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Northeast storm darkens 500,000 homes, businesses
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Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast, knocking out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses, delaying and diverting flights, and stranding about 500 passengers on a train for more than five hours.
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China alleges diplomatic snub at Copenhagen summit
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year’s Copenhagen climate change conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance.
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Despite brashness, Bunning still a hero in Ky.
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Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he’s being heralded as a hero.
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Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen
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Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave as her parents vowed to dedicate themselves to protecting children from sex predators.
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US mom: Daughter held in Ireland ’lost her mind’
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Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told her family they’d go to hell if they didn’t follow in her steps.
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Pelosi: Confident House will pass health care bill
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she’s confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes for the measure.
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Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military
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Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old’s honorable discharge under the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.
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Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids
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President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration’s help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
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Calif. man investigated over alleged DEA threats
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A Northern California man arrested after park rangers allegedly spotted him waving a handgun at a national monument near the Oregon border will likely face more charges for threatening to kill federal agents and their families, authorities said Saturday.
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Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession
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Utah’s House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.
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Sen. Reid’s wife leaves hospital’s intensive care
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital’s intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington.
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Native Hawaiian government may become reality
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Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they’ve ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.
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US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting
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A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women’s equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.
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Judge faces election after unpopular decision
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The judge didn’t believe the father was a threat and denied the mother’s plea to keep him away from their 9-month-old son. It was a seemingly routine ruling in a busy family law court called on too often to referee passionate fights between broken young families over the care of babies.
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Ohio opponents would fight ACORN attempt to return
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The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent voter registration practices.
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Appeals court upholds conviction in Miss. killings
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A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964.
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Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
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Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie.
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Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
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Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie.
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Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius
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In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.
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Court in SF to rehear Nazi salute case
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A California man who was ordered removed from a Santa Cruz City Council meeting after making a one-armed Nazi salute has won another day in court.
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Fla. woman dies during weeks-long religious fast
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Authorities say a 55-year-old woman died alone in a bedroom of her central Florida home after locking herself in the room for several weeks for a lengthy religious fast.
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Daylight-saving time: It’s back
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America is springing forward.
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Runaway Prius case presents nagging questions
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Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck.
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NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus
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Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday.
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The nation’s weather
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The East was expected to remain quite active on Saturday as a complex of low pressure systems rotated through the area.
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