June 20, 2013
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Senate defeats Democratic, GOP loan plans
WASHINGTON — College students faced increasing uncertainty about the cost of new student loans after senators failed Thursday to advance partisan proposals to keep interest rates from doubling on J...
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NSA phone-records monitoring exposed
WASHINGTON — A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a mass...
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NJ attorney general named to fill Lautenberg’s US Senate seat
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie named a longtime loyal colleague, state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat Thursday that opened up this week af...
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Philadelphia officials look for cause of deadly collapse
PHILADELPHIA — The search for victims of a building collapse that killed six people, including two Salvation Army workers, wound down Thursday amid mounting questions about whether the demolition c...
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Top IRS official apologizes for lavish training conference
WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a “Star Trek” parody shown at the 2010 gathering co...
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Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Florida coast
MIAMI — The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising s...
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Doctor, guide rescue baby moose from Montana river
MISSOULA, Mont. — A Pennsylvania doctor on a guided fishing trip in southwestern Montana went home with an amazing tale of hauling in a 25-pound lunker — a baby moose she helped rescue from a rushi...
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New York authorities: Self-help couple commits suicide
NEW YORK — On a radio show they hosted called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” John Littig and Lynne Rosen urged listeners to embrace spontaneity. “So much about life is about impulse,” Littig said o...
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Airline starts serving wine in cans
NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines is thinking outside of the bottle. The low-cost carrier known for extra fees and cheeky ads is now pouring wine out of aluminum cans. Starting this week, passengers...
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Building being torn down collapses, killing 1
PHILADELPHIA — A building that was being torn down collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks on a neighboring thrift store, killing a woman and injuring at least 13 other people in...
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