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Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security....
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Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program....
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Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect
LONDON (AP) -- Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took part in demonstrations with the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun....
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Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday....
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Police: W. Pa. man chained boy to table
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a western Pennsylvania man allegedly chained his 11-year-old stepson to the dinner table after he refused to eat the food on his plate....
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4 serving probation for role in Pa. student's fall
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Four Penn State students will serve probation for supplying alcohol to a party where a cheerleader was seriously hurt in a fall from a fifth-floor window....
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Police: Missing Pa. college student found unharmed
SKIPPACK, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania State Police say a missing college student from suburban Philadelphia has been found unharmed....
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Search for man who came to work with rifle, gun
EXPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Police are searching for a man who brought an assault rifle to the Pittsburgh-area business he works at shortly after he was suspended....
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Trial delayed in alleged Pittsburgh police beating
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A young black man who claims he was wrongly beaten by three Pittsburgh police officers in January 2010 will have a new trial on two of his three civil rights claims starting Nov. 4....
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13 Wyeth paintings fetch $2M at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thirteen paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction....
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Parents sue Pittsburgh Zoo in boy's mauling death
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The parents of a 2-year-old boy who was fatally mauled after falling into a wild African dogs exhibit last fall filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, claiming officials had ample warning that parents routinely lifted children onto a rail overlooking the exhibit so they could see better....
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Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil War siege
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg - so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4....
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$250K bail on hold in infant's faith-healing death
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and have had two children die of pneumonia can't post bail before a hearing Friday....
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W. Pa. parks announce summer events
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The National Park Service has announced a series of summer events at five western Pennsylvania parks....
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