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Black pilots sue United over bias claims
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:07PM May 30, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly two dozen black pilots for United Airlines filed a federal discrimination lawsuit claiming few minority workers are promoted to upper management at the world's largest air carrier.
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Hundreds of salmonella cases tied to chicks
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:00PM May 30, 2012 CommentATLANTA (AP) — Those cute mail-order chicks that wind up in children's Easter baskets and backyard farms have been linked to more than 300 cases of salmonella in the U.S. — mostly in youngsters — since 2004.
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US again imposes clean-energy tariffs on China
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:33PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.
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Can you really teach a kid to become bullyproof?
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:22PM May 30, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Teaching kids to become "bullyproof" is all the rage. Books, videos and websites promise to show parents how to protect their kids from being bullied; school districts are buying curricula with names like "Bully-Proofing Your School," a well-regarded program used in thousands of classrooms. Even martial arts programs are getting into the act: "Bullyproofing the world, one child at a time," is the motto for a jujitsu program called Gracie Bullyproof.
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FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers.
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Cargo flight clips passenger plane at O'Hare
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:12PM May 30, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Officials say no one was hurt when the wing of a cargo plane taxiing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport clipped the rudder of an American Eagle flight arriving from Missouri.
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Livestock house video draws animal cruelty charges
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:21PM May 30, 2012 CommentSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed animal cruelty charges against the owner and seven employees at a Southern California livestock auction house after undercover video shot by an animal rights group showed workers kicking, hitting and tossing the animals as they were readied for sale.
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Ohioan: Helping panhandler led to littering ticket
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:14PM May 30, 2012 CommentTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A driver who stopped to give a couple of bucks to a panhandler in a wheelchair at a busy freeway interchange was handed a $344 littering ticket by a Cleveland police officer after the cash fell to the ground.
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Eisenhower family at impasse on memorial design
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:14PM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family welcomed design changes by architect Frank Gehry for a memorial honoring the World War II general but said Wednesday that any monument should be "simple, sustainable and affordable" to honor his values.
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Pentagon: al-Qaida Still Enjoys Afghan Haven
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Afghan forces secures the area outside a compound after it was attacked by militants in Kabul, Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says al-Qaida still enjoys safe haven in some areas of eastern Afghanistan, and even though its numbers are small, its presence worries the top American commander there.
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Officials eye why Utah 7-year-old kicked off bus
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:14PM May 30, 2012 CommentSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kya Hobdy wanted to ride a school bus to her friend's home for an arranged play date. But a mile from school, the 7-year-old was ordered off the bus and left in tears in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
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Judge in Rutgers webcam case: Jail is harsh enough
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:57AM May 30, 2012 CommentNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — After fielding criticism in emails, blogs and newspaper columns, a judge on Wednesday defended his decision to give a 30-day jail sentence to the former Rutgers student who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate.
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ACLU lawsuit challenges Ill. gay marriage ban
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:41AM May 30, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Building on the momentum of President Barack Obama's recent support of gay marriage, two major civil rights groups in his home state filed lawsuits Wednesday in hopes of legalizing same-sex marriage in Illinois.
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Colleges' bank deals saddle students with big fees
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:21AM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A public interest group says as many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to access students' financial aid money.
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Foie Gras Feeding Frenzy Grows As Calif. Ban Nears
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The executive chef at MK, a trendy downtown Chicago restaurant, slices a portion of foie gras.
This is not a good time to be a duck with a fatty liver in California, though better times lie just ahead.
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US levies new sanctions on key Syrian bank
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:38AM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON — The Obama administration added new sanctions on a Syrian bank Wednesday as a top White House official said the U.S. wants to economically throttle the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and cut off salaries of pro-government thugs blamed for the grisly massacre in Houla.
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New lab turns SD gold town into scientific hub
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:01AM May 30, 2012 CommentLEAD, S.D. (AP) — Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.
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Obama's health care aid to small firms disappoints
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:29AM May 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Many small businesses struggle to afford health insurance for their workers, but a a new tax credit meant to help them seems to be turning into a disappointment.
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Jurors in Edwards case finish 8th day of talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:27AM May 30, 2012 CommentGREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The judge overseeing the John Edwards campaign corruption trial sent the jury home Wednesday after eight days of talks without a verdict and released the four alternate jurors, who have garnered attention for their matching shirts but have not participated in the deliberations.
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Search for Idaho pilot spreads across wide area
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:11AM May 30, 2012 CommentLAKEVIEW, Ore. (AP) — A search for a missing Idaho pilot believed to have gone down in southern Oregon is expanding to include both private help and assistance from neighboring Oregon counties and a California county, a sheriff said.
