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Associated Press Dr. Steven Birnbaum works with a patient in a CT scanner in 2010 at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. The American Cancer Society says there now is enough evidence to recommend screening certain older, heavy smokers for lung cancer.
Lung cancer scans backed for older, heavy smokers
After decades of qualms about lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society says there now is enough evidence to recommend it, but only for current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74 and a...
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Official: Abducted boy’s mother lived in car
CLARISSA, Minn. — In 2006, an 18-year-old Minnesota man legally changed his name to Michael Jeff Landers. Six years later, authorities determined Landers was really the Indiana child who had been a...
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Associated Press Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai speaks Friday at Georgetown University in Washington. Karzai and President Barack Obama agreed the time is right for U.S. forces to wind down in Afghanistan.
Obama, Karzai: Wind down war
WASHINGTON — Uneasy allies, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai demonstrated Friday they could agree on one big idea: After 11 years of war, the time is right for U.S. forces t...
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Former spaceflight director dies
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Family members say that Dyer Brainerd Holmes, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, has died. Hol...
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Navy reviews fire safety of uniforms
NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy said Friday that it is reviewing whether flame-resistant clothing should be made available for every sailor at sea after a test revealed the camouflage working uniforms most...
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No charges for NBC host over magazine
WASHINGTON — NBC journalist David Gregory won’t face charges for displaying a high-capacity ammunition magazine on his “Meet the Press” news program last month, District of Columbia prosecutors ann...
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Key things to know this flu season
n The situation: The annual flu season hit about a month early this year, and illness is now widespread in 47 states. Many cases are caused by a flu strain that tends to make people sicker. n T...
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Little expected from exam of gunman’s body
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s chief medical examiner says he doubts toxicological tests and genetic analysis of the body of the gunman who fatally shot 20 children and six educators at an element...
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Democrats urge Obama to weigh debt ceiling hike
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top Democratic allies in the Senate advised him Friday to consider “any lawful steps” to make sure the government does not default of its debts and spur an eco...
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Kerry’s words on Assad will draw scrutiny
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry has held up Syria as a country that could bring peace and stability to the region. He predicted the now-disgraced regime of President Bashar Assad would pursue a legiti...
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