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2012 Presidential Race Costs Big Bucks
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President Barack Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Charlotte, N.C.
The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive presidential contest ever — by a long shot.
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U.S. Stocks Open Mixed Ahead of Holiday Weekend
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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening mixed as traders worry that European leaders don't have a concrete plan for dealing with Greece's financial troubles.
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Priest Apologizes for Unholy Facebook Language
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Facebook's "Like" button.
LONDON (AP) — A British priest has apologized for some unholy language on his Facebook page, his bishop says.
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Texas Senate Race a New Test for GOP
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Dallas, Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The story line on the Republican Senate race in Texas is a now familiar one: A veteran politician supported by the GOP establishment is challenged by a young insurgent backed by national conservative groups.
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Government to Present DNA Evidence in Clemens Case
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Clemons and former trainer Brian McNamee ( accuser) and Mr. Scheeler from the Mitchell report testify on Cap. Hill. At one point Clemons lawyers jumped up and objected to questions regarding his nanny and her testimony.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Clemens' genetic makeup helped make him one of the most successful pitchers in baseball history. Now prosecutors hope that Clemens' own DNA will help them convict him of a federal crime.
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Romney Wrong About Obama's Love for Unions
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Washington.
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy.
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Hop On Over to the Bar After the NYC Beer Museum Tour
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NEW YORK (AP) — Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times.
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American Idol Reaches a New Low
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Donna Summer performs during the finale of "American Idol" at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on May 21, 2008.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 22 million TV viewers seems like a lot — but for an "American Idol" season-ender, it's a new low.
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Joplin Remembers Deadly Tornado, One Year Later
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People walk through the rubble after a massive tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Malachi Murdock doesn't remember the massive tornado that struck Joplin a year ago Tuesday, killing 161 people and nearly killing him.
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Louisiana Most Violent State in the U.S.
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New Orleans, Louisiana.
Tennessee, Nevada, Florida and Arizona round out the top 5 most violent states in the U.S.
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APNewsBreak: FEMA trailer litigation nears end
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:21PM May 28, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A class-action settlement agreement has been reached to resolve nearly all the remaining court claims over allegations that government-issued trailers exposed Gulf Coast residents to hazardous fumes after Hurricane Katrina, a lead plaintiffs' attorney said Monday.
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Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:43PM May 28, 2012 CommentNEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) — Homes and cabins make up a third of the nearly 100 structures destroyed by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, officials said Monday.
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Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:30PM May 28, 2012 CommentMIAMI (AP) — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop.
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Va. girl is youngest ever in National Spelling Bee
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:50PM May 28, 2012 CommentMcLEAN, Va. (AP) — The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the bank and headed straight for her mother.
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Despite downgrade, Beryl still soaks Memorial Day
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:38PM May 28, 2012 CommentSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Joyce Connolly and her daughters left their home in Hurricane, W.Va., to head south for a Memorial Day beach vacation — and ended up in the center of Tropical Storm Beryl.
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New approach tested for hard-to-treat hypertension
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:32PM May 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — "Maxed out on the medications," is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It's dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day.
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Obama says Vietnam veterans too often 'denigrated'
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:09PM May 28, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwelcome homecoming.
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Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47PM May 28, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
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Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:49PM May 28, 2012 CommentOVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers.
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3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:37PM May 28, 2012 CommentBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hours after their plane crashed on a steep and snowy mountainside in Idaho, a California fireman, his wife and their daughter were airlifted to safety by National Guard rescuers.
