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Coldplay to headline Super Bowl 50 halftime show
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coldplay is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, and a spokesman for the National Football League hinted that past…
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7 marathons, 7 days, 7 continents a goal for Belmont native
BOSTON (AP) — Seven marathons in seven days on seven continents? You'd be forgiven for thinking Becca Pizzi is seven kinds…
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Trump picked stock fraud felon as senior adviser
Who would you like to see become the next president of the United States? Take our poll! WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump tapped…
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Senate passes bill to unravel Obama’s health care law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Openly welcoming a preordained veto, Republicans drove legislation to Senate passage Thursday aimed at crippling two of their favorite targets:…
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No designer babies, but scientists urge caution on gene editing
WASHINGTON (AP) — A tool to edit human genes is nowhere near ready to use for pregnancy — but altering early embryos as part…
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Search for Jewish tombs lost in WWII brings back heritage
PROSTEJOV, Czech Republic (AP) — There was no mistaking what the stone slab was, only the spot where it lay was somehow not…
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Motive in California attack remains elusive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Why did they do it? The California rampage that left 14 dead shows the motives behind mass violence can be…
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Investigators search for motive in California mass shooting
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — One moment, Syed Rizwan Farook was sitting at a table with colleagues at a holiday gathering for county…
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Dancing cop disinvited from 2nd city, blasts NAACP head
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A second city on Tuesday withdrew its invitation for Rhode Island's "Dancing Cop" to…
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Senate set to OK Republican health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are pushing toward Senate approval of legislation demolishing President Barack Obama's signature health care law and halting…
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Shooters kill 14 in San Bernardino, Calif.; police slay two suspects
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-…
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House easily passes No Child Left Behind rewrite
WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of failed efforts, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to sharply scale back the federal role in American education.…
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Health spending grew at fastest rate of Obama years in 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health care spending last year grew at the fastest pace since President Barack Obama took office, driven by…
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UK lawmakers approve airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted by a wide margin Wednesday to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State group…
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AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Olympic waters in this city are more widely contaminated by sewage than previously known and pose a…
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Congress reaches deal on 5-year transportation bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate have reached agreement on a 5-year, $281 billion transportation bill that would increase spending to…
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg, now a father, will give away most of his money
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Talk about birth announcements: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife say they'll devote nearly all their…
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Ex-Connecticut mayor returns to office after prison stint
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The former mayor of Bridgeport, who spent seven years in federal prison for public corruption, was sworn in again…
