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Social Security fixable; changes politically tough
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:02AM August 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Social Security's long-term problems, the massive retirement and disability program could be preserved for generations to come with modest but politically difficult changes to benefits or taxes, or a combination of both.
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Dems slam Ryan over Social Security privatization
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:57AM August 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn't go well for the GOP when President George W. Bush pushed the idea in 2005.
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Don't expect parties to get bold in platforms
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:41AM August 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for many bold pronouncements when Republicans and Democrats adopt party platforms at their national conventions.
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Man arrested in parking lot shooting at Texas mall
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:52PM August 18, 2012 CommentODESSA, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a 24-year-old man has been arrested after a shooting in a Texas mall parking lot left one person dead and two injured.
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UA flight has engine 'issue,' lands safely in NJ
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:20PM August 18, 2012 CommentNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a United Airlines flight has landed safely at Newark after taking off from the airport for Berlin then returning when something apparently went wrong with the engine.
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Suspects in deputy killings linked to extremists
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:45PM August 18, 2012 CommentNEW ORLEANS (AP) — At least some of the seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI's domestic terrorism watch lists, a sheriff said Saturday.
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Slain Texas constable remembered as humble, caring
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:44PM August 18, 2012 CommentCOLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Compassionate. Humble. A good friend. A dedicated public servant.
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Panetta prods Karzai on Afghan insider killings
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:07PM August 18, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to discuss the rising number of "insider" attacks in which Afghan security forces have turned their guns on American and other coalition troops.
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Philly officer fatally shot after finishing shift
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:50PM August 18, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A police officer was shot to death blocks from his precinct house just after he finished his shift early Saturday in what authorities suspect was a street robbery. Police announced rewards totaling $30,000 to help them make an arrest.
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Special needs kids staying in traditional schools
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18PM August 18, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The high cost of educating students with special needs is disproportionately falling on traditional public schools as other students increasingly opt for alternatives that aren't always readily open to those requiring special education.
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Intrusion embarrasses 'Fort Knox of uranium'
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:05PM August 18, 2012 CommentOAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials like to refer to the Y-12 National Security Complex as the Fort Knox for highly enriched uranium, which is why an unprecedented incursion by an 82-year-old nun and two fellow protesters has critics mocking the notion that the weapons plant is secure.
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For suburbs of NYC, challenge is to lure tourists
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM August 18, 2012 CommentWEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — The Empire State Building casts a long shadow.
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Employer: Ex-servant using trial to get US status
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:16PM August 18, 2012 CommentALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of keeping an illegal immigrant as a servant at her upstate New York mansion says the housekeeper has become a prosecution witness in an effort to get legal status to remain in the United States.
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Bill would expand fertility coverage for veterans
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:58PM August 18, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson's Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant's neck and left him without use of his legs. It also cast doubt on his ability to father a child, a gnawing emotional wound for a then-23-year-old who had planned to start a family with his wife of less than two years.
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Sioux tribes upset over sale of sacred site in SD
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:24PM August 18, 2012 CommentSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — It's advertised as a one-of-a-kind deal: Nearly 2,000 acres of prime real estate nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota for sale to the highest bidder.
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Ex-fundraiser for US Rep. Grimm arrested in NYC
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:56PM August 18, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — An Israeli who helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm during his 2010 campaign has been arrested in New York on immigration fraud charges.
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Many question life sentences for juveniles
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:53PM August 18, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sara Kruzan was 17 when she was sentenced to die in prison for killing and robbing a pimp in a Riverside motel. Now, at 32, Kruzan has a chance at being freed, along with thousands of other juveniles convicted of murder who were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Blunders jeopardize Peterson murder prosecution
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:52PM August 18, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — With no physical evidence tying Drew Peterson to the death of his third wife and so much of the case hinging on what she said before she died and what his next wife said before she vanished, it was a certainty that his trial would be unlike anything ever seen in Illinois and perhaps in the country.
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First lady to see Sikh shooting victims' families
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:47AM August 18, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama plans to go to Milwaukee to meet with family members of those killed and injured in a Sikh temple shooting this month.
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Convention host cities gear up for traffic
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:57AM August 18, 2012 CommentTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — During this summer's national political conventions, workers in downtown Tampa and Charlotte will face throngs of pedestrians snaking through intersections, evening commutes snarled by street closures and the threat of unruly protesters.
