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It's beginning to look like another record for holiday travel
Drivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S. The auto club AAA predicts that more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day
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Leap of faith: A few young women in US buck the trends by joining the ranks of Catholic nuns
Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger
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Official says Wisconsin shooter was new student at Christian school where her victims had deep ties
An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there
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International students urged to return to US campuses before Trump inauguration
Some U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated
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House rejects Trump-backed plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
The House has resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown
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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns
Fewer than 1% of nuns in the U.S. today are under 30
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What to know about Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation struggling to recover from a massive quake
Efforts to recover bodies of people trapped in collapsed buildings continues in the earthquake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu
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Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty
Donald Trump seemed poised to inherit a relatively strong economy when he begins a second term in the White House in January
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Sri Lanka's navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees found adrift aboard a fishing trawler
Sri Lanka's navy says it has rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation
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Malaysia agrees to resume 'no find, no fee' hunt for flight MH370, 10 years after plane disappeared
Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to accept a second “no find, no fee” deal from a U.S. company to renew the hunt for flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean over 10 years ago
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