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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Widespread skepticism is greeting North Korea's claim today of a successful hydrogen bomb test. A number of nations condemned the test including China, Pyongyang's closest ally. Experts say that whatever the North detonated, the end result could be further international sanctions on the impoverished country.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Drenching storms moving toward California may provide some welcome drought relief but experts say it would take years of such storms to make up the deficit from the past four dry years. Officials are warning against reverting to old water-use habits. El Nino, a natural warming of the central Pacific Ocean, usually brings heavy rains to California.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will be using his veto pen soon as the House is poised today to give final passage to a bill repealing the health care law. It's the first time after dozens of failures that the GOP-controlled Congress has managed to send repeal legislation to the White House, though it won't change the end result.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iraq says it's willing to referee the escalating war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the kingdom's execution of a Shiite cleric and attacks on two Saudi diplomatic posts in the Islamic Republic. Some Sunni Arab nations have followed the Saudis' lead and severed or downgraded ties with Iran, while others have offered words of caution aimed at calming the situation.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There's a tidy sum on the line tonight in the Powerball lottery drawing. The jackpot is an estimated $450 million -- the biggest lottery prize in nearly a year. A Powerball prize that climbed to $564.1 million last February before it was won by players from North Carolina, Texas and Puerto Rico. Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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