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  • Josh Powell Hit Sons With Hatchet Before Blast

    ABC News - Found 1 hour agoCharles and Braden Powell are shown in these 2011 file photos Courtesy KOMO. Josh Powell tried to kill his two young sons with a hatchet before the flames of the fiery explo...
  • Stuart Elliott?s Live Blog of Super Bowl Commercials

    New York Times - Found 42 minutes agoStuart Elliott, The Times’s advertising columnist, is taking a running look at some of the evening’s Super Bowl commercials, along with other staff members who...
  • US tightens Iran bank sanctions

    BBC - Found 10 hours agoObama told NBC that he would work to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon US President Barack Obama has placed stricter sanctions on Iran's government, including its central...
  • Video:Netflix gets competition with Verizon-Redbox deal

    CNET News - Found 2 hours agoWatch out, Netflix. A new competitor will soon be entering the movie-streaming business. Verizon has announced it will team up with Coinstar, the parent of DVD rental comp...
  • Romney targets optimistic Santorum

    CNN - Found 44 minutes agoWashington (CNN) -- Mitt Romney's front-running campaign on Monday took aim at trailing rival Rick Santorum, suggesting there is concern the conservative Santorum might be po...
  • Beckham’s Bod and Clint’s Politics

    Ad Report Card columnist Seth Stevenson and Slate culture editor John Swansburg were on our Facebook page on Monday to chat with readers about this year’s Super Bowl commercials. They were joined by...
  • Hang Up and Listen: The Tumbling Indecisively to Glory Edition

    Listen to "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:...
  • Clint Eastwood Gives America a Pep Talk

    Did the first Obama re-election ad run during the Super Bowl? You might have missed it since the president wasn't even mentioned. It was a Chrysler ad, although even that wasn’t obvious. Instead, mo...
  • Cluck You

    Madonna was upstaged at her own Super Bowl halftime show Sunday when guest performer M.I.A. extended her middle finger at the camera. When did we start calling this gesture “flipping the bird?”...
  • Autopsies: Powell boys suffered 'chop injuries'

    (02-06) 19:44 PST Graham, Wash. (AP) -- Josh Powell's boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make. He boxed up their books and toys and brought them to a charity. He carried heavy ca...
  • Fans bet $94M on Super Bowl at Nevada casinos

    (02-06) 17:09 PST Carson City, Nev. (AP) -- Sports fans bet $93.9 million at Nevada casinos on Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, the most wagered in the...
  • Occupy Oakland is target of protest

    A face-off between Occupy Oakland activists and members of a new group that formed to protest their tactics erupted Monday in front of Oakland City Hall, with both sides accusing each other of missing...
  • Lin scores 28, carries short-handed Knicks again

    (02-06) 19:13 PST New York (AP) -- Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 28 points in his first career start, Steve Novak added a season-best 19, and the New York Knicks overcame the absence of Amare Stoude...
  • Ga. court overturns assisted suicide restrictions

    (02-06) 14:34 PST ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's highest court concluded Monday that a state law restricting assisted suicides violated free speech rights, a ruling that destroyed a long-running criminal c...
  • Syria assault enters fourth day

    An assault by the Syrian army on the restive city of Homs enters its fourth day as Russia's foreign minister is due in Damascus for talks.
  • Search on for Philippine missing

    Rescue efforts continue for survivors of a 6.7 magnitude quake that shook the central Philippines on Monday, leaving at least 15 dead and 44 missing.
  • Five killer whales 'sue' SeaWorld

    Five killer whales are named as plaintiffs in a court case arguing that they deserve the same constitutional protection from slavery as humans.
  • Trendnet flaw hits home net cams

    Thousands of Trendnet security camera webfeeds have been breached and shared on the internet, including live video from children's rooms.
  • Venezuela holds Colombia fugitive

    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says one of the country's most wanted paramilitary leaders, Martin Llanos, has been captured in Venezuela.
  • BARRY C. LYNN—Obama’s Big Shtick

    Obama chose Osawatomie because it was there that Theodore Roosevelt took his first step toward abandoning the Republican Party to run as a Progressive, supposedly to battle the powers that had capture...
  • JOHN D'AGATA AND JIM FINGAL—What happened in Vegas

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  • GENEVIEVE SMITH—Weekly Review

    Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich released their most recent tax returns. Romney’s showed that he made $21.6 million in 2010, paid taxes at a rate of 14 percent, and g...
  • NATHAN SCHNEIDER—Planet Occupy

    I recently learned about a revolutionist pamphlet published last year in Spain called La Carta de los Comunes. It begins with an intriguing conceit. Set in 2033 in a magical-realist Madrid, it tells o...
  • Egypt: protests over Port Said soccer deaths

    Violence at a soccer match triggered intensified political protests in Egypt raging now into their fifth day. A match on February 1, 2012 in Port Said, Egypt between rival clubs Al-Masry of Port Said...
  • Extreme cold weather hits Europe

    Frigid temperatures have gripped Europe in the last week, with the mercury reaching as low as 35 degrees Celsius below zero. After what had been a relatively mild winter, the sudden cold caught many...
  • Afghanistan, January 2012

    The New Year began violently in Afghanistan, with three bombings killing 13 people in one day in Kandahar. In addition, the French Defense minister told soldiers he backed US efforts to open peace tal...
  • Coal

    Coal occupies a central position in modern human endeavors. Last year over 7000 megatons were mined worldwide. Powerful, yet dirty and dangerous, use of coal is expanding every year, with 2010 witne...
  • 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games

    For the first time ever, young athletes gathered Jan. 13-22 in Austria for the Winter Youth Olympic Games. The event began with traditional opening ceremonies for more than 1,000 competitors from more...

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