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Target plans to hire tens of thousands for holiday shopping season

(KTRS) - Target plans to hire more than 70,000 employees for the holiday season. There will be hiring events at all 1,800 stores on October 14 and 15. Applications will also be taken online. This is about the same number of workers the retailer hire last year.
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Man who scaled White House fence takes plea deal

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who draped himself in the American flag and jumped over the White House fence on Thanksgiving Day last year has taken a plea deal in the case. Joseph Caputo of Stamford, Connecticut, appeared in federal court in the District of Columbia on Monday. He agreed to plead guilty to knowingly…
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Clinton resting at home after canceling travel

Clinton is skipping the event and the rest of her planned travel in California after being diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday
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On 9/11, official says lone wolf still a threat

NEW YORK (AP) — The government's homeland security secretary says the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against what he calls "another 9/11-style attack." But Jeh (jay) Johnson — making the rounds of the Sunday news shows — says the country is "challenged when it comes to the prospects of the…
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Trump expected to speak at Phyllis Schlafly’s funeral

(KTRS) - Donald Trump is expected to be in town Saturday. Ed Martin with the Eagle Forum confirmed that Trump is planning to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly. She endorsed Trump during a campaign event in March. Schlafly died on Monday. Her funeral mass is scheduled for 2 pm tomorrow at the Cathedral Basilica…
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