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Cornell president pressed by faculty frustrated by his handling of fraternity rape allegations

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff faced angry members of the school’s faculty Wednesday at a meeting that underscored deep frustration over his administration’s handling of a woman’s report that she was…
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US hits Bank of America with $1.2 billion fine, saying it violated money laundering, sanctions laws

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount…
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Six Flags closes 9 rides after 1 person dies in an incident involving a roller coaster in Georgia

ATLANTA (AP) -- Six Flags temporarily closed nine roller coasters across six amusement parks on Monday after one person died and several others were injured in an incident involving a coaster in Georgia. Officials did…
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Business as usual at the Vatican as Pope Leo prepares to have surgery to remove a lung nodule

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV had a full day of meetings, audiences and appointments on Monday, and seemed in fine form a day after revealing he would have an operation this week to…
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Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt, her attorneys say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christa Pike has begun walking and eating again at a hospital a week after surviving Tennessee’s attempt to execute her with lethal drugs, her attorneys said Thursday. Pike, 50, survived two…
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FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation's main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to…
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Christa Pike is awake after failed execution as her attorneys seek more information

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Death row inmate Christa Pike has regained consciousness after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection last week, and her attorneys are set to head to court Wednesday to…
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Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn is sentenced to life in prison for wife’s murder

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared briefly on “ American Idol ” was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after a jury convicted him…
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Search suspended for 6 people on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston

BOSTON (AP) -- Authorities on Sunday suspended the search off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston. The U.S. Coast Guard said authorities…
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How Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike unfolded, minute-by-minute

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed. But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting. Pike, sentenced to die for…
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