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WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of pages of legal paper and three days of oral arguments later, the Supreme Court is taking a big step today toward deciding the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The nine justices will meet in complete privacy and take a vote. Between ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are expected to ram an election-year budget through the House today. Deficit reduction efforts in the $3.5 trillion plan include cuts on a broad range of programs from food stamps to transportation along with an overhaul of Medicare. The GOP budget also rejects President Barack Obama's ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The survival of the rest of the healthcare overhaul is the topic on the final day of Supreme Court arguments on the law. The court would only have to decide that issue if it rules the mandatory purchase requirement is unconstitutional. LOS ANGELES (AP) ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - President Barack Obama and some 60 other world leaders in Seoul, South Korea for a nuclear security summit have agreed to work on securing and accounting for all nuclear material by 2014. But in wrapping up the summit, widespread fear still lingers about the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The first arguments before the Supreme Court today on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are likely to center on whether a 19th century tax law applies. That law could make the legal challenge premature because the insurance requirement doesn't kick in until 2014 and people who ...
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BRUSSELS (AP) - The wife and some close friends of Syrian President Bashar Assad have been slapped with more sanctions by the European Union over the bloody crackdown on dissent in Syria. EU foreign ministers have frozen their assets and banning them from traveling to the EU. Meanwhile, the ...
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TOULOUSE, France (AP) - The suspect in a series of killings in southern France is dead. France's interior minister says Mohamed Merah jumped from a window to his death after police stormed his apartment. Police and the suspect exchanged fire before the 24-year-old leaped out of the window. ...
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TOULOUSE, France (AP) - A gunman suspected in a wave of killings and holed up in a house in France has gone silent. A French official says authorities have been monitoring him for years. The gunman is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in recent ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - The polls are open in Illinois, where Mitt Romney hopes to notch another primary victory. A total of 54 delegates are at stake, and recent surveys show he'll do well. The Romney camp hopes a second win in three days will solidify his lead for the Republican ...
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TOULOUSE, France (AP) - The third motorcycle gunman attack in a week has left an adult and three children dead outside a Jewish school in Toulouse (tuh-LOOS'), France. Three of the victims were a father and his two young sons. Security is being tightened at other Jewish schools. There's no ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - New violence in Syria highlights the shifting nature of the conflict, as army defectors have clashed with Syrian troops in several areas near the capital. Activists say they're the first significant battles near Damascus since President Bashar Assad's forces regained control of the suburbs weeks ago. ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan lawmakers are expressing anger that an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians has been flown out of Afghanistan to Kuwait. One lawmaker from southern Kandahar province where the killings occurred says a trial in Afghanistan would show locals that the U.S. wants to punish ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Rick Santorum was a winner in high profile primaries in Alabama in Mississippi but failed to gain ground on front-runner Mitt Romney in the delegate count. Romney used wins in caucuses in American Samoa and Hawaii to amass at least 40 delegates to Santorum's 34. Newt Gingrich ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A new poll suggests a majority of New York City voters think the police department's actions toward the Muslim community are appropriate. And the Quinnipiac (KWIHN'-uh-pee-ak) University poll released today says 82 percent of respondents think the NYPD has been effective in combatting terrorism. ...
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BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - A line of possible tornadoes that moved across the Midwest is being blamed for at least one death, numerous injuries and significant property damage. Power is out in some areas of Missouri and searchers are going house-to-house to check for victims. Elsewhere, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback ...
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CHARDON, Ohio (AP) - Officials say a student has been declared brain dead following the shooting at a Chardon, Ohio high school. Another student was killed Monday and three others were wounded. A student from an alternative high school believed responsible was captured. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Economists are increasingly upbeat about employment, new home construction and business spending in 2012. A survey by the National Association of Business Economics shows forecasters believe the overall economy will grow at a rate of 2.4 percent. Stronger growth is anticipated in the last six ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The mistaken burning of Qurans (ku-RAHNZ') at an American military base in Afghanistan earlier this week is still having repercussions. Afghan police have shot and killed five protesters during riots that broke out at demonstrations today. In a possibly related incident, NATO says two coalition troops ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - An American journalist working for Britain's Sunday Times is reported dead in Syria from shelling in the city of Homs (hohms). France says a French journalist was also killed. The American, identified as Marie Colvin, was a veteran war reporter. Syria's military has redoubled its attacks on ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian resistance stronghold of Homs (hohms) continues to take heavy shelling by government troops. Activists say at least seven people have been killed and the shelling has raised fears of a new round of bloody urban combat in a country careening toward all-out civil war. ...
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