Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:22:20 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.
Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote count
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:49:25 GMT
AP - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital and a Shiite province in the south, according to a partial tally of election results released Saturday.
Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:22:28 GMT
AP - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.
Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 13
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:22:34 GMT
AP - A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring the nation's relentless security threat.
Afghan leader to allow foreign election monitors
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:07:51 GMT
AP - Afghanistan's president has agreed to reverse an earlier decision and allow two foreigners on a commission monitoring upcoming parliamentary elections, his spokesman said Saturday.
Obama prepares education overhaul
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:49:03 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards.
US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:10 GMT
AP - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.
Thousands expected to mourn death of SoCal teen
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:20 GMT
AP - Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated.
Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:31 GMT
AP - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.
West Virginia vs. Georgetown for Big East title
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:40 GMT
AP - Now that West Virginia is in the Big East tournament final, coach Bob Huggins and his Mountaineers have a large problem on their hands.
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