef sandwich.

Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

Turns ...

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