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GOP

Christie under attack as rivals sense him rising in NH

CLAREMONT, New Hampshire (AP) — Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate to beat in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PACs helping the New Jersey governor's rivals. Marco Rubio's backers recently put $1 million into anti-Christie advertising, according to filings with federal election regulators.

islam

Police: Gunman said he shot Philadelphia cop in Islam’s name

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man using a gun stolen from police said he was acting in the name of Islam when he ambushed an officer sitting in his marked cruiser at an intersection, firing shots at point-blank range, authorities said Friday. Both the officer and suspect were injured during the barrage

Barack Obama

Obama vetoes bill to repeal signature health care law, cut Planned Parenthood funding

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protecting his signature domestic achievement, President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed Republican-inspired legislation to repeal his health care law, saying to do so "would reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America." Republican lawmakers have pushed many repeal measures since 2010,

racism

Colleges grapple with best ways to address race incidents

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught

terrorism

Terror-related arrests in 2 states refuel refugee debate

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two Iraqi-born men who came to the United States as refugees have been arrested on terrorism-related charges by federal authorities who allege one traveled to Syria to fight with terrorists in the civil war and the other provided support to the Islamic State group. There was no

mexico

Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ re-arrested says Mexican president

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced Friday that fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was recaptured seven months after he escaped from a maximum security prison. An official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by name

governor

Maine governor sorry for remark about ‘young white’ girls

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage apologized Friday for his remark about out-of-state drug dealers impregnating "young white" girls, calling it a slip of the tongue and saying he didn't mean to inject race into discussion of Maine's heroin epidemic. LePage blamed reporters

attacks

Paris fugitive’s print in suspected bomb-making hideout

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Brussels apartment was likely used to make bombs for the Paris attacks, and one of the plotters also hid out there after escaping a police dragnet, Belgian prosecutors said Friday. The prosecutors said they found Salah Abdeslam's fingerprint in a search of the apartment on