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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho pastor who led the prayer at a weekend campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was gunned down outside his church the following day but was expected to survive.
March 07, 2016
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The bathroom scale may show a good number but how much of that weight is fat, not muscle? New studies are adding to the evidence that the scale doesn't always tell the whole story when it comes to weight-related health risks.
March 07, 2016
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Pedestrian deaths surged by an estimated 10 percent last year as the economy improved, the price of gas plunged and motorists put more miles behind the wheel than ever before, according to an analysis of preliminary state traffic fatality data.
March 07, 2016
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - It's called "passing the trash": A school suspects a teacher of sexual misconduct and forces the teacher out to protect the students. But that teacher can still get a new job in a new school, sometimes with a glowing recommendation.
March 06, 2016
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The smiling, blissful and confused-looking emojis dotting the electronic landscape may hold the key to ferreting out grade-school children's true feelings about foods, Kansas researchers say, and could help schools across the nation cut down on lunchroom food waste.
March 06, 2016
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ATLANTA (AP) - Jimmy Carter announced Sunday that he no longer needs treatment for cancer, less than seven months after revealing he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain.
March 06, 2016
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DENVER (AP) - Officials in Denver are planning to evict people from homeless camps that have popped up around homeless shelters and in public places, saying they pose health and safety risks.
March 06, 2016
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WASHINGTON, D.C., (AP) - A Florida man who flew a small gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace before landing outside the U.S. Capitol last spring was seconds away from colliding with a Delta flight that had taken off from Reagan National Airport, prosecutors said.
March 06, 2016
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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says that, as president, he would push to change laws that prohibit waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, arguing that banning them puts the U.S. at a strategic disadvantage against Islamic State militants.
March 06, 2016
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican leaders on Sunday grappled with the prospect that the best hope for stopping Donald Trump's march to the nomination may be Ted Cruz - the only candidate who causes as much heartburn among party elites as the billionaire businessman, if not more.
March 06, 2016
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Jason Langlois and Will Bladh are in the early stages of making plans for their summer 2017 wedding, and they don't want their excitement pierced by the pain of being rejected by a venue, florist and photographer who have a legal right in Utah to refuse to serve a gay couple.
March 06, 2016
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BRUSSELS (AP) - Following Donald Trump's breathtaking string of Super Tuesday victories, politicians, editorial writers and ordinary people worldwide were coming to grips Wednesday with the growing possibility the brash New York billionaire might become America's next president_a thought that aroused widespread befuddlement and a good deal of horror.
March 02, 2016
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The U.S. Marine Corps dog tag being peddled by a war artifacts seller caught Charles Thompson's eye when he was vacationing with friends in Vietnam. He plunked down the equivalent of about $3 for the piece of metal, with the hope of returning it - he assumed - to the family of the fallen Marine.
March 02, 2016
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 16-year-old boy got into an argument with his family when he didn't want to get out of bed and go to school and he shot his grandmother, a younger sister and a 6-year-old nephew, authorities said.
March 02, 2016
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NEW YORK (AP) - Anticipating another appearance on a debate stage with Donald Trump, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly says their public feud hasn't affected her preparation and she doesn't expect a renewal of hostilities with the Republican presidential front runner.
March 02, 2016
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