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| • Protests mark 1 year of hikers in Iran |
A protest Friday afternoon outside Iran's U.N. mission in New York kicks off a weekend of events demanding the country release three American hikers it has held for one year. |
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| • Incoming BP boss to discuss long-term Gulf recovery |
Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley is expected to discuss the oil giant's long-term recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico during a news conference in Mississippi on Friday. |
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| • Third blaze ignites as fire crews gain ground on two more |
Hundreds of firefighters battled a third wildfire in the Los Angeles area early Friday as two more raged within 60 miles of one another. |
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| • New York AG: Insurance firms defrauded military families of millions |
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is launching a fraud investigation into the life insurance industry for "practices that appear to have denied grieving military families and others of millions in life-insurance cash," Cuomo's office announced Thursday. |
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| • Army private transferred to Virginia amid leak investigation |
An Army private suspected of leaking classified material, including videos and other documents, has been transferred from Kuwait to a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia. |
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| • Engineering grad waits to become legal |
Oscar Vazquez will likely read this story. He has the internet. He has a television, too. Then, he'll go off to work at a car parts factory. He buries himself in work in this small Mexican town to keep his mind off thoughts of his wife and young daughter back in the United States. |
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| • Crews fight damage from abandoned leaking well off Louisiana |
An abandoned well struck by a barge in southeastern Louisiana early Tuesday is still spewing a mixture of oil, gas and water, and it could take 10 days before it is capped. |
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| • Lou Gehrig's victim: Kill me for my organs |
A Georgia man suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease says he wants to die by having his organs harvested rather than wait for his degenerative nerve ailment to kill him. |
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| • WikiLeaks may have blood on their hands |
The top U.S. military officer said Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan. |
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| • Racing team owner Roush transferred to Mayo Clinic |
NASCAR team owner Jack Roush, who was injured in a plane crash Tuesday, was transferred from a Wisconsin hospital to the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, according to a statement released Thursday by one of his companies. |
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