Archive By Section - Nation
CUPERTINO (AP) - Defying Wall Street skeptics, Apple says it plans to keep setting records for selling more iPhones around the world.
October 28, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - Don't expect major retailers to follow REI's move to close its stores on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year.
October 28, 2015
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DALLAS (AP) - UPS predicts that holiday-season deliveries will rise at least 10 percent from a year ago, to more than 630 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.
October 28, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - Walgreens is buying rival Rite Aid for about $9.41 billion in cash, creating a drugstore giant with nearly 18,000 stores around the world.
October 28, 2015
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Twitter's latest financial report conveyed a succinct message: CEO Jack Dorsey has his work cut out as he tries to attract more people to one of the Internet's most influential means of communications.
October 28, 2015
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force said Tuesday it chose Northrop Grumman Corp., maker of the B-2 stealth bomber, to build its next-generation bomber, a highly classified, $80 billion project designed to replace the aging bomber fleet with an information-age aircraft that eventually may be capable of flying without a pilot aboard.
October 28, 2015
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Dogs may now venture onto restaurant patios under a new state law allowing restaurants to open outdoor dining areas to them.
October 28, 2015
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RUSHVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Indiana Jones couldn't outrace his pursuers this time.
October 28, 2015
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Striving to end a cycle of crisis, congressional leaders and the White House united Tuesday behind an ambitious budget and debt deal aimed at restoring a semblance of order to Capitol Hill and ending the threat of government shutdowns and defaults until well after a new president takes office.
October 27, 2015
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BOSTON (AP) - A Salem, Massachusetts, woman who calls herself a witch priestess is taking a self-proclaimed warlock to court over accusations of harassment.
October 27, 2015
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PHOENIX (AP) - A transgender man in Arizona who was accused of stalking his estranged wife last year pleaded guilty to one count of disorderly conduct Tuesday.
October 27, 2015
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BALTIME (AP) - A convicted murderer under observation for behavioral problems was allowed to remain in his cell as he destroyed a radiator over an 8-hour period, eventually flooding the tier with water and scalding himself to death, according to an internal investigative report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
October 27, 2015
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Hundreds of students, parents and other Sioux City residents protested Donald Trump's appearance at a northwestern Iowa high school on Tuesday, saying the Republican presidential candidate's rhetoric about immigrants violates the school's anti-bullying policy.
October 27, 2015
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ATLANTA (AP) - Ten years ago, when she was 75 years old, Doris Payne swore she was done with a lifetime of pilfering jewels across two continents. Several arrests later, in 2013, she said again that she was leaving that life behind.
October 27, 2015
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker John Boehner is making one final appeal to restive Republicans: Pass a hard-won agreement with President Barack Obama to fund the government and forestall a debt crisis before Rep. Paul Ryan assumes the top job later this week. But he encountered immediate resistance when he laid out the plan Monday night.
October 26, 2015
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