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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:09:40 GMT
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Reuters - Virginia's Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday abruptly shifted his stance on a hotly-contested bill requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound, asking lawmakers to revise the legislation just before a scheduled vote. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:11:36 GMT
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Reuters - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered a Moroccan man to be held on charges that he planned a suicide bombing attack against Congress, believing he was working with al Qaeda militants when in fact his contacts were undercover agents. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:15:47 GMT
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Reuters - Nearly 1,200 people lined up at a downtown Miami conference center on Wednesday, holding onto mortgage documents and income statements in the hope of saving the homes they are struggling to pay for. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:20:00 GMT
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Time.com - The greatest threat to any long-term investor is inflation. It not only erodes the value of stocks and bonds, but also depresses economic growth and misleads policymakers |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:20:00 GMT
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Time.com - As part of an extended celebration of his 70th birthday, the ailing legend appears at a massive fundraiser to benefit brain research |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:30:05 GMT
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Reuters - A man shot and wounded by an Oakland police officer last weekend was a cousin of Oscar Grant, whose shooting death by a Bay Area transit officer sparked violent demonstrations in 2010, his attorney said on Wednesday. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:27:46 GMT
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 AP - Troy James Knapp is a wanted man, a mountain recluse authorities say is responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries in the remote southern Utah wilderness. He's considered armed and dangerous, a ticking time bomb.
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:23:19 GMT
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AP - A former District of Columbia police commander whose division provided a police escort to actor Charlie Sheen last April has given notice that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, saying he was demoted because he testified to the D.C. Council that such escorts for celebrities were commonplace. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:59:34 GMT
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AP - Violent crime at the nation's schools is declining, and students and schools are reporting less bullying and gang activity. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:22:51 GMT
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 AP - Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:26:35 GMT
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AP - Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she piled into a car with a bunch of her friends and rode to a condo in Medford, Ore., where police say the big sister of one of her friends was throwing a party with booze and marijuana. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:26:34 GMT
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AP - At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl had a seizure and her death days later was ruled a homicide. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:30:07 GMT
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 AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:21:22 GMT
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AP - A jury recommended late Wednesday that a former University of Virginia lacrosse player should serve 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend and another year in prison for a grand larceny charge. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:32:07 GMT
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AP - Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the state's true goal was to suppress religious objections by druggists — not to promote timely access to the medicines for people who need them. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:21:14 GMT
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AP - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of same-sex unions. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:26:38 GMT
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AP - A 73-year-old gunman entangled in a love triangle shot and killed the treasurer of a remote-controlled airplane club who police said was having an affair with the estranged wife of the attacker. |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:38:17 GMT
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AP - A gunman walked into the Su Jung Health Sauna, argued with someone and then opened fire, killing two of his sisters and their husbands, then himself, authorities said Wednesday |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:16:11 GMT
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AP - President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan agreement in the continuing partisan battle over jobs, taxes and debt. |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:39:03 GMT
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AP - An 8-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after she was shot in the abdomen at her elementary school near Seattle, and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said Wednesday. |
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