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Senator: Remarks about Libya 'should be the final straw' for Clapper
CNN
By Pam Benson, CNN National Security Producer Washington (CNN) -- Testimony by the director of national intelligence has prompted a leading Senate Republican to call for his resignation even as other senators expressed support. In a statement, Sen. ...
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The return of "drill, baby, drill"?
CBS News
As gas prices skyrocketed during the 2008 presidential campaign, a chant was often heard at events for the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin: "Drill, baby, drill!" Now that gas prices have once again risen dramatically amid unrest in the ...
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Protest marks China takeover of Tibet
Chicago Tribune
By Liam Ford Tribune reporter More than 100 Tibetan-Americans and supporters made their way through Chicago's downtown today to memorialize the date in 1959 when Chinese forces occupied the country and forced the Dalai Lama into exile. ...
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Yemeni president offers plan to amend constitution
Washington Post
Motivated by recent shows of political strength by neighbors in Egypt, people in the Middle East and North Africa are taking to the streets of many cities to rally for change. By Portia Walker SANAA, YEMEN - Embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh ...
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Washington Post
Light Bulb Law Stokes Fury in Senate Hearing
New York Times
By KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire Light bulbs sparked heated discussions this morning during a Senate legislative hearing on two energy efficiency bills. Republicans used the hearing in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to blast ...
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US House ax starts to fall on Obama housing programs
Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved the first of four bills aimed at ending government assistance for homeowners hurt by the housing crisis, though none are expected to clear the Senate. ...
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"He wore the uniform with a lot of pride," chief says of fallen officer
Denver Post
By Kieran Nicholson and Jordan Steffen Jim Hartwig, manager of the Wagon Wheel Mobile Home Park, and friend of suspect, goes thought the Mobile home, Thursday, March 10, 2011, where Limon police officer Jay Sheridan, 27, was shot and killed. ...
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Ivory Coast's Gbagbo bans overflights from UN, France
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Laurent Gbagbo has banned UN and French flights from flying over the country, a spokesman for the self-proclaimed president of Ivory Coast told CNN Thursday. "They are now like a company for the rebels," Gbagbo spokesman ...
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Virginia grand jury indicts 14 in Somali pirate yacht hijacking
Washington Post
By Dana Hedgpeth A federal grand jury in Norfolk indicted 14 men from Somalia and Yemen on piracy charges Thursday, alleging that the men hijacked a yacht, took four US citizens hostage, held them for four days and killed them off the Oman coast in the ...
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Brazilian reporter freed in Libya, another missing
Reuters
BRASILIA/TUNIS (Reuters) - A Brazilian reporter was freed by government forces in Libya and is in good health, his newspaper said on Thursday, but a journalist from Britain's Guardian newspaper remained missing. Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar ...
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Peter King: force behind Muslim hearings was an IRA supporter
The Guardian
Peter King was a long-term supporter of the IRA who served as an important channel for talks that led to the Good Friday agreement. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Peter King, the force behind the hearings into homegrown Islamist terrorists on US ...
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The Guardian
Budget deficit hits record $222.5 billion in February
Reuters
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) employees distribute President Obama's FY2012 budget proposal to members of the press during an event at the Government Printing Office (GPO) in Washington February 14, 2011. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government ...
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Clearwire loses CEO, two other top leaders
Computerworld
By Stephen Lawson IDG News Service - Three top executives of mobile WiMax operator Clearwire are leaving the company, including CEO Bill Morrow, who will be replaced for the time being by Chairman John Stanton. Morrow cited personal reasons for ...
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Cuomo, Silver say fed case to fuel new ethics law
Wall Street Journal
AP ALBANY, NY — The state's top two Democrats are calling for swift action on a tougher ethics law in light of accusations against two more New York legislators in a corruption case. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the influence-peddling case shows an urgent ...
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New York High School Student Allegedly Pours Acid on Classmate's Head
Fox News
A Brooklyn, NY, teen admitted to police that she poured acid on a classmate's head in hopes to burn the victim's eyes out, reported the New York Post. Zhanna Smsarian, 16, allegedly sat behind the victim, Albina Eshimbaeva, 15, in chemistry class at ...
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Ohio man first to be executed with controversial drug
AFP
WASHINGTON — A 37-year-old man convicted of murder in Ohio on Thursday became the first person in the United States to be executed with a single dose of an animal tranquilizer, officials said. Johnnie Baston, convicted in the 1994 killing of a Korean ...
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Mitch Daniels: A 'Grown-Up' Brand Of GOP Politics
NPR
by Mara Liasson Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 pm ET Indiana Gov Mitch Daniels speaks last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. The speech has been called the most ...
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Relative of Afghan president killed in coalition raid
MiamiHerald.com
By SAEED SHAH KABUL, Afghanistan -- A cousin of President Hamid Karzai was killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan during a raid by coalition forces, just after the president had said civilian casualties from the war were damaging relations with the ...
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Rep. Giffords to attend shuttle Endeavor launch next month
New York Post
AP HOUSTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) plans to attend the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor on April 19, Fox News Channel confirmed Thursday. Giffords' husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, will pilot the final mission of the NASA shuttle. ...
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New York Post
Group: MLK parade bomb suspect was avid neo-Nazi
msnbc.com
KXLY TV via AP By GENE JOHNSON, NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS AP SPOKANE, Wash. — A man accused of trying to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane was an avid poster on a white supremacist Internet forum, where he referenced bomb-making and ...
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Panel blames miscommunication in Fla. girl's death
Washington Post
By KELLI KENNEDY AP MIAMI -- A panel investigating the death of a 10-year-old Florida girl whose body was found in the back of her adoptive father's truck said a lack of common sense and communication among child welfare officials played a role in the ...
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Boston police chase armed suspect underground in Blue Line tunnel
Boston Globe
By Globe Staff The MBTA halted Blue Line service for about a half-hour today when Boston police officers chased a man believed to be armed with a knife into the Aquarium station and then pursued him down the subway tunnel in the direction of the State ...
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Zimbabwean Energy Minister Arrested
RTT News
(RTTNews) - Police in Zimbabwe have arrested Elton Mangoma, the country's energy minister and one of the founder members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, for unspecified reasons, local media reports quoting officials said Thursday. ...
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Police Seek Adopted Boys Missing for Years
ABC News
By CLAYTON SANDELL Investigators in Colorado and Texas are trying to find out what happened to two adopted boys who haven't been seen in years and are trying to determine why their adoptive parents allegedly continued to take money to care for them. ...
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LA school officer charged in alleged hoax shooting
Seattle Post Intelligencer
AP LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles school police officer has been charged with felonies stemming from an alleged shooting hoax that sent authorities on a huge manhunt in January. Prosecutors said Thursday that 30-year-old Jeff Stenroos is charged with ...
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Bullies have more ways to hurt
WALB-TV
By Karen Cohilas - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Bullying has been around forever. But with technology, computers, Facebook, twitter, we don't just have bullies, we have cyber bullies; a whole new way for teens, even adults, to be harassed. ...
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US 'well ahead' of pace needed to double exports, US trade rep says (video)
Christian Science Monitor
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk says the country is on track to double exports over a five-year period – a target laid out by President Obama. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk speaks during a Monitor-sponsored lunch for reporters in Washington ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Amnesty Int'l urges support for WikiLeaks suspect
ABC 4
The homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it July 26, 2010 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle, Getty Images) HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Amnesty International is renewing its ...
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Stocks fall sharply on global, economic fears
CNNMoney
Click the chart for more market data. By Ken Sweet, contributing writerMarch 10, 2011: 4:20 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- US stocks plunged into a deep sea of red on Thursday, as economic fears at home and political concerns in Saudi Arabia weighed ...
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China Earthquake Administration sends experts to quake-hit SW province
Xinhua
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China Earthquake Administration has sent experts to the quake-hit region in Yingjiang County in southwest China's Yunnan Province to offer expertise and direct relevant work, the administration said Thursday. ...
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