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Suicide bombers, gunmen kill at least six in Indonesian capital

JAKARTA Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, police said, in an attack on a country that Islamic State had threatened to put in its "spotlight". | Video

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Fate of Florida death row inmates in limbo after U.S. Supreme Court ruling

TAMPA, Fla. - The fate of the 390 inmates on Florida's death row was uncertain after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the state's capital punishment sentencing process.

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Obama to offer in budget to extend deadline for Medicaid expansion

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana President Barack Obama will offer a financial incentive in his fiscal 2017 budget proposal to 19 state governments that passed up an earlier offer to help pay to expand Medicaid coverage to more low-income residents, the White House said on Thursday.

Accused Colorado clinic shooter intends to plead guilty, expects execution: report

DENVER The man accused of fatally shooting three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last year told a Denver television station that he wants to plead guilty and expects to be executed, the CBS affiliate reported on Wednesday.

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Hollywood's Sean Penn lied about 'Chapo' trafficking claim: lawyer

MEXICO CITY Hollywood star Sean Penn lied when he reported that Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told him he is the world's foremost drugs trafficker, and he should be called to testify, one of Guzman's lawyers said on Wednesday.

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Bid to mine more coal on U.S. federal lands tests Obama's green agenda

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's State of the Union pledge to better manage fossil fuel development will face a test within days, when federal officials rule on whether to open public lands containing more than 600 million tons of coal to more mining.