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    Chief Justice found State of the Union scene 'troubling'

    Washington Post

    TUSCALOOSA, ALA. -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech has "degenerated to a political pep rally." Obama...

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    Massa seeks to divert attention from harassment allegations

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    CNN

    Embattled former Rep. Eric Massa sought Tuesday to turn attention away from sexual harassment allegations swirling around him in the wake of his resignation."I am leaving (the House of Representatives) because I have to fight simultaneously a potential...

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    'Jihad Jane' Easy to Spot. What About Others?

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    ABC News

    The arrest of a suburban Pennsylvania woman known by the alias Jihad Jane, who allegedly plotted with Islamic radicals abroad to kill a Swedish cartoonist, has raised fears about homegrown terrorists in the United States who may be...

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    Obama Defies Pessimists as Rising Economy Converges With Stocks

    Bloomberg

    March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The political consensus may be that President Barack Obama ’s handling of the economy has been weak. The judgment of money in all its forms has been overwhelmingly positive, and that may be the...

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    Lag time in tracing tainted food puts kids at risk

    USA Today

    Food director Jackie Anderson didn't get word last month until it was too late after students in the Arlington (Texas) Independent School District already had eaten tacos filled with beef that should have been destroyed. None of them...

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    New runaway Prius incident in New York State

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    MSNBC

    EL CAJON, Calif. - Another Toyota Prius is being blamed for out-of-control acceleration following an incident in Harrison, N.Y., according to NBC's WNBC, as the besieged automaker deals with a new high-profile headache that raised questions about the...

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    Trailblazers Fly High: First Female Air Force Pilots Receive Congressional Medals

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    ABC News

    When Dori Martin and Marylyn Myers Peyton joined the U.S. Air Force in the 1940s, little did they know that they would one day become a part of history. Martin, 88, and Peyton, 86, were part of the...

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    After Christmas incident, no-fly list nearly doubled

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    USA Today

    It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane a decision that's in the hands of about six experts...

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    Powerful Catholic Quietly Shaping Abortion, Health Bill Debate

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    NPR

    Richard Doerflinger doesn't look the part of a high-powered political strategist. Bearded and bespectacled, he works in a small, cluttered office out of one of Washington’s less fashionable neighborhoods, far from the lobbying bastions of K Street. Yet...

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    Corey Haim dies of overdose

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    Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, U.S. media reports said...

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