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    Barry Schweid, legendary AP correspondent, dies at 83
    Nation, News
    Barry Schweid, legendary AP correspondent, dies at 83
    HARRY DUNPHY 
    Dec 10, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Barry Schweid, the legendary Associated Press diplomatic correspondent who reported and analyzed events from dozens of countries ove...
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    Gun buyer, gunman linked by marriage, possible previous plot
    Nation, News
    Gun buyer, gunman linked by marriage, possible previous plot
    AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY 
    Dec 10, 2015
    RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The gunman who killed his co-workers in San Bernardino, California, and the friend who bought the assault rifles used in the ...
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    Obama signs education law rewrite shifting power to states
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    Obama signs education law rewrite shifting power to states
    JENNIFER C. KERR 
    Dec 10, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling it a "Christmas miracle," President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law on Thu...
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    New Argentine president promises major changes and honesty
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    New Argentine president promises major changes and honesty
    PETER PRENGAMAN and VICENTE PANETTA 
    Dec 10, 2015
    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Mauricio Macri was sworn in Thursday, inheriting myriad economic problems from the often-divisive o...
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    South Africa’s currency weakens after finance minister fired
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    South Africa’s currency weakens after finance minister fired
    LYNSEY CHUTEL 
    Dec 10, 2015
    JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The abrupt firing of South Africa's finance minister created uncertainty about Africa's second-largest economy Thursday as its cur...
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    Afghan forces repel Taliban attack on airport, 50 dead
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    Afghan forces repel Taliban attack on airport, 50 dead
    Dec 10, 2015
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan forces have repelled a Taliban attack on the Kandahar airport that lasted more than 24 hours and killed 50 people, ma...
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    Killer of UK soldier Lee Rigby suing prison for lost teeth
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    Killer of UK soldier Lee Rigby suing prison for lost teeth
    Dec 10, 2015
    LONDON (AP) — The extremist convicted of fatally hacking British soldier Lee Rigby two years ago is suing prison officials over having his two front t...
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    Profiles of radicals reveal numerous paths to extremism
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    Profiles of radicals reveal numerous paths to extremism
    JOSEPH KRAUSS 
    Dec 10, 2015
    CAIRO (AP) — For some, the turn to Islamic extremism begins with a Google search, for others a stint in prison. Most of those who embrace such beliefs...
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    War, low oil prices cripple Iraq Kurds’ once-vibrant economy
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    War, low oil prices cripple Iraq Kurds’ once-vibrant economy
    BALINT SZLANKO 
    Dec 10, 2015
    IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Less than two years ago, Iraq's northern Kurdish region was booming, as oil revenues poured in and foreign investors flocked to a r...
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    Former DC mayor poised for comeback with federal probe over
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    Former DC mayor poised for comeback with federal probe over
    BEN NUCKOLS 
    Dec 10, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vincent Gray spent his only term as Washington's mayor dogged by allegations of corruption. Then, three weeks before the 2014 Democr...
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    FBI: California shooters radicalized at least 2 years ago
    Nation, News
    FBI: California shooters radicalized at least 2 years ago
    ERIC TUCKER and BRIAN MELLEY 
    Dec 09, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The two San Bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago — a year before one of them came to the U.S. on a fiancée vi...
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    Interior secretary: No criminal acts in Colorado mine spill
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    Interior secretary: No criminal acts in Colorado mine spill
    MATTHEW BROWN 
    Dec 09, 2015
    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she's seen no evidence of criminal negligence in a toxic wastewater spill triggered by fed...
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    Jamaica activist brings legal challenge to anti-sodomy laws
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    Jamaica activist brings legal challenge to anti-sodomy laws
    Dec 09, 2015
    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Jamaican gay rights activist has brought a rare legal challenge to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy laws that criminalize...
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    Senate clears major new education bill, sends it to Obama
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    Senate clears major new education bill, sends it to Obama
    JENNIFER C. KERR 
    Dec 09, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The way the nation's public schools are evaluated — teachers, students and the schools themselves — is headed for a major makeover, ...
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    Supreme Court torn over Texas affirmative action program
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    Supreme Court torn over Texas affirmative action program
    MARK SHERMAN 
    Dec 09, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears torn over the use of race in college admissions and may not be ready to make a decision without more infor...
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    German leader Angela Merkel named Time’s Person of the Year
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    German leader Angela Merkel named Time’s Person of the Year
    HILLEL ITALIE 
    Dec 09, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time's Person of the Year, praised Wednesday by the magazine for her leadership on ever...
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    American Indian activist, poet John Trudell dies at 69
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    American Indian activist, poet John Trudell dies at 69
    ROBERT JABLON 
    Dec 09, 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Trudell, who was a spokesman for American Indian protesters during their 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island and later headed t...
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    London mayor calls Trump’s comments on city ‘utter nonsense’
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    London mayor calls Trump’s comments on city ‘utter nonsense’
    Dec 08, 2015
    LONDON (AP) — Donald Trump's comments about London are "nonsense," the city's mayor said Tuesday, inviting the U.S. Republican presidential hopeful to...
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    Food industry pushing halt to GMO labeling by end of year
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    Food industry pushing halt to GMO labeling by end of year
    MARY CLARE JALONICK 
    Dec 08, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Food companies are mounting an aggressive year-end push to head off mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods. The food indus...
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    France urges EU to act faster against extremist funding
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    France urges EU to act faster against extremist funding
    LORNE COOK 
    Dec 08, 2015
    BRUSSELS (AP) — France urged its European Union partners on Tuesday to speed up efforts to cut off funds to extremists groups, nearly a month after th...
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
    August 3, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK  — A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke...
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    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
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    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
    Here's how they work — and when they're used
    By KING JEMISON  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 3, 2025
    (TNS) — Kaysi Ricker's phone buzzed with a flash flood warning. She scrambled down to the creek behind her house to clean up the toys her niece and ne...
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    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
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    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
    August 3, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I recently reconnected with a woman I dated briefly in the 1980s and haven't seen since. She's around my age. We both were married one year...
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
    August 2, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
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    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
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    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    By CHARLES THOMPSON pennlive.com 
    August 2, 2025
    (TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
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    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
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    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
    By STEVE SHERK Jr.  Special to The Era  
    August 2, 2025
    Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
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