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can get you in deep trouble.
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• 5. OBAMA'S LATEST TARGET: RYAN'S PROPOSED EDUCATION CUTS
• He is set to deliver his latest critiques from college campuses, while the GOP running mate tells voters how his party will boost small businesses.
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• 6. NYAD HOPES TO FINISH CUBA-TO-FLORIDA SWIM TODAY
• But she's waiting out another storm, threatening her plan to make landfall the day before her 63rd birthday.
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• 7. FOR CLASS OF 2016, WOMEN ALWAYS PILOTED WAR PLANES
• The Beloit College Mindset List reminds professors that this year's college freshmen see the world differently.
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• 8. VIGIL AMID QUESTIONS IN PATROL CAR SHOOTING DEATH
• Supporters of a 21-year-old man shot to death in what police say was a suicide will start a march in Jonesboro, Ark., at 2 p.m.
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• 9. APPLE-SAMSUNG BATTLE SOON IN JURY'S HANDS
• The maker of the iPhone and the iPad seeks $2.5 billion in an epic patent fight.
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• 10. THE JOKE WAS ON PHYLLIS DILLER, WHO MADE A LANDMARK CAREER OF IT

• "I became a stand-up comedienne," she said many times before her death at 95, "because I had a sit-down husband."
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AP News in Brief
Deadline adds pressure on Missouri congressman to abandon Senate race after rape comment furor

• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Rep. Todd Akin vowed to fight on in his embattled Senate campaign, but an significant deadline loomed Tuesday that was bound to intensify pressure on the Missouri congressman to abandon the race over his comments that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape."
• Akin spent Monday trying to salvage his once-promising bid against incumbent

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