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Nation & World

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August 27, 2011

Bachmann: Minimum wage not sacred

The GOP hopeful tells Floridians at a sub shop she'll consider anything to help create jobs.
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August 27, 2011

Perry: U.S. should foot illegals’ prison costs

The Texas governor requests $350 million to cover detainment of illegal immigrants.
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August 27, 2011

Idaho murder-suicide shooter found with guns, drugs

Officials release the results of investigations into an ex-professor who killed a student, then shot himself.
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August 27, 2011

Nation Dispatches

PHILADELPHIA Maryland teen accused of helping ‘Jihad Jane’ An American 17-year-old from Pakistan is being held on terrorism charges, accused of soliciting funds and recruits to help a Pennsylvania woman known as Jihad Jane, two people close to the inquiry confirm. Juvenile charges filed last month accuse the youth of helping Colleen LaRose support overseas […]
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August 27, 2011

Army unit’s night job in graveyard eerie, ‘kind of sad’

They're photographing grave markers in Arlington National Cemetery to try to resolve discrepancies and update cemetery maps.

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Published
August 26, 2011

Joey Vento, founder of Geno’s Steaks, dies of heart attack

Joey Vento, the tattooed, trash-talking, motorcycle-revving founder of Geno’s Steaks, the legendary cheesesteak joint in South Philadelphia, died Tuesday at his home in Shamong, N.J. He had a heart attack, the Associated Press reported. He was 71. Vento figured in one of the great food rivalries of modern America: the fight, which sometimes looks more […]
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August 26, 2011

Poll: Congress slides to its lowest approval rating

The tea party and the GOP in general have also lost favor in the wake of the debt-ceiling standoff.
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August 26, 2011

Asteroid dust offers clues to solar system

LOS ANGELES – The first dust samples ever retrieved from an asteroid and brought back for study show that a portion of the most common meteorites to hit Earth may have come from a single rocky ancestor out in space, Japanese researchers say. In a wide-ranging analysis of tiny fragments collected from the asteroid Itokawa […]
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August 26, 2011

For many in U.S., grandparents are family safety net

Today's grandparents step in to raise grandchildren while young adults deal with the poor economy.
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August 26, 2011

Justice accused of choking colleague won’t face charges

MADISON, Wis. – A conservative state Supreme Court justice who staved off a campaign to replace him this summer will not face criminal charges over allegations that he tried to choke a liberal colleague, a special prosecutor said Thursday. Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett said that after reviewing investigators’ reports, she decided there’s no […]