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January 16, 2013

EPA backed off emergency order after gas driller’s protest

The EPA had scientific evidence against the Texas driller but changed course after the company threatened not to cooperate with a national study into "fracking."
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January 16, 2013

ER visits tied to energy drinks double since 2007

Emergency physicians say they've seen a clear uptick in patients suffering from irregular heartbeats, anxiety and heart attacks who said they had recently downed an energy drink.
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January 16, 2013

Grounding of 787s intensifies scrutiny of batteries

A cockpit message showed battery problems and a burning smell was detected in the cockpit and the cabin of a All Nippon Airways domestic flight on Wednesday.
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January 16, 2013

Obama to unveil gun violence measures today

The White House event will bring together law enforcement officials, lawmakers and children who wrote the president about gun violence following last month's mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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January 16, 2013

House OKs $50.7 billion in Sandy relief

The Senate is expected to accept the measure early next week and send it to President Obama to sign.

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January 16, 2013

Hundreds rally for, against same-sex marriage in R.I.

A bill to allow gay weddings is before lawmakers in the last New England state that hasn't legalized them.
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January 16, 2013

Israel Museum creating exhibit devoted to King Herod’s legacy

JERUSALEM – Israel’s national museum said Tuesday it will open what it calls the world’s first exhibition devoted to the architectural legacy of biblical King Herod, the Jewish proxy monarch who ruled Jerusalem and the Holy Land under Roman occupation two millennia ago. The display includes the reconstructed tomb and sarcophagus of one of antiquity’s […]
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January 16, 2013

Dispatches

BEIRUT Two explosions at university in Syria kill more than 80 Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria’s largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowing the walls off dormitory rooms and killing more than 80 people, according to anti-regime activists and a government official. The opposition and […]
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January 16, 2013

France tripling troops for Mali offensive

BAMAKO, Mali – After a punishing bombing campaign failed to halt the advance of al-Qaida-linked fighters, France pledged Tuesday to triple the size of its force in Mali as it prepared for a land assault to dislodge the militants occupying the northern half of the country. The move reversed France’s earlier insistence on providing only […]
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January 16, 2013

Court: Houseboat is more home than boat

The 7-2 decision protects houseboat owners and riverboat gaming facilities from new restrictions.