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Senator: USPS to resume North Pole Santa...

Yahoo News :: Posted 49 min 33 sec ago
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AP - North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus...

Robbery motive in deaths of 5 in rural Arkansas...

Yahoo News :: Posted 56 min 4 sec ago
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AP - Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for the meager bounty of a set of wheel rims and some...

Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 hour 17 sec ago
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AP - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant...

Army relents, will allow media at Palin...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 hour 4 min ago
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AP - The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when...

Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol agent...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 hour 26 min ago
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AP - A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal...

Oprah's departure presents problem for TV...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 hour 27 min ago
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AP - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television...

Mo. jury weighs fate of black teacher

MSNBC.com :: Posted 2 hours 4 min ago
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A jury is deliberating the fate of a black schoolteacher charged with assaulting white police officers responding to a disturbance...

Panel: No new atomic weapons needed

MSNBC.com :: Posted 2 hours 8 min ago
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An independent panel says the U.S. can extend the life of aging nuclear weapons for decades with existing programs.

Billboard links Obama with jihadists

MSNBC.com :: Posted 2 hours 8 min ago
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A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership...

Transit cop's murder trial moved to LA

MSNBC.com :: Posted 2 hours 48 min ago
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A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer...

Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth...

Yahoo News :: Posted 2 hours 52 min ago
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AP - Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word Friday on the birth of a crewman's daughter as they moved more supplies into the International...

Bond increased for man accused of taping...

Yahoo News :: Posted 2 hours 52 min ago
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AP - A judge has increased bond to $100,000 for an Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter...

Militia movement resurfaces across U.S.

MSNBC.com :: Posted 3 hours 8 min ago
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A civil rights organization says it has identified at least 50 new right-wing militia groups that have formed within the last two years...

Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 3 hours 11 min ago
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A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba plead guilty in federal court.

NYC TV newsman guilty of attempted assault...

Yahoo News :: Posted 3 hours 12 min ago
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AP - Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault...

Former Marine charged in 'Cathouse' star...

Yahoo News :: Posted 3 hours 21 min ago
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AP - A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were...

Measure to change U. of Neb. stem-cell rule...

Yahoo News :: Posted 3 hours 23 min ago
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AP - The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted not to place tighter restrictions on embryonic stem cell research...

Domestic Terror: The Worry About Homegrown...

Newsweek :: Posted 3 hours 32 min ago
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Why recent events point to a potentially worrying radicalization of disaffected American Muslims.

Murder charge filed in gay teen’s slaying...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 1 day 23 hours ago
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Murder charges are filed in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, burned body was found last week,...

Business of Green: Storm Over the Chamber...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 21 hours ago
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Thomas Donohue, the United States Chamber of Commerce’s president, expressed hostility toward climate legislation...

Col. Lewis Millett, Who Led ‘Bayonet Hill...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 20 hours ago
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Colonel Millett was an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge...

19 Alleged Gang Members Indicted in Md....

FoxNews.com :: Posted 1 day 17 hours ago
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Nineteen alleged gang members have been indicted in Maryland on federal racketeering conspiracy charges.

Cop suspended after Tasering 10-year-old...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 1 day 12 hours ago
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An Arkansas police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been suspended — not for using...

Regents Raise College Tuition in California...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 7 hours ago
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Facing steep cuts in state financing, the university system voted on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees.

Are You Ready? TIME.com's Holiday Gift Guide...

Time :: Posted 1 day 5 hours ago
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Books, music, dvds, games and gifts that give back -- TIME picks the best offerings for this holiday...

"Nobu" Fever: Japan Falls for a Young Piano...

Time :: Posted 1 day 1 hour ago
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The latest cultural obsession in Japan is Nobuyuki Tsujii, a 21-year-old blind piano prodigy and...

Group Clarifies Mammography Advice

WSJ.com US News :: Posted 21 hours 9 min ago
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The task force that loosened breast-cancer screening guidelines this week clarified its position, in response...

Big Game: A Cal-Stanford Score, Off the...

NYTimes :: Posted 18 hours 43 min ago
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For 111 years, Stanford and Cal, which play on Saturday, have battled for supremacy on the football field. Still...

Back to Business: Easy Loans in Expensive...

NYTimes :: Posted 17 hours 28 min ago
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An effort by the F.H.A. to prop up real estate prices amid rising defaults has put taxpayers at risk.

Island's bison to get birth control shots...

MSNBC.com :: Posted 8 hours 54 min ago
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Descendants of 14 bison shipped to Santa Catalina Island in 1924 to make a Western movie have multiplied so much...

Wrongfully convicted NYC man freed

MSNBC.com :: Posted 4 hours 7 min ago
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A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder...

Oprah's departure presents problem for TV...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 hour 27 min ago
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AP - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned...

Palin and her fans irked by cover shot in...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 day 23 hours ago
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AP - Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek's current Sarah Palin cover, "unflattering" probably...

Ruling on Katrina Flooding Favors Homeowners...

NY Times :: Posted 1 day 20 hours ago
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A federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers’ negligence caused huge flooding after Hurricane Katrina...

Eugene Cotton, Labor Union Lawyer, Dies...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 20 hours ago
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Mr. Cotton was a labor lawyer whose negotiating savvy helped improve the wages and conditions of tens of thousands...

Residents 'Vindicated' by Katrina Ruling...

FoxNews.com :: Posted 1 day 17 hours ago
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A federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led...

University of Calif. OKs 32 percent hike

MSNBC.com :: Posted 21 hours 42 min ago
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The governing board of the University of California approves a $2,500 student fee increase after two days of tense campus protests...

Is There a Sound Defense Against the Somali...

Time :: Posted 1 day 17 hours ago
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A vaunted acoustic weapon against pirates doesn't seem to have done thetrick. But where that failed, bullets kept...

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD...

Yahoo News :: Posted 20 hours 29 min ago
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AP - Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer...

Tech Snafu Grounds Nation's Fliers

WSJ.com US News :: Posted 1 day 6 hours ago
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The failure of a single piece of computer gear in Utah disrupted travel for thousands, exposing the risks of the long-running patchwork...

Obama to Push For Korea Trade Pact

WSJ.com US News :: Posted 1 day 19 hours ago
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Obama pledged to ratify a free-trade agreement with South Korea, challenging Congress to separate South Korea from other Asian nations...

Democrats Pitch Health Bill to Voters

WSJ.com US News :: Posted 1 day 6 hours ago
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Senate Democrats touted the immediate benefits their health bill would bring to Americans, aware that the cost and reach of the bill...

Are Mammograms the New Political Football...

Time :: Posted 1 day 16 hours ago
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Are Mammograms the New Political Football?

Negligence ruling in Katrina floods may...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 day 22 hours ago
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AP - The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers...

Regents Raise College Tuition in California...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 7 hours ago
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Facing steep cuts in state financing, the university system voted on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees.

A New Indian Travel Fad: "Divorce Tourism...

Time :: Posted 9 hours 31 min ago
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A few Indian tour operators are cashing in on Indian's rising divorce rate with a new offer: The perfect holiday...

U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record...

NYTimes :: Posted 17 hours 11 min ago
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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s quarterly survey found that one in seven homeowners was either late on payments or was already...

Why CEOs and Obama Need a Thaw

WSJ.com US News :: Posted 14 hours 13 min ago
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The Obama administration's relationship with the business community, once so promising, has given way to an atmosphere of mistrust...

NY court: Married gay couples entitled to...

Yahoo News :: Posted 1 day 11 hours ago
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AP - New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to some government benefits provided to same-sex...

University Weighs Tighter Limits on Stem...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 6 hours ago
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The University of Nebraska would be the first such institution to set stricter limits than what national or state law allows.

Obama's Asia Trip: Too Focused on Common...

Time :: Posted 1 day 17 hours ago
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In foreign policy, does making nice lead to making progress?

Backlog of Flight Delays After Computer...

NYTimes :: Posted 1 day 7 hours ago
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The glitch in the system that feeds flight plans to air traffic controllers, which also failed in August 2008, snarled thousands of...

Software problem causes airline flight delays...

Reuters :: Posted 1 day 2 hours ago
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ATLANTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer problem with a flight-processing system disrupted U.S. airline travel on Thursday with the...

As Washington Decides on Troop Levels, British...

Time :: Posted 1 day 17 hours ago
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As President Obama mulls additional U.S. troop deployments inAfghanistan, the British public increasingly doubt...