Archive By Section - Associated Press
NEW YORK - Taco Bell is name-dropping an unlikely clown to promote its new breakfast menu - Ronald McDonald.
March 28, 2014
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By CANDACE CHOI
Associated Press
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Associated Press
PRETORIA, South Africa - The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has been delayed until April 7 because one of the legal experts who will assist the judge in reaching a verdict is sick, abruptly ending expectations Friday that the double-amputee athlete was about to testify on his fatal shooting of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
March 28, 2014
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By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and GERALD IMRAY
Associated Press
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Congress is close to sending President Barack Obama a bill to give $1 billion in loan guarantees to cash-strapped Ukraine and provide the administration broad authority to levy more sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea.
March 28, 2014
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By DEB RIECHMANN and DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press
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Associated Press
LAS VEGAS - A slate of potential Republican presidential candidates is descending upon Las Vegas to court one of the GOP's most powerful patrons.
March 27, 2014
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By STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
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Associated Press
As Minnesota Vikings fans were getting ready for the final game at the Metrodome last December, officials at Whelan Security noticed social media chatter suggesting some of the faithful might rush the field and try to steal a piece of history.
March 27, 2014
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By LUKE MEREDITH
Associated Press
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Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - President Barack Obama called himself a "great admirer" of Pope Francis as he sat down at the Vatican Thursday with the pontiff he considers a kindred spirit on issues of economic inequality. Their nearly hourlong first meeting comes as Obama's administration remains deeply split with the church over abortion and contraception.
March 27, 2014
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By JIM KUHNHENN and NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
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Associated Press
NEW YORK - When her abusive husband left for work last fall, she grabbed her kids, her dog and her bags, only to run up against a heart-wrenching obstacle: None of the city's more than 50 domestic violence shelters would accept the pet.
March 26, 2014
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By JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Secret Service sent three agents home from the Netherlands just before President Barack Obama's arrival after one agent was found inebriated in an Amsterdam hotel, the Secret Service said Tuesday.
March 26, 2014
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By JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press
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Associated Press
NEW YORK - Zack Greinke and the Los Angeles Dodgers have knocked Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees off baseball's payroll perch, part of an offseason spending spree that has the average salary approaching $4 million for the first time.
March 26, 2014
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By RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
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Associated Press
HONG KONG - Investigators are closer to solving an international aviation mystery thanks to a British communications satellite and classroom physics.
March 25, 2014
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By JUSTIN PRITCHARD and KELVIN CHAN
Associated Press
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Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. - A sailor was fatally shot aboard a guided-missile destroyer docked at the world's largest naval base late Monday, and security forces killed the lone suspect, according to the Navy.
March 25, 2014
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By BROCK VERGAKIS
Associated Press
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Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia said Tuesday that it has narrowed the search for a downed jetliner to an area the size of Alaska in the southern Indian Ocean, while Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for possible debris from the plane to resume.
March 25, 2014
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By EILEEN NG and SCOTT McDONALD
Associated Press
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Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - After 17 days of desperation and doubt over the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the country's officials said an analysis of satellite data points to a "heartbreaking" conclusion: Flight 370 met its end in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, and none of those aboard survived.
March 24, 2014
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By EILEEN NG and TODD PITMAN
Associated Press
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Associated Press
NEW YORK - One month in, NBC's generational trade of Jay Leno for Jimmy Fallon at the "Tonight" show is succeeding beyond the hopes of executives who engineered it.
March 24, 2014
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By DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
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Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Wash. - Hopes of finding any more survivors from a massive mudslide that killed at least eight people waned as searchers pulled more bodies from the tangled debris field in rural Washington state and crews worked through the night into Monday.
March 24, 2014
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By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
Associated Press
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Associated Press
