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Letter Lehman accounting tricks possibly illegal
AP
(20 March 08:03) |
| AP - A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday. |
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Lady Gaga fires back in NY court at music producer
AP
(20 March 06:08) |
| AP - Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million. |
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7th anniversary of Iraq War passes little noticed
AP
(20 March 05:44) |
| AP - It was a day like any other day — except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten. |
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New York food trucks turn to Twitter
Reuters
(20 March 05:15) |
| Reuters - Whether it's fomenting revolution or telling people what you had for breakfast microblogging service Twitter seems to have it all. |
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Calif police dodge bullet in booby trap attacks
AP
(20 March 04:58) |
| AP - Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them. |
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Judge orders renegotiation of 911 settlement
AP
(20 March 04:54) |
| AP - A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortch... |
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Minister Sierra Leone rattled by disaster hoax
AP
(20 March 04:29) |
| AP - A top official in Sierra Leone's government said he raced to a town in the country Friday after news reports said at least 200 people had been killed in a mining accident there, only to... |
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Sierra Leone minister denies mine collapse
Reuters
(20 March 03:46) |
| Reuters - Sierra Leone's minister of mineral resources Alpha Kanu denied on Friday that at least 200 people were killed when a mine collapsed, contradicting an earlier statement from his own... |
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End in sight health care battle tilts Obamas way
AP
(20 March 03:22) |
| AP - One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's ... |
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Popes Irish letter faces critical Catholic world
AP
(20 March 03:09) |
| AP - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see ... |
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12 wounded in Israeli missile strike in Gaza
AP
(20 March 02:44) |
| AP - Hamas officials say Israeli aircraft have fired five missiles at Gaza's defunct airport and nearby border tunnels, wounding at least 12 people. |
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Will US lose its triple-A ranking Investors yawn
AP
(20 March 02:44) |
| AP - It's the financial equivalent of a high medal count at the Olympics or a seat on the U.N. Security Council — a triple-A credit rating, the seal of approval that lets investors kno... |
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Hollywood stars help prevent suicide after Twitter alert
AFP
(20 March 02:27) |
| AFP - Hollywood actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos, star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," helped police on Friday thwart a possible suicide attempt after being alerted to it through Twitter... |
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Stocks fall as worries about Greek debt return
AP
(20 March 02:02) |
| AP - Stocks halted their steady climb Friday after renewed concerns about Greece's ability to pay its debts left investors questioning a global economic recovery. |
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Final health bill omits some of Obamas promises
AP
(20 March 01:48) |
| AP - It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes. |
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Court Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune
AP
(20 March 01:45) |
| AP - A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her. |
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Health reform endgame nears with Sunday vote
The Newsroom
(20 March 01:24) |
| The Newsroom - The end may well be near. After more than a year of fractious debate, close votes, and presidential speeches, the House is preparing to vote this Sunday on a final version of ... |
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The four cities that best weathered the recession
AP
(20 March 01:18) |
| AP - Call them the Final Four: The four large cities that have made it through the Great Recession with the smallest increases in unemployment. |
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Obama Democrats lobbying hard for health vote
AP
(20 March 01:15) |
| AP - President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining anot... |
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Mom of octuplets may lose home to foreclosure
AP
(20 March 12:50) |
| AP - Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home. |
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Dutch lash out at gay link in Srebrenica massacre
Reuters
(20 March 12:33) |
| Reuters - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende attacked on Friday claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 because of the presence of gay so... |
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Ellen presents $30K to Miss lesbian in prom flap
AP
(20 March 12:33) |
| AP - A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." |
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Heavy rains swamp camps holding Haitis homeless
AP
(20 March 12:11) |
| AP - One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thous... |
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At least 200 killed as Sierra Leone mine collapses
Reuters
(20 March 12:02) |
| Reuters - At least 200 people were killed when a trench collapsed at an unofficial gold mine in Sierra Leone, the West African country's Ministry of Mineral Resources said on Friday. |
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Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
AP
(19 March 11:31) |
| AP - Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixt... |
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Do famous and tweet-happy care about following
AP
(19 March 10:57) |
| AP - Twitter is so many things to so many people: infomercial, backyard fence, brain dump. The funny, famous, famous for the wrong reasons or simply very useful have thousands of followers, ... |
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Lawyer for US missionaries in Haiti is arrested
AP
(19 March 10:23) |
| AP - Dominican police have arrested a fugitive who acted as the lawyer for U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children. |
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Marine patrols still meet snipers in Afghan town
AP
(19 March 09:58) |
| AP - The first shots came from the north, sending Marines ducking into the nearest ditch — some filled with putrid water. More shots rang out from the southwest: a possible ambush from... |
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Obama rallies support for final health care votes
AP
(19 March 09:46) |
| AP - President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned:... |
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Obama Democrats push hard ahead of health vote
AP
(19 March 09:43) |
| AP - President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensely for historic health care legislation Friday, gaining momentum and another precious "yes" 48 hours ahead of a climactic vo... |
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Strike looms as talks between BA union collapse
AP
(19 March 09:27) |
| AP - A three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew affecting thousands of travellers is set to start at midnight Friday after last-ditch talks between the airline's management and union l... |
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Oprah schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial
AP
(19 March 09:20) |
| AP - Several schoolgirls allegedly abused at Oprah Winfrey's academy in South Africa and the talk-show host herself are expected to testify at an upcoming trial in Philadelphia. |
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Happiness Is Making More Money Than the Next Guy
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 09:20) |
| LiveScience.com - One key to happiness might be whether you make more than
your peers, regardless of whether that income is six figures or just a mediocre
take-home, a new study finds. |
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Dutch fuming at retired US generals gays comment
AP
(19 March 08:47) |
| AP - The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe's worst massacre since Wo... |
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Md lawmakers not feeling so Southern anymore
AP
(19 March 08:34) |
| AP - Maryland's official song may include a line about "Northern scum" left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn't feeling so Southern anymore. |
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Obama sends Molson beer to cover hockey bet
AP
(19 March 08:18) |
| AP - President Barack Obama followed through on his hockey bet with Canada, sending beer to the prime minister. |
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Palestinians clash with Israeli security
AP
(19 March 08:00) |
| AP - Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank lobbed rocks at Israeli security forces, set garbage bins and tires ablaze and torched an Israeli flag in a new outbreak of violence ove... |
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Most Americans see healthcare benefiting the needy
Reuters
(19 March 07:50) |
| Reuters - Most Americans believe the healthcare reform plan in Congress would help the poor and the uninsured, but say it would be less likely to benefit other groups including themselves, a... |
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Mother of teen killed in Goa admits benefit fraud
AFP
(19 March 06:43) |
| AFP - The mother of a teenager killed in India faces a possible jail term after she admitted falsely claiming 19,000 pounds in state benefits Friday. |
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Lifetime tiger hunter 92 snared in Indonesia
AFP
(19 March 06:00) |
| AFP - Indonesian conservationists said on Friday they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of h... |
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Fargo floods turn farm fields into sprawling lakes
AP
(19 March 05:43) |
| AP - For farmer Brian Thomas, getting to town for errands is no simple matter these days as floodwaters cover fields and sections of country roads in the rural areas near Fargo, N.D. |
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Rice regrets how US prioritized rebuilding in Iraq
AP
(19 March 05:21) |
| AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate" Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis ... |
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Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy
AP
(19 March 05:09) |
| AP - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secr... |
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Sandra Bullock still poised for successful future
AP
(19 March 04:50) |
| AP - Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. He even teared up when she went on stage to a... |
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PROMISES PROMISES Obama in immigration dance
AP
(19 March 04:50) |
| AP - President Barack Obama promised to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority in his first year as president. He's now in Year Two, and the odds that he'll get to sign a bil... |
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Calif police department on alert for deadly traps
AP
(19 March 04:49) |
| AP - Police in this picturesque city in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them. |
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Could school bus ads save school budgets
AP
(19 March 04:49) |
| AP - School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to sports transpo... |
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Ore lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup
AP
(19 March 04:49) |
| AP - The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. |
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Israelis view Obama favorably mixed on Netanyahu
AP
(19 March 04:47) |
| AP - A poll released Friday shows that Israelis overwhelmingly have a favorable impression of President Barack Obama, despite a grave diplomatic feud with the U.S. over east Jerusalem constr... |
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Dutch respond angrily to gay link in Srebrenica massacre
Reuters
(19 March 04:27) |
| Reuters - Dutch government officials reacted angrily on Friday to claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 in part because of the presence of gay... |
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