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  • Fire destroys 'Party Animal' house in Detroit

    DETROIT (AP) — A fire has destroyed another house that's part of the Heidelberg Project interactive outdoor art installation in Detroit.

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  • Pro-Crimea rally attacts 65,000 to Kremlin

    Over 65,000 people waving Russian flags and banners attended a rally in central Moscow on Friday, in a show of solidarity with pro-Russian authorities in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, police said. The rally, entitled "We are together", which began with Russian pop star Oleg Gazmanov singing patriotic songs, took place just outside the walls of the Kremlin. Crimean parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, who earlier met top lawmakers in Moscow, offered greetings "from Crimea" as he took to the stage amid cheers. "Yesterday we took a historic decision," he said, referring to a request by the autonomous republic's parliament to join Russia, a move they want voters to ratify in a March 16 referendum.

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  • U.S. job growth offers upbeat sign for weather-beaten economy

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  • Religious conservatives facing off at conference

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  • Opening statements to begin in general's sex trial

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  • Putin rebuffs Obama's warning on Ukraine

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  • Guard: Pistorius told me 'everything is fine'

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  • International court convicts Congo rebel leader

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  • Opening statements begin in general's sex trial

    FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements began Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges.

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  • Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi

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  • AP PHOTOS: Women brick-makers in debt in Pakistan

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  • Half of millennials more likely to lean Democratic

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  • Russia, Crimean politicians discuss referendum

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  • Darren Sharper returns to court seeking release

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Darren Sharper will return to court on Friday where his attorneys will argue that the former NFL All-Pro safety should be released from a Los Angeles jail.

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  • As US states allow pot sales, Dutch reverse course

    MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AP) — A young man at a bus stop hisses at a passer-by: "What you looking for ... marijuana?" It's a scene of street peddling that the Netherlands hoped to stamp out in the 1970s when it launched a policy of tolerating "coffee shops" where people could buy and smoke pot freely.

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  • Pistorius trial: Ex-girlfriend describes gunplay

    PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius testified Friday at the double-amputee runner's murder trial that he always carried a firearm, sometimes shouted angrily at her and her friends, once shot his gun out the sunroof of a car, and that their relationship ended when he cheated on her with Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he fatally shot last year.

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  • Recruit describes being quizzed by bin Laden

    American testifies about safe house encounter with terror leader in spring of 2001.

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