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A `softening’ Donald Trump?

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Donald Trump is suggesting that he's open to "softening" laws dealing with people in the U.S. illegally. At a town hall hosted by Fox News, Trump said, "We're not looking to hurt people." Trump has repeatedly said that if elected, he would deport the 11 million people living in the U.S.…
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Prosecutors call Bergdahl motion unprecedented

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors say defense attorneys for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have invented a legal issue by arguing the case was tainted by comments from U.S. Sen. John McCain. The defense wants the charges against Bergdahl to be thrown out because of "impermissible meddling" by McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services…
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Man jailed for cutting sappy tree that hit apartments

PITTSTON, Pa. (AP) - Police say a Pennsylvania man who believed sap from a tree next door was ruining his car, chopped it down, causing the tree to crash into an apartment building he owns, damaging it so badly it had to be condemned. Five others who lived in the building are now homeless. Fifty-one-year-old…
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