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Testimony begins second week of involuntary manslaughter trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An emergency room physician told jurors Monday that Michael Jackson's doctor never mentioned that he had given the singer the powerful anesthetic propofol, but acknowledged the disclosure probably wouldn't have saved the King of Pop.

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Victory for tribe will not stop descendants of Black slaves from voting in current election

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to tribal citizenship.


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Obama-care decision could rank as most significant since 2000 presidential election ruling

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nine justices of the Supreme Court, who serve without seeking election, soon will have to decide whether to insert themselves into the center of the presidential campaign next year.


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Request part of decades-old suit alleging police have spied on activists, war protesters

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civil rights lawyers asked a federal judge Monday to force the New York Police Department to turn over documents about its secret efforts to spy on and infiltrate the Muslim community.


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Gathering at Savannah church features speech by NAACP leader Jealous

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as "martyr and foot soldier" Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funeral and pledged to keep fighting the death penalty.

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Republicans miss key detail in their portrayal of Democrat Jon Tester

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana isn't happy about a Republican attack advertisement portraying him with all five fingers on his left hand - even though he lost three fingers in a childhood accident with a meat saw.


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Says sometimes deadly protests were result of Obama's "weakness"

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Republican Michele Bachmann is blaming President Barack Obama's stand on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks for the uprisings against autocratic governments across the Arab world.


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Pulse monitor brought into case by prosecutors to show Conrad Murray lacked proper equipment

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An executive for the maker of a medical device used by Michael Jackson's doctor to monitor the singer told jurors on Friday that the equipment was not adequate for the continuous monitoring of patients.


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Some experts are unsure it will ever make it to Western markets without larger trials - and without a big pharmaceutical stepping in to pay for them

LONDON (AP) -- A pill developed in Bulgaria during the Soviet era shows promise for helping millions of smokers cheaply and safely kick the habit, the first big study of it shows.


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It was believed to be the first instance in which a U.S. citizen was tracked and executed based on secret intelligence and the president's say-so

(AP) -- President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al-Qaida.


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