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The news comes a few weeks after federal approval was revoked for another Genentech drug, Avastin, that did not meaningfully help breast cancer patients

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse.


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After estimated 4.5 percent boost this year, prices expected to gain another 3.5 percent in 2012

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The U.S. government barely changed its estimate for next year's corn surplus, which is expected to stay small and keep high food prices high.


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Schools and businesses are rushing to prevent names from falling into hands of adult industry

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as http://www.KUgirls.xxx and http://www.KUnurses.xxx . But not because it's planning a Hot Babes of Kansas site or an X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of the Land of Aaahs.


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Unmanned capsule from SpaceX will bring supplies to station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A private space company will attempt the first-ever commercial cargo run to the International Space Station in February.


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Plenty of pediatric leaders and women's advocacy feel otherwise

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Thursday it was just common sense to keep girls under the age of 17 from being able to buy a morning-after contraceptive pill off a drugstore shelf. Citing his own two daughters, Obama said: "I think most parents would probably feel the same way."


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"My family and I have endured a three-decade ordeal," Maureen Faulkner says

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Maureen Faulkner waited nearly 30 years for her husband's murderer to be executed. But following a seemingly endless cycle of legal appeals, she said she realized it would never happen.


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President also defends efforts to block Iran from building a nuclear weapon

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday forcefully rejected Republican accusations that his foreign policy is timid and amounts to a policy of "appeasement."


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Many protesters had already pulled up stakes and left the encampment Thursday

BOSTON (AP) -- A diminished Occupy Boston encampment held its ground early Friday after police decided not to immediately enforce a midnight deadline that the mayor had set for them to leave a city square.


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ColorofChange asks companies to quit supporting organization that's fighting for stricter voter ID requirements

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An online advocacy group wants corporations that market to African Americans to stop giving money to a conservative organization working for stricter voting laws.


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Texas officials say Richard Beasley should not have been released from custody in July

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A Texas parolee now suspected in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme was mistakenly released from Ohio custody last summer not once but twice.


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