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Dennis Rodman: NKorea leader wants Obama to call

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By Michelle Salecedo The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C, (AP) — North Korea’s young leader has riled the United States with recent nuclear tests, but Kim Jong Un doesn’t really want […]

Feds order Boston–NY discount bus fleet inspected

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By Jay Lindsay The Associated Press BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — Federal regulators on Tuesday, Feb. 26 ordered a discount bus service operating between Boston and New York City’s Chinatown to […]

US senator hopeful Vietnam adoptions to begin again

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By Chris Brummitt The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam and the United States are close to an agreement allowing Americans to adopt Vietnamese children again, five years after […]

Obama hosts Japan PM amid tensions in Asia

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By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama welcomed Japan’s new prime minister to the White House on Friday, Feb. 22, pledging continued close economic […]

Calif. man charged with threatening Sen. Leland Yee

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By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Santa Clara man was charged Friday, Feb. 15 with possessing assault weapons, explosives, and bomb-making materials after the California […]

Overseas slice of ‘Pi’ flips Hollywood formula

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By David Germain AP Movie Writer LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) — With 11 Academy Awards nominations — second only to “Lincoln” with 12 — and the sort of global box […]

Myanmar community flourishes in Kentucky

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By Bob Driehaus The Cincinnati Enquirer CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) — Pastor Thomas Kap rattles off the accomplishments of his congregation of Myanmar immigrants as if they were family. “We have […]

Laotians top growers of marijuana on Calif. farms

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By Gosia Wozniacka The Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Last fall, narcotics agents confiscated thousands of marijuana plants, many 10 feet tall, from a 140-acre farm just on the […]