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XML Top StoriesWhitney Houston's Last Photopublished about 11 hours ago
Could this photo signal what was going wrong in Whitney Houston’s life? The pop icon, who died today at 48, was last photographed on Thursday leaving the Tru nightclub in Hollywood, Calif. She appeared disheveled and disoriented, with what looked like sweat running down her...
Romney, in comeback, has narrow Maine caucus win (Reuters)published about 11 hours ago
Reuters - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow win in Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists.
In a divided GOP, Romney has a good daypublished about 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON - At last year's Conservative Political Action Conference, activists were chasing the idea that some dreamboat Republican they could fall for - Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, perhaps, or maybe New Jersey Gov. Christie or former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin or that dashing young Rep. Paul Ryan - would make quick work of President Obama.
Singer Whitney Houston dies (Reuters)published about 12 hours ago
Reuters - Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at age 48, a family spokesman said on Saturday.
American flight makes emergency landing in Ky.published about 12 hours ago
Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Detroit have completed their journey hours after the plane made an emergency landing in Kentucky.
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Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel (AP)published less than 1 hour ago
AP - Iran's supreme leader has urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamist militant group's resistance against Israel.
Pakistan PM: charges against president "politically motivated" (Reuters)published about 1 hour ago
Reuters - Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, in an interview broadcast on Saturday, said corruption charges against Pakistan's president were "politically motivated" and that the ... more
France's far-right leader attempts image change (AP)published about 1 hour ago
AP - Marine Le Pen has purged the old guard from her father's extreme-right National Front party and is reaching out to Jews, maligned under ... more
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Leonardo DiCappuccino, anyone?published about 1 hour ago
Leonardo DiCaprio likes his coffee smooth - a light roast, nectar-like, no bitterness. Just ask Todd Carmichael and Jean-Philippe Iberti, who spent more than a ... more
Iraq opens new oil export terminal in Persian Gulf (AP)published about 3 hours ago
AP - Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing sorely needed ... more
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Malaysia deports Saudi blogger behind Prophet Mohammad tweets (Reuters)published about 3 hours ago
Reuters - Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in ... more
Japan's Fanuc to build machine tools factory: report (Reuters)published about 10 hours ago
Reuters - Japan industrial robot maker Fanuc Ltd (6954.T) plans to build a new factory near Tokyo to double its domestic output capacity of machine ... more
Cities Turn to a Crop for Cash: Medical Marijuanapublished about 14 hours ago
Sometimes lost in the discussion of medical marijuana is the extent to which it has become a small but growing source of new tax revenue ... more
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Westwood Sinks Eagle to Lead Dubai Classic by One Shotpublished less than 1 hour ago
Lee Westwood was one shot ahead at the turn on the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after sinking a 35-foot eagle ... more
Korda Wins Women's Australian Openpublished about 3 hours ago
US teen Jessica Korda wins Women's Australian Open with birdie in 6-player playoff
Jokinen, Iginla Lift Flames Over Canucks in SOpublished about 6 hours ago
Jarome Iginla scored the shootout winner and the Calgary Flames earned an important two points with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday ... more
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Where abolition blazedpublished about 8 hours ago
BOSTON - Step into the sanctuary of the African Meeting House and you will walk on the same floorboards where Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, ... more
Voyages: How to See a Treepublished 1 day ago
Yes, there’s more than concrete in the urban jungle of New York City.
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Burglar breaks in, folds clothes, cooks dinnerpublished 1 day ago
When a South Bend, Ind. mother returned home Monday night with her son, she discovered Keith Davis, 46, had neatly folded her clothes, swept the ... more
Dad shoots daughter's laptop over Facebook postpublished 1 day ago
A video purporting to be the work of an angry father teaching his daughter a lesson by shooting bullets through her laptop is the viral ... more
Russia's Putin gets a drink fit for dinosaurs (Reuters)published 1 day ago
Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received a drink fit for dinosaurs on Friday when he was presented with a sample of ancient water ... more
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Filmmaker Douglas Trumbull receives honorary Oscar (AP)published about 2 hours ago
AP - The first Oscars of the year have been presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards, the motion picture academy's annual celebration of the ... more
Clooney, Pitt, Streep due at British film awards (AP)published about 3 hours ago
AP - Will the spies or the silent stars triumph?
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U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama birth-control plan (Reuters)published about 15 hours ago
Reuters - U.S. Catholic Church leaders said they will fight President Barack Obama's controversial birth-control insurance coverage policy despite his compromise that religious employers would ... more
Insurers stuck with cost of Obama birth-control plan (Reuters)published 1 day ago
Reuters - President Barack Obama's compromise on free birth control coverage left health insurers stuck with the bill, sparking worries over the precedent set by ... more
Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy (AP)published 1 day ago
AP - What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal.
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