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    Burkina Faso celebrates newly elected president
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    Burkina Faso celebrates newly elected president
    BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO and CARLEY PETESCH 
    Dec 01, 2015
    OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso took a step toward strengthening its democracy with the election on Tuesday of Roch Marc Christian Kabor...
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    Police shooting in downtown Atlanta leaves 1 man dead
    Nation, News
    Police shooting in downtown Atlanta leaves 1 man dead
    Dec 01, 2015
    ATLANTA (AP) — Police officers ducked behind cars as gunshots whizzed through a busy part of downtown Atlanta, killing a South Carolina man who engage...
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    Chicago mayor fires police chief in wake of video release
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    Chicago mayor fires police chief in wake of video release
    DON BABWIN 
    Dec 01, 2015
    CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 ti...
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    Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers argue for new trial
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    Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers argue for new trial
    DENISE LAVOIE 
    Dec 01, 2015
    BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — sentenced to death for his admitted role in the deadly 2013 attack — deserves a new trial to ...
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    German Cabinet OKs military mission against IS in Syria
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    German Cabinet OKs military mission against IS in Syria
    GEIR MOULSON 
    Dec 01, 2015
    BERLIN (AP) — The German Cabinet approved plans Tuesday to commit up to 1,200 soldiers to support the international coalition fighting the Islamic Sta...
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    Police investigate death of Alaska’s capital city mayor
    Nation, News
    Police investigate death of Alaska’s capital city mayor
    Dec 01, 2015
    JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The newly elected mayor of Alaska's capital city was found dead at his Juneau home, and police are investigating a range of poss...
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    Syria’s al-Qaida branch releases captive Lebanese soldiers
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    Syria’s al-Qaida branch releases captive Lebanese soldiers
    ZEINA KARAM 
    Dec 01, 2015
    BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria released more than a dozen Lebanese soldiers and police it has held for more than a year on Tuesday as par...
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    Conviction of ex-speaker sends NY politics into turmoil
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    Conviction of ex-speaker sends NY politics into turmoil
    DAVID KLEPPER and LARRY NEUMEISTER 
    Dec 01, 2015
    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York politics down to the granite foundations of the state...
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    Ex-speaker, once a major powerbroker, is convicted in NY
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    Ex-speaker, once a major powerbroker, is convicted in NY
    LARRY NEUMEISTER 
    Nov 30, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday in a $5 million corruption case that took down one of New York's mos...
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    NYC’s novel salt warning rule set to take effect at chains
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    NYC’s novel salt warning rule set to take effect at chains
    JAKE PEARSON and JENNIFER PELTZ 
    Nov 30, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is beginning a new era in nutritional warnings this week: Chain restaurants will have to start putting a special symbol ...
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    US activist heading home after serving Peru sentence
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    US activist heading home after serving Peru sentence
    FRANK BAJAK 
    Nov 30, 2015
    LIMA, Peru (AP) — American activist Lori Berenson is finally heading home to New York, two decades after being found guilty of aiding leftist rebels i...
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    Obama: Climate pact an ‘act of defiance’ after Paris attacks
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    Obama: Climate pact an ‘act of defiance’ after Paris attacks
    NANCY BENAC 
    Nov 30, 2015
    LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Pushing for a powerful climate deal, President Barack Obama called the global talks opening Monday outside Paris an "act of ...
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    Leaders of warming Earth meet in Paris to cut emissions
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    Leaders of warming Earth meet in Paris to cut emissions
    SETH BORENSTEIN and ANGELA CHARLTON 
    Nov 30, 2015
    Leaders of a warming Earth, in largest gathering ever, rethink global energy in ParisThe Latest: Pope Francis warns 'it's now or never' to come up wit...
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    Turkey won’t apologize to Russia over warplane downing
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    Turkey won’t apologize to Russia over warplane downing
    JAMEY KEATEN 
    Nov 30, 2015
    BRUSSELS (AP) — Turkey won't apologize to Russia for shooting down a warplane operating over Syria, the Turkish prime minister said Monday, stressing ...
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    High stakes for Baltimore as Freddie Gray trials begin
    Nation, News
    High stakes for Baltimore as Freddie Gray trials begin
    JULIET LINDERMAN 
    Nov 30, 2015
    BALTIMORE (AP) — In Baltimore, this year can be divided into two parts: what came before Freddie Gray died and what happened afterward. Gray, 25, suff...
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    Pink named UNICEF ambassador in fight to end child hunger
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Pink named UNICEF ambassador in fight to end child hunger
    KRISTIN M. HALL 
    Nov 30, 2015
    Trailblazing pop star Pink saw firsthand severely malnourished children during a recent visit to Haiti as a part of a UNICEF program to provide therap...
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    EU, Turkey seek better relations at emergency refugee summit
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    EU, Turkey seek better relations at emergency refugee summit
    RAF CASERT and JAMEY KEATEN 
    Nov 29, 2015
    BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders and the Turkish prime minister sealed a joint summit with a commitment to re-energize Turkey's long-stalled mem...
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    The Latest: Eiffel Tower lit in green for climate conference
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    The Latest: Eiffel Tower lit in green for climate conference
    Nov 29, 2015
    PARIS (AP) — The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local: 8:30 p.m. The Eiffel...
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    Worldwide climate rallies draw hundreds of thousands
    News, Online Features, World
    Worldwide climate rallies draw hundreds of thousands
    ELAINE GANLEY 
    Nov 29, 2015
    PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world on Sunday, calling on leaders to halt climate change on the e...
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    The Latest: Turkish premier blasts UN for Syria ‘failure’
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    The Latest: Turkish premier blasts UN for Syria ‘failure’
    Nov 29, 2015
    BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local: 8:40 p.m. Turkey's prime minis...
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    Inmate suspects girlfriend of affair with his brother
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    Inmate suspects girlfriend of affair with his brother
    August 4, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I have been incarcerated for 21 months. I stay in contact with my immediate family, except for my brother. I suspect that he slept with my ...
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    Dear Heloise: Someone recently mentioned needing their reading glasses to read the instructions on a paint can. When I encounter tiny instructions lik...
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    Local oil purchasers decrease prices
    Business, Local News
    Local oil purchasers decrease prices
    August 4, 2025
    Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
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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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