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Romney looks to fall campaign, doubts linger
Sat,31 Mar 2012 07:43 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, greets U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Chairman of the House Budget Committee, right, on stage at a meeting of the Wisconsin Faith & Freedom Coalition during a campaign stop in Pewaukee, Wis., Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Appearing ever-more confident in Wisconsin's primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused entirely on Democratic President Barack Obama during a campaign trip through this upper Midwestern battleground and predicted a victory that could effectively seal the nomination for him Tuesday.


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Details emerge about bin Laden's other residences
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:38 PM PDT
Associated Press - It's an ornate but not lavish two-story house tucked away at the end of a mud clogged street. This is where Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived for nearly a year until he moved into the villa in which he was eventually killed. Full Story
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Fans burn couches, flip cars after Kentucky's win
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:24 PM PDT
Associated Press -

Kentucky fans cheer before an NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball tournament game between Kentucky and Louisville Saturday, March 31, 2012, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Riot police used pepper spray in small amounts for crowd control as thousands of rowdy fans swarmed into the streets near the University of Kentucky campus, overturning cars and lighting couches ablaze after a victory over cross-state rival Louisville in a Final Four matchup.


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Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised to win parliamentary seat
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:36 PM PDT
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Myanmar's National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, heads towards a polling station at Wah Thin Kha village in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, April 1, 2012. Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government. (AP Photo)Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government.


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Protesters march in Fla. town where teen was shot
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:22 PM PDT
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Protestors hold up signs in a march and rally for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Sanford, Fla. Protesters carried signs, chanted Protesters and civil rights leaders are vowing to continue marching until there is an arrest in the case of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.


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Mega Millions winners are rich, but not THAT rich
Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:15 PM PDT
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The $1.46 billion that Americans are expected to spend on Mega Millions lottery tickets could buy: 26 trips to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft; more than 2.9 million new iPads at the starting price of $499; 12,000 Maserati GranTurismo sports cars; gasoline for 685,000 American households for a year; or a 73 percent share of the Los Angeles Dodgers, based on the $2 billion Magic Johnson and other investors agreed to pay this week for the baseball franchise. (AP Photo, File)Congratulations, Mega Millions winners! You've just won the biggest lottery in history! Move over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett!


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Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia
Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:42 PM PDT
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FILE - The Maltese registered cruise ship , Azamara Quest, sails through the Suez canal, Egypt, in this April 30, 2010 file photo from the Red sea towards the Mediterranean sea on its way to Athens. The fire on the Azamara Quest started late Friday, March 30, 2012 a day after the ship left Manila for Sandakan, Malaysia, and was immediately put out, said coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Algier Ricafrente. Five crew members were injured. (AP Photo/File)A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that had drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia following repairs and was expected to reach shore Sunday, the ship's company said.


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Bieber, Berry slimed at Kids Choice Awards
Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:00 PM PDT
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Justin Bieber gets slimed after accepting the award for favorite male singer onstage at Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)At the 25th annual Kids' Choice Awards, the slime runneth over.


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Tribune Broadcasting says no DirecTV deal
Sat,31 Mar 2012 10:50 PM PDT
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In this May 11, 2009 photo, a mini-van passes a DirecTV satellite dish in a residential area adjoining downtown Jackson, Miss. Tribune Broadcasting says there's been no settlement with DirecTV Inc. in their contract negotiations, which means DirecTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets will lose access to certain programming, Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Tribune Broadcasting said there's been no settlement with DirecTV Inc. in their contract negotiations, which means DirecTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets are losing access to certain programming.


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Big comeback leads KU to 64-62 win over Ohio St
Sat,31 Mar 2012 09:57 PM PDT
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Kansas forward Thomas Robinson celebrates with fans after their 64-62 win over Ohio State during an NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball tournament game Saturday, March 31, 2012, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) 0The tightrope walk rocks on for the Jayhawks.


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Lawyer says U.S. blocks investigation of Afghan massacre
Fri,30 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT
Reuters -

U.S. Army Staff Sgt.Bales defense attorney Browne speaks in a press conference in SeattleThe lawyer defending the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians claims U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident. John Henry Browne, the lawyer for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, said U.S. forces in Afghanistan have prevented his team from interviewing injured civilians at a hospital in Kandahar, and are allowing other potential witnesses to scatter, making it difficult to track them down. ...


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Insight: Lifting the veil on Afghanistan's female addicts
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:30 PM PDT
Reuters -

(Blank Headline Received)KABUL (Reuters) - Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago. "I can't give breast milk to my baby," said the 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. "I'm scared he'll get addicted She was huddled with other women at the U.N. ...


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Fighting continues in Syria as West, opposition to meet
Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:32 PM PDT
Reuters -

Syrian refugee flashes a victory sign at Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay provinceISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrians trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad meet their Western backers on Sunday while fighting has continued despite the Syrian government saying the year-long revolt is over. The political opposition remains divided and has not yet formally accepted a peace plan brokered by United Nations-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan. Prospects of Western-led military intervention are close to zero, although Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal renewed calls on Saturday to arm the Syrian opposition, describing it as a "duty". ...


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Three winning tickets sold in record $656 million U.S. lottery
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:23 PM PDT
Reuters -

Store owner Jean Shin places a sign with the updated jackpot in Los AngelesATLANTA (Reuters) - The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the tiny farming community of Red Bud in southern Illinois, with less than 4,000 residents, about 30 miles southeast of St. Louis. ...


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Exclusive: Iran helps Syria ship oil to China: sources
Fri,30 Mar 2012 03:15 PM PDT
Reuters -

ranian President Ahmadinejad and his Syrian counterpart al-Assad pose in TehranLONDON (Reuters) - Iran is helping its ally Syria defy Western sanctions by providing a vessel to ship Syrian oil to a state-run company in China, potentially giving the government of President Bashar al-Assad a financial boost worth an estimated $80 million. Iran, itself a target of Western sanctions, is among Syria's closest allies and has promised to do all it can to support Assad, recently praising his handling of the year-long uprising against Assad in which thousands have been killed. ...


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Euro zone agrees to boost rescue capacity
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:32 PM PDT
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Austrian Finance Minister Fekter delivers a speech next to Infrastructure Minister Bures during a session of the parliament in ViennaCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Friday to increase their financial firewall to 700 billion euros to ward off a new flare-up of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, drawing a positive initial reaction from G20 partners and markets. The 17-nation currency area agreed to combine two rescue funds to make 500 billion euros of new funds available in case of emergency until mid-2013, on top of 200 billion euros already committed to bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. ...


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Exclusive: Soros' son strikes out on his own
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:01 PM PDT
Reuters -

Soros Fund Management Chairman George Soros smiles before his speech at the Central European University in BudapestNEW YORK (Reuters) - The upheaval within billionaire investor George Soros' firm continues as one of his sons is separating some of his personal fortune to manage it himself. Jonathan Soros, who stepped down in September from day-to-day management of Soros Fund Management LLC, plans to hire at least one of his father's key employees, say two people familiar with the situation. The two sources said Soros' son intends to set up his own family office - something the Soros Fund converted to last year - with the help of David Kulsar, currently chief risk officer for the Soros Fund. ...


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Obama says enough world oil to crack down on Iran
Fri,30 Mar 2012 03:20 PM PDT
Reuters -

U.S. President Obama speaks about energy while in the Rose Garden of the White House in WashingtonBURLINGTON, Vt./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to forge ahead with tough sanctions on Iran, saying there was enough oil in the world market - including emergency stockpiles - to allow countries to cut Iranian imports. In his decision, required by a sanctions law he signed in December, Obama said increased production by some countries as well as "the existence of strategic reserves" helped him come to the conclusion that sanctions can advance. ...


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Security breach hits U.S. card processors, banks
Fri,30 Mar 2012 06:29 PM PDT
Reuters -

File photo of a MasterCard logo in New York(Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a major cyber intrusion at an Atlanta-based payment processor that could expose millions of MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover cardholders to fraudulent charges. Processor Global Payments Inc said on Friday it had found "unauthorized access" into its system early in March and notified law enforcement and financial institutions. ...


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Exclusive: Brazil prosecutor plans wider offshore oil probe
Fri,30 Mar 2012 03:23 PM PDT
Reuters -

An aerial view shows oil that seeped from a well operated by Chevron at Frade, on the waters in Campos Basin in Rio de Janeiro stateRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian federal prosecutor plans to expand his investigation of a November offshore oil spill in a field run by Chevron to areas operated by other companies in the country's main oil region. The probe will explore geological conditions and operational practices in the Campos Basin in an attempt to prevent future accidents, said Eduardo Santos de Oliveira, federal prosecutor for Campos, Brazil, the city for which the offshore oil province is named. ...


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