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Today's Front Page News:
Obama takes care in sizing up 'tea party' movement
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:13 pm PDT
AP - President Barack Obama stepped carefully when talking for the first time about the conservative tea party movement, acknowledging it has legitimate concerns about federal reach and spending, but he contended the core of the loose anti-government network is "on the fringe." Full Story
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Suicide blasts in southern Russia kill 9
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:51 pm PDT
AP - Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least nine people and injured 18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials said. Full Story
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Obama, Sarkozy push for UN sanctions on Iran
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:48 pm PDT
AP - With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place "within weeks," not months, because of its continuing nuclear program. But he acknowledged he still lacks full support at the United Nations. Full Story
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DC officials: 9 shot, 3 dead; arrests, no motive
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:53 pm PDT
AP - A drive-by shooting killed three people and wounded six others in the nation's capital Tuesday night, and three people were in custody, officials said. Full Story
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Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning'
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:13 pm PDT
AP - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. Full Story
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Clinton to co-chair Haiti rebuilding authority
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:34 pm PDT
AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will co-chair a committee overseeing at least $3.8 billion in post-quake aid to Haiti, the ravaged country's prime minister said. Full Story
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Vatican offers 3 reasons it's not liable for abuse
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:03 pm PDT
AP - Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath. Full Story
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A battered Rhode Island watches as the water rises
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:05 pm PDT
AP - A record-shattering rainstorm hammered the Northeast on Tuesday, delivering widespread flooding for the second time this month and unleashing particular havoc in Rhode Island, a tiny coastal state already beleaguered by a sagging economy and backbreaking unemployment rate. Full Story
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Garcia, Dewyze win back 'American Idol' judges
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:22 pm PDT
AP - Andrew Garcia and Lee Dewyze are back in the "American Idol" judges' good graces. Full Story
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Nash helps Suns clinch playoff spot
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:04 pm PDT
AP - Jason Richardson scored 27 points and Channing Frye hit a clutch 3-pointer with 41.6 seconds to go Tuesday night and the Phoenix Suns clinched a playoff berth by beating the Chicago Bulls 111-105 for their eighth straight win. Full Story
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Obama wants U.N. sanctions on Iran in weeks
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:40 pm PDT
Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted tougher U.N. sanctions in weeks against Iran over its nuclear program, and the world's leading industrial nations expressed optimism that China will agree on possible next steps. Full Story
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U.S. rebound on good footing: Fed's Fisher
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:22 pm PDT
Reuters - The U.S. economic recovery is gathering speed as business activity picks up pace, despite lingering weakness in employment, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday. Full Story
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Putin orders Moscow bombers "scraped from sewers"
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:09 am PDT
Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Tuesday said the culprits behind twin suicide bombings that killed 39 people in Moscow's metro must be scraped "from the bottom of the sewers" and exposed. Full Story
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Some Yahoo email accounts hacked in China, Taiwan
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:31 pm PDT
Reuters - Yahoo email accounts of some journalists and other users whose work relates to China were compromised in an attack discovered this week, days after Google announced it would move its Chinese-language search services out of China due to censorship concerns. Full Story
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Iranian nuclear scientist defects to U.S.: report
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:03 pm PDT
Reuters - An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been missing since June has defected to the United States and is helping the CIA, ABC news reported on Tuesday. Full Story
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Final suspect in raid on U.S. militia group arraigned
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:54 am PDT
Reuters - A ninth member of a Christian militia group accused of conspiring to kill law enforcement officers to trigger a wider war against the U.S. government appeared before a federal judge on Tuesday. Full Story
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Obama signs final healthcare changes, defends law
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:57 pm PDT
Reuters - President Barack Obama made another push to sell his healthcare overhaul to a skeptical public on Tuesday, calling it a victory over special interests that will help the middle-class and defending the "courage" of legislators who backed it. Full Story
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AIG lawsuit alleging missed "red flags" dismissed
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:16 pm PDT
Reuters - A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit accusing current and former American International Group Inc executives and directors of ignoring "red flags," leading to the insurer's near collapse and about $180 billion of federal bailouts. Full Story
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Nine dead in blasts in Russia's Dagestan: police
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:29 pm PDT
AFP - A suicide bomber detonated one of two blasts which killed nine people Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, the Interfax agency and police said. Full Story
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Obama wants Iran sanctions within 'weeks'
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:05 pm PDT
AFP - US President Barack Obama said he wanted tough new UN sanctions imposed on Iran within "weeks" as visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy blasted Tehran's "mad" nuclear race. Full Story
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