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Daylight Savings Time is set for Sunday right before the first day of spring which is on the 20th of March. ...
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Henry Kissinger former Secretary Of State during the Nixon and Ford administrations has been reported as being ill and in the hospital....
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After losing a bet on the U.S.-Canada hockey matches during the Vancouver Winter Olympics, White House Spokesperson Robert Gibbs appeared in front of cameras Friday wearing a Canadian hockey jersey....
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The world's largest car manufacturer, Toyota Motor Corp., was served a lawsuit in California on Friday....
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Signs of slowdown in national foreclosure activity were reported in a market survey released on Thursday....
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President Obama signed a disaster declaration for South Dakota, after severe winter storms. ...
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President Obama revealed which charities will get a share of his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money. ...
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A Houston jury convicted a man of sending threats against federal law enforcement agents....
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The Supreme Judicial Court found that people in homeless shelters have the same privacy rights as people in their own homes....
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Gov. Paterson said that the AEG lost its bid to operate video slot machines at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens....
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A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the controversial Atlantic Yards project on Thursday in Brooklyn....
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Port Authority and the EPA launched a new program to remove up to 636 of the oldest and most polluting trucks....
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Attorney General Cuomo announced that he will not investigate allegations surrounding Gov. Paterson's top aide....
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Assemblyman Felix Ortiz introduced legislation that would ban salt usage in every restaurant in New York state....
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A subway train hit and killed a young woman in Manhattan's Upper East Side on Thursday. ...
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The civil rights of EL students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will undergo assessment. ...
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Mr. Dumbach won the Thursday competition. ...
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President Barack Obama announced his plans to make good on his State of the Union promise to double U.S. exports within five years....
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Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues (CCWI) holds annual Gala and discuss women's issues...
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Portland Mayor Sam Adams has issued a "Tibet Awareness Day” proclamation....
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A project to place a dam in California's Temperance Flat of the San Joaquin River has been the subject of much controversy....
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More than 200 Women Airforce Service Pilots were honored on Capitol Hill on March 10, International Women's Day....
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Colleen LaRose tried to kill herself in 2005 while despondent over the death of her father, according to police reports....
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More than 2,000 people protested President Obama’s call for health care reform at the St. Charles Convention Center. ...
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The Treasury Department announced that the budget deficit reached $220.9 billion in February. ...
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Group proposes new common-core national education standards for the English language arts and mathematics....
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Bank of America Corp.announced on Wednesday that it would get rid of overdraft fees on debit-card purchases....
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Yankee Stadium will host the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, a college football bowl game, on December 30....
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City school bus drivers, who shuttle children to school and back, voted late on Tuesday to authorize a strike. ...
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Hiram Monserrate announced he would run to get his job back on Tuesday....
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Thirteen people die, four of whom are beheaded, in drug-related violence at the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco....
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Russia and the US are close to concluding a new nuclear disarmament treaty, officials in Washington and Moscow say....
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Colombians are set to vote in legislative elections that may indicate how the May presidential election will shape up. ...
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Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic"....
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Successful treatment for gum disease cuts the risk of pregnant women giving birth early, say US researchers....
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Hundreds of disabled athletes gather for the opening of the 10th Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada....
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Colombian police find 16kg (35lb) of cocaine inside replicas of sculptures by artist Fernando Botero being shipped to Spain....
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The cost of rebuilding Chile after its monster earthquake will be at least $30bn, the country's new president announces....
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A 3,000-year-old wooden sarcophagus stolen from Egypt more than 125 years ago is returned from the US....
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A student at a high school in Mississippi says the school board cancelled her school's prom rather than let her attend it with her lesbian girlfriend...
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The first Mexican opera to deal directly with the country's drugs conflict stages its premiere in Mexico City....
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Mark Mardell's take on politics and life in the US and North America....
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Wolves in Alaska are suspected of killing a woman jogger in what would be the first such attack in the US in half a century....
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a stinging rebuke to Israel over new settlements in East Jerusalem....
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Five same-sex couples tie the knot in Mexico City under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage....
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Former US President George W Bush's advisor, Karl Rove, says he is proud of waterboarding as he believes it prevented attacks....
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New York City is to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to rescue workers who say their health was damaged by dust at Ground Zero....
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A US woman is charged with murder over the killing of a truck driver's assistant who won $17m in a lottery in 2006....
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Speculation is growing that Tiger Woods will make his return to competitive golf within the next month....
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A report into the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers criticises senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses....
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US retail sales showed a surprise rise in February as consumers braved extreme bad weather to get to the shops...
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China has hit back at comments by US President Barack Obama that Beijing should change its currency strategy....
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The US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in January as fewer foreign cars and less crude oil were imported....
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Rebuilding a devastated economy...
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Challenges ahead for new president in quake-hit Chile...
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Light bulb switch offers Venezuela hope in a crisis...
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Quake-hit nation could see economy bounce back...
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Two earthquakes in two months for Haitian family...
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New US movement tells politicians to smell the coffee ...
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How US trains civilians for big Afghan surge roles...
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Is American politics now nastier than ever before?...
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Staying safe in Haiti while keeping up appearances...
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New York's 9/11 dust victims split on compensation deal...
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Door creaks ajar for undocumented Haitians in the US...
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