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Iraqi parliament approves partial new Cabinet 09/09/2014 04:16am • QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's parliament officially named Haider al-Abadi the country's new prime minister late Monday and approved most of his proposed Cabinet amid calls by the Arab League for its members to combat the Sunni militant group violently advancing across Ir New VA chief: Veterans agency too complicated 09/09/2014 03:12am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department with its 14 different password-protected websites is too complicated for most veterans to navigate, new Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Monday as he promised to make it easier for veterans to get disabil Joan Rivers remembered at star-studded funeral 09/08/2014 01:52pm • KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Howard Stern delivered the eulogy, Broadway singer-actress Audra McDonald sang "Smile" and bagpipers played "New York, New York" at Joan Rivers' funeral Sunday, a star-studded send-off that -- like the late comedian herself -- brought together the wor Detained American in North Korea gets trial date 09/07/2014 11:30am • Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Detained American Matthew Miller will be tried next Sunday, North Korean state media said, less than a week after the detainee made a rare foreign media appearance to plead for help.Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch Nigeria: Officials reassure as extremists rampage 09/06/2014 01:30pm • HARUNA UMAR Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian officials are trying to reassure citizens panicked about a spreading Islamic insurgency in the northeast even as fleeing residents report the extremists are urging people to join their fight and take their children out of school.The Ni Pace of health care spending likely to speed up 09/05/2014 02:48pm • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's respite from troublesome health care inflation is ending, the government said Wednesday in a report that renews a crucial budget challenge for lawmakers, taxpayers, businesses and patients.Economic recovery, an aging society, a Pharmacist arrested in tainted steroid case 09/05/2014 12:00am • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- A pharmacist who oversaw the sterile clean rooms at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak was arrested Thursday as he was about to board a flight for Hong Kong, federal officials said.Glenn Adam Chin, a FDA: Little evidence to support testosterone drugs 09/04/2014 03:30pm • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says there is little evidence that testosterone-boosting drugs taken by millions of American men are beneficial, though the agency is also unconvinced by studies suggesting the hormone carries serious risks.The agen Gov't forecasts rising health care inflation 09/04/2014 02:42am • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's respite from troublesome health care inflation is ending, the government said Wednesday in a report that renews a crucial budget challenge for lawmakers, taxpayers, businesses and patients.Economic recovery, an aging society, a Avoid Common Mistakes as a First-Year Medical Student 09/04/2014 12:00am • If first-year medical students want to know just how hard it will be to absorb the volume of information they'll receive in class, they should speak with Aurora Bennett, the associate dean for student affairs and admissions at University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine. "High school is like a Surrogate offers clues into man with 16 babies 09/03/2014 01:12am • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- When the young Thai woman saw an online ad seeking surrogate mothers, it seemed like a life-altering deal: $10,000 to help a foreign couple that wanted a child but couldn't conceive.Wassana, a lifetime resident of the slums, viewed it as a nine-mont Anti-poverty group urges G20 to tackle corruption 09/02/2014 11:30pm • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Anti-poverty organization ONE is urging leaders of the 20 largest economies to act decisively at an annual summit in November against money laundering, bribery, tax evasion and corruption which it estimates costs the world's poorest countries Obama seeks to do no harm to Democrats in midterms 09/02/2014 03:52pm • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hampered by low approval ratings and an unfriendly electoral map, President Barack Obama enters the fall campaign as a liability to some vulnerable Democrats and a target for Republicans trying to fire up conservatives and appeal to disillus Australian dad accused of abusing Thai-born twins 09/02/2014 05:40am • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- An Australian man has been charged with sexually abusing twin girls he fathered several years ago to a Thai surrogate mother in another case that casts a harsh light on Thailand's beleaguered surrogacy industry.The man, who cannot be identifie 9 steps a Japanese man took to 16 surrogate babies 09/02/2014 03:48am • The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- Police say Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta followed nine key steps on his path to fathering 16 surrogate babies in Thailand, born starting in June 2013. It's unclear whether he went through all of the steps for every baby; four are in Cambodia and the res