Archive By Section - Nation
MOUNTAIN VIEW (AP) - Google's stock roared out of a long slumber Friday to produce the biggest shareholder windfall in U.S. history as investors rewarded the Internet company for promising to curb its spending on risky projects.
July 17, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - Deepak Jayasimha's fitness tracker is now with his father-in-law in India, where it sits unused. Annabel Kelly foisted hers off on the kids. Virginia Atkinson took hers off to charge the battery and hasn't picked it up since February.
July 17, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - One of the challenges for makers of the MTV documentary "White People" was getting folks to talk about race when they didn't feel the issue concerned them - like those quoted as saying they consider white the "default race" or "normal."
July 17, 2015
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Danessa Molinder entered the courtyard wearing a white dress and matching veil. Her groom waited at the other end, in front of decorative doors and lattice work that blocked the view of a nearby cemetery with 73,000 graves.
July 17, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - Adult coloring books are giving Harper Lee a run for the money on best-seller lists this summer.
July 17, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - Nominations for the annual Emmy Awards were announced on Thursday. Here are the answers to some questions about television's biggest honor.
July 16, 2015
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NEW YORK (AP) - A broadcast network is still the best place for a television event to get notice. That holds no sway with Emmy voters, though.
July 16, 2015
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WEST HOLLYWOOD . (AP) - The Emmys, television's highest-profile awards, could have seized the moment with Thursday's nominations to fully acknowledge the wealth of diverse talent adding to the medium's vibrancy and relevance.
July 16, 2015
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THOUSAND OAKS (AP) - A Southern California water district voted Wednesday night to accept Tom Selleck's offer of more than $21,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing the "The Blue Bloods" and "Magnum, P.I." star of taking water he wasn't entitled to for his 60-acre ranch.
July 16, 2015
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SANTA CLARA (AP) - Intel said Wednesday that greater demand from data centers and sales of memory products helped counteract the slumping PC market in the second quarter.
July 15, 2015
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Netflix's second-quarter performance followed a familiar script of accelerating subscriber growth that has turned the Internet video service into a stock market sensation.
July 15, 2015
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Amazon aimed for Christmas in July with its much-hyped "Prime Day" sale. But some shoppers found a lump of coal instead.
July 15, 2015
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CUPERTINO (AP) - Although the iPod's popularity has waned, Apple is updating its music player for the first time in nearly three years by giving the flagship Touch model a faster processor and better cameras.
July 15, 2015
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon?
July 15, 2015
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A 27-year-old man was shot and killed by a Florida homeowner after running into a police station and complaining about taking bad drugs, then jumping from an ambulance and trying to break into homes, according to police.
July 15, 2015
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