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Time-lapse AP video shows Trade Center's rise

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
NEW YORK (AP) -- Girder by girder, glass pane by glass pane, the rise of what is now New York City's tallest skyscraper was documented over the past year and a half in a time-lapse series of photographs by The Associated Press....
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Mobile app helps report unfair airport screeners

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Sikh advocacy group launched a free mobile application Monday that allows travelers to complain immediately to the government if they feel they've been treated unfairly by airport screeners....
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Number of U.S. newborns with drug withdrawal triples

CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth.

The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction ...

World Trade Center is back on top in NYC

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
NEW YORK (AP) -- One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peek over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: US not reporting all Afghan attacks

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops....
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Obama: N. Korea hostility a weakness, not strength

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Monday decried aggressive acts from North Korea, including its recent failed rocket launch, and vowed to maintain a unified front against such provocations....
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Tech executive gets 22-year sentence for $30M fraud

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former high-tech executive convicted of defrauding investors of at least $30 million  received on Monday one of the harshest sentences meted out in a white-collar criminal case.

A federal judge in San Francisco sentenced Samuel "Mouli" Cohen to 22 years in prison. Judge Charles Breyer also set a ...

Federal judge stops Texas law on women's health

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Monday stopped Texas from preventing Planned Parenthood from getting state funds through the Women's Health Program.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin ruled there is sufficient evidence that a law banning Planned Parenthood from the program is unconstitutional. He imposed an injunction ...

EPA official resigns over 'crucify' remark

Embattled Environmental Protection Agency official Al Armendariz, under fire after being caught on video bragging that he'd "crucify" oil and gas companies in order to send a message to the industry, has stepped down.

"While I feel there is much work to be done for the people of this country ...

Clemens' lawyer attacks 2008 congressional hearing

WASHINGTON — A federal court jury saw snippets of Roger Clemens denying steroid use at a now-famous 2008 congressional hearing, then listened Monday as Clemens' lawyer tried in fits and starts to declare that proceeding to be "nothing more than a show trial" that shouldn't have taken place.

The perjury ...

With an asterisk, WTC is back on top in NYC

NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just ...

Woman confirms husband is 3rd victim in fatal race

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) -- The wife of a yachtsman killed with two others during a race between California and Mexico says her husband was a veteran sailor and the destruction of their boat is a mystery....
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Drifter heads to trial in Flint stabbing spree

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Tom Booker had made the walk to a nearby store countless times. He wanted cigarettes, candy, maybe a can of beer. On his way home around midnight, a motorist asked him to help open a stubborn hood on a Chevy Blazer....
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Husband of Bronx SUV crash victim says can't feel

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
NEW YORK (AP) -- The husband of one of the seven victims who died when their SUV plunged down a New York City ravine says he's having a hard time thinking or even feeling....
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Wife of Edwards aide breaks down on witness stand

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide an affair he was having and justified using wealthy donors' money to do it.

Testifying at Edwards' campaign corruption trial, Cheri ...

Officials: West Point to display Bin Laden trove

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. officials say the public will soon be able to read some of Osama bin Laden's last written or typed words - made available by the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point military academy this week....
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Ohio officials to return exotic animals to widow

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (AP) — Ohio officials are clearing the way for the return of five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall and then committed suicide.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced the decision Monday at an agency hearing in which the state ...

Ohio officials to return exotic animals to widow

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio officials are clearing the way for the return of five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall, then committed suicide....
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Obama criticizes GOP in speech to union members

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is rallying union workers by painting a bleak portrait of America's infrastructure. He blames Republicans for focusing on tax cutting rather than creating jobs by updating and rebuilding highways, railroads and airports....
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1 case down, 2 to go for fugitive Fla. siblings

DENVER (AP) — Three Florida siblings accused of shooting at a police officer and staging a daring bank robbery in a multistate crime spree are facing sentencing on charges stemming from their shootout and capture in Colorado — effectively ending their stay here as Georgia authorities await their extradition.

Lee ...

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