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Fla. city uses robocalls to fight nuisance signs

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- The cheap signs smashed into lawns and along the corners of busy intersections are hard to miss. "We Buy Junk Cars!" `'Cash for Your House!" `'Computer Repair." The eyesores have vexed Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober for the past few years as he wastes valuable resources plucking up the signs only to watch them pop up in even greater numbers....
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Civil rights lawsuit filed against Ariz. sheriff

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
PHOENIX (AP) -- As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law....
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Change to top of WTC raises questions over height

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
NEW YORK (AP) -- A change to the design of a needle that will sit atop One World Trade Center is raising questions over whether the building will be America's tallest when completed....
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2 N.Y. sites recall Benedict Arnold's early heroics

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Benedict Arnold is a hero again, at least temporarily, at two upstate New York historic sites where his pre-treason exploits are being remembered.

Arnold's heroic actions in the Revolutionary War's Battles of Saratoga are detailed in a new exhibit opening Thursday at Saratoga National Historical Park, ...

Postal Service loses $3.2B in 2nd quarter

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drowning in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported a quarterly loss of $3.2 billion and blamed Congress for blocking the agency's cost-cutting efforts to offset declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits....
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GOP plan cuts social programs to protect Pentagon

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the Pentagon, Republicans controlling the House are pressing for cuts to food stamps, health care and pensions for federal workers as an alternative to an automatic 10 percent cut to the military next year....
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Prosecution rests after detailing money to Edwards' mistress

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Prosecutors rested their campaign fraud case against John Edwards on Thursday after 14 days of dramatic and often unflattering testimony that focused on the once-promising politician's infidelity and the secret money they say he used to cover up the affair he feared would derail his presidential ambitions.

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Romney denies targeting classmates for being gay

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for "stupid" high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate's recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage....
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Justice Dept. accuses Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio of racial profiling

The Justice Department, which first targeted Sheriff Joe Arpaio four years ago in his suspected mishandling of illegal immigrants arrested in the Phoenix area, filed a civil lawsuit in federal court Thursday accusing the sheriff and his office using "unconstitutional and unlawful actions" in their handling of Hispanics.

The complaint ...

CDC: Half of young adults get sunburned

ATLANTA (AP) — Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found — a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer.

The rate of sunburn is about the same as it was 10 ...

Report: Suspect billings at 2,600 drugstores

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them....
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Prosecution rests in John Edwards trial

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 09:22
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Prosecutors rested their campaign fraud case against John Edwards on Thursday after 14 days of dramatic and often unflattering testimony that focused on the once-promising politician's infidelity and the secret money they say he used to cover up the affair he feared would derail his presidential ambitions....
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