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Ex-US Army soldier asks for maximum 40 years in prison but gets a 14-year term for IS plot
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge rejected a former U.S. Army soldier's surprise sentencing-day request for a maximum 40-year prison term for trying to help the Islamic State group kill American troops, giving him 14 years behind bars instead.
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Boeing will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production
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Pilot in deadly California plane crash didn't have takeoff clearance, airport official says
AVALON, Calif. (AP) — The pilot in a plane crash on a Southern California island that killed all five people aboard did not have clearance to take off, an airport official said.
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Hot-air balloon strikes and collapses radio tower in Albuquerque during festival
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A hot-air balloon struck and collapsed a radio tower Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the city's famous festival — the second time in 20 years that a balloon has come into contact with the that tower.
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Adventurer faces venomous scorpions in world-first kayak journey
Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea.
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NY prosecutors want to combine Harvey Weinstein’s criminal cases into a single trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a Manhattan judge to consolidate the two sex crime cases that Harvey Weinstein faces in New York into a single trial this year — a move that the disgraced movie mogul’s lawyers oppose.
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Trump drives his anti-immigration message in Aurora, Colorado
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that's been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American cities and towns.
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