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Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:03

Prophet film puts spotlight on US Copts

Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The anti-Islamic movie trailer inflaming the Middle East opens with Muslims ransacking a Christian medical clinic and then segues into a flashback of Muhammad's life.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 22:57

Has US economy bottomed out? Census suggests yes

Written by By HOPE YEN

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy is showing signs of finally bottoming out: Americans are on the move again after record numbers had stayed put, more young adults are leaving their parents' homes to take a chance with college or the job market, once-sharp declines in births are leveling off and poverty is slowing.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:33

House bill ends funding of party conventions

Written by By JIM ABRAMS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans and Democrats have come to agree on at least one way to reduce government spending, by ending federal assistance for the two parties' increasingly expensive and stage-managed presidential conventions.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:49

Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people

Written by By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans - most of them in the middle class - will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:39

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

Written by By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:23

Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operation

Written by By PETE YOST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that resulted in hundreds of weapons turning up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:43

US lists 117 Iranian planes arming Syria's Assad

Written by By BRADLEY KLAPPER

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has identified 117 Iranian aircraft it says are ferrying weapons to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:24

Pot could be tax windfall, but skeptics abound

Written by By KRISTEN WYATT and JONATHAN J. COOPER

DENVER (AP) -- A catchy pro-marijuana jingle for Colorado voters considering legalizing the drug goes like this: "Jobs for our people. Money for schools. Who could ask for more?"......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:17

FDA urged to set standards for arsenic in rice

Written by By MARY CLARE JALONICK

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration may consider new standards for the levels of arsenic in rice as consumer groups are calling for federal guidance on how much of the carcinogen can be present in food.......

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:23

US penalties in effect for Taliban-allied Haqqanis

Written by By MATTHEW LEE

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. sanctions against the Pakistan-based Haqqani (hah-KAH'-nee) network of militants have come into force following the Obama administration's decision to designate the group a "foreign terrorist organization."......

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