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CDC: 2011 was worst measles year in US in 15 years

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
ATLANTA (AP) -- Last year was the worst year for measles in the U.S. in 15 years, health officials said Thursday....
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CDC: 2011 was worst measles year in US in 15 years

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
ATLANTA (AP) -- Last year was the worst year for measles in the U.S. in 15 years, health officials said Thursday....
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Opening arguments set for Monday in Clemens trial

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Roger Clemens perjury retrial could turn into an ad hoc forum on the general problem of drug use in baseball, depending on the outcome of the latest lawyers' spat over the landmark congressional hearing that eventually landed the seven-time Cy Young Award winner in court....
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16 Amish plead not guilty in Ohio hair attacks

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Sixteen men and women have pleaded not guilty in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio....
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GOP pushes business tax cut through divided House

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans rammed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most of America's employers through the House on Thursday, ignoring a White House veto threat in a debate both parties used to show voters how they would bolster the economy....
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Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Spending bills begin on bipartisan note

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion....
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Pentagon: America will be ready if needed in Syria

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military leaders clearly expressed reluctance about using American might to stop the unending violence in Syria, insisting that diplomacy remains the best option to force President Bashar Assad to end the brutal crackdown on his own people....
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NYC basement searched for boy missing since 1979

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police officers and FBI agents began tearing apart a New York City basement Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone....
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Lawmaker: More firings likely at US Secret Service

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal said more firings could be imminent following the ouster of three agency employees....
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GOP pushes business tax cut through divided House

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and pushed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most employers through a sharply divided House....
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Spending bills begin on bipartisan note

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the Senate Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion....
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Probe of 1979 disappearance leads to NYC basement

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
NEW YORK (AP) -- A team of police officers and FBI agents began digging up a basement in New York City on Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone....
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Gunmen kill 3, wound 8 at Texas backyard cockfight

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
EDCOUCH, Texas (AP) -- Masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight at a Texas ranch near Mexico early Thursday, killing three people and wounding eight others in what authorities described as a bloody massacre....
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Small plane sinks into Gulf; no signal from pilot

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Coast Guard crews saw no signs Thursday that the pilot of a small plane survived when his Cessna went down in the Gulf of Mexico about three hours after two F-15 fighter jets tried to make contact with him.

Coast Guard Chief John Edwards said the plane ...

Woman to face murder charge in Marine wife's death

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A woman arrested in the mysterious slaying of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife will be charged with first-degree murder....
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GOP Sen: Scandals expose Obama leadership weakness

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....
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GOP Sen: Scandals expose Obama leadership weakness

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....
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GOP Sen: Scandals expose Obama leadership weakness

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 16:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Southern Republican is raising questions about whether President Barack Obama is capably leading the government....
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Gun industry's economic impact skyrockets during Obama years

The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation says the economic impact of firearm sales — a figure that includes ...

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