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Cops: Computer glitch led to wrong address
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:45:09 GMT ]
A senior New York City police official apologizes for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple.

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Cornell thrashes Temple, ends Ivy’s NCAA woes
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:27:06 GMT ]

No. 12 Cornell shredded the 5-seed Owls, which came into the game ranked No. 1 in field-goal percentage defense, and grabbed the Ivy League's first NCAA tournament win since Princeton in 1998.




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World powers demand Israeli settlement freeze
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:25:20 GMT ]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other members of the Quartet meet in Moscow on Friday.The so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators called on Israel to freeze all settlement activities and denounced Israel's aim to build new housing in East Jerusalem.




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End in sight, Dems lobby health bill waverers
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:37:31 GMT ]

March 19: An impassioned President Obama tells a George Mason University audience that while he doesn't know how health care will play out politically, he does know passing it is the right thing to do. (Other)President Barack Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency, urging lawmakers on Friday to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system in a long-awaited vote this weekend.




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Homeowners who get aid see credit scores dive
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:21:02 GMT ]
Some homeowners who sign up for the government's mortgage assistance program are getting a nasty surprise: lower credit scores.

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Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:46:10 GMT ]

The wreckage of an Iraqi military vehicle destroyed during the air campaign in the early stages of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 still scar the landscape. Seven years after the first bombs fell, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary. Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.




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9 major changes in the new health care bill
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:43:37 GMT ]

March 19: Democratic leaders are demanding crucial “yes” vote commitments in the House after the estimated $940 billion cost of health care overhaul was announced. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports. (Today Show)In their attempt to pass a sweeping health care overhaul this weekend, House Democrats are pushing a package of legislative fixes to lure undecided or opposed members of their party to the "yes" category.




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Heavy rains swamp Haiti’s homeless camps
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:06:06 GMT ]

Rain drenched a camp for homeless quake victims in Port-au-Prince on Friday. Promises that vulnerable camps will be moved to better sites have not been kept. One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamps homeless camps, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water and flooding latrines.




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FDA warns of muscle risk from statin drug
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:18:41 GMT ]
The Food and Drug Administration says the highest available dose of the cholesterol drug Zocor can cause muscle damage as well as severe and potentially lethal kidney damage.

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In Fargo, no guarantees in flood forecasts
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:07:35 GMT ]

Residents of Fargo, N.D. prepare for flooding as the Red River continues to rise.As the Red River swells again, Fargo, N.D., residents are weighing the National Weather Service forecasts. They are well aware that predicting what happens on the river is not an exact science.




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Anna Nicole estate denied piece of oil fortune
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:20:13 GMT ]

The short, tragic life of the former Playboy playmate and model.A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith’s estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.




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Women in critical condition after bees attack
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:45:58 GMT ]
Two Arizona women are in critical condition with hundreds of bee stings after a swarm attacked them while they were out for an evening walk.

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Who exactly is Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee?
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:33:56 GMT ]

Michelle Bombshell McGee on the cover of International Tattoo magazine Who is Michelle "Bombshell" McGee? What little she's said about herself comes from the most unreliable of sources: profile blurbs and videos on adult and edgy Web sites. But one thing is constant: she projects the image of a woman with a hard-partying lifestyle.




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World’s biggest particle collider hits a new high
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:46:59 GMT ]

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider's control center point to the readings on a computer screen that indicate proton beams are running at an energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts — their target level for this year's science experiments.Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.




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Vehicle sales to surge in March: analysts
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:47:17 GMT ]
Automakers will see steep increases in March sales as steep discounts and incentives are luring recession-weary shoppers back into showrooms, market research firms said Friday.

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Sandra Bullock still poised for successful future
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:34:39 GMT ]

March 19: As news surfaces about the unraveling of Sandra Bullock’s marriage, NBC’s Lee Cowan takes a look at other best-actress winners who walked the red carpet to Splitsville after the Academy Awards. People magazine’s Peter Castro and psychiatrist Janet Taylor join the discussion. (Today Show)The brand-new Oscar winner isn't likely to experience any professional consequences from the public exposure of her personal pain. "If anything, it would engender a massive amount of sympathy toward her," said veteran publicist Michael Levine.




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Nuke deal with Russia is close, says Clinton
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:29:38 GMT ]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.

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Judge rejects ground zero settlement
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:44:46 GMT ]

An American flag, erected by rescue workers, stands in the wreckage of the World Trade Center two days after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.A federal judge rejects a multimillion-dollar legal settlement for people sickened by dust from the World Trade Center, saying U.S. the deal doesn't include enough money for the workers.




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Mom of octuplets may lose home to foreclosure
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:59:56 GMT ]

Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home. This Jan. 26, 2010 photo shows an unidentified woman carrying eight balloons towards the La Habra, Calif., home on the day of the octuplets’ first birthday.The mortgage holder for Nadya Suleman's $565,000 Southern California residence says he is starting foreclosure proceedings because the family hasn't kept up the payments.




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Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:17:08 GMT ]

From film star to media mogul, Oprah Winfrey has built an empire and secured a legion of devoted fans. When news of the scandal broke in 2007, Winfrey said she had “lost confidence” in headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane and was “cleaning house from top to bottom.”




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Whew! No. 4 Wisconsin survives scare
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:09:18 GMT ]

Wisconsin's Jon Leuer, right, scored a game-high 20 points in the Badgers' victory over Wofford on Friday.Badgers defeat No. 13-seed Wofford 53-49, will face Cornell next.




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Lawyer to U.S. missionaries in Haiti arrested
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:02:42 GMT ]
A man who acted as a lawyer for U.S. missionaries who were detained in Haiti has now been arrested in the Dominican Republic on migrant-trafficking charges.

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Pakistan wants recognition for terror fight
[ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:00 GMT ]
Saying it has bowed far enough to U.S. interests, Pakistan will use next week's high-level talks with the Obama administration to seek more recognition for its part in the fight against terrorism.

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