Rep. Kucinich switches to 'yes' on health care
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:25:13 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama's much-challenged health care overhaul gained traction Wednesday as a liberal lawmaker became the first to switch his opposition and Catholic nuns declared their support in an unusual public break with the bishops.
Iraq PM back in the lead in vote count
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:25:15 GMT
AP - The Iraq's election commission says the prime minister's coalition has retaken the lead from his secular challenger in the preliminary tally of votes from the parliamentary elections.
Israel lifts closure of West Bank as tensions calm
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:25:24 GMT
AP - Israel on Wednesday lifted its tight restrictions on Palestinian access to Jerusalem's holiest shrine and called off an extended West Bank closure after days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.
FACT CHECK: Obama plan only slows premiums rise
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:53 GMT
AP - Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.
US military: Goal still to capture bin Laden alive
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:26:00 GMT
AP - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that it remains the goal of U.S. troops to capture Osama bin Laden alive and "bring him to justice."
NY Gov.'s press aide quits in scandal; 4th to fall
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:22:26 GMT
AP - Gov. David Paterson's press secretary on Wednesday became the fourth top staffer to quit amid dual scandals, resigning just hours after her boss publicly proclaimed for the first time that he did nothing wrong when he talked to a woman who had accused one of his top aides of abuse.
Merkel: Sex abuse scandal major challenge
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:01:03 GMT
AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened."
Group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:28:53 GMT
AP - A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group.
Sleeping man shocked after cold man jumps into bed
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:55:10 GMT
AP - Police said a man broke into a Pittsburgh home and climbed into bed with its owner, apparently because he was drunk and cold following a rap concert. Homeowner Frank Fontana says he was in bed when the man climbed in about 5:30 Wednesday morning. Fontana says he asked whether it was a woman who has keys to his home — and he grabbed a baseball bat when a deep male voice answered, "No, it's not."
Texas manager tested positive for cocaine in 2009
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:29:50 GMT
AP - Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington failed a Major League Baseball test for cocaine last season, but has apologized and will keep his job. "I made a huge mistake and it almost caused me to lose everything I have worked for all of my life," Washington said at a news conference Wednesday. "I am not here to make excuses. There are none."
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