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Ore., Calif., require transgender health coverage
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:05PM January 11, 2013 CommentSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Regulators in Oregon and California have quietly directed some health insurance companies to stop denying coverage for transgender patients because of their gender identity.
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No charges for NBC host over ammunition magazine
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:02PM January 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — NBC journalist David Gregory won't face charges for displaying a high-capacity ammunition magazine on his "Meet the Press" news program last month, District of Columbia prosecutors announced Friday.
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NY looks at 800 rape cases for possible DNA errors
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:01PM January 11, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner's office confirmed Friday that it is reviewing hundreds of rape cases for possible errors in DNA analysis.
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Human remains found in missing Fla. boy's yard
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:36PM January 11, 2013 CommentHALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Investigators found human remains Friday in the former backyard of a South Florida couple whose baby hasn't been seen in more than a year.
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US-born Taliban fighter wins prison prayer lawsuit
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:29PM January 11, 2013 CommentINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An American convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at his high-security prison in Indiana, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Delay in plea by Holmes disturbs victims, families
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:26PM January 11, 2013 CommentCENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A stunned silence settled over a courtroom Friday after the father of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings loudly cursed defendant James Holmes, prompting a sympathetic but firm warning from a judge.
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Report says warming is changing US daily life
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:26PM January 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is already changing America from sea to rising sea and is affecting how Americans live, a massive new federally commissioned report says.
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Flu season puts businesses and employees in a bind
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:15PM January 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half the 70 employees at a Ford dealership in Clarksville, Ind., have been out sick at some point in the past month. It didn't have to be that way, the boss says.
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USDA: Drought cut corn crop by about one-fourth
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:03PM January 11, 2013 CommentDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For farmers like Earl Williams, last year couldn't have started out better or ended much worse as a warm, sunny spring that let him plant early gave way to record heat and drought that devastated his corn.
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Trial nears in 2003 case that terrified NC town
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:51PM January 11, 2013 CommentSHELBY, N.C. (AP) — Bobby Fisher knew something was wrong.
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Robbers assault 2 hostages at Los Angeles store
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:50PM January 11, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Employees were closing up at a mall department store and preparing to go home when two gunmen stormed inside and took them hostage.
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Missing 13-year-old Utah girl found unharmed
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:47PM January 11, 2013 CommentSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 13-year-old girl who disappeared this week without shoes or a coat in chilly weather has been found unharmed, but questions abound about where she was and what she was doing while 1,000 volunteers searched for her for two days.
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Fed agency retracts reprimand to flatulent worker
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:22PM January 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A federal government agency did more than wrinkle its nose at an employee's flatulence problem, issuing an official reprimand after months of malodors. But the agency said Friday that it has since retracted the rebuke.
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Conn. shooting families balancing grief, advocacy
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:11PM January 11, 2013 CommentHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — If and when they choose to speak out, few will have more powerful voices in the national gun-control debate than the families of the Newtown shooting victims.
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Va. ex-Marine who shot at Pentagon gets 25 years
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:01PM January 11, 2013 CommentALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An ex-Marine convicted of firing shots at the Pentagon and other military targets in 2010 was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison, despite a recent diagnosis of schizophrenia that raised some questions about his sanity.
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Zookeepers, growers prepare for California freeze
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:10PM January 11, 2013 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — Zookeepers turned up the heat for chimpanzees and strawberry growers covered their crops as Californians braced Friday for three days of freezing temperatures.
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Man mauled by tiger at NYC zoo pleads not guilty
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:07PM January 11, 2013 CommentA man who jumped into a tiger den at the Bronx Zoo and was mauled by a 400-pound animal told police, "Everyone makes choices," a court complaint says.
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Kerry's Words on Assad Draw Scrutiny
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GOP senators who favored Sen. John Kerry for Secretary of State drove his most prominent competitor -- U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice -- out of the running.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry has held up Syria as a country that could bring peace and stability to the Mideast and predicted that the now-disgraced government of President Bashar Assad would pursue a legitimate relationship with the United States. Those assertions are certain to draw scrutiny at Kerry's confirmation hearing to be secretary of state as Assad's brutal crackdown has plunged his country into civil war.
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Republican: Akin 'partly right' on rape comment
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:39PM January 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey, an OB-GYN since 1975, said former Rep. Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said women's bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
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North Dakota man to receive Medal of Honor
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:39PM January 11, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama next month will bestow the Medal of Honor on a former active duty Army staff sergeant from North Dakota for "courageous actions" in Afghanistan in 2009.
