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Mardi Gras kicks off with parties and parades

A fine-dining fixture on Bourbon Street helped kick off the final frantic days of New Orleans Mardi Gras season Friday, relaxing its jackets-required dress code and briefly ditching its no-pets policy for a pair of crown-and cape-wearing rescue dogs. (…

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AP Top Stories February 10 P

Here’s the latest for Friday, February 10: Pentagon shoots down object in U.S. airspace near Alaska; Rescuers in Turkey find more earthquake survivors; Another classified document found at Mike Pence’s home; Tiny mouse is Guinness World Record holder.

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FBI searches Pence home amid subpoena request

The FBI searched former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home on Friday following the discovery by his lawyers last month of sensitive government documents there. The search comes a day after the former vice president was subpoenaed by the special c…

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Ukrainians in Turkey quake rubble of shoddy homes

Aydin Sisman’s Ukrainian mother-in-law was hosting her cousin and her cousin’s two sons in Antakya when their building collapsed from the force of Turkey’s devastating earthquake. The three were among the many Ukrainians who had sought a more peaceful …

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2 killed, 5 wounded in Jerusalem car-ramming

A Palestinian plowed a car into a crowded bus stop in east Jerusalem on Friday, killing two people, including a six-year-old, and injuring five others before being shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said, the latest escalation as violence grips…

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Married couple rescued from Iskenderun rubble

Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria, killing more than…