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Big-name backers take advantage of law quirk to help Scott Walker raise $13 million to battle recall

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's fan list reads like a who's who of some of the richest people in America - financial gurus, a Las Vegas casino president, even an NBA team owner.


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Building will eventually be tallest in country—if you count the 400-foot needle on top

NEW YORK (AP) -- One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peek over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building.


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Apparent collision with much larger ship also killed three others aboard sailboat

(CNN) -- The U.S. Coast Guard called off a search Sunday afternoon for a sailor who went missing after an apparent collision during a boat race Saturday from Newport, California, to Ensenada, Mexico.


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what might have looked like a relatively simple matter mushroomed into a politically charged veto showdown

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the political campaigns still taking shape, President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and lawmakers of both parties say they want to protect college students from a sharp increase in interest rates on federally subsidized loans.


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A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that has cost the U.S. about $1.28 trillion and 6,300 U.S. troops lives has forced al-Qaida's affiliates to regroup

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil.


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A year after the storms, sales of small residential shelters known as safe rooms are surging across much of the nation

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers' paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time: adding tornado shelters to their homes.


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Many researchers see soda reduction as a simple way millions can boost health

(CNN) -- Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: "Remember, you guys have to finish all your Kool-Aid."

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Misstravel.com brings together online dating and globetrotting

(CNN) -- The Internet blew up Wednesday over Misstravel.com, a site that launched April 9. According to its founder, Brandon Wade, the site connects rich people with good-looking people who want to gallivant around the world on the rich person's dime.


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President signs order to help address complaints about programs looking for piece of GI Bill cash

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) -- President Barack Obama reached out to a generation of young soldiers Friday as he added new protections for veterans and military families misled or bilked by career colleges and technical programs that target their federal education benefits. "They don't care about you," he said, "they care about your cash."


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Crowd donates thousands to foundation in slain teen's name

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Civil rights leaders and relatives of Trayvon Martin and a slain California teenager joined together at a Los Angeles rally Thursday, urging justice and tolerance and called for action to stop the violence.


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