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Some road warriors standing by Boeing's 787
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:49PM January 18, 2013 CommentDALLAS (AP) — Some frequent fliers say they aren't worried about safety aboard Boeing's problem-plagued 787 aircraft, while many less-seasoned travelers are often unaware of what model of plane they're flying on.
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Autopsy conducted on body of Ill. lottery winner
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:44PM January 18, 2013 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Authorities on Friday exhumed the body a Chicago man who was poisoned with cyanide after winning the lottery and conducted an autopsy in the hopes that it will help solve the mystery surrounding his death.
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Agency: NC Camp Lejeune water contaminated in 1953
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:33PM January 18, 2013 CommentRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thousands more Marines and their relatives could be eligible for government health care for their illnesses now that a federal agency determined that the water at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune was contaminated four years earlier than previously thought.
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Federal appeals court upholds Wis. union limits
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:33PM January 18, 2013 CommentMADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective bargaining rights in a decision hailed by Republicans but not undoing a state court ruling keeping much of the law from being in effect.
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GOP leader: House to vote on debt limit increase
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:23PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis, backing off demands that any immediate extension of the government's borrowing authority be accompanied by stiff spending cuts.
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Obama backers aim to outflank NRA on gun control
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:23PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of President Barack Obama's gun-control proposals are planning a methodical, state-by-state campaign to try to persuade key lawmakers that it's in their political interest to back his sweeping effort to crack down on firearms and ammunition sales and expand criminal background checks.
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Feds follow business in backing Detroit rail line
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:08PM January 18, 2013 CommentDETROIT (AP) — The federal government committed $25 million Friday to build a streetcar line through the heart of Detroit, putting in place the last piece of a plan bringing light rail to one of the few urban centers still without it.
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Medical privacy rules get an update
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:59PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Those medical privacy rules you run into at hospitals, pharmacies and in your own doctor's office are getting an update.
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Advocates push idea of requiring gun insurance
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:30PM January 18, 2013 CommentBOSTON (AP) — As lawmakers cast around for ways to curb gun-related violence, some are hoping the insurance market might offer incentives.
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THE RESET: Debt, stocks both up in 1st Obama term
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:26PM January 18, 2013 CommentTwo things soared big time during President Barack Obama's first term: the national debt and the stock market.
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Court to decide if convicted officer gets retrial
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether a former Detroit police officer convicted of killing his girlfriend should get a retrial.
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High court may block Stanford investor lawsuits
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:00PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal that seeks to shut down class-action lawsuits from investors who lost billions in a massive Ponzi scheme orchestrated by former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford.
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Inauguration Day marks rare intersection with King
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:29PM January 18, 2013 CommentATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office on the holiday honoring the slain icon, marking what some say is an inextricable tie between the nation's first black president and the civil rights movement.
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Senate Chaplain Won't Attend Controversial Inaugural Prayer Breakfast
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Senate Chaplain Barry Black leads congressional staff members and others in prayer at the "Hoodies on the Hill" gathering, March 23, 2012.
Senate Chaplain Rev. Barry Black will no longer attend an inaugural prayer breakfast being hosted by religious conservatives, after a petition criticizing the event garnered thousands of signatures online.
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Lilly drug chosen for Alzheimer's prevention study
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:11PM January 18, 2013 CommentResearchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly & Co. for a large federally funded study testing whether it's possible to prevent Alzheimer's disease in older people at high risk of developing it.
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Beyonce, Katy Perry star at packed inauguration
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10PM January 18, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Clarkson is a multiple nominee at next month's Grammy Awards, but what she's really excited about is another event where she'll be joined by Beyonce, Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Mana, Usher and Brad Paisley.
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New nonprofit to promote Obama agenda
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:52PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In an unprecedented move, President Barack Obama's vaunted political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group — funded in part by corporate money — to mobilize support behind the president's second-term agenda.
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Bloomberg urges mayors to press Congress on guns
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:51PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants the nation's mayors to pressure members of Congress to support President Barack Obama's gun violence proposals and take their cue from the hardball tactics often used by the gun lobby.
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Gov't: Food Allergies May Be Disability Under Law
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:24PM January 18, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Allergic to gluten? What about peanuts? Federal disabilities law may be able to help.
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Anti-doping officials say Armstrong must say more
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:11PM January 18, 2013 CommentFor anti-doping officials, Lance Armstrong's admission of cheating was only a start. Now they want him to give details — lots of them — to clean up his sport.
