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Brennan at CIA fills 3rd key national security job
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:15AM March 08, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — John Brennan took over Friday as director of the CIA, the finishing touch on President Barack Obama's national security team for his second term.
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AP PHOTOS: Iditarod, 'The Last Great Race'
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:47AM March 08, 2013 CommentThe world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod, consists of a grueling 1,000-mile trek through unpredictable wilderness to the old gold rush town of Nome on Alaska's western coast. Whoever reaches Nome first wins a new truck and a cash prize of $50,400. The rest of the $600,000 purse will be split between the next 29 mushers to cross the finish line. The iconic race, however, seems to be about more than a monetary prize for most involved: a competition of human versus wild.
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Michigan LaughFest Breaks Record for Fake Mustaches
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Magnum P.I., Ron Burgundy, and Ron Swanson would be impressed.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Magnum P.I., Ron Burgundy, and Ron Swanson would be impressed.
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Police chief's polygraph targets racist applicants
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:33AM March 08, 2013 CommentCOOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force.
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Obama: No 'grand peace plan' during Israel trip
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:14AM March 08, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is playing down expectations for a Mideast peace breakthrough during his upcoming trip to Israel, telling American Jewish leaders that he won't be carrying a "grand peace plan" when he arrives in the region later this month.
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Warren starts taking on banks and regulators
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:08AM March 08, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren rose to national prominence as an outspoken consumer advocate decrying Wall Street abuses and became the progressive movement's darling candidate in last fall's Senate elections. Like most freshman lawmakers, the Massachusetts Democrat has maintained a low profile during her first few months in office.
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Boeing 787 battery fire was difficult to control
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:03AM March 08, 2013 CommentThe smoking, hissing battery smoldering away inside the belly of the parked 787 in Boston had already injured one firefighter. The airport fire commander wanted it off that plane.
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Environmentalists oppose Navy offshore training
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:57AM March 08, 2013 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — Environmentalists say that a five-year training program proposed by the Navy off the coast of Southern California would ramp up sonar activity and underwater detonations that could pose a threat to endangered marine mammals like the blue whale.
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Arias grilled by jurors over lies, memory lapses
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:48AM March 08, 2013 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial made it clear they aren't satisfied with her stories about why she killed her lover, then methodically covered her tracks and couldn't recall much of anything from the day.
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Film project focuses on stories behind debris
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47AM March 08, 2013 CommentJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Filmmakers are working to find — and tell — the stories behind some of the items that have washed ashore following the deadly 2011 tsunami in Japan.
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Forest Service may let more fires burn
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47AM March 08, 2013 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After coming in $400 million over budget following last year's busy fire season, the Forest Service is altering its approach and may let more fires burn instead of attacking every one.
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NY man charged in crash that killed couple, baby
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:27AM March 08, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A man arrested in connection with a car crash that killed a rabbinical college student, his pregnant wife and their baby was charged with criminally negligent homicide and other offenses.
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Sen. Carl Levin's decision opens seat in 2014
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:21AM March 08, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Carl Levin's decision to not seek re-election in 2014 has set the stage for a wide-open race to replace the longest-serving senator in Michigan history.
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Pricey NY apartments to rise on public housing
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:16AM March 08, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers pay dearly for the privilege of living in one of the world's great cities. But would they shell out top dollar for an apartment on the grounds of a public housing project?
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Deaths of 3 teens in crash rock small Ind. town
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:09AM March 08, 2013 CommentVERSAILLES, Ind. (AP) — A small Indiana community hit hard by tragedy in recent years was reeling Thursday after three teenagers who had left a school function were killed when their pickup trucks collided at a rural intersection.
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Lion killed intern as she was cleaning enclosure
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:19PM March 07, 2013 CommentDUNLAP, Calif. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday they believe a lion killed a 24-year-old volunteer at a Central California animal park after it escaped from a feeding cage and attacked her while she was cleaning its larger enclosure area.
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Paul energizes supporters with Senate filibuster
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:55PM March 07, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Call it Rand's Stand: A nearly 13-hour stall tactic on the Senate floor that thrust a tea party hero back into the national spotlight — a real-life version of the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
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Virginia trooper killed in I-85 shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:35PM March 07, 2013 CommentDINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia State Police trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop off Interstate 85 Thursday and a suspect was arrested after exchanging fire with another trooper, authorities said.
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Late-winter storm sweeps into New England
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:31PM March 07, 2013 CommentBOSTON (AP) — A late-winter storm that buried parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic swept into New England on Thursday, bringing snow, rain, strong winds, big waves and fears of coastal flooding.
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Wisconsin Assembly passes sweeping mining bill
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:18PM March 07, 2013 CommentMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly approved a polarizing mining bill Thursday and sent the measure to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature, completing a long push to help a Florida-based company open a giant iron mine near the shores of Lake Superior over environmentalists' objections.
