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Hong Kong police attack on activist sparks anger
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KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press 
Oct 15, 2014
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police battling activists for control of an underpass in the dead of night Wednesday sparked public anger after officers we...
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Airstrikes, street battles in Syrian Kurdish town
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LEFTERIS PITARAKIS, Associated Press ALBERT AJI, Associated Press 
Oct 15, 2014
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Bolstered by intensified U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeting militants from the Islamic State group, Kurdish militiamen...
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David Greenglass of Rosenberg spying case dies
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VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press 
Oct 15, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — David Greenglass, who served 10 years in prison for his role in the most explosive atomic spying case of the Cold War and gave testimo...
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Proposal would toughen federal trespassing laws
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VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press 
Oct 14, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. senator who says terror threats are at a high proposed a federal law Monday that carries up to five years in prison for scaling...
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Liquid nicotine exposures up sharply among kids
Lifestyles, Nation World
LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press 
Oct 14, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine th...
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Dozens arrested on 4th day of St. Louis protests
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ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press JIM SALTER, Associated Press 
Oct 14, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police arrested dozens of protesters during the final of four days of rallies and civil disturbance to express anger at the fatal...
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Dallas nurse with Ebola gets blood from survivor
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EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press 
Oct 14, 2014
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas nurse infected with Ebola while treating the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. has received a plasma transfusion from a docto...
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Istanbul rattled by signs of Islamic State support
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RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press ISIL SARIYUCE, Associated Press 
Oct 14, 2014
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul University student Aysegul Korkut is outraged by the images coming out of Syria. But these days the Islamic State group's hor...
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WHO: Ebola death rate rises to 70 percent
Here And Now, Nation World
MARIA CHENG, Associated Press 
Oct 14, 2014
GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World H...
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Bishops say gays have gifts to offer church
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Nicole Winfield 
Oct 14, 2014
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops signaled a radical shift in tone Monday about accepting gays into the church, saying they had gifts to offer and ...
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Can all US hospitals safely treat Ebola?
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MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer 
Oct 13, 2014
The idea that all U.S. hospitals may not be able to safely treat Ebola patients seemed to find more acceptance Monday as a second federal official sug...
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