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NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:58AM August 21, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.
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Endangered whales invade California coastal waters
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:52AM August 21, 2012 CommentSANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Grab your camera and binoculars: There's rarely been a better time to go whale-watching off the California coast.
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Phyllis Diller Blazed Trail for Female Comedians
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:23AM August 21, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Long before Kathy Griffin was languishing on the D-list, Roseanne Barr was calling herself a domestic goddess and Joan Rivers was asking audiences if they could talk, wild-haired housewife-turned-comedian Phyllis Diller was dishing one-liners about her husband, Fang.
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Obama says his 'red line' in Syria conflict is WMD
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10AM August 21, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared the threat of chemical or biological warfare in Syria a "red line" for the United States, outlining for the first time the point at which his administration could feel forced to intervene militarily in the Arab country's increasingly messy conflict.
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US horse rescues overwhelmed by abandoned animals
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:07AM August 21, 2012 CommentLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Double R Horse Rescue looks different in drought: There's little but stubble in the pastures and a chain and padlock on the gate.
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First lady hits gym before dawn _ and before hubby
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:51AM August 21, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Daily workouts at 6 a.m.? Not bad, Paul Ryan. But there's another influential political figure who's apparently often finished with hers by then: Michelle Obama.
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Cuba-to-Fla. swimmer Nyad plows on after storm
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:25AM August 21, 2012 CommentKEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Diana Nyad slogged across the Straits of Florida for a fourth straight day early Tuesday, hopeful she could fend off hypothermia, jellyfish and stormy weather as she inched toward a swimming record.
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Supporters attend vigil for man shot in police car
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:22AM August 21, 2012 CommentMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dozens of supporters have gathered outside the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was slain to pray for a young man who was fatally shot in the back of an Arkansas patrol car.
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Huge wildfire burns to edge of 3 small towns in CA
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:46PM August 20, 2012 CommentMANTON, Calif. (AP) — A huge wildfire sparked by lightning in Northern California burned to the edge of three small towns Monday, threatening thousands of homes as fearful residents sought safety miles away at an emergency shelter.
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Cuba-to-Florida swimmer Nyad plows on after storm
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:47PM August 20, 2012 CommentKEY WEST, Florida (AP) — Diana Nyad slogged across the Straits of Florida for a third straight day Monday, hopeful she could fend off hypothermia, jellyfish and stormy weather as she inched toward a swimming record.
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Minn. lawmaker urged to step aside amid scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:31PM August 20, 2012 CommentST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota state lawmaker who authorities say admitted having a liaison with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop faced calls from party leaders Monday to give up his re-election bid.
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Missouri congressman fights to save GOP Senate bid
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:55PM August 20, 2012 CommentST. LOUIS (AP) — Rep. Todd Akin fought to salvage his Senate campaign Monday, even as members of his own party turned against him and a key source of campaign funding was cut off in outrage over the Missouri congressman's comments that women are able to prevent pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape."
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Vatican win: Judge says priests aren't employees
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:53PM August 20, 2012 CommentPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Vatican won a major victory Monday in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled that the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests.
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Obama: Military budget deal unlikely by November
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:22PM August 20, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he doesn't believe Congress can reach a deal before the November elections that avoids deep cuts in military spending, but says he is optimistic that the reductions won't occur.
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Nude dip in holy sea puts Kansas rep. in spotlight
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:42PM August 20, 2012 CommentTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas congressman's 10-second naked plunge into the sea where the Bible says Jesus walked on water prompted apologies Monday from him, head-shaking from other Republicans and the kind of international attention that no politician wants.
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11-mile stretch of Mississippi River closed
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:38PM August 20, 2012 CommentMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Nearly 100 boats and barges were waiting for passage Monday along an 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due to low water levels, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Obama defends tenor of his campaign, slams Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:34PM August 20, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Denounced by his Republican rival for divisiveness, President Barack Obama on Monday defended the tone of his campaign in a combative election year and insisted it's actually Mitt Romney's ads that are "patently false." But Obama did distance himself from a particularly provocative negative ad by a political group that supports him.
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NASA picks another Mars flight to explore its core
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:11PM August 20, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — After driving all around Mars with four rovers, NASA wants to look deep into the guts of the red planet.
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Rising Afghan insider attacks imperil US strategy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:10PM August 20, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday he is sticking to his war strategy of using U.S. troops to advise and mentor Afghan forces, even as a suddenly growing number of Americans are being gunned down by the very Afghans they are training to take on insurgents.
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Ex-roommate: Man plotted dismemberment for years
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:52PM August 20, 2012 CommentALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit man contemplated killing his former girlfriend, dismembering her body and dumping it in a body of water, an old roommate testified Monday during a preliminary hearing.
