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    Norway proposes stricter asylum rules
    News, World
    Norway proposes stricter asylum rules
    Dec 29, 2015
    STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norway's center-right government on Tuesday proposed tightening the country's asylum rules to avoid what the immigration minister des...
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    Iraqi PM tours Ramadi to hail city’s liberation from IS
    News, World
    Iraqi PM tours Ramadi to hail city’s liberation from IS
    SINAN SALAHEDDIN 
    Dec 29, 2015
    BAGHDAD (AP) — A triumphant Iraqi prime minister on Tuesday toured the western city of Ramadi, just a day after government troops routed Islamic State...
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    Wounded fighters, civilians evacuated from Syria
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    Wounded fighters, civilians evacuated from Syria
    BRIAN ROHAN and BASSEM MROUE 
    Dec 28, 2015
    BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of people from opposite sides in Syria's civil war were evacuated from contested areas on Monday under a U.N.-backed truce, wit...
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    Puerto Rico policeman fatally shoots 3 officers after fight
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    Puerto Rico policeman fatally shoots 3 officers after fight
    DANICA COTO 
    Dec 28, 2015
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico policeman fatally shot two high-ranking officers and a policewoman on Monday following an argument and host...
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    South Korea, Japan reach landmark deal on WWII sex slaves
    News, World
    South Korea, Japan reach landmark deal on WWII sex slaves
    HYUNG-JIN KIM and FOSTER KLUG 
    Dec 28, 2015
    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday in a decades-l...
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    White officer won’t face charges in killing of Cleveland boy
    Nation, News
    White officer won’t face charges in killing of Cleveland boy
    MARK GILLISPIE 
    Dec 28, 2015
    CLEVELAND (AP) — A grand jury declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was sho...
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    Major NYC hotels pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions
    Nation, News
    Major NYC hotels pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions
    JONATHAN LEMIRE 
    Dec 28, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen of New York City's most famed hotels are pledging to get greener. The Waldorf-Astoria New York, the Lotte New York P...
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    Russia removes Iran’s enriched uranium as per nuke deal
    News, World
    Russia removes Iran’s enriched uranium as per nuke deal
    GEORGE JAHN 
    Dec 28, 2015
    VIENNA (AP) — A landmark nuclear deal with Tehran moved closer to implementation Monday, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announcing that tons ...
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    Large storm brings twisters, floods, now snow and ice
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    Large storm brings twisters, floods, now snow and ice
    DAVID WARREN and REESE DUNKLIN 
    Dec 28, 2015
    GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Residents surveyed the destruction from deadly tornadoes in North Texas as the same storm system brought winter woes to the Midw...
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    The Latest: Feds will continue review of Tamir Rice case
    Nation, News
    The Latest: Feds will continue review of Tamir Rice case
    The Associated Press 
    Dec 28, 2015
    CLEVELAND (AP) — The latest on a Cleveland grand jury's decision to not indict two police officers in the November 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice (...
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    Saudi Arabia posts $98B deficit, raises petrol prices
    Nation, News, Top Stories
    Saudi Arabia posts $98B deficit, raises petrol prices
    ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY 
    Dec 28, 2015
    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Monday said this year's budget deficit amounted to $98 billion (367 billion riyals) as lower oil prices cu...
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    Islamic extremists kill at least 15 Tuaregs in Mali’s north
    World
    Islamic extremists kill at least 15 Tuaregs in Mali’s north
    BABA AHMED 
    Dec 27, 2015
    BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamic extremist in Mali's north have killed at least 15 people in two attacks in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria, ...
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    North African al-Qaida says top figure killed in ambush
    Top Stories, World
    North African al-Qaida says top figure killed in ambush
    Dec 27, 2015
    ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A leading figure of the North African affiliate of al-Qaida has been killed in an ambush by Algerian soldiers, one of 109 terr...
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    Israeli army: 2 Palestinians killed after stabbing soldier
    World
    Israeli army: 2 Palestinians killed after stabbing soldier
    Dec 27, 2015
    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians after they stabbed a soldier on Sunday near at a West Bank checkpoint, the military s...
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    UK military helps combat flooding as it spreads to cities
    World
    UK military helps combat flooding as it spreads to cities
    GREGORY KATZ 
    Dec 27, 2015
    LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron sent hundreds more troops into northern England on Sunday to help exhausted residents and emergency...
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    Pakistani army chief visits Kabul to discuss peace talks
    World
    Pakistani army chief visits Kabul to discuss peace talks
    LYNNE O'DONNELL and MUNIR AHMED 
    Dec 27, 2015
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed on Sunday to meet with U.S. and Chinese officials in the first weeks of the new year to disc...
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    Syrian army kills 17 Islamic militants in country’s south
    World
    Syrian army kills 17 Islamic militants in country’s south
    BASSEM MROUE 
    Dec 27, 2015
    BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces booby trapped a cluster of farm buildings in the southern Daraa province and detonated the explosives as severa...
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    Afghan official: IS, militia brutally kill other’s fighters
    World
    Afghan official: IS, militia brutally kill other’s fighters
    Dec 27, 2015
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate and a rival militia controlled by a prominent lawmaker have killed eight captured figh...
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    Iran accuses Saudi of promoting poverty, terrorism
    World
    Iran accuses Saudi of promoting poverty, terrorism
    ALI AKBAR DAREINI 
    Dec 27, 2015
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused archrival Saudi Arabia Sunday of promoting poverty and terrorism by continuing to bomb Ye...
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    Erdogan’s office says he stopped man from jumping off bridge
    News, World
    Erdogan’s office says he stopped man from jumping off bridge
    SUZAN FRASER 
    Dec 26, 2015
    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office says Erdogan has talked a man out of jumping off a bridge. Television footage on...
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    Other Voices: Drumbeat of hyperbole
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Other Voices: Drumbeat of hyperbole
    June 17, 2025
    In the June 10 Other Voices, a writer condemns President Trump for “each grievance, each lie, and each attack on our nation’s norms.” He goes on to wr...
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    Unused Covid quarantine pods
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Unused Covid quarantine pods
    June 17, 2025
    Nashville, Tenn. spent $1.2 million to buy 108 quarantine housing pods in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the shelters were never used. Now the...
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    Are Pa. partisans flipping sides on Fetterman?
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Are Pa. partisans flipping sides on Fetterman?
    By CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS 
    June 17, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Are the party positions on always-newsy senior U.S. Sen. John Fetterman flipping here in Pennsylvania? Fetterman continues to dominate th...
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    Pa. can learn from legal pot rollouts in other states
    Comment & Opinion, Opinion
    Pa. can learn from legal pot rollouts in other states
    By HANNA WEBSTER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    June 17, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — As the legalization of recreational cannabis continues to face roadblocks in Pennsylvania, there's much to learn from the dozens of...
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    Sandy Cochran Memorial Scholarship winners posted
    Lifestyles
    Sandy Cochran Memorial Scholarship winners posted
    June 17, 2025
    The Sandy Cochran Memorial Scholarship selection committee announced four regional students will share in the award of $2,000 in scholarships for the ...
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    Penn Highlands receives two maternal health awards
    Business, Local News
    Penn Highlands receives two maternal health awards
    June 17, 2025
    DuBOIS — For the second consecutive year, Penn Highlands Healthcare has received Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PA PQC) Designation Awa...
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