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03/10/2010 03:35 PM
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Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri
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AP - The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans.
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03/10/2010 03:30 PM
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Biden says Palestinians deserve 'viable' state
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AP - Vice President Joe Biden's displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement was on display Wednesday as he warned against actions that "inflame tensions" and reassured his Palestinian hosts that they deserve a sustainable, independent state.
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03/10/2010 03:32 PM
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'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38
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AP - Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.
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03/10/2010 04:08 PM
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Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal
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AP - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
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03/10/2010 03:45 PM
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Abuse scandal creeps closer to the pope
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AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.
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03/10/2010 03:43 PM
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A blond, blue-eyed Philly suburbanite called Jihad Jane
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AP - The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting foreign terrorism and shows the latest evolution of the global threat, authorities say.
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03/10/2010 03:44 PM
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Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks
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AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
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03/10/2010 03:50 PM
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Nothing is too holy for mockery, Muhammad cartoonist says
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AP - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist who created it said Wednesday.
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03/10/2010 03:17 PM
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Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town
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AP - Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness.
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03/10/2010 03:23 PM
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Garciaparra rejoins Red Sox for day, then retires
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AP - Nomar Garciaparra rejoined the Red Sox for one day and then retired, ending a 14-year career in which he won two batting titles with Boston and became a beloved player in the city.
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