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9/11 families prepare for Guantanamo arraignment

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- It has been a year of milestones for the families of those killed on Sept. 11, with the death of Osama Bin Laden followed by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Now another painful chapter is set to begin: the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11....
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White House: Time to try another tactic in Syria

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It may be time for the world to acknowledge that a cease-fire is not holding in Syria, and that it is time to try another approach to stop the violence, the White House said Thursday....
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Judge to Edwards jurors: Don't discuss the case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors in the John Edwards campaign fraud trial have the long holiday weekend to think over the case - but not talk about it - as the judge sternly warned before sending them home after six days of deliberations....
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Anti-abortion group says it has patient records

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- An anti-abortion group says it has the patient records of dozens of women and girls who sought treatment at a Kansas City, Kan., abortion clinic last month - a claim the clinic's attorney says is meant to scare off potential patients and would suggest a crime was committed....
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Anti-abortion group says it has patient records

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- An anti-abortion group says it has the patient records of dozens of women and girls who sought treatment at a Kansas City, Kan., abortion clinic last month - a claim the clinic's attorney says is meant to scare off potential patients and would suggest a crime was committed....
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Contempt resolution drafted on Holder

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee gave panel members a draft of a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., citing the "refusal" of the nation's top prosecutor to cooperate in an investigation of the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.

The ...

NOAA sought magician, now wants plans to disappear

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal agency needs illusionist David Copperfield to help escape from criticism over now-canceled plans to hire a magician to train agency leaders using "magic tools."...
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Seau suicide turns up focus on brain injuries

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
Dave Duerson made it easy to understand why he ended his tortured life....
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Ban urged on therapy to convert gays

California groups that support parental rights and therapies to help people escape unwanted same-sex attractions are fighting a first-of-its-kind California bill that would ban such sessions for teens and children, and discourage them for adults.

SB 1172, which opponents say is a denial of freedom and family rights, already has ...

Feds to put up $1.9B for Oregon health overhaul

PORTLAND, ORE. — The Obama administration is buying into an ambitious health care initiative in Oregon, announcing Thursday it has tentatively agreed to chip in $1.9 billion over five years to help get the program off the ground.

Oregon hopes to prove states can save billions on Medicaid without sacrificing ...

G-8 move puts protest plans in flux

CHICAGO — The stage seemed set for an epic showdown: G-8 and NATO leaders planned to hold back-to-back summits in Chicago that activists predicted could draw tens of thousands of people protesting everything from war in Central Asia to unemployment and education cuts at home.

But at the last minute, ...

American Scene: Airport workers accused in drug conspiracy

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ATLANTA — A plot by three workers at Atlanta's airport to smuggle a bag filled with heroin and methamphetamine into the U.S. was foiled when the baggage ended up on an unclaimed luggage carousel, prosecutors said Thursday.

The workers were charged conspiring to smuggle more than $500,000 worth of ...

Police believe Neo-Nazi killed 4, himself in Ariz.

GILBERT, Ariz. | Police said Thursday that they think a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups shot four people and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home.

Police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, was the gunman in Wednesday's shootings in a home in Gilbert, ...

Wyoming got EPA to defer statement on fracking study

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination, giving state officials - whom the EPA had privately briefed on the study - time to attempt to debunk the finding, an investigation by the Associated ...

China's Chen speaks by phone to Congress hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke to a congressional hearing Thursday from his Beijing hospital bed - and requested a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....
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China's Chen speaks by phone to Congress hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke to a congressional hearing Thursday from his Beijing hospital bed - and requested a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....
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Govt witness links medical waste to Clemens DNA

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A prosecution witness told jurors that Roger Clemens DNA' showed up on two cotton balls and one needle allegedly used for a steroids injection of the famed pitcher. He then spent almost the entire day fielding questions from lawyers for both sides and from jurors....
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Military commanders warned to get troops in line

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military leaders are telling commanders to get their troops in line and refrain from misconduct such as urinating on enemy corpses, in a sharp response to the tasteless photos and other disturbing examples of bad behavior that have enraged Afghans and complicated war-fighting....
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Military commanders warned to get troops in line

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military leaders are telling commanders to get their troops in line and refrain from misconduct such as urinating on enemy corpses, in a sharp response to the tasteless photos and other disturbing examples of bad behavior that have enraged Afghans and complicated war-fighting....
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9/11 families prepare for Guantanamo arraignment

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- It has been a year of milestones for the families of those killed on Sept. 11, with the death of Osama Bin Laden followed by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Now another painful chapter is set to begin: the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11....
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