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BP internal probe focuses on other companies' work
COVINGTON, La. (AP) -- Oil giant BP said its internal investigation of the unchecked Gulf oil spill is largely focused on work done by other companies as a new government report Tuesday showed workers at the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted sports tickets, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies....
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Gates agrees to proposal to repeal gay ban
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave lukewarm support Tuesday to a White House-backed plan for a congressional vote as early as this week to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law against gays serving openly in the military. Gates indicated he'd prefer more time to study the sweeping change before Congress acts....
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Michigan details football woes to NCAA
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- The University of Michigan admitted Tuesday to a series of violations in its storied football program and insisted the problems related to practice time and the activities of graduate assistants were not enough to warrant major punishment from the NCAA....
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Jamaica cops attack drug lord's slum stronghold
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers continued an assault into the capital's most violent downtown slums on Tuesday, scouring buildings for weapons and battling die-hard defenders of a powerful Jamaican gang leader sought by the U.S....
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Space shuttle Atlantis on last leg of last mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Atlantis' homeward-bound astronauts paid tribute Tuesday to their space shuttle, close to winding up its final journey after a quarter-century of flight....
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Bret Michaels says he's going back on the road
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bret Michaels is upbeat, despite his recent illnesses....
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Obama's big wins on bills may not help Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anxious and angry, Americans are not in a congratulatory mood. That's bad news for President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies....
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Lee: NKorea must pay for torpedo attack on warship
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president said Monday his nation will no longer tolerate North Korea's "brutality" and said the regime would pay for a surprise torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors....
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Jamaica: Gunfire, fire bombs in barricaded slum
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Masked men defending a reputed drug lord sought by the United States torched a police station and traded gunfire with security forces in a patchwork of barricaded slums in Jamaica's capital Sunday....
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Swim lessons for toddlers get doctors' approval
CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's largest pediatricians group is relaxing its stance against swimming lessons for children younger than 4....
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Stoudemire's 42 lead Phoenix past Lakers, 118-109
PHOENIX (AP) -- Amare Stoudemire had been criticized for just about everything: his defense, his rebounding, even his desire....
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'Lost' addresses years of questions in finale
NEW YORK (AP) -- The premiere of "Lost" ended memorably with Charlie's plaintive question to his fellow island castaways: "Guys, where ARE we?"...
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Clinton: Koreas security situation 'precarious'
BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship has created a "highly precarious" security situation in the region and that the Obama administration is working to prevent an escalation of tension that could lead to conflict....
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AP IMPACT: Bad cement jobs plague offshore rigs
The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement - suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster - has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an Associated Press investigation....
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Astronauts need a last inspection of Atlantis
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The Atlantis astronauts have some surveying work ahead of them, now that they're flying free of the International Space Station....
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Clinton courts Chinese people; tough mission nears
BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that she would be pushing the Chinese for a "more balanced economic relationship" with the U.S. in upcoming economic and strategic talks in Beijing....
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GOP wins House seat in Obama's home district
HONOLULU (AP) -- Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Barack Obama grew up - the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress....
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Insurgents attack NATO's southern Afghan base
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility Sunday for a nighttime assault on NATO's biggest base in southern Afghanistan in which insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons tried to storm Kandahar Air Field....
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Obama says diplomacy, military go hand in hand
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- The U.S. must shape a world order as reliant on the force of diplomacy as on the might of its military to lead, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he outlined a foreign policy vision that repudiated the go-it-alone approach forged by his predecessor, George W. Bush....
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Cannes finale: Festival readies for awards night
CANNES, France (AP) -- Three past winners of the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival - Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Abbas Kiarostami - are in the running for the same award again as 19 films compete at the world's premier cinema showcase....
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