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State Department: 1 American dead
WASHINGTON — One American worker at a natural gas complex in Algeria has been found dead, U.S. officials said Friday as the Obama administration sought to secure the release of Americans still bein...
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Ex-New Orleans mayor charged with bribery
NEW ORLEANS — More than a decade ago, Ray Nagin was elected mayor of New Orleans on a vow to root out corruption in a city plagued by decades of it. On Friday, the former mayor was indicted on char...
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GOP leader: House to vote on debt limit
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis, backing off demands that any immediate extension of the...
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Associated Press Luke Armstrong tries to touch the winner's trophy held by father Lance Armstrong in 2005 after Armstrong won his seventh straight Tour de France cycling race in Paris. During the second part of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Armstrong, he talked about speaking with Luke after his son had defended him concerning doping allegations.
Armstrong turns emotional in 2nd part of interview
CHICAGO — Lance Armstrong finally cracked. Not while expressing deep remorse or regrets, though there was plenty of that in Friday night’s second part of Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey...
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Flu remains widespread, eases in some areas
Nine more children or teens have died of the flu, bringing the nation’s total this flu season to 29, health officials reported Friday. In a typical season, about 100 children die of the flu, so ...
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Sheriffs, state lawmakers push back on gun control
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — From Oregon to Mississippi, President Barack Obama’s proposed ban on new assault weapons and large-capacity magazines struck a nerve among rural lawmen and lawmakers, many of wh...
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Associated Press One of Charles A. McCoy Jr.'s guns is included in evidence during his 2005 murder trial in Columbus, Ohio (left), and a side crash test on a 2008 PT Cruiser by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is shown (right). Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second group and little about the first.
Will Obama’s order lead to surge in gun research?
MILWAUKEE — Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun ...
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JPMorgan’s Dimon gets big pay cut
NEW YORK — America’s best-known banker is getting a big pay cut. JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that it will dock the pay of CEO Jamie Dimon by more than half, to $11.5 million from $23 million. ...
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Charities worry new tax law will reduce donations
WASHINGTON — Charities and nonprofit organizations are worried that new limits on tax deductions for high earners will hurt donations just as charitable giving is starting to rebound from the depth...
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Goldman, Morgan Stanley pay $557 million
WASHINGTON — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will pay a combined $557 million to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in the...
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