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Sunday, 30 September 2012 04:52

Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare is changing the way it does business with hospitals and the result could be fewer patients going back into the hospital after they were discharged.......

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Sunday, 30 September 2012 03:51

US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

Written by By PATRICK QUINN

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that garners little public interest at home as the United States prepares to withdraw most of its combat forces by the end of 2014.......

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Saturday, 29 September 2012 09:29

Students, experts recoil at alcohol enema case

Written by By ERIK SCHELZIG

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Before an unruly Tennessee party ended with a student hospitalized for a dangerously high blood alcohol level, most people had probably never heard of alcohol enemas.......

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Saturday, 29 September 2012 08:23

Another big Supreme Court term kicks off Monday

Written by By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court's liberals in an unlikely lineup that upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.......

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Saturday, 29 September 2012 01:38

Schwarzenegger: Shriver changed tune on recall run

Written by By JULIET WILLIAMS and MICHAEL R. BLOOD

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger says his wife, Maria Shriver, was told to "snap out of it" by her mother for her attempts to persuade him against running for California governor in 2003, a conversation that ultimately opened the door to his successful candidacy.......

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Friday, 28 September 2012 22:56

US officials explain Libya attack intelligence

Written by By KIMBERLY DOZIER

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. intelligence officials sought to explain Friday why the Obama administration's understanding of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is "evolving."......

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Friday, 28 September 2012 17:49

Gay couples may get reprieve in deportation cases

Written by LISA LEFF

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Department of Homeland Security is planning to issue a policy memo stating that illegal immigrants with American same-sex partners are eligible to have their deportations put on hold under a federal program designed to focus resources away from low-priority cases.......

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Friday, 28 September 2012 17:43

Man apparently shoots self on TV after Ariz. chase

Written by By BOB CHRISTIE and DAVID BAUDER

PHOENIX (AP) -- A man apparently shot himself in the head Friday on live national television at the end of a high-speed chase that began in Phoenix.......

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Friday, 28 September 2012 16:37

Obama blocks Chinese purchase of US wind farms

Written by By JULIE PACE

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citing national security risks, President Barack Obama on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy base where the U.S. military flies unmanned drones and electronic-warfare planes on training missions.......

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Friday, 28 September 2012 16:25

Gunman fired day of Minneapolis office shooting

Written by By PATRICK CONDON and AMY FORLITI

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A man who burst into a sign-making business in Minneapolis, fatally shooting the owner and three others before turning the gun on himself, had been fired from the company earlier in the day, police said Friday.......

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