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President Bush is set to visit the South American nation this weekend and said today that last night attack would not alter his plans.You bet I ;m going, Mr. Bush told reporters this morning. No two-bit terrorists are going to prevent me from doing what we need to do, and that is to promote our friendship in the hemisphere.The president said Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo will do everything he can to make Lima safe for the trip.After th
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SALEM, Ore. AP 鈥?A rights group has filed an emergency suit in federal court against top officials of U.S. immigration and homeland security departments, alleging they have unconstitutionally denied lawy
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MORGAN CITY, La. | Some people might find it odd that this city near Louisiana southern coast has a Shrimp and Petroleum Festival. Somehow the two don ;t seem to go together.But some local citizens get a bit testy if you ask them about that juxtaposition. They say it really a harvest festival, and that people here harvest
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State television said Iran powerful Revolutionary Guard successfully tested upgraded versions of the medium-range Shahab-3 and Sajjil missiles, the Associated Press reported. Both can carry warheads and reach up to 1,200 miles, far enough to reach Israel, U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and parts of Europe.The reported military exercise follows accusations from the leaders of France, Britain and the U.S. on Friday that Tehran is hiding the construction of a second uranium-enrichment plant from U.N. nuclear inspectors.Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force told Iranian media the tests were part of preventive and defensive operations and that they were in no way a threat to neighboring countries, the Washington Post reported.Iran Foreign Minist
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AUSTIN, Texas AP 鈥?Utah and Oregon put any
af1 further reopenings of their economies on hold amid a spike in coronavirus cases, but there was no turning back Friday in such states as Texas, California, Arkansas and Arizona despite flashing warning signs there, too.One by one, states are weighing the health risks from the virus against the economic damage from the stay-at-home orders that have thrown millions out of work over the past three months.And many governors are coming down on the side of jobs, even though an Associated Press analysis this week found that cases are rising in nearly half the states 鈥?a trend experts attributed in part to the gradual reopening of businesses over the past few weeks.Texas, which set single-day highs for hospitalizations and new COVID-19 cases this week, gave the go-ahead for restaurants on Friday to expand eat-in dining to 75% capacity, up from 50%.Arkansas, where the number of cases has nearly doubled since Memorial Day and the number of people hospitalized is up more than 88%, will let restaurants seat more customers on Monday.Regardless of what we see in the next week, we made the right decision to go ahead and lift some of these restrictions so we do
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Democrat Joe Biden was on the cusp of winning the presidency on Friday as he opened up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in the critical battlegrounds of Georgia and Pennsylvania.Those put Biden in a stronger position to capture the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House. The winner will lead a country facing a historic set of challenges, including a surging pandemic and deep political polarization.The focus on Pennsylvania, where Biden led Trump by more than 9,000 votes, and Georgia, where Biden led by more than 1,500, came as Americans entered a third full day after the election without knowing who will lead them for the next four years. The prolonged process added to the anxi
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DENVER AP 鈥?Under a ruling from a federal appeals court, the U.S. State Department is once again being ordered to consider whether to grant an intersex person a passport if they do not specify a gender.On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver concluded the State Department had authority to deny an application with no gender specified but had exercised it in an arbitrary and capricious manner with some of its stated reasons not supported by evidence.The judges said the State Department should reconsider the application by Dana Zzyym because it not clear if it would have reached the same conclusion without relying on those reasons, including its assertion that there is no medical consensus on who is intersex.In a statement released by Lambda Legal, which is representing Zzyym, Zzyym said the most recent
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Pentagon will deploy more than 1,100 troops to five vaccination centers in what will be the first wave of increased military support for the White House campaign to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19.President Joe Biden has called for setting up 100 mass vaccination centers around the country within a month. Two of the five new military teams will go to vaccination centers opening in California. Coronavirus senior adviser Andy Slavitt said military personnel will arrive at those
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Crime rates had been declining since 1993, with an uptick in 2006 the only exception. Photo of a Washington, D.C., police officer by Getty imagesWASHINGT
airmax ON The violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past two decades.Last year marked the second year in a row for increases in the crime victimization survey, a report that is based on household interviews.The 2012 increases were driven by a rise in crimes that were not reported to police, a category frequently involving less-serious offenses. Simple assaults also rose. The rate of property crimes increased due to a rise in theft. One year of bad news is something you notice but don
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