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world needs to fight to free the kidnapped Nigerian school girls.
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• 8. AUTHORITIES SAY ACTOR TOLD 911 DISPATCHER HE SHOT HIS WIFE
• Michael Jace, who played a police officer on the hit TV show "The Shield," has been arrested.
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• 9. RIDING 'HORSES OF GOD' TO A PLACE SOME CALL PARADISE
• A film follows the path of four men from their Moroccan slum to a destiny as suicide bombers in its examination of the other side of a terrorist attack.
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• 10. WHERE THE COLD WON'T STOP THE SUPER BOWL FESTIVITIES
• Minneapolis, which is hosting football's biggest night in 2018, is determined to show the nation how winter can be fun.
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AP News in Brief
Analysis: Hoping to avoid past mistakes, GOP picks experience over flamboyance in Senate races
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tuesday's elections are the best evidence yet that Republicans are avoiding previous mistakes and improving their chances of controlling the Senate during President Barack Obama's final two years in office.
• GOP voters again chose solidly conservative nominees while rejecting the most extreme and outlandish types who led the party to painful losses in 2010 and 2012.
• The simple way to view this year's results, thus far, is to say "establishment" Republicans are outperforming tea party insurgents. That's largely true. But it blurs the extent to which nearly all Republican candidates -- including some who have been in Congress for decades -- have shifted rightward to stay in step with ardently conservative voters who helped create the tea party in 2009 and still dominate GOP primaries.
• The differences between tea party and non-tea party Republicans are shrinking. Often it's merely tone and experience that separate them. Tone and experience matter, however, and Tuesday's GOP voters chose the less bombastic and unpredictable conservatives in most cases.
• In Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell easily dispatched tea party challenger Matt Bevin. As a 30-year senator and party leader, McConnell is about (Continued on page 27)
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