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AP source: Tentative Hill deal on student loans
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:15PM June 27, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional Republican says the House and Senate have tentatively agreed to prevent interest rates on new college loans from doubling to 6.8 percent this Sunday.
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Working moms: Have it all or want what you have?
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:09PM June 27, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Amy Schultz Pearson is 31, married and has two young daughters. She just began training in anesthesiology and will be working 50 to 80 hours a week.
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Writer-filmmaker Nora Ephron dies at 71
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:54PM June 27, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.
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House panel OKs bill expanding rewards program
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:27PM June 27, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would expand the State Department's rewards for justice program to target the world's most serious human rights abusers, with African warlord Joseph Kony a top target.
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Athletes' deaths in workouts prompt new guidelines
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:09PM June 27, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — The most dangerous time for amateur athletes may not be during the heat of the game or even in rigorous practices. A total of 21 college football players have collapsed and died during conditioning workouts since 2000 — many on the first few days, when even the fittest players are often pushed too hard.
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Boehner: House Will Go Ahead with Contempt Vote
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Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner speaks during on during a news conference in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says the House will move forward with a contempt of Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder over the botched gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious.
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Clinton cites concerns over human rights in Russia
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:28AM June 27, 2012 CommentHELSINKI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's optimistic that relations with Moscow will not suffer despite planned legislation in Congress that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators.
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Clinton: U.S. Pleased So Far By New Egypt President
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Now Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi shakes hands with a solider on the first day of parliamentary elections in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011.
HELSINKI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration is pleased so far with commitments made by Egypt's Islamist president-elect, Mohammed Morsi, but will reserve judgment on his government until it is up and running.
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College boards turn to business-style approaches
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:28AM June 27, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A popular University of Virginia president is forced to resign because board members thought she wasn't working quickly enough to address diminished funding and other challenges. Purdue University hires as its new president a governor who lacks academic experience but is adept at raising money and cutting education spending. And the president of the University of Texas enlists a committee of high-profile corporate executives to examine the school's budget and operations.
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Navy attempts culture change on sexual assaults
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:00AM June 27, 2012 CommentNORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The commanding officer of the USS Bataan walked into the wardroom of his amphibious-assault ship where about 200 mostly young sailors were crammed into chairs, along walls and behind the salad bar and wasted no time getting to the point: Sailors don't let other sailors commit sexual assault.
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Birth mom: I raised questions about Jerry Sandusky
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:02AM June 27, 2012 CommentNearly two decades before Matt Sandusky's blockbuster allegation that he was sexually abused by his adoptive father, his biological mother raised questions about their relationship.
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House rejects bid to slash rural airline subsidies
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:38AM June 27, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The House has turned back an attempt by a tea party-backed GOP conservative to slash taxpayer subsidies for air service to isolated smaller cities and towns that can cost hundreds of dollars a ticket.
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Accused NYC madam free on bond; jailed 4 months
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:42AM June 27, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A suburban mother charged with moonlighting as a big-city madam was released from jail on bond Tuesday night, after four months behind bars in a case laced with claims of prominent clients and law-enforcement protectors.
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Hero medals go to 2 who saved Pa. bar from gunman
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:31AM June 27, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — Two men who subdued a gunman in a crowded western Pennsylvania bar and a woman who swam through a flash flood to save an elderly woman in Pittsburgh are among 23 people being honored with Carnegie medals for heroism.
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Debby weakens, but Fla. still faces flooding risk
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:47PM June 26, 2012 CommentST. GEORGE ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Debby, the guest that wouldn't leave, is ruining things for a lot of other visitors despite weakening to a tropical depression and leaving Florida's Gulf Coast behind.
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House rejects bid to slash rural airline subsidies
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:58PM June 26, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday turned back an attempt by a tea party-backed GOP conservative to slash taxpayer subsidies for air service to isolated smaller cities and towns that can cost hundreds of dollars a ticket.
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Report: Zimmerman didn't ID self as watch leader
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:54PM June 26, 2012 CommentORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Murder defendant George Zimmerman could have defused the deadly confrontation with Trayvon Martin if he would have identified himself as a member of neighborhood watch and he passed two lie detector tests when questioned by investigators, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Casey Anthony's attorney doubted her mental health
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:17PM June 26, 2012 CommentORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Florida mother who was acquitted last year of murdering her 2-year-old daughter had mental health issues that contributed to her habitual lying, the lead attorney in her criminal case says in a new book.
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Experts speculate human error in Okla. train crash
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:06PM June 26, 2012 CommentOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Experts speculated Tuesday that a fiery head-on collision of two trains in the Oklahoma Panhandle was likely the result of human error, though federal investigators are still piecing together evidence and haven't determined a cause.
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Woman with flesh-eating disease to leave hospital
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:02PM June 26, 2012 CommentSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman diagnosed with a rare, flesh-eating disease will soon leave the hospital where doctors gave her little chance of surviving when she was admitted nearly two months ago, her father said Tuesday.
