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Abrupt shift is an attempt to end what was becoming election-year nightmare

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rushing to end a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned. The administration instead will demand that insurance companies will be the ones directly responsible for providing free contraception.


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Video posted online last month shows 19-year-old being kicked, punched while on ground unarmed

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man shown on video being kicked and punched by four New York City police officers says he's suffered from constant headaches and nightmares since then.


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Oglala Sioux in South Dakota have struggled for generations with alcoholism on reservation

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.


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$14 billion facility would be the first to get approval since 1978

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation is expected to win approval Thursday as federal regulators consider whether to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.


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Obama contraception policy, Komen flap bring issues to forefront in election year

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Political turmoil over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


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Program enables "low risk" passengers to go through without removing shoes, belts, liquids

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board flights.


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Demand for games, shortcuts and other smartphone programs has created 466,000 US jobs since 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.


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Eddie Long wrapped in scroll, called a king; Anti-Defamation League says action was "really awful"

ATLANTA (AP) -- A Georgia megachurch leader is apologizing to a Jewish group that criticized him for taking part in a ceremony in which he was wrapped in a religious scroll and exalted as a "king."


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Proposition 8 battle will now likely head to the US Supreme Court

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for a likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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FAA revamp allows for more satellite-based operation, but some union complaints remain

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation's aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the skies with unmanned drones.

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