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Vending machine at Pennsylvania college dispenses 'morning-after' pill
Students at a public Pennsylvania university can buy the "morning-after" pill from a campus vending machine, though the school's minister is working to get the dispenser off of school grounds.
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Militia trial starts in Michigan with jury selection
A judge is asking potential jurors what they think about the use of confidential informants as jury selection starts in the trial of seven people accused of conspiring to rebel against the government as members of a southern Michigan militia.
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Correction: Congresswoman Shot
In stories on Jan. 1, Jan. 8 and Jan. 22 about former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Tucson mass shooting, The Associated Press erroneously reported that suspect Jared Lee Loughner had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Court records say that he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had symptoms of depression.
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Probe sought after 2 barred from returning to US
A Muslim civil rights group wants the Justice Department to investigate the tactics of FBI agents in Portland after two Libyan-Americans from Oregon were barred from returning to the United Stat...
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LA school removes entire staff amid sex abuse allegations
The sickening reports of two deviant teachers abusing students at a downtown Los Angeles elementary school has rocked not just the close community around the Miramonte School but stoked the emotions of parents across the country.  
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New state voting laws focus of Selma, Ala. march
Civil rights, labor and immigration activists say they are returning to Selma, Ala. next month to protest state laws they say will largely prevent black and Latino voters, the poor, students and the elderly from voting.
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Plea averts trial in NY Hasidic firebomb case
A guilty plea has averted a trial in an attempted murder case that brought unusual attention to a religious dispute in a Jewish enclave in New York.
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APNewsBreak: SC sues feds for blocked voter ID law
The U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote, the state's top prosecutor argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Payroll tax cut talks adrift on Capitol Hill
The prospects for an extension of President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut, once considered a slam dunk on Capitol Hill, now seem far less certain as House-Senate talks have deadlocked...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,769
As of Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at least 1,769 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Pres...
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