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• AP Top 25 takeaways: A committee quandary and Heisman slip

  27-11-2016 18:47 via columbuspost.com
  By Ralph D. RussoWire Service Correspondent
  Ohio State and Penn State are setting up for quite the potential problem for the College Football Playoff selection committee.
  The second-ranked Buckeyes and No. 8 Nittany Lions each won Saturday, sending Penn State to the Big Ten championship game as East Division winners and Ohio State into wait-and-see mode. Both teams look playoff worthy for now.
  The other race that changed on rivalry Saturday was the one for the Heisman Trophy.
  And, oh, Texas and
  
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• Blog Post Title

  10-04-2019 03:38 via columbuspost.com
  What goes into a blog post? Helpful, industry-specific content that: 1) gives readers a useful takeaway, and 2) shows you’re an industry expert.Use your company’s blog posts to opine on current industry topics, humanize your company, and show how your products and services can help people.
  
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• As Senate hearing set for Kavanaugh, new accuser emerges

  24-09-2018 07:51 via columbuspost.com
  Lisa Macaro andMary Clare Jalonick
  Wire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as negotiators reached agreement on an extraordinary hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, a second allegation of sexual misconduct by the Supreme Court nominee put the White House and Senate Republicans on the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
  A dayslong back and forth over the timing and terms of a hearing with Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey
  
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• Obama tells voters sitting on sidelines in 2018 ‘dangerous’

  16-09-2018 18:45 via columbuspost.com
  By Julie Carr SmythWire Service CorrespondentClick to view video.CLEVELAND (AP) — Former President Barack Obama delivered a simple message Thursday headed into the fall midterm elections: Vote.
  Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand in Cleveland, Obama said the consequences of sitting on the sidelines during November’s midterm elections “are far more dangerous” than in the past.
  Without mentioning Republican President Donald Trump by name, Obama said, &ldqu
  
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• Trump’s blustery myths on hurricanes, income

  16-09-2018 18:23 via columbuspost.com
  By Hope Yen and
  Calvin WoodwardWire Service Correspondents
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation’s deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it.
  He’s insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was “incredibly successful,” even though blac
  
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• Trump comments sting in Puerto Rico amid slow storm recovery

  16-09-2018 17:38 via columbuspost.com
  By Danica Coto and
  Angeliki Kastanis
  Wire Service Correspondents
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Donald Trump’s assertion that the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria was “an incredible, unsung success” fell flat in Puerto Rico, where islanders are still struggling to recover from the devastating storm a year later.
  “I was indignant,” said Gloria Rosado, a 62-year-old college professor who watched the president’s news conference
  
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• About that Car: 2019 Kia Forte

  09-09-2018 21:01 via columbuspost.com
  By Frank S. WashingtonContributing ColumnistColumbus Post
  PITTSBURGH – The new Kia Forte flies in the face of the market. It is a compact sedan in a sea of crossovers. However, from 2013 to 2017, Forte sales almost doubled. So there is little choice but to give buyers what they crave — a new Kia Forte.
  Frank S.Washington can be reached at [email protected]. Or, snail mail him at P.O. Box 23167, Detroit, MI 48223.For 2019, the third generation Forte has grown. It is longer, wider
  
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• ‘NOT ME!’

  09-09-2018 20:38 via columbuspost.com
  Trump officials cry ‘Not me!’ as he fumes over NYT column
  By Zeke Miller andJonathan Lemire
  Wire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants stepped forward Thursday to declare, “Not me.”
  They lined up to deny writing an incendiary New York Times opinion piece that was purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart Trump’s most dangerous
  
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• McCain, Franklin tributes show 2 Americas and cultures

  03-09-2018 18:43 via columbuspost.com
  By jesse J. Holland
  Wire Service Correspondent
  Two farewells, both reflecting distinct but uniquely American cultures.
  In Detroit, celebrities sat alongside anonymous mourners Friday in joyous remembrance of Aretha Franklin, a funeral that brought together the black church, gospel music, civil rights activism and Detroit civic pride.
  Hundreds of miles away in Washington, D.C., honor guards stood ramrod straight through silent pomp and circumstance while politicians shared stories of battle and f
  
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• Immigrant parents happy but traumatized after kids returned

  28-07-2018 03:04 via columbuspost.com
  By Julie Watson andNomaan Merchant
  Wire Service CorrespondentsFollow link to view video: https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:1cdab41e37ad4dca905f4eaac6e05f48/576.mp4
   SAN DIEGO (AP) — Immigrant parents who reveled after joyful reunions with their young children spoke Wednesday of the traumatic impact of being separated from their sons and daughters for months after they were taken from them at the U.S. border.
  The administration has been scrambling to reunify the
  
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• ‘Everyone is safe’ after daring rescue of 13 in Thai cave

  11-07-2018 03:39 via columbuspost.com
  By Kaweewit Kaewjinda and
  Stephen Wright
  Wire Service Correspondents
  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — “Everyone is safe.” With those three words posted on Facebook the daring rescue mission to extricate 12 boys and their soccer coach from the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in Thailand was complete — a grueling 18-day ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced diver and riveted people worldwide.
   
  Thailand’s Navy SEALs, who were central to the rescue effort,
  
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• Trump picks Kavanaugh, a GOP favorite, for Supreme Court

  10-07-2018 12:48 via columbuspost.com
  By Chatherine Lucey, Zeke Miller andMark Sherman
  Wire Service Correspondents
   
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right.
  A favorite of the Republican legal establishment in Washington, Kavanaugh, 53, is a former law clerk for retiring Justice Anthony K
  
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• The Latest: More rescued from flooded Thai cave

  10-07-2018 12:45 via columbuspost.com
  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand (all times local in Thailand)
  5:10 p.m.
  Thailand’s navy SEALs say a ninth boy has been brought out of a flooded cave in the country’s far north.
  The SEALs said on their Facebook page that “the 9th Wild Boar was out of the cave at 4:06 p.m.” Tuesday, referring to the name of the trapped boys’ soccer team.
  Rescuers hope to complete their mission Tuesday after
  
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• The Latest: Official: Cave rescue going better than expected

  08-07-2018 16:45 via columbuspost.com
  (all times local EST):
   Rescuer arrive near cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand Sunday, July 8, 2018. Thai authorities are racing to pump out water from the flooded cave before more rains are forecast to hit the northern region. (AP Photo) 
  The operation began at 10 a.m. Shortly before 8 p.m., the SEALs reported on their official Facebook page that four had been rescued.
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  7:15 p.m.
  Two ambul
  
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• Q&A on next steps for GOP in Congress’ immigration fight

  01-07-2018 03:25 via columbuspost.com
  By Alan Fram
  Wire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican effort to push broad, election-year immigration legislation through Congress has collapsed, but their ordeal over the politically searing issue is far from finished.
  The government still holds more than 2,000 children taken from their detained migrant families, an exasperating public relations nightmare for many in the GOP. Nearly 700,000 young immigrants don’t know if the courts will uphold President Donald Tru
  
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• High court OKs Trump’s travel ban, rejects Muslim bias claim

  27-06-2018 02:10 via columbuspost.com
  Protesters hold up signs and call out against the Supreme Court ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside the the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (AP Photo) 
  By Mark ShermanWire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries Tuesday, the conservative majority taking his side in a major ruling supporting his presidential power.
  
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• Arizona police under scrutiny after beating video surfaces

  10-06-2018 16:26 via columbuspost.com
  By Astrid GalvanWire Service Correspondent
  PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for a suburban Phoenix man seen on video being beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer’s claim that their client posed a threat “doesn’t pass the smell test.”
  Pastor Andre Miller said the Mesa Police Department description of why they struck the unarmed Robert Johnson doesn’t hold up.This image made from a body camera video on Wednesday, M
  
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• Bailing Out the Coal Industry Will Hurt Consumers

  04-06-2018 21:00
  President Trump wants to subsidize money-losing coal and nuclear plants under the fiction that they are essential to national security.
  
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• The Not-So-Subtle Racism of Trump-Era ‘Welfare Reform’

  23-05-2018 21:02
  By redefining welfare to include more federal assistance programs, Trump finds new ways to punish black people.
  
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• Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing 10 people

  22-05-2018 06:25 via columbuspost.com
  By Juan A. Lozano
  Wire Service Correspondent
  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old boy carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.
  The suspected shooter, who was in custody, also had explosive devices, including a Molotov cocktail, that were found in the school
  
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• Trump thrusts abortion fight into crucial midterm elections

  22-05-2018 04:57 via columbuspost.com
  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and
  Jill ColvinWire Service Correspondents
  “I cannot imagine a scenario in which public health groups would allow this effort to go unchallenged,” Marcella said.
  But abortion opponents said Trump is merely reaffirming the core mission of the family planning program.
  “The new regulations will draw a bright line between abortion centers and family planning programs, just as…federal law requires and the Supreme Court has upheld,” said Tony P
  
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• Democrats in Rust Belt: Stay Close to Trump, but Not Too Close

  10-05-2018 00:30
  After primaries in prime Trump territory Tuesday, Republicans were eager to embrace the president while Democrats had a more delicate balancing act.
  
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• Trump and the Mosquito Wars

  10-05-2018 00:04
  What the nation needs now is clearly more lobbyists.
  
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• An Ohio Special Election Shapes Up as a Big Test of the ‘Blue Wave’

  09-05-2018 23:08
  The House special election in August in the suburbs of Columbus could indicate how Democrats will perform in November with college-educated, affluent voters.
  
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• Rachel Crooks, Who Accused Trump of Sexual Assault, Wins Legislative Primary

  09-05-2018 19:47
  Ms. Crooks, the Democratic nominee for an Ohio House seat, says Mr. Trump forcibly kissed her at Trump Tower in 2005.
  
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• 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primary Elections

  09-05-2018 11:00
  Richard Cordray won in Ohio. Don Blankenship lost in West Virginia. And Congress is very unpopular.
  
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• Richard Cordray Defeats Dennis Kucinich in Ohio Democratic Primary

  09-05-2018 02:30
  The victory by Mr. Cordray, who was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, came as a relief to many Democrats who saw Mr. Kucinich as unelectable.
  
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• Cordray Defeats Kucinich in Ohio; Blankenship Loses in West Virginia

  09-05-2018 02:30
  The victory by Richard Cordray, who was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, came as a relief to many Democrats who saw Dennis Kucinich as unelectable.
  
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• Blankenship Loses West Virginia Primary; Cordray Defeats Kucinich in Ohio

  09-05-2018 02:30
  The victory by Richard Cordray, who was endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, came as a relief to many Democrats who saw Dennis Kucinich as unelectable.
  
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• Meet the Pro-Trade, Pro-Immigration Economist Running for Congress. As a Republican. In Ohio.

  06-05-2018 21:04
  Tim Kane would seem to have the right stuff to be a G.O.P. candidate for Congress in any other year. But in 2018, he seems out of step with his party.
  
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