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    El Gordo giveth: Beach town hits jackpot in Spain’s lottery
    News, World
    El Gordo giveth: Beach town hits jackpot in Spain’s lottery
    ALAN CLENDENNING and CIARAN GILES 
    Dec 22, 2015
    MADRID (AP) — Decked out in their school uniforms, young Spanish school children in Madrid's stately Teatro Real opera house sang out lottery numbers ...
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    Trump uses crude language to mock Clinton
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    Trump uses crude language to mock Clinton
    Dec 22, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump labeled Democrat Hillary Clinton "disgusting" for using the restroom during a commerc...
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    AP Interview: Haiti president defends questioned elections
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    AP Interview: Haiti president defends questioned elections
    DAVID McFADDEN 
    Dec 22, 2015
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Michel Martelly is defending much-criticized elections in his divided country and asserts that the oppo...
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    Records show Hitler enjoyed special treatment in prison
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    Records show Hitler enjoyed special treatment in prison
    FRANK JORDANS 
    Dec 22, 2015
    BERLIN (AP) — Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time at Landsberg prison in Germany following a...
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    British troops deploy to Afghan province amid Taliban battle
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    British troops deploy to Afghan province amid Taliban battle
    LYNNE O'DONNELL 
    Dec 22, 2015
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani took office, he ushered in a period of hope for the country's traumatized and war-...
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    Study: Some cardiac arrest victims ignore warning symptoms
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    Study: Some cardiac arrest victims ignore warning symptoms
    LAURAN NEERGAARD 
    Dec 22, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Sudden cardiac arrest may not always be so sudden: New research suggests a lot of people may ignore potentially life-saving warning ...
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    Small town Iowa students get Clinton to visit school
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    Small town Iowa students get Clinton to visit school
    CATHERINE LUCEY 
    Dec 22, 2015
    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Using a savvy social media campaign, in-person pleas and pithy T-shirts, three Iowa high school students have successfully lob...
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    After student disappearances, Mexico city tries to turn page
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    After student disappearances, Mexico city tries to turn page
    CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN 
    Dec 21, 2015
    IGUALA, Mexico (AP) — The previous elected mayor is in jail, and the new one wants to "turn the page" on the ugliest chapter in the history of this so...
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    Spain thrust into governing void after splintered vote
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    Spain thrust into governing void after splintered vote
    ALAN CLENDENNING and CRISTINA FUENTES-CANTILLANA 
    Dec 21, 2015
    MADRID (AP) — Spain entered a governing void Monday, facing weeks or months of uncertainty over what political party or parties will lead the country ...
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    Notorious Lebanese militant killed in Syria airstrike
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    Notorious Lebanese militant killed in Syria airstrike
    BASSEM MROUE and JOSEF FEDERMAN 
    Dec 20, 2015
    BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man convicted of one of the most notorious attacks in Israel's history and who spent nearly three decades in an Israeli priso...
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    Slovenians vote on whether to uphold same-sex marriage law
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    Slovenians vote on whether to uphold same-sex marriage law
    ALI ZERDIN 
    Dec 20, 2015
    LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians held a referendum Sunday on whether to allow same-sex marriage and become the first former communist nation in E...
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    Star Wars mania comes to the White House
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Star Wars mania comes to the White House
    Dec 19, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has caught Star Wars mania. President Barack Obama began his year-end press conference Friday by letting reporters k...
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    Obama signs $1.1 trillion budget compromise
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    Obama signs $1.1 trillion budget compromise
    Dec 19, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a $1.1 trillion measure that will boost spending for defense and non-defense programs over the com...
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    Judge: No evidence of crimes in recordings of abortion group
    Nation, News
    Judge: No evidence of crimes in recordings of abortion group
    SUDHIN THANAWALA 
    Dec 19, 2015
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Recordings secretly made by an anti-abortion group at meetings of abortion providers do not show criminal activity and could put ...
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    Rwandans vote to lift term limits; partial poll results
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    Rwandans vote to lift term limits; partial poll results
    IGNATIUS SSUUNA 
    Dec 19, 2015
    KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The head of Rwanda's electoral commission said late Friday partial results show Rwandans have voted to lift term limits in order...
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    Yemen rebels halt peace talks in Switzerland, set conditions
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    Yemen rebels halt peace talks in Switzerland, set conditions
    AHMED AL-HAJ 
    Dec 19, 2015
    SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni peace talks in Switzerland were halted on Friday after the country's Shiite rebel delegation suspended all meetings with th...
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    Attorney for Chicago officer plans to seek change of venue
    Nation, News
    Attorney for Chicago officer plans to seek change of venue
    DON BABWIN and CARLA K. JOHNSON 
    Dec 19, 2015
    CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago policeman charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager said Friday he will seek a chan...
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    US spending bill may aid economy just as Fed is pulling back
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    US spending bill may aid economy just as Fed is pulling back
    CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 
    Dec 18, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as the Federal Reserve is pulling back slightly on the economic accelerator, Congress is pressing down a bit harder. The spendi...
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    Congress backs bill banning microbeads in soap, body wash
    Politics
    Congress backs bill banning microbeads in soap, body wash
    MATTHEW DALY 
    Dec 18, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has approved legislation banning plastic microbeads used in soaps, body washes and other personal-care products after compl...
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    Carter emails released: ‘Wind is not my style’
    Politics
    Carter emails released: ‘Wind is not my style’
    ROBERT BURNS 
    Dec 18, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the work-related emails that Defense Secretary Ash Carter handled with his personal, unsecured email account was a message fro...
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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
    Nation & World, PA State News
    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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