June 19, 2013
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Associated Press Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond lead their delegations during a meeting Friday at the NATO Defense Ministers Meetings in Brussels. Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014.
US, NATO, mull Afghan troop strength after combat
BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but a dispute arose Friday between the U.S. and German ...
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Associated Press Carlos Maisonet, 73, reacts as Dr. Eva Berrios-Colon, a professor at Touro College of Pharmacy, injects him with flu vaccine Jan. 15 during a visit to the faculty practice center at Brooklyn Hospital in New York. Health officials said Thursday this season's flu shot was only 9 percent effective in protecting seniors against the most common and dangerous flu bug.
Flu shot fails at protecting older people
ATLANTA — It turns out this year’s flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people, the most vulnerable age group. The vaccine is proving only 9 percent effective in those ...
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Associated Press Police rope off the scene of a shooting and multi-car wreck in Las Vegas early Thursday. Authorities say at least one person in a Range Rover shot at people in a Maserati that then crashed into a taxi cab.
Hotel dispute ignites Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS — Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip. Beneath the neon lights, police say, the Maserati ran...
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Associated Press Jim Collum (foreground) and other students work on lightsaber skills during a Golden Gate Knights class in San Francisco.
‘Star Wars’ fans train at Jedi class
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of San Francisco Star Wars fans who want to travel to a galaxy not that far away have created a combat choreography class for Jedis-in-training with their weapon of choice: ...
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Judges accept emotions
WASHINGTON — A Florida judge’s harsh reaction to a disrespectful teenage defendant, captured on court video, was a reminder that judges don’t shed their emotions when they don their black robes. ...
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GOP senators are treading carefully
WASHINGTON — Republicans are treading carefully around tea party groups as they pursue a Senate majority that slipped through their fingers in 2010 and 2012. “You’d have to be an idiot not to pr...
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Fishermen discover fatal crash site
PORTLAND, Ore. — As their mother lay dead in the middle of the night, a 4-year-old Oregon girl dragged her seriously injured younger sister from a crashed car and the two huddled under a blanket —...
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Al-Qaida tipsheet on avoiding drones found
TIMBUKTU, Mali — The instruction to camouflage cars is one of 22 tips on avoiding drones, listed on a document left behind by the Islamic extremists as they fled Mali from a French military interve...
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Associated Press A 3-D printer is used Feb. 13 to engineer a new ear. Combining 3-D technology with injections of a cow's cartilage-producing cells allowed researchers to craft an ear, a first step toward one day growing customized replacement ears for people who need them.
Scientists use 3-D printing to help grow ear
WASHINGTON — Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it’s possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells. The work reported Wedn...
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Associated Press A shrimp boat is used to collect oil with booms in 2010 in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La. The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf Coast states most affected by a massive 2010 oil spill have all indicated they would like to reach a settlement on civil claims against BP PLC that would avoid a trial scheduled to start next week.
BP civil settlement stays elusive as spill trial nears
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to settle their environmental and econ...
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