Archive By Section - Associated Press
NEW YORK - For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans.
January 24, 2018
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By MALCOLM RITTER
AP Science Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Electronic cigarettes could be a boon to public health or a major liability, depending on whether they help Americans quit smoking or encourage more young people to try traditional cigarettes, a new report concludes.
January 23, 2018
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By MATTHEW PERRONE
AP Health Writer
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Associated Press
BENTON, Ky. - A 15-year-old student killed two classmates and hit a dozen others with gunfire Tuesday, methodically firing a handgun inside a crowded atrium at his rural Kentucky high school.
January 23, 2018
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By KRISTIN M. HALL and DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press
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Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years - since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden's home, aiding U.S. Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader.
January 22, 2018
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By KATHY GANNON
Associated Press
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Associated Press
DALLAS - Delta Air Lines will soon require owners of service and support animals to provide more information before their animal can fly in the passenger cabin, including an assurance that it's trained to behave itself.
January 19, 2018
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By DAVID KOENIG
AP Airlines Writer
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Associated Press
Scientists are reporting progress on a blood test to detect many types of cancer at an early stage, including some of the most deadly ones that lack screening tools now.
January 19, 2018
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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
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Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. - Southerners shoveled, scraped and plowed their way Thursday out of a snowy deep freeze that caused a standstill across much of a region accustomed to mild winters.
January 18, 2018
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By JONATHAN DREW and TOM FOREMAN Jr.
Associated Press
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump often brags that he's done more in his first year in office than any other president. That's a spectacular stretch.
January 15, 2018
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By CALVIN WOODWARD and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
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Associated Press
MILWAUKEE - The next phase in data collection is right under your feet.
January 15, 2018
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By IVAN MORENO
Associated Press
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Associated Press
HONOLULU - A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic Saturday, with people abandoning cars in a highway and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake.
January 13, 2018
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By AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER KELLEHER
Associated Press
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Associated Press
NEW YORK - Walmart confirmed Thursday that it is closing dozens of Sam's Club warehouse stores - a move that a union-backed group estimated could cost thousands of jobs - on the same day the company announced that it was boosting its starting salary for U.S. workers and handing out bonuses.
January 11, 2018
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By JOSEPH PISANI and ALEXANDRA OLSON
AP Business Writers
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Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - An ongoing shortage of fluids used to deliver medicine and treat dehydrated patients has hospital workers scrambling in the midst of a nasty flu season and supplies from factories in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico have been slow to rebound.
January 09, 2018
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON
AP Medical Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is giving a Georgia death row inmate whose execution was called off last year another chance to raise claims of racial bias on his jury.
January 09, 2018
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The Associated Press
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Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. - Do police have the right to go on private property - uninvited and without a warrant - to search a vehicle?
January 09, 2018
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By DENISE LAVOIE
AP Legal Affairs Writer
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Associated Press
BOSTON - Frigid temperatures, some that felt as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region dug out from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding a day earlier.
January 05, 2018
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By PHILIP MARCELO
Associated Press
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Associated Press
