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Copper rises on manufacturing gains in US, China

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By SANDY SHOREAP Business Writer The price of copper is higher after manufacturing expanded in the world's two largest economies and Americans spent more money on big-ticket items like automobiles. Copper increased 3.45 cents Thursday to finish at $3.552 per pound. Manufacturing improved in

Edwin Q. White, former AP Saigon chief, dies

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By OSKAR GARCIA and RICHARD PYLEAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) - One night in 1969, as a salvo of Viet Cong rockets exploded in the streets of Saigon, Edwin Q. White paused after typing a dateline on his typewriter to light his pipe and reflect on his belief that as an American journalist, he

Netflix stock soars on news of Carl Icahn's stake

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By MICHAEL LIEDTKEAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Netflix's slumping stock price and weakening financial performance has finally attracted an opportunistic and sometimes nettlesome investor in Carl Icahn. In a Wednesday regulatory filing, Icahn revealed he had used some of his $14

US military flying power equipment to storm area

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By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In a rare airlift, the Defense Department is flying 17 aircraft from California to New York loaded with power generation equipment and crews to help restore electricity to the millions of homes and businesses devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee

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By ERIKA NIEDOWSKIAssociated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's economic development agency on Thursday sued former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and some of its former officials, saying they committed fraud and other acts that misled the state into approving a $75 million loan

RI sues Schilling over 38 Studios loan guarantee

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Brother pleads guilty in NC beheading plot

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By MICHAEL BIESECKERAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The younger brother of a North Carolina terror suspect serving 45 years in prison for plotting to attack a Marine base pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting to behead government witnesses who testified against his sibling. Shkumbin Sherifi

Consumers give US economy a lift before election

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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A flurry of data issued Thursday sketched a brightening view of the U.S. economy in the final days before a presidential election that will pivot on the strength of the recovery. Cheaper gas, rising home prices and lower

Consumers give US economy a lift before election

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Review: 'Assassin's Creed' stumbles on Vita

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By DERRIK J. LANGAP Entertainment Writer There's never been a video game heroine quite like Aveline de Grandpre. The daughter of an African slave and a French shipping magnate in New Orleans at the end of French and Indian War, Aveline is the deadly but charming protagonist of "Assassin