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PHILADELPHIA – A City Council member jumped into the debate over a sign at one of Philadelphia’s best-known cheesesteak joints that reads: “This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING ‘SPEAK ENGLISH.”‘ During the council’s meeting Thursday, Councilman Jim Kenney asked Geno’s Cheesesteaks owner Joseph Vento to take the small sign down. The …

MANCHESTER, Tenn. – A tour bus carrying bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs from a performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival struck and killed a man, authorities said. The bus was traveling south Friday night on Interstate 24 about a mile (1 1/2 kilometers) from the exit for the festival …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s premier said Thursday he will present his choices for defense and interior ministers in three days as violence once again gripped the capital. In Baghdad violence, seven mortar rounds hit houses in the predominantly Sunni Arab southern Dora district, killing nine civilians and wounding 40. And …