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RESERVE, N.M. (AP) — A wildfire burning in what New Mexico's governor called "impossible" terrain in an isolated, mountainous area of the state continued its rapid growth Friday as forecasters called for thunderstorms and dry lightning that could spark even more fires. The massive blaze in the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico is […]

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CAIRO (AP) — Former President Hosni Mubarak has received a life sentence for failing to stop the killing of protesters during Egypt's uprising. But he and his sons have been cleared of corruption charges, setting off protests for greater accountability for 30 years of abuses under the old regime. By nightfall on Saturday, a large […]

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CAIRO (AP) — Osama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks, according to recollections from his deputy and successor posted online late Saturday. Al-Qaida's new leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in the second of his "Days with the […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A weak labor market provided energy Sunday for criticism of President Barack Obama, with the campaign of presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney contending that the president's lack of executive leadership experience undermines his policies. The unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent in May as the Labor Department reported just 69,000 new jobs, […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney scuttled the Massachusetts government's long-standing affirmative action policies with a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six months after he became governor. No news conference or news release trumpeted Romney's executive order on Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 2003, in the deserted Statehouse. But when civil rights […]

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Just as more and more evidence emerges that George Zimmerman and supporters, perhaps even including his wife, may have been colluding to mislead the court in securing a lower bond for him, public outrage continues to swell over rumblings his attorneys could now be plotting a course of action where they will seek to have […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney and their allies so far have spent a jaw-dropping $87 million on TV ads in just a handful of presidential battleground states, an early and unprecedented explosion of spending for a general election still a full five months away. The avalanche of ad dollars […]

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Several jurors who delivered John Edwards a mistrial explained their deliberations Friday, saying prosecutors' star witness was not credible and the former presidential candidate never actually received any money to hide his pregnant mistress. On network talk shows, even jurors who thought Edwards was guilty on at least some of the […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgians who fail a drug test while trying to get a job could lose their unemployment benefits under a new policy being quietly implemented by the state's Labor Department. The agency isn't forcing everyone who collects jobless benefits to take a drug test. Instead, officials are asking businesses and the public to […]

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new attorney is joining the legal team representing George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin earlier this year. The Orlando Sentinel reports lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara plans to announce Friday that veteran Orlando attorney Donald R. West will join his team. West, who specializes […]

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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A judge has revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours. Prosecutors said in a motion that 28-year-old George Zimmerman and his family misled them about his finances when testifying during a bail hearing that allowed […]

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GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — President Barack Obama says the May jobs report shows that the economy is not creating jobs "as fast as we want," but he says the economy will improve. Obama says that "we will come back stronger. We do have better days ahead." Obama was responding to the government's jobs report […]