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Million-dollar donor to Romney has pushed Congress on mining, while casino company that backs Gingrich is under federal investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government.


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Fair Labor Association begins at Chinese facility that employs and houses hundreds of thousands of workers

NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple said Monday that an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPads and iPhones are assembled.


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Former Penn State assistant faces 52 criminal accounts that allege he sexually abused 10 boys

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The judge in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial on Monday granted the former Penn State assistant coach's request to have a jury composed of residents of State College and the surrounding area and gave him permission to visit with most of his grandchildren.


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The bill follows stories by The Associated Press that detailed monitoring of Muslims, a tactic decried by some as religious profiling

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Three Democratic New York state senators want an independent inspector to oversee the New York Police Department after what they called several abuses, including reports of widespread surveillance of Muslims and the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters.


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54-year-old who walked out of mental hospital last week was returned to facility

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police captured a man on Friday who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.


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There's also an immediate $350 billion for job-creating measures, about $100 billion less than presented in Obama's September jobs plan

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year but that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 if the president gets his wish to raise taxes and if policymakers can live within tight restraints on the Pentagon and other Cabinet agency budgets, the White House said Friday.


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Supervisor says father told son he had \"surprise" in store, then began horrific murder

SEATTLE (AP) -- Josh Powell told his 7-year-old son he had a "surprise" for him moments before attacking and killing him and his 5-year-old brother, according to the state social worker who was supposed to supervise a visit between Powell and his sons.


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Practice could eventually be used to assist Alzheimer's patients retain information

NEW YORK (AP) -- People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories.


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Zuckerberg's base salary is a relatively low $500,000 but stock options could add millions

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.


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District settled with Mark Berndt for $40,000 after removing him last winter

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday.


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