Getaway cab to be auctioned

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DALLAS - The Checker cab once known as Lee Harvey Oswald's getaway car is headed to auction. Cab 36 is part of the collection that will go up for sale today at the defunct Pate Museum of Transportation in Cresson near Fort...

Obama sees progress on oil spill response

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KENNER, Louisiana - President Barack Obama says progress apparently is being made in fighting the enormous Gulf oil spill. But the president says it's "way too early to be optimistic" about BP's latest attempt to stanch t...

Israel vows to stop aid ship

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JERUSALEM - Israel vowed yesterday to keep an Irish aid ship from breaching its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, appealing to pro-Palestinian activists to dock at an Israeli port and avoid another showdown at sea. ...

S. Korea seeks UN action

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UNITED NATIONS - South Korea officially referred North Korea to the Security Council yesterday over the sinking of a navy ship that killed 46 sailors and urged the United Nations' (UN) most powerful body to take action. Sou...

Cameron: Beware knee-jerk changes

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LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron has warned against knee-jerk changes to gun laws in the wake of the "horrific events" in Cumbria. However, he said Britain's rules on firearms ownership were already among the world...

Cops hold dead girl’s friend

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LIMA - A Dutch man long suspected in the disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba was arrested yesterday in the murder of a young woman in Peru. Stephany Flores, 21, was killed in a Lima hotel Sunday, five years to the day...

Taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25

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SEASCALE – A taxi driver went on a shooting spree across a rural area of northwestern England yesterday, police said, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself. The rampage in Cumbria was th...

Senators ask BP to suspend dividend payment

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democratic senators pressed British Petroleum on Wednesday to delay plans to pay shareholder dividends worth an expected $10 billion or more until the full costs for cleaning up the oil spill in the Gu...