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Associated Press A technician loads patient samples into a machine for testing at Myriad Genetics in Salt Lake City.
Court restricts patents covering human DNA
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the potential to profoundly affect the emerging and lucrative me...
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Low wage workers may not afford coverage
WASHINGTON — It’s called the Affordable Care Act, but President Barack Obama’s health care law may turn out to be unaffordable for many low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurant...
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Lewis founded Hamburger Hamlet
LOS ANGELES — Harry Lewis, founder of the Hamburger Hamlet chain whose regular customers included Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at age 93. The Los Angeles Times reports Lewis died...
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Immigration debate clears hurdle
WASHINGTON — In Spanish and English, the Senate pushed contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles with deceptive ease on Tuesday as President Barack Obama insisted the “momen...
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Associated Press Vehicles pile up Monday on Interstate 80, three miles west of Winnemucca, Nev. A sandstorm in rural northern Nevada caused the 26-vehicle pileup that killed one person, seriously injured several more, and sapped already-thin emergency resources, officials said.
27-car Nevada sandstorm pileup kills 1
Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck driver, seriously injuring several other people and ...
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Feds: Morning-after pill appeal officially on hold
NEW YORK — The Obama administration’s appeal in the legal fight over morning-after pills has been officially put on hold until a judge weighs a new plan to allow girls of all ages to buy the contra...
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Associated Press Myrlie Louise Evers, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, leans down to kiss her late husband's forehead before the casket was opened for public viewing at a funeral home June 13, 1963, in Jackson, Miss. Evers, who was the first Mississippi field director of NAACP, 1954-1963, was shot in front of his home.
Widow works to preserve Evers’ civil rights legacy
JACKSON, Miss. — Myrlie Evers-Williams acknowledges it would be easy to remain mired in bitterness and anger, 50 years after a sniper’s bullet made her a widow. Instead, she’s determined to cele...
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Associated Press House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D- Md., is followed by reporters Tuesday following a closed all-member briefing on the NSA on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in New York.
NYC bomb plot details settle little in NSA debate
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in...
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Suspect’s paralysis could delay Fort Hood trial
FORT HOOD, Texas — The paralysis-related health problems of the Army psychiatrist charged with carrying out the deadly attack on Fort Hood could significantly slow the pace of his upcoming court-ma...
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US spy programs raise ire both home, abroad
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist t...
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