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UC agrees to pay $1M to settle pepper-spray suit

SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest at UC Davis last fall, according to a preliminary settlement filed Wednesday.


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Iranian president pushes new world order

NEW YORK - After an hour of fielding questions about Syria, sanctions and nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had enough. Now, he said, it was his turn to choose the topic - his "new order" which will inevitably replace the current era of what he called U.S. bullying.



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Obama views Libya attack as terrorism

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama considers the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya a terrorist attack.



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Suu Kyi urges end to US sanctions against Myanmar

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi reiterated a call Tuesday for the lifting of sanctions against her impoverished country, and vowed to use her new parliamentary role to foment more change.


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NYC schools dispensing morning-after pill to girls

NEW YORK - It's a campaign believed to be unprecedented in its size and aggressiveness: New York City is dispensing the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14 at more than 50 public high schools, sometimes even before they have had sex.



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Ex-Chicago mayor rallies help for Ind. steel town

CHICAGO - Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and a group of University of Chicago graduate students he now teaches are reaching across the state line to help the battered steel town of Gary, Ind.


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Corps let off the hook for Katrina flooding

NEW ORLEANS - A surprise ruling by a federal appeals court that lets the Army Corps of Engineers off the hook for paying compensation for Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic flooding isn't going over well on the streets of New Orleans.


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Anti-abortion ad to begin airing in Ind. and Ky.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - An anti-abortion activist who's running for Congress plans to air an especially graphic ad this week in Kentucky and Indiana showing a dismembered fetus and images of dead Christians and Jews. Legally, there's little the television station owners can do to stop them.







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