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Group pledges $50M for nuclear fuel
Sep 19 2006 8:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, CNN creator Ted Turner and former Sen. Sam Nunn pledged $50 million to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency Tuesday to create a uranium stockpile.
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Judge dismisses Medicaid law challenge
Sep 19 2006 7:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a law that requires millions of Medicaid beneficiaries to prove their citizenship before obtaining health benefits.
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Smithsonian attendance drops
Sep 19 2006 6:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attendance at Smithsonian museums is down this year, reflecting both a nationwide trend and a spate of violent crime and flooding on the National Mall, officials said Tuesday.
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Clinton, Gingrich both defend the pope
Sep 19 2006 6:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, longtime foes in American politics, forcefully defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday against a wave of Muslim criticism over a speech last week.
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Evaluation set in Capitol security case
Sep 19 2006 4:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Maryland man accused of running through the U.S. Capitol with a loaded handgun appeared in court Tuesday but will undergo days of psychiatric treatment before his arraignment.
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Task force tackles ID theft
Sep 19 2006 4:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agencies should restrict their use of Social Security numbers to guard against identity theft, a presidential commission said Tuesday.
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EPA inspector criticizes agency reviews
Sep 19 2006 4:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency is not conducting required reviews to ensure that low-income and minority neighborhoods get the same environmental protection as other communities.
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Federal judges step up disclosure
Sep 19 2006 3:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judges decided Tuesday to require faster and fuller disclosure of their expense-paid trips, a response to criticism that the travel could undermine the public's faith in an impartial judiciary.
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Federal regulators eye video bingo
Sep 19 2006 3:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - At some Indian casinos, they're not playing your grandmother's church basement bingo anymore. Now the game is video bingo, played at blinking, whirring consoles virtually indistinguishable from slot machines.
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Group says Iraq needs to prove itself
Sep 19 2006 1:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. experts studying what to do next in Iraq said Tuesday that the next three months are critical and Baghdad's government must make more progress toward controlling the violence and rebuilding the nation.
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Study: Prisons breed Islamic extremists
Sep 19 2006 10:22AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jailed Islamic extremists with violent interpretations of the Quran are taking advantage of scarce religious monitoring programs to breed terrorists in U.S. prisons, a study released Tuesday shows.
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Boston schools win top education prize
Sep 19 2006 9:50AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Boston public school system won the nation's largest prize in public education Tuesday, earning $500,000 in college scholarships for making steady gains in the classroom.
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Gov't puts anti-drug videos on YouTube
Sep 19 2006 9:23AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is distributing government-produced, anti-drug videos on YouTube, the trendy Internet service that already features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.
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Cleanliness of produce draws new attention
Sep 19 2006 1:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leafy vegetables are the second leading source of E. coli infections in the United States, behind ground beef, but the government relies primarily on voluntary safety steps by farmers and packagers to prevent outbreaks.
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