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Solar panels cause clashes with homeowner groups

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) -- The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not....
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Solar panels cause clashes with homeowner groups

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) -- The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not....
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Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him in the interim....
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Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him in the interim....
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Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him in the interim....
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Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot

LOS ANGELES — We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles Police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and ...

Romney turns campaign toward money, reconciliation

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash for the battle ahead and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum....
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Napolitano faces questions on Secret Service

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is facing questions Wednesday from a Senate panel on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president's visit to a Latin American summit....
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Looking for a few good boomers to help others

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Local charities and nonprofits are looking for a few good baby boomers - well, lots of them, actually - to roll up their sleeves to help local schools, soup kitchens and others in need....
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Prosecutor: Pipe bomb suspect's threats detailed

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
CHICAGO (AP) -- Although federal prosecutors laid out their case on the first day of the trial of a former Iowa letter carrier accused of sending letters and dud pipe bombs to investment advisers, the defendant refused to offer a rebuttal....
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Prosecutor: Pipe bomb suspect's threats detailed

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
CHICAGO (AP) -- Although federal prosecutors laid out their case on the first day of the trial of a former Iowa letter carrier accused of sending letters and dud pipe bombs to investment advisers, the defendant refused to offer a rebuttal....
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Once Obama's, younger voters in play this election

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney....
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Supreme Court takes up Arizona immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is questioning Arizona's tough "show me your papers" law aimed at driving illegal immigrants out of the state, amid objections from the Obama administration that states have a limited role to play in immigration policy....
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Supreme Court takes up Arizona immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is questioning Arizona's tough "show me your papers" law aimed at driving illegal immigrants out of the state, amid objections from the Obama administration that states have a limited role to play in immigration policy....
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Supreme Court takes up Arizona immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is questioning Arizona's tough "show me your papers" law aimed at driving illegal immigrants out of the state, amid objections from the Obama administration that states have a limited role to play in immigration policy....
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Federal agency says transgender people protected

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has for the first time ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace....
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Federal agency says transgender people protected

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has for the first time ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace....
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New case of mad cow disease in California

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation's food supply....
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Once Obama's, younger voters in play this election

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney....
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Senate Dems ready bill freezing student loan costs

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms....
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