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Fairness found lacking in NPR story on pro-life group

Pro-life groups often insist that they don't get a fair shake in the media, and now the Vitae Foundation has confirmation.

Both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Washington News Council have sided with the foundation in its fairness complaint against Seattle's National Public Radio station, KUOW-FM, which ran ...

Doctors want to redefine autism; parents worried

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
CHICAGO (AP) -- One child doesn't talk, rocks rhythmically back and forth and stares at clothes spinning in the dryer. Another has no trouble talking but is obsessed with trains, methodically naming every station in his state....
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Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business....
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APNewsBreak: 'Three Cups' author mismanaged group

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson mismanaged the nonprofit organization he co-founded to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent charity money on personal items, family vacations and millions on charter flights, according to an investigative report released Thursday....
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Ill. high court revives suit over assault-weapon ban

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gun-rights advocates scored a victory Thursday when the Illinois Supreme Court decided to let a challenge to Cook County's assault-weapons ban proceed, even though two lower courts had tossed it out.

The high court, in a unanimous ruling, said it wants the trial court to hear ...

Obama believes women should be admitted to Augusta

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama believes women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National, home of the Masters golf tournament....
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Coca-Cola halts ties to conservative law drafters

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. has ended its membership in a conservative organization seen as the incubator for a string of new state laws on voting and a marketer of laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense statute....
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Serial killer's letters may have sped up execution

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Serial killer David Alan Gore is set to be executed sooner than he expected, in part because he could not stop bragging about raping and murdering four teenagers and two women in the Vero Beach area about 30 years ago....
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Connecticut on track to abolish death penalty

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The state Senate voted Thursday voted to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a state that has executed only one prisoner in a half-century and is now on track to join a national trend away from capital punishment....
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Hospital: Former Sen. McGovern in good condition

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was in good condition Thursday in a Florida hospital where he was undergoing tests, a hospital spokeswoman said....
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Conn. on track to be 17th state sans death penalty

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The state Senate voted Thursday to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a state that has executed only one prisoner in a half-century and is now on track to join a national trend away from capital punishment.

In an early morning vote that followed more than 10 ...

US to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use cannon fire to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami....
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U.S. to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use cannon fire to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami.

The shrimping vessel, which has no lights or communications systems, was floating about 195 miles south of Sitka in the Gulf of Alaska on Thursday ...

US to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use explosives to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami....
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Sequel to anti-warlord video addresses criticisms

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A wildly popular Internet video turned African warlord Joseph Kony into a household name and boosted the international hunt for the brutal rebel leader. Can a sequel do more?...
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12-person jury, alternates chosen in Sandusky case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A jury was selected Wednesday in the child molestation scandal that brought down Joe Paterno, and the makeup of the panel left no doubt this is Penn State country....
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US growth of distant suburbs falls to historic low

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stung by high gasoline costs, outlying suburbs that sprouted in the heady 2000s are now seeing their growth fizzle to historic lows, halting American city dwellers' decades-long exodus to sprawling homes in distant towns....
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US growth of distant suburbs falls to historic low

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stung by high gasoline costs, outlying suburbs that sprouted in the heady 2000s are now seeing their growth fizzle to historic lows, halting American city dwellers' decades-long exodus to sprawling homes in distant towns....
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Ohio school to let gay student wear T-shirt 1 day

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 21:48
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A gay student who sued his public high school for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays will be allowed to wear the shirt for at least one day....
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W.Va. plans moment of silence to honor 29 miners

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin urged West Virginians to observe a moment of silence Thursday, starting at 3:01 p.m., to mark the second anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster and the deaths of 29 men.

The powerful April 5, 2010, explosion at the former Massey ...

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