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NJ wants to collect on unredeemed gift cards

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Remember that gift card you got from Aunt Francine but never spent? New Jersey would be more than happy to take it off your hands....
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Study finds some early breast cancer overdiagnosed

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
NEW YORK (AP) -- For years, women have been urged to get screened for breast cancer because the earlier it's found, the better. Now researchers are reporting more evidence suggesting that's not always the case....
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Study finds some early breast cancer overdiagnosed

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
NEW YORK (AP) -- For years, women have been urged to get screened for breast cancer because the earlier it's found, the better. Now researchers are reporting more evidence suggesting that's not always the case....
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Study finds some early breast cancer overdiagnosed

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
NEW YORK (AP) -- For years, women have been urged to get screened for breast cancer because the earlier it's found, the better. Now researchers are reporting more evidence suggesting that's not always the case....
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Lobbying justices, Obama makes his health law case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday issued a rare, direct challenge to the Supreme Court to uphold his historic health care overhaul, weighing in with a vigorous political appeal for judicial restraint. He warned that overturning the law would hurt millions of Americans and amount to overreach by the "unelected" court....
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US, Mexican leaders trade warnings on gun violence

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico's border with the United States could harm relations between the two nations, President Barack Obama said Monday; Mexico's leader retorted that much of the problem of drugs and guns begins on the U.S. side of the line....
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American Scene: Group files U.N. complaint on state's immigration law

MONTGOMERY — An alliance of union and civil rights groups opposed to Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law has filed a complaint with the United Nations' International Labor Organization.

The complaint Monday alleges that Alabama law violates international norms. It says the law and the U.S. government's inability to come up with ...

Young driver at wheel in trailer crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 17-year-old boy with a provisional driver's license was behind the wheel when a converted semitrailer crashed on a Kansas highway, killing five members of his Minnesota family who were on vacation to see a motocross race, authorities said Monday.

According to the Minnesota Department of ...

Young driver at wheel in trailer crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 17-year-old boy with a provisional driver's license was behind the wheel when a converted semitrailer crashed on a Kansas highway, killing five members of his Minnesota family who were on vacation to see a motocross race, authorities said Monday.

According to the Minnesota Department of ...

Media take on police-like role in Martin case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
MIAMI (AP) -- The news media are taking on an increasingly police-like role in the Trayvon Martin slaying by using modern forensic techniques to analyze evidence, an approach some legal experts say can lead to a distorted view of the case because a lot of the key evidence is still under wraps....
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Media take on police-like role in Martin case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
MIAMI (AP) -- The news media are taking on an increasingly police-like role in the Trayvon Martin slaying by using modern forensic techniques to analyze evidence, an approach some legal experts say can lead to a distorted view of the case because a lot of the key evidence is still under wraps....
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Media take on police-like role in Martin case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
MIAMI (AP) -- The news media are taking on an increasingly police-like role in the Trayvon Martin slaying by using modern forensic techniques to analyze evidence, an approach some legal experts say can lead to a distorted view of the case because a lot of the key evidence is still under wraps....
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ICE arrests 3,100 convicted criminal aliens in sweep

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) agents, as part of what the agency says is its commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators, has arrested more than 3,100 convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators in a six-day national "Cross Check" enforcement operation.

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ICE arrests 3,100 convicted criminal aliens in sweep

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) agents, as part of what the agency says is its commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators, has arrested more than 3,100 convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators in a six-day national "Cross Check" enforcement operation.

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Officials: 6 dead in Christian school shooting

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say six people are dead and three are wounded after a shooting attack at a California Christian university....
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GSA head resigns amid reports of lavish spending

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the federal agency that oversees supplies, transportation and office space for the federal government has resigned following reports of lavish spending at a Nevada training conference in 2010....
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1 World Trade Center reaches 100 floors

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
NEW YORK (AP) -- The new World Trade Center has reached a milestone: The skyscraper being built to replace the terror-wrecked twin towers is now 100 stories high - on its way to becoming New York's tallest building....
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Court upholds California affirmative action ban

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 07:15
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Affirmative action proponents took a hit Monday as a federal appeals court panel upheld California's ban on using race, ethnicity and gender in admitting students to public colleges and universities....
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Appeals court upholds Calif. affirmative action ban

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by minority students to overturn California's ban on affirmative action in admissions to state colleges and universities, saying the 1996 initiative approved by California voters already had passed the court's legal muster.

Ralph Kasarda, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, ...

Appeals court upholds Calif. affirmative action ban

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by minority students to overturn California's ban on affirmative action in admissions to state colleges and universities, saying the 1996 initiative approved by California voters already had passed the court's legal muster.

Ralph Kasarda, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, ...

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