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WASHINGTON (AP) - A first-quarter snapshot of the economy due out this morning is expected show a slowdown from the final quarter of last year. Economists surveyed by FactSet predict 2.5 percent growth compared to 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011. But those economists also predict overall growth ...
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - A ruling is expected today from a military judge in Maryland on a defense request to dismiss the most serious charge against the soldier accused of giving government secrets to WikiLeaks. The defense has asked the judge to also dismiss five other counts and consolidate ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Billions of dollars in claims against BP for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are on the line today as federal judge in New Orleans holds a hearing on a proposed class-action settlement. Attorneys are seeking U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier's preliminary approval of ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans say a financial lifeline for the U.S. Postal Service violates budget control agreements and they'll try to block it should it come up for a vote today. The mail agency, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, would get roughly $11 billion under the bill -- basically ...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A spring nor'easter has been traveling up the East Coast, and could leave up to 4 inches of rain from the New Jersey shore north through New York City and into southern New England. But in higher elevations, such as western Pennsylvania, the storm is leaving snow, ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Military officials say the weather may have been a factor in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter. It happened during a nighttime mission in southwestern Afghanistan. It's believed as many as four soldiers may have been aboard and that it's not expected that anyone survived. ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. official says there's no doubt an al-Qaida-affiliated group orchestrated this week's widespread, coordinated attacks in Afghanistan's capital and other eastern cities. Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, also says Pakistan needs to do more to clamp down on the Haqqani network's safe havens. ...
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GENEVA (AP) - The Swiss government says it's tightening sanctions on Iran. The Swiss Cabinet says the assets of eight more companies and three more people have been frozen. Swiss officials say they will decide later whether to ban imports of Iranian oil. BRUSSELS (AP) - Top officials ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama takes aim at oil market speculation today when he unveils a $52 million plan to bulk up federal oversight. The plan would increase penalties for market manipulation and empower regulators to increase the amount of money energy traders must put behind their transactions. ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is determined to avoid a repeat of the inadmissible evidence blunder that led to last year's mistrial in the case of former pitching great Roger Clemens. More prosecutors have been added to the team as jury selection begins today in Clemens' retrial for ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - Syrians have been pouring into the streets for anti-government demonstrations, in the first major test of the truce that was brokered by the United Nations. Activists say security forces responded by firing into the air and beating some protesters. But there's been no immediate sign of wide-scale ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian forces continue to hold off on attacking opposition strongholds, hours after a U.N.-brokered truce went into effect at midnight. But activists say the regime is defying demands by international envoy Kofi Annan to pull troops back to their barracks. The regime says it does reserve ...
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - An 8.6-magnitude earthquake has triggered panic in the streets of Indonesia and put countries all around the Indian Ocean on alert for a tsunami. So far there's been no sign of the feared wave, but a powerful aftershock has prompted Indonesia officials to issue a ...
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PARIS (AP) - The European Union's human rights court says Britain can extradite a Muslim cleric and four other suspects to the U.S. to face terrorism charges. Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, who's considered Britain's most recognizable extremist, and the others, had argued that jail terms in the U.S. would be a ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - The heavy work of jury selection begins today at the Chicago trial of a man accused of murdering the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of singer and Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson. A judge will question potential jurors to select 12 able to set aside sympathy for the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - If economists surveyed by FactSet are right, the U.S. economy probably generated more than 200,000 jobs in March, capping the best four months of hiring since before the recession. Economists expect that U.S. employers added 210,000 jobs last month. The four-month average would be 236,000 jobs a ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - With just days to go before a deadline for a cease-fire brokered by the U.N., Syrian troops have launched a fierce assault on a suburb of the capital, Damascus. The operation and other offensives around the country are boosting the claim of opponents who say President Bashar ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO says three service members have died in a northern Afghanistan bombing but it isn't giving details. Associated Press video from the scene of a suicide attack in the capital of northern Faryab province shows what appear to be dead Afghan police, civilians and foreign troops ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is expecting to do well in primaries today in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He's been increasingly directing his criticisms at President Barack Obama. Obama, meanwhile, is expected to sharply criticize a budget plan passed by House Republicans when he ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Questions are being raised about Japan's commitment to bolstering oversight after last year's nuclear crisis. Tokyo has failed to create a revamped nuclear regulatory agency by the promised date - April 1 - amid political infighting. Authorities have been accused of lax supervision of Japan's 54 nuclear ...
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