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Texas Senate race a new test for GOP establishment
The story line on the Republican Senate race in Texas is a now familiar one: A veteran politician supported by the GOP establishment is challenged by a young insurgent backed by national conservative groups.
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Texas farmers use business wile to weather drought
Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay. She sold calves and young cows and made her son leave their East Texas family ranch for a job in San Antonio.
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After NYC beer museum tour, hop on over to its bar
Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times.
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Pool access for the disabled sparks controversy
The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other swimming pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.
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FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy.
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AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
Walking around a gun store one day last summer, the young man never took off his sunglasses as he asked questions about items he piled on the counter - behavior that struck the manager as odd.
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Man arrested in disappearance of NYC boy Etan Patz
The timing couldn't have been more symbolic: On the eve of National Missing Children's Day, police said they'd at last cracked the case that started it - the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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AP: Churches to raise money to fight gay marriage
Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second time at Sunday services on Father's Day to kick off a fundraising campaign for the lead opposition group to November's ballot question asking voters to legalize same-sex marriages.
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Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud
Hurricane Bud strengthened into a major storm and was headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on the Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.
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NJ Muslims angry over NYPD surveillance findings
Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in its surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups in New Jersey.
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Fire damage raises questions about sub's future
Even before the Navy completed its first damage assessment, the severity of a fire that swept through a nuclear-powered submarine in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard triggered questions about whether the USS Miami can be salvaged.








