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Colorado lawmakers approve plan for pot banking
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KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press 
May 09, 2014
DENVER (AP) — Frustrated by the cash-heavy aspect of its new marijuana industry, Colorado is trying a long-shot bid to create the world's first financ...
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House GOP to create new Benghazi investigation
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BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press 
May 09, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday prepared to ram through their demand for a new investigation of the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya,...
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Applications for US unemployment aid fall to 319K
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CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer 
May 08, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 26,000 last week to 319,000, the latest sign that the job market is slowl...
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Fear of economic blow as births drop around world
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BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer 
May 08, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that...
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Government says no need to park recalled GM cars
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TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer 
May 08, 2014
DETROIT (AP) — There's no need to tell owners of recalled General Motors small cars to stop driving them, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary A...
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X-15 rocket plane pilot Bill Dana dies at 83
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Mark Ivancic 
May 07, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Famed research test pilot Bill Dana, who flew the X-15 rocket plane and other pioneering aircraft during the birth of the space age...
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Parachutists: We spent 4 hours atop trade center
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JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press 
May 07, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Three skydivers spent about four hours atop the World Trade Center's signature skyscraper taking in sights before parachuting off it, ...
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Ex-Texas mortician being freed from prison early
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NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press 
May 07, 2014
CARTHAGE, Texas (AP) — A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie will soon go free, after t...
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