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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s rocket launch this month showed it has likely developed technology, long suspected in the West, to fire a warhead more than 10,000 kilometers, South Korean military officials said on Sunday, putting the U. S. West Coast in range. North Korea said the December 12 launch put a weather satellite in orbit but critics say it was aimed at nurturing the kind of technology needed to mount a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile. North Korea is banned from testing missile or nuclear technology under U. N. . . .

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HONOLULU (AP) ? The late U. S. Sen. Daniel Inouye is being praised as a humble leader who embodied honor, dignity and duty during a public visitation at Hawaii’s state Capitol.

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Massachusetts voters weary from one of the nation’s costliest and most divisive U. S. Senate races are all but certain to find themselves thrown back into another tumultuous election now that President Barack Obama has nominated Sen. John Kerry for secretary of state.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama has scaled back his ambitions for a sweeping budget bargain with Republicans. Instead, he’s calling for a limited measure sufficient to prevent the government from careening off the "fiscal cliff" in January by extending tax cuts for most taxpayers and forestalling a painful set of agency budget cuts.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama has throttled back his ambitions for a sweeping budget bargain with Republicans. Instead, he’s calling for a scaled-back measure sufficient to prevent the government from careening off the "fiscal cliff" in January by extending tax cuts for most taxpayers and forestalling a painful set of agency budget cuts.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. "God only knows" how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says he is “ready and willing” to get a big package done to deal with the “fiscal cliff” and says there’s no reason not to protect middle-class Americans from tax increases.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings. "

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to resolving their "fiscal cliff" impasse, the dollar gap between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner is tiny in federal terms. That masks a monumental political ravine the two men must try to bridge, with most of the burden on the now beleaguered Boehner.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sen. Daniel Inouye, the second-longest serving senator in U. S. history, was remembered Thursday as a man who gallantly defended his country on the battlefield and gracefully sought to better it during the 50-plus years he represented his beloved state of Hawaii.

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