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COPENHAGEN (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is familiar with tough decisions. It gambled by giving the games to Beijing and even turned down New York after 9/11. But the race to host the 2016 games – pitting Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo …

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The Obama administration is defending an Education Department official over advice he gave a gay student about sex 21 years ago.

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With top commanders and congressional Republicans pushing for more troops, President Barack Obama met Wednesday with key members of his national security team to hash out a response to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report on the Afghanistan war and his call for more U.S. forces to save the mission.

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COPENHAGEN (AP) — International Olympic Committee members were agonizing Wednesday over how to choose the host of the 2016 Games, with many said to be undecided just two days before the vote. IOC members settling into their hotel in Copenhagen told …

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Legislation to triple aid to Pakistan and stem the tide of radicalism and anti-Americanism in that Asian nation cleared Congress on Wednesday and moved to President Barack Obama for his signature. The bill, approved by a voice vote …

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The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force this week called on the Lake Pend Oreille School District to bring charges against 33-year-old Matt Hathaway. Sandpoint Police Chief Mark Lockwood says Hathaway could be charged with trespassing, but the …

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President Barack Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to spend $5 billion on medical and scientific research, medical supplies and upgrading laboratory capacity, which he said would create tens of thousands of new jobs.

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