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Banana Boat recalls sunscreen; fire risk
WASHINGTON — The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling a half-million bottles of spray-on lotion after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the product and comi...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney both campaign in the battleground state of Ohio. Unemployment rates fell in nearly all the battleground states this past month.
Jobless rate falls in most battleground states
CLEVELAND — Unemployment rates fell last month in nearly all of the battleground states that will determine the presidential winner, giving President Barack Obama fresh fodder to argue that voters ...
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Associated Press Continental Airlines Flight 3407, operated by Manassas, Va.-based Colgan Air, burns after it crashed into a house on Feb. 12, 2009, in Clarence Center, N.Y. Safety analysts say airline travel has become so safe in the United States it's hard to justify imposing costly new safety rules on the economically fragile industry.
Air safety rules’ cost questioned
WASHINGTON — It’s been 43 months since the last deadly airline crash in the United States, the longest period without a fatal domestic accident since commercial aviation expanded after World War II...
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Bomb threat clears Texas A&M
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University’s campus was shut down for about five hours Friday after an emailed bomb threat prompted an evacuation of more than 50,000 people and a building-by-bui...
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Scout abuse files spark public interest
PORTLAND, Ore. — The online release of files showing the Boy Scouts of America’s cover-up of decades of sexual abuse has created interest among Americans who want to know who the alleged abusers ar...
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Sandusky accuser tells of abuse in book
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A young man whose sexual-abuse claims triggered the investigation of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says in his new book Sandusky’s wife once called dow...
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Associated Press A Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month's deadly attack that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a mob upset about an American-made, anti-Muslim movie.
GOP pounces after news of CIA cable on Libya raid
WASHINGTON — Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama’s administration could have known early on that ...
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TransCanada reaffirms plan to restart Keystone pipeline
TransCanada has reaffirmed its plan to restart the Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the Midwest on Saturday, although rainy weather is hampering the company’s on-site work. TransCanada shut ...
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Judge rules for cheerleaders in Bible banner suit
AUSTIN, Texas — A judge ruled Thursday that cheerleaders at an East Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games, saying the school district’s ban on the pra...
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Associated Press Attorney Kelly Clark examines some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization Thursday in his office in Portland, Ore. The Boy Scouts of America fought to keep those files confidential.
Scout “perversion files” show locals helped cover up
PORTLAND, Ore. — Again and again, decade after decade, an array of authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and local Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and other...
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