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Stop! Washing your Thanksgiving turkey could spread germs

By CANDICE CHOI NEW YORK (AP) — Go ahead and rinse your cranberries, potatoes and green beans. But food experts say don’t — repeat don’t — wash the turkey before popping it in the oven…
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Tesla steers toward industry profit driver with a pickup

By RACHEL LERMAN and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP - Tesla is aiming for the heart of the auto industry’s profit machine with its own version of the heavy pickup truck. Rolling onstage before a wall of…
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Gore kicking off 24 hours of climate talks around the world

By TRAVIS LOLLER NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore said that even though President Donald Trump wants to back out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.S. cannot legally pull out until…
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Botanists scour aging orchards for long-lost apple varieties

By GILLIAN FLACCUS PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — The apple tree stands alone near the top of a steep hill, wind whipping through its branches as a perfect sunset paints its leaves a vibrant gold. It…
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South Dakota’s governor defends ‘Meth. We’re on it’ campaign

By STEPHEN GROVES SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota sparked online guffaws Monday by rolling out an anti-drug campaign featuring people saying, “Meth, I’m on it,” and the governor said the backlash proves the…
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Partisan divide seen in how local news should be propped up

By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s partisan divide is evident when Americans are asked about what should be done to help the nation’s struggling local news industry. While two-thirds of Democrats say…
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Astronauts start spacewalk series to fix cosmic ray detector

By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts launched an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks Friday to fix a cosmic ray detector at the International Space Station. Armed with dozens of dissecting tools, Italian…
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Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Patrick announces Dem presidential bid

By JULIE PACE, BILL BARROW and STEVE PEOPLES WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced Thursday he is running for president, making a late entry into the Democratic race less than three months…
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History in the making: Trump impeachment hearing underway

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House launched the first public hearing Wednesday of Donald Trump’s impeachment investigation, the extraordinary process to determine whether the 45th president of the…
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Officer accused of killing Oklahoma police chief in Florida

By TAMARA LUSH and JAKE BLEIBERG A small-town Oklahoma policeman was charged with killing his chief after what authorities described as an alcohol-fueled brawl in a Florida Panhandle hotel room. The two men had been…
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