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U.S. jobs outlook improves as campaign starts to heat up
WASHINGTON — The jobs outlook in the U.S. brightened a bit Thursday just before President Barack Obama was to make his case for re-election to the American people. Fewer people applied for unemp...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. Obama said that the road to economic recovery is difficult, but the problems can be fixed.
Obama: Path to recovery hard, challenge ‘can be met’
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — His re-election in doubt, President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress Thursday night toward fixing the nation’s stubborn economic woes, but vowed in a Democratic Nationa...
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Magician buys King recording
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Magician David Copperfield said Wednesday he purchased a newly discovered audiotape of a Martin Luther King Jr. interview and would donate it to the National Civil Rights Museum ...
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Sikh temple victim out of intensive care
MILWAUKEE — Hospital officials in Milwaukee have upgraded the condition of the Sikh worshipper who’d been in critical condition for weeks following last month’s shooting rampage at a nearby temple....
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Iowa doctor charged with 8 counts of manslaughter
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines doctor faces involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers to eight patients who fatally overdosed, including a me...
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Associated Press Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C. Clinton told delegates that President Barack Obama kept the economy he inherited from crashing.
Clinton: Obama helps ailing economy
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama inherited a wreck of an economy, “put a floor under the crash” and laid the foundation for millions of good new jobs, former President Bill Clinton declared...
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Rain aids battle against forest fire
LOS ANGELES — Rain arrived Wednesday to help in the assault on a 3,800-acre fire in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. Remnants of Tropical Storm John brought the precipitation ...
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Associated Press Joel Brodsky, attorney for former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson, talks to the media outside the Will County Courthouse during the first day of jury deliberations in Peterson's murder trial Wednesday in Joliet, Ill. The jury must wade through five weeks of circumstantial and hearsay evidence to decide whether the former police sergeant murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
In Peterson trial, jurors quickly confront hearsay
JOLIET, Ill. — As they began deliberations Wednesday, jurors in Drew Peterson’s trial immediately zeroed in on the case’s trickiest issue: whether to believe secondhand hearsay statements that woul...
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Iraq’s role in Syria war poses problems for US
WASHINGTON — Iraq’s acquiescence in possibly allowing Iranian weapons deliveries to the Syrian regime demonstrates Washington’s limited influence in postwar Iraq, its inability to halt Syria’s 18-m...
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Associated Press First lady Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C.
Dems hammer Romney
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — First lady Michelle Obama lovingly praised her husband Tuesday night in a prime-time Democratic Convention speech as a devoted husband and caring father at home and a “man we can ...
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