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Updated: November/19/2009
Fans ‘Going Rogue' to meet Sarah Palin
College students ditched class, employees skipped work, and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband Wednesday that would let them meet Sarah Palin.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Reid reveals Senate version of bill to change U.S. health-care system
Setting up a historic year-end health-care debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation Wednesday night to extend coverage to all but 6 percent of eligible Americans and bar private companies from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Fatalities reported in Minnesota tour bus crash
AUSTIN, Minn. — A tour bus ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch Wednesday. A state official said fatalities were reported but the number of people killed was not immediately known.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Smart's kidnapper issues apology
Seven years after she was abducted at knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart finally has an apology - and a guilty plea - from one of her kidnappers.
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Updated: November/17/2009
Obama: U.S.-China ties vital worldwide
Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President Obama said Monday that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but the world.
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Updated: November/17/2009
Palin tells Oprah 2012 presidential bid off ‘radar screen’
Sarah Palin said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that it’s heartbreaking to see the road that Levi Johnston, the father of her grandson, has taken and that the soon-to-be Playgirl model hasn’t seen his baby in some time.
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Updated: November/15/2009
Military rarely calls for death sentence
WASHINGTON - Though the suspect in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood could face the death penalty, he will be prosecuted in a military justice system where no one has been executed in nearly a half-century.
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Updated: November/15/2009
Mourners say farewell to Fort Hood victims
Hundreds of people lining the main street of this small Indiana city Saturday fell silent as a hearse passed on its way to the church. Mourners also streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.
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Updated: November/14/2009
Major Hasan permanently paralyzed, lawyer says
Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood last week, is permanently paralyzed, one of his defense attorneys said Friday.
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Updated: November/14/2009
Ida spins off robust storm, rakes East Coast; 6 dead
A powerful storm spawned from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida began moving out to sea Friday after strafing the East Coast for three days, leaving behind flooding, damaged buildings, eroded beaches, and at least six deaths.
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Updated: November/14/2009
California kidnap suspect expresses 'remorse'
The man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard and holding her for nearly two decades wrote an apology in a letter that mentions "ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible."
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Updated: November/14/2009
Evangelist gets 175 years in child sex case
Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced Friday to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex, punishing him for the rest of his life for molesting children he took as "brides" in his ministry.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Colorado balloon boy parents plead guilty
The Colorado parents accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting their son was aboard a runaway balloon have pleaded guilty to charges that could bring some jail time and probation.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Lawmakers defy church pressure on DC gay marriage
WASHINGTON — The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is threatening to stop providing social services, including management of city homeless shelters, unless lawmakers change a proposal to legalize same-sex marriages.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Fort Hood suspect charged with 13 murders
Military officials charged Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan on Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder, accusing him of a brutal one-man attack here at America's largest Army post last week and setting in motion what promises to be a historic court-martial proceeding that could end in the death penalty.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Feds move to seize 4 U.S. mosques
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Father, 4 sons charged with child sex abuse
Family members of five men, including three lay ministers, charged in a bizarre child sex abuse case reacted with disbelief and sadness Thursday to the "unspeakable" string of alleged atrocities spanning two decades.
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Updated: November/13/2009
N.Y. mother of 7 accused of torturing dogs, cats
A mother of seven is accused of running a house of horrors for pets at her suburban Long Island home, forcing her children to help torture them and burying at least 20 dogs in her yard - animals neighbors now fear were beloved pets that mysteriously disappeared over the years.
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Updated: November/13/2009
ACORN sues U.S. over loss of funding
ACORN has been cut off by banks, the government, and most of its private foundation funders, severely hampering its housing operations and raising the possibility that it will not survive in its current form, according to a lawsuit the group filed Thursday against the U.S. government.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Parents of boy in balloon hoax to plead guilty
The parents accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting that their 6-year-old son had floated away aboard a helium balloon have agreed to plead guilty in a deal that could send them both to jail but protect the wife from deportation.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Lawyer: Colorado balloon boy parents to plead guilty
The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away in a helium balloon in what authorities say was a hoax to drum up publicity for a TV show will both plead guilty to charges in the case, the attorney for the boy’s father said Thursday.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Obama observes Veterans Day at Arlington cemetery
On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he oversees as commander in chief.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Fort Hood rampage 'an act of terror,' McCain says
Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate, called last week's shooting at Fort Hood "an act of terror" in a speech at the University of Louisville on Wednesday.
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Updated: November/10/2009
Obama salutes Fort Hood victims, condemns murders
One by one, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories even as he denounced the “twisted logic” that led to their deaths.
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Updated: November/09/2009
Hurricane warnings for U.S. Gulf Coast for Ida
NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida chugged toward the Gulf Coast, and despite warnings extending more than 200 miles across several states, residents seemed to take the first Atlantic hurricane to target the U.S. this season in stride.
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Updated: November/08/2009
Landmark health bill passes House on close vote
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature domestic priority.
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Updated: November/07/2009
House passes health care bill on close vote
WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
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Updated: November/07/2009
Fort Hood, community mourn shooting victims
FORT HOOD, Texas — A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Obama signs homebuyer, jobless bill assistance
President Barack Obama signed into law a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Suspect in Orlando office shooting had money woes
ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who was so deep in debt that he did not have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Fort Hood suspect said methodical goodbyes
FORT HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor, and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Swine flu vaccine for Wall Street stirs protest
Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients. There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Congress votes for more aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON — Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for homebuyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Senate OKs extension of jobless benefits, homebuyer tax credit
Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of people entering the dormant housing market.
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Updated: November/05/2009
12 die, dozens injured in Fort Hood shooting rampage; suspect alive
Twelve people were killed and 31 hurt in a shooting rampage on Thursday on the Fort Hood Army post in Texas. Officials said the post was immediately locked down and victims were transported to medical facilities for treatment. The wounded suspect is identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan, 39, who officials said is an Army mental health professional — an Army psychologist or psychiatrist.
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Updated: November/02/2009
Afghan election commission declares Karzai winner
KABUL — Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country's tumultuous ballot Monday, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round.
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Updated: November/02/2009
Bomb outside bank kills 30 near Pakistani capital
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan's capital Monday, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the Afghan border.
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Updated: October/31/2009
2,000 kids knock on White House door for Halloween
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families.
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Updated: October/31/2009
Republican in NY House race suspends campaign
ALBANY, N.Y. — Fighting plunging support, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava abruptly suspended her campaign Saturday in the 23rd Congressional District special election that has exposed a rift among national factions of the party.
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