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American says installation job caused seat snafu
DALLAS — American Airlines says improperly installed clamps caused seats to come loose on some planes, and it’s expanding an inspection to cover dozens of jets. In the past week, rows of seats h...
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Associated Press Jeffrey Self (left), issues a statement about U.S. Border Patrol agent being shot and killed while another is injured while James Turgal, FBI Special Agent in Charge Phoenix, listens during a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station Tuesday in Bisbee, Ariz.
Border Patrol agent killed on job
NACO, Ariz. — A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that spaw...
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Education chief wants textbooks to go digital
WASHINGTON — Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Tuesday for the na...
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Environmentalist Commoner dies
NEW YORK — Scientist and activist Barry Commoner, who raised early concerns about the effects of radioactive fallout and was one of the pioneers of the environmental movement, died Sunday at age 95...
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Florida justices question law license for immigrant
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Most of the Florida Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of granting a law license to an illegal immigrant. The seven justices heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of ...
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Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stands with workers as he makes an unscheduled stop at a Chipotle restaurant in Denver Tuesday.
Romney says he might cut deductions
DENVER — Offering deficit-cutting ideas before his first debate with President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney says he might be willing to reduce income tax deductions used by millions of families for ho...
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Associated Press Roger Avalos hugs his mother Grisel Avalos outside their house in El Paso, Texas. A cheating scandal in which schools would get rid of underperforming students to artificially inflate their high stakes test scores has rocked the El Paso ISD, landed a former superintendent in jail and prompted the Texas Education Agency to put the district on probation.
School district rebuilds after fraudulent testing
EL PASO, Texas — During his sophomore year, Jose Avalos was urged by a principal to drop out of high school. The next year, his brother was told to do the same after entering the 10th grade. A thir...
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Tests come back negative in Michigan search for Hoffa
DETROIT — Like many others that came before it, the latest search for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has come up empty. Tests on soil samples gathered last week from a backyard in suburban De...
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Court: Can government be sued for credit card mistakes?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday pondered whether it should allow the federal government to face millions of dollars in class-action lawsuits for violating identity theft protection laws t...
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White House widening covert war in North Africa
WASHINGTON — Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador ...
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