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Associated Press President Barack Obama visits with the crowd at the home of Val and Paul Keller in Reno, Nev., Friday. Obama met with the Kellers, who recently refinanced their home loan under a federally backed program that the president wants to expand to all homeowners who are paying their mortgages on time.
Obama, Romney try to turn focus back on economy
RENO, Nev. — The presidential candidates tried to put aside politically risky talk of gay rights Friday and return to Americans’ top worry, the economy, in two states critical to the hopes of Presi...
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Test asks third-graders to reveal a secret
Some New Jersey parents are steamed about a question on a statewide standardized test this week that asked some third-graders to write about a secret and why it was hard to keep. Richard Goldber...
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CDC: Young adults ignoring skin-cancer warnings
ATLANTA — The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don’t seem to be getting through. Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the previous year — about t...
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Whooping cough epidemic declared in Washington
SEATTLE — Washington state’s worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades has prompted health officials to declare an epidemic. State officials are seeking help from federal disease experts and are ...
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Change to top of World Trade Center raises questions about height
NEW YORK — A change to the design of a needle that will sit atop One World Trade Center is raising questions over whether the building will still be America’s tallest when completed. The 408-foo...
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Guns for butter: House votes to stop Pentagon cuts
WASHINGTON — Turning their budget knife to domestic programs to protect the Pentagon, House Republicans on Thursday approved legislation cutting food stamps, benefits for federal workers and social...
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Woman battles flesh-eating disease after accident
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Doctors say a woman fighting a flesh-decaying bacteria she contracted after a zip line accident will lose her hands and remaining foot to the infection. But Aimee Copeland’s father s...
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Associated Press Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (left) and one of his attorney's Joseph Popolizio (middle) listen to another attorney, John Masterson, as he holds up a copy of the civil rights lawsuit handed out by the Department of Justice. According to the Department of Justice, after months of negotiations failed to yield an agreement to settle allegations that the sheriff's department racially profiled Latinos in his trademark immigration patrols, the lawsuit was filed.
Lawsuit filed against sheriff
PHOENIX — As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violat...
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Assocated Press A bottle of sun tan lotion and sunglasses are left on a cooler at Miami Beach, Fla. A study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says half of adults under 30 say they've had a sunburn at least once in the past year, which could be a sign young people aren't paying much attention to warnings about skin cancer.
What you need to know about sunburns and tanning
THINK TANNING BEDS ARE SAFER? You’d be wrong. The World Health Organization classifies tanning devices as carcinogens, meaning their use can lead to cancer. THINK YOU NEED TO BE BRONZE TO LOO...
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Jury ends day with no verdict in Hudson killings
CHICAGO — Jurors finished a second day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in the trial of the man charged with murdering Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephe...
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