Nation & World

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June 11, 2010

GOP senators criticize court nominee

WASHINGTON – Two senior Republican senators criticized Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Thursday for memos she wrote as a young law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, saying the papers suggest she lets politics dictate her legal decisions. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Jeff Sessions of Alabama said the writings show that Kagan wanted […]
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June 11, 2010

Rare Civil War-era photo gives glimpse into history of slavery

RALEIGH, N.C. – A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or […]
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June 11, 2010

Rescue attempts launched for young sailor

Emergency beacons have been activated aboard the boat being sailed solo by Abby Sunderland, 16.
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June 11, 2010

Authorities arrest more than 2,200 in crackdown on Mexican drug rings

WASHINGTON – Federal authorities Thursday announced that more than 2,200 people in 19 states were arrested on narcotics-related charges in the largest in a series of operations targeting violent Mexican drug cartels. The 2,266 arrests over the past 22 months were part of “Project Deliverance,” a joint effort with Mexican authorities that the Justice Department […]
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June 11, 2010

Food shortages to affect 60 million near Himalayas

But a study says the effect from melting glaciers will be much less than had been estimated earlier.
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June 11, 2010

Pope defends celibacy, alludes to scandal

Benedict XVI addresses 15,000 priests at a vigil marking the end of the year of the priest.
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June 11, 2010

Senate Democrats stymie GOP effort on clean air rules

WASHINGTON – In a boost for the president on global warming, the Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters. The defeated resolution would have denied the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to move ahead with the rules, crafted under […]
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June 11, 2010

Stuck for days, man tries to cut off arm

HARTFORD, Conn. – Jonathan Metz had been trapped for two days in his basement with his left arm stuck in a broken furnace. Smelling rotting flesh, he decided that amputation was his only hope. So the 31-year-old fashioned a tourniquet near his shoulder and began cutting. He made it almost all the way through, but […]
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June 11, 2010

Geologists are still baffled by Guatemala’s big sinkhole

GUATEMALA CITY – A massive sinkhole that gulped down a clothing factory and an entire intersection in Guatemala’s capital is mystifying geologists who have yet to figure out what caused it. “It’s the million-dollar question,” said David Monterroso, a geophysical engineer with the National Disaster Management Agency. Nearly 100 feet deep and 66 feet wide, […]
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June 11, 2010

Louisiana leaders want more offshore drilling

NEW ORLEANS – At the same time they are venting their fury on BP over the Gulf of Mexico spill and its calamitous environmental effects, Louisiana politicians are rushing to the defense of the oil-and-gas industry and pleading with Washington to bring back offshore drilling — now. As angry as they are over the disaster, […]

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