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New docs confirm secret program to protect U.S. power grid 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:01 PM PST
 Power pole fires leave 3,000 in the darkDubbed Perfect Citizen, the program hired "penetration testers" â€" essentially good-guy hackers who break into networks.
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Hiring seen edging up, recovery grinds on 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 09:01 PM PST
 Job seekers stand in line to meet prospective employers at a career fair in New York CityU.S. employers likely stepped up hiring a touch in December as retailers and other businesses took on more staff for the holidays, but the gain will probably not be enough to make inroads in the country's still high unemployment rate. Payrolls outside the farming sector are expected to have grown by 150,000 last month, a modest increase from November's 146,000 job gain, according to a Reuters poll of analysts. The employment reading,
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Geithner's planned departure puts Obama in tough spot 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:55 PM PST
 File photo of U.S. President Barack Obama walking off stage with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in WashingtonTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plans to leave near the end of January put the White House in a tricky spot, depriving the Obama administration of its longest-serving economic adviser for its next fiscal showdown with Congress. Geithner, who spent his years as Treasury secretary battling the financial crisis and then fighting with Republican lawmakers in 2011 over raising the U.S. debt ceiling, has wanted to leave government service for some time. ...
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Venezuela's Chavez still has 'severe' respiratory problem 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 06:26 PM PST
 FILE - In this Oct 9, 2012 file photo, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez holds a miniature copy of his country's constitution during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela. The ailing president's health crisis has raised contentious questions ahead of the swearing-in set for Jan. 10, including whether the inauguration could legally be postponed. Officials have raised the possibility that Chavez might not be well enough to take the oath of office, without saying what will happen if he can't. The constitution says that if a president or president-elect dies or is declared unable to continue in office, presidential powers should be held temporarily by the president of the National Assembly and that a new presidential vote should be held within 30 days. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is still suffering from a lung infection that has hindered his breathing as he battles to recover from December 11 cancer surgery, the government said on Thursday.
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5 men charged with murder in New Delhi gang rape 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 04:41 PM PST
 In this image taken from video obtained from Network 1 News and Information Syndicate (NNIS), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Bikram Singh Brahma, center, a leader of India's ruling Congress party, is slapped by a woman in the village of Santipur, India, on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Police said Brahma was visiting the village of Santipur on the Bhutan border when he entered a woman's house and raped her at 2 a.m. In a sign that attitudes might be changing since the rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, who died of severe internal injuries over the weekend, police have arrested Brahma. (AP Photo/NNIS)Five men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India's capital were charged with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.
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NYPD officers shot, wounded in separate incidents 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 10:53 PM PST
 This image provided by the New York City Police Department shows officer Lukasz Kozicki, 32, who was struck three times Thursday Jan. 3, 2013; once in each of his upper thighs and once in the groin when he and officer Michael Levay confronted a man on a Manhattan-bound N train. Officer Michael Levay was shot in the lower back, but his vest stopped the bullet. He returned fire, killing the suspect. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)It was a night of mayhem for three New York Police Department officers who were wounded in two separate shooting incidents in Brooklyn and the Bronx on Thursday, authorities said.
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Inmate ordered retried in '80 'waiting ever since' 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 08:46 PM PST
 In this Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Jerry Hartfield speaks from a visiting area at the Hughes Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice outside Gatesville, Texas. Hartfield remains in the middle of a legal dispute between the Texas attorney general's office, which insists he's being legally held, and a federal appeals court that says he's been wrongly imprisoned for 30 years. Hartfield was convicted in 1977 of killing a woman in Bay City, Texas. (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial.
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Judge: Law won't protect unmarried victims in rape 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 08:34 PM PST
 A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man who authorities say pretended to be a sleeping woman's boyfriend before initiating intercourse, ruling that an arcane law from 1872 doesn't protect unmarried women in such cases.
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Parents: No word on U.S. journalist missing in Syria 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:57 PM PST
 FILE - Journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., is seen in Boston, in a Friday, May 27, 2011 file photo. Foley was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Nov. 22, 2012, his parents said Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. He was in the country contributing videos to Agence France-Press, which has vowed to help secure his release. Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, made a public plea Thursday to his captors because the Foleys haven't received any information about their son in six weeks. (AP Photo/Sreven Senne, File) (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than a month ago appealed to his captors for compassion and any information about their son's health.
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Women's history pioneer Gerda Lerner dies at 92 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 10:02 PM PST
 This 2001 photo shows Gerda Lerner, founder of University of Wisconsin-Madison's graduate program in women's history, with an image of her autobiography, Fireweed. Lerner, a founding member of the National Organization for Woman and a pioneer in the field of women’s history, has died at an assisted-living facility in Madison. She was 92. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Sarah B. Tews)Gerda Lerner, a pioneer in the field of women's history and a founding member of the National Organization for Woman, has died in Wisconsin, her son said Thursday. She was 92.
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FEMA: Flood program funds are drying up 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 03:58 PM PST
 Shawn McKeon looks at a flood damaged home after clearing it out in the Midland Beach area of Staten Island, New YorkThe agency says it needs Congress to act so it can borrow more money to pay Hurricane Sandy and other disaster claims.
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'Star Wars' creator George Lucas engaged 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 08:03 PM PST
 In this May 14, 2010 photo, Filmmaker George Lucas, right, and Mellody Hobson arrive for the screening of "Wall Street Money Never Sleeps", at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. A spokeswoman for Lucasfilm said on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, the 68-year-old director is engaged to 43-year-old investment firm president Mellody Hobson. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)A spokeswoman for "Star Wars" creator George Lucas says the 68-year-old director is engaged to 43-year-old investment firm president Mellody Hobson.
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Rare San Francisco river otter stumps researchers 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 04:25 PM PST
 A river otter carries seaweed back to its nest Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, in San Francisco. For the first time in decades, a river otter has made San Francisco its home, taking up residence in the ruins of the Sutro baths, a 19th century seaside public pool facing the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)A rapt crowd followed a trail of bubbles that zipped over the surface of a seaside pond in the ruins of a 19th century bath in San Francisco.
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Farm bill extension evidence of lost clout 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 06:56 PM PST
 FILE - This July 11, 2012 file photo shows dairy cows on Steve Niedbalski's farm in Nashville, Ill. A patchwork extension of federal farm programs passed as part of a larger "fiscal cliff" bill keeps the price of milk from rising but doesn't include many of the goodies that farm-state lawmakers are used to getting for their rural districts. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)A patchwork extension of federal farm programs passed as part of a larger "fiscal cliff" bill keeps the price of milk from rising but doesn't include many of the goodies that farm-state lawmakers are used to getting for their rural districts.
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N.Y. county: Releasing gun names endangers public 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 06:42 PM PST
 FILE - In this June 26, 2008 file photo, a chrome plated revolver rests on top of a glass display case at John Jovino Co. in New York. A New York county clerk on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 justified his refusal to release the names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper, saying it would give stalkers and thieves a convenient roadmap to target potential victims â€A New York county clerk justified his refusal to release the names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper, saying it would give stalkers and thieves a convenient roadmap to target potential victims â€" and determine whether they have a gun.
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Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 05:22 PM PST
 WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Lawmakers accused the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film "Zero Dark Thirty" by allegedly telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down the terrorist mastermind.
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Nearly half of 280 New York pets displaced by Sandy left behind 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 05:13 PM PST
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City shelter housing 280 pets displaced by Superstorm Sandy must shut down and, with nearly half the animals still unclaimed, cannot rule out euthanizing any left behind. An uncertain future lies ahead for 52 cats and 84 dogs who remain in the Brooklyn emergency boarding facility run by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, spokeswoman Kelly Krause said on Thursday. They are among 280 pets sheltered since November, after the New York City area was devastated by the late October storm. ...
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Obama inauguration store: $10 shot glass, $7,500 medallions 
Thursday, Jan 03, 2013 02:19 PM PST
 Do you really like President Barack Obama? Are you really, really excited that he won re-election? Has the "fiscal cliff" deal somehow left you with $7,500 burning a hole in your pocket? Then step right up to the official store of the 57th presidential inauguration. Taking a page from the Obama campaign’s successful online store, [...]
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