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Obama, in an address to Iraq, reaffirmed that all U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by the end of next year....
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Rapper Lil' Wayne started his one-year prison term due to gun charges, after several delays in the sentencing....
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One person was killed and four were critically injured after being struck by a sports utility vehicle on Sunday. ...
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A groundbreaking ceremony will be held for the new Nets basketball arena in Brooklyn this Thursday....
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Hundreds of unionized construction workers and officials came out on Monday to ground zero....
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A major rock slide in Colorado....
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The National Science Foundation (NSF)has recently awarded funding for "green" research....
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One Ohio State University employee is dead after a shooting early Tuesday morning....
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Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win perfect beginning for the celebration of the 99th International Women’s Day....
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New York Gov. David Paterson has had, by any accounting, a very tough time of it lately. ...
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U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday spoke against companies adding “mystery charges” to consumers' phone bills....
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U.S. Rep. Eric Massa is set to resign his congressional seat on Monday....
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Bloomberg supports soda tax.
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Michigan, the home of Detroit—the motor city—is seeking new ways to move transportation into the future....
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Recent decision to implement a curriculum from mainland China provoke debate over motives behind the program....
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John McPhee, John Muir, Rachel Carson, Henry David Thoreau, and Peter Matthiessen are all great American nature writers....
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Following a fatal crash, an illegal interstate bus company has been ordered to immediately shut down....
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John Patrick Bedell shot two officers of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency on March 4 at the Pentagon....
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Back in the early 1900s the Firestone Restaurant was Shipley Department Store....
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Coalition of international pro-democracy advocates asking U.S. State Depart. to fund Internet freedom organization....
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Fish in two neighboring northern California rivers are in danger with one river overflowing and the other running dry....
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The battle for coal ash regulation continues....
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Representative Sander Levin will be replacing Charles Rangel as chairman of the tax writing Ways and Means Committee....
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The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to label the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a genocide. ...
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The FDA has sent warnings to 17 companies for claiming misleading nutritional facts on their labels. ...
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In the heavily polluted waters of Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, residents spotted a dolphin swimming on Thursday. ...
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Looming education-related cuts lead to student protests on four fronts in the city on Thursday....
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DiNapoli will get the gas-drillers in the Marcellus Shale to disclose the environmental and regulatory risks associated with the operation....
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A plethora of items will be on display from the Grateful Dead Archive starting on Friday....
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A Queens imam pleaded guilty in connection with last September's attempted bombing of a New York City subway....
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A former UK spy chief says she did not know US intelligence services were mistreating terror suspects until after she retired....
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The earthquake in Chile may cost the global insurance industry as much as $7bn (£4.7bn), Swiss Re estimates....
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Ban Ki-moon pays tribute to the 101 UN staff who died in the Haiti quake, as President Preval seeks US support for the economy....
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A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs....
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A US woman from Pennsylvania faces charges of using the internet to recruit female militant fighters for deadly attacks abroad....
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Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal....
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This year's Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles was the most watched in the US for five years, early figures suggest....
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President Barack Obama has 'responded positively' to calls to clamp down on market speculators, says the Greek PM after talks....
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The US State Department apologises for comments its spokesman made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a jihad against Switzerland....
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Some of more than 1.5m condolence letters sent to US President John F Kennedy's widow after his death are published for the first time....
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Photographer Annie Leibovitz does a deal with Colony Capital to clear huge debts that meant she may have lost her library of famous pictures.
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Mark Mardell's take on politics and life in the US and North America....
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Camilo Villegas shoots a final round of 68 to win the Honda Classic by five shots. ...
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The US soft drinks industry says it has dramatically cut full-calorie beverages available in schools as part of a drive to tackle obesity. ...
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Brazil is backed by the WTO as it slaps trade sanctions against US imports in retaliation for illegal subsidies to cotton farmers....
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Hillary Clinton urges Nigeria to arrest and try those responsible for killing hundreds of people near the city of Jos....
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Cuba criticises the actions of a dissident journalist, on hunger strike for 12 days in protest at the death of a political prisoner.
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US Vice-President Joe Biden hails a "moment of real opportunity" for Middle East peace talks and stresses US support for Israel. ...
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Toyota rejects claims that faulty electronics could be behind its worldwide recall of more than eight million cars. ...
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Northrop Grumman and EADS pull out of bidding for a $35bn US Air Force air-to-air refuelling tanker contract....
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Borrowing by US consumers rose for the first time in a year in January according to figures released by the Federal Reserve....
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The US Labor Department says 36,000 jobs were cut in February, fewer than expected, leaving the unemployment rate steady at 9.7% ...
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Two earthquakes in two months for Haitian family...
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Chile's army under scrutiny in quake recovery effort...
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Chileans feel abandoned but aid starts to arrive...
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Canada goes wild after ice hockey victory...
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Greater diplomatic support for Argentina's claim over the Falklands/Malvinas has forced the UK to work harder to justify its refusal to discuss sovereignty, says the BBC's Paul Reynolds....
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Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem? ...
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Light bulb switch offers Venezuela hope in a crisis...
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Boeing wins lucrative mid-air refuelling battle
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Rebuilding a devastated economy...
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Quake-hit nation could see economy bounce back...
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Kathryn Bigelow's uncompromising attitude to her art...
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