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Woman takes stand at Wal-Mart trial
A woman accused of cutting in line at a Wal-Mart and assaulting police officers took the stand Friday to defend herself in racially charged case. -
Arrests made in ring that sold human fat, Peru says
Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling fat obtained from dead humans. -
Google OS: the end of the hard drive?
Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. -
California students occupy buildings to protest fee hike
Students were occupying buildings Friday on campuses of the University of California system in protest of a 32 percent tuition hike. -
Winfrey announces end of 'Oprah'
Oprah Winfrey knows how to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
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RV industry slowly starts to roll
There are signs of recovery in the nation's heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven and faces many threats. -
Options dwindle for long-term jobless
For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers, life remains a day-to-day struggle. Instead of working on RVs in a factory, she may soon be living in one. -
Dems push ahead on health vote
With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democratic leaders pushed ahead Friday toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill amid indications the rank-and-file would stand togethe... -
'Biblical flooding' in Northern England
British military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain. -
'New Moon' breaks box office record
$26.3 million helps ‘Twilight’ sequel eclipse last Harry Potter film for No. 1.
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A Crown Jewel of Education Struggles With Cuts
Students and faculty worry that deep budget cuts are pushing the University of California into decline. -
Fitness: Is the Spirit of Competition in the Soul of Yoga?
Yoga enthusiasts are trying to build momentum for competitive yoga in the United States. -
Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests
New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and go for screening less often than had been previously recommended. -
Back to Business: With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas
An effort by the F.H.A. to prop up real estate prices amid rising defaults has put taxpayers at risk. -
Op-Ed Columnist: What Geithner Got Right
Timothy F. Geithner, like others on the White House economic team, is pragmatic and responds flexibly to situations, and that approach has paid off during the economic crisis.
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Ariel Levy: Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.
When people in South Africa say “Limpopo,” they mean the middle of nowhere. They are referring to the northernmost province of the country, along the border with Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mo... -
Sam Shepard: "Indianapolis (Highway 74)"
I’ve been crisscrossing the country again, without much reason. Sometimes a place will just pop into my head and I’ll take off. This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in wh... -
Peter Schjeldahl: "1969" at P.S. 1.
In 1969, we were very free. I turned twenty-seven—too old to be a hippie, after having been too young to pull off being a beatnik—and was so free as to be practically useless, writing just... -
Paul Goldberger: Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.
When you catch your first glimpse of 100 Eleventh Avenue, a new apartment tower in Chelsea designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, its curving façade, an abstract arrangement of windows sla... -
Nancy Franklin: Fox News Channel's latest blowhard.
If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may have been owing to the fact that Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fo...
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Can These Parents Be Saved: The Growing Backlash Against Over-Parenting
Overparenting got way out of control in the past generation. But now a band of rebels is trying to restore some balance and sanity to family life and help bring all those anxious helicopter parents do... -
Dangerous Game: The Next Round of the U.S.-Iran Nuclear Face-Off
While Tehran pushes to renegotiate a deal on nuclear fuel, the U.S. is pushing for more sanctions. Iran seems to be betting that it can withstand whatever Washington can muster... -
The Anglican and Catholic Churches: Friends or Rivals?
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams heads to Rome a month after the Vatican outlined new procedures designed to help disaffected conservative Anglicans enter the Roman Catholic Church... -
Landrieu's $100 Million: Health Reform's High Price
Senate Democratic leaders are wooing Senators Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln... -
Santa's Holiday Wish: the Swine Flu Shot
Santas across the country are hoping for a little gift from U.S. public health officials -- a chance to cut the line for the swine flu vaccine...
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Marines Reflect On Duty, Death In Afghanistan
When the Marines of "America's Battalion" first arrived in Afghanistan, they were eager to get into the fight against the Taliban. Now, as they wrap up their seven-month deployment — and after t... -
Making Medical Decisions Lacking Perfect Science
This week two panels of medical experts recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer. The idea of evidence-based medicine is that the decisions made between doctors and patients s... -
Obscured By War, Water Crisis Looms In Yemen
News from Yemen has been dominated recently by an escalating rebellion along the border with Saudi Arabia. But the country has been making news for decades because of its severe overuse of a rapidly d... -
High School Football A Way Of Life In Massillon
Massillon, Ohio, is something of a football nirvana. A high school game can draw 20,000 spectators — in a town of 30,000. The school's official name is Washington High School, but no one calls i... -
Hard Lessons From Two Mass Killings In Texas
The Senate is conducting hearings into the recent shootings at Fort Hood — a tragedy that took place just miles from the site of a deadly 1991 attack. That episode, in which a gunman killed 23 p...
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Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol agent's murder
A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in ... -
Army to review how it tests body armor
The Army says there will be an outside review of how body armor for its soldiers is tested. -
Senate Dems moving ahead on crucial health care vote
With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, ... -
Queen, Prince Philip mark 62 years of marriage
Buckingham Palace says the queen and her husband Prince Philip are celebrating 62 years of marriage quietly without the fanfare ... -
Russia's Gorbachev considers political comeback
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political ...
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Centrist Democrat agrees to vote
Neb. Sen. Nelson says he will vote to bring bill to the floor, leaving two senators undecided. -
Residents of Winona, Minn., want the war to end, but are torn on what strategy will actually work.
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Oprah: 'Yellow brick road' ending
In teary-eyed announcement, daytime TV host confirms her talk show will wrap up in 2011.
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Angry Congress lashes out at Obama
Growing discontent over the economy, recovery efforts turn into a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the administration. -
20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. -
New Missouri billboard tells Americans to 'prepare for war' against the government.
Fired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard in the state with steps for a "citizens guide to revolution of a corrupt government... -
These disgusting hypocrites have been a cancer in our body politic ever since we became a country.
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Republicans blast 'bait and switch' health bill
Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new bu...
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Match-fixing claims 'stun' football body
About 200 football ties are under investigation in what one Uefa official calls Europe's biggest match-fixing scandal. -
Drug resistant swine flu hits UK
Health officials in Cardiff say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients. -
Re-start for 'Big Bang' machine
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months. -
New EU foreign head dismisses critics
The new EU foreign affairs chief rejects criticism of her lack of experience, saying she is the "the best person for the job". -
Easyjet sorry for Holocaust error
Easyjet apologises after fashion photographs shot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin were published in its in-flight magazine.
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SCOTT HORTON—Grappling with Contractor Immunity
A little more than six years ago, Lt. Col. Dominic “Rocky” Baragona was on his way home. He had a long journey ahead, but he was looking forward to it. Colonel Baragona was serving in Iraq, and h... -
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JOHN R. MACARTHUR—History Promises Disaster in Afghanistan for Blind America
If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it’s in connection with Nazi Germany. Nowadays, you can’t make assumptions about what people under 50 know and don’t know, but...
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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerat... -
We humans are drawn to the shore, with some 40% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. Coastal areas have made recent news with the arrival of several storms, concerns abou...
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Watching the H1N1 flu pandemic
Health officials around the world are stepping up vaccination efforts and are closely tracking the progress of the H1N1/09 virus (often referred to as "swine flu" in the media). World Health Organizat... -
Last Wednesday was Armistice Day, when on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month", in 1918, the armistice was signed for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front at the...
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Havana, the capital city of the island nation of Cuba is home to nearly 4 million people - 20% of the entire population of Cuba. On November 16th the city will celebrate its 490th anniversary, being f...