May 19, 2013
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Associated Press Ngun Za Bik (left) helps a customer at the front counter of his Grace Chin Store on April 17 in Columbus Junction, Iowa. Tyson Food's decision to recruit Burmese refugees marks a new chapter in this southeast Iowa meatpacking town which had previously brought in Mexicans, Hondurans and El Salvadorans.
Burmese refugees flock to meatpacking town
COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa — The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress. The sch...
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Bowen
Former Indiana governor, HHS head Bowen, 95, dies
INDIANAPOLIS — Otis R. Bowen, who overhauled Indiana’s tax system as governor before helping oversee the federal response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during President Ronald Reagan’s second te...
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Frontier fort from Revolutionary War found
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gunbatt...
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Man accused of lying after race bombings seeks release, hearing
BOSTON — Lawyers for a man charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings are asking a federal judge to release him from jail, saying he had nothing to do with the deadly bo...
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NRA, gun control advocates claim fight far from over
HOUSTON — National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year’s midterm elec...
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Ferguson
Professor apologizes for Keynes comments
NEW YORK — Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, apologized on Saturday for saying economist John Maynard Keynes was less invested in the future because he was gay and had no chil...
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New evidence fuels bid for Syria solution
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is trying to leverage new evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons, and make a fresh diplomatic and possible military pus...
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Associated Press R.I. Russell, widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has been staying in her parents' home.
Feds pressure widow, pals in bomb case
BOSTON — Every time the widow of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev leaves her parents’ house, federal agents watching the residence follow her in unmarked vehicles. Federal auth...
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Associated Press Pharmacist Simon Gorelikov holds a generic emergency contraceptive at the Health First Pharmacy on Thursday in Boston. New rules permitting 15-year-olds to get the morning-after pill without a prescription are being debated by teens as well as adults, with some saying it will help kids who can't confide in an adult, while others say the lower age infringes on a parent's right to know what's going on.
Adults, teens debate ‘pill’
NEW YORK — Allison Guarino understands the controversy over new rules allowing 15-year-olds to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription. But as someone who teaches pregnancy prevention to ...
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Beach bonfire spat gets hot in Southern California
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Anna Abderhalden and her siblings woke before dawn to stake a claim to a coveted beachfront spot where bonfires blaze each night as a rite of summer in this surf-crazy So...
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