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Immigration and increase in suburban Islamic believers accounts for rise

NEW YORK (AP) -- The number of American mosques has increased dramatically in the last decade despite post 9/11 protests aimed at Muslim houses of worship, according to a new study. The new Islamic centers serve Muslims who moved into the suburbs and newer immigrants from Africa, Iraq and elsewhere.


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Traditionally, 'Leap Day' offers 'buckets of crazy'

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- People jumped off tall buildings all around the country Wednesday, but no one got hurt.


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Chu did not specifically mention dumping incinerated residue of 9/11 remains in a landfill, but his words might have been interpreted to allow that final step

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The disposal of human remains from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, including the incineration and dumping of some portions in a landfill, was based on high-level Pentagon instructions, the Air Force's top general said Wednesday.


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At Chardon High School, the faculty parking lot was jammed Wednesday as teachers returned to the school for the first time since Monday's shooting

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- The teenage suspect in a deadly shooting rampage at an Ohio high school was a normal boy who excelled in school and played outside often with his sister, building snow hills and skateboarding, a family friend said Wednesday.


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Texas doctor billed for home health services that weren't necessary or provided

DALLAS (AP) -- The owner of a Texas medical service provider is among seven people indicted in a health care fraud scheme that allegedly bilked Medicare and Medicaid of nearly $375 million.


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President's approval ranking among females has jumped 10 points since December

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's looking like President Barack Obama may be back in the good graces of women.


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Upcoming national event will bring competition into a practice traditionally tied to spirituality

NEW YORK (AP) -- The judges will be watching - were the competitor's knees locked? Were the wrists straight? Did the forehead and the knee connect? If not, points are going to be lost.


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Bush, Obama administrations have provided $135 million as part of drug-crime grant

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of dollars in White House money has helped pay for New York Police Department programs that put entire American Muslim neighborhoods under surveillance.


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Some family members of victims worry energy giant may be able to \"write a check to solve their problems"

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Nearly two years after his brother Gordon was killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, Chris Jones had planned to drive in from Baton Rouge with other relatives to attend the start of the federal trial over the nation's worst offshore oil disaster.


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Natives, Blacks, other minorities battle generations-old monikers across nation

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Just east of Victorville in California's Mojave Desert two bluffs rise 3,000-feet from the valley floor. A 1949 map by the U.S. Geological Survey officially gave them the name locals had called them for as long as anyone could remember: Pickaninny Buttes.


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