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    February 26, 2012

    Bystanders ignore veteran crawling for help

    DETROIT – A World War II veteran says nobody helped him after he was attacked and carjacked during daylight at a busy Detroit gas station and he had to crawl across a concrete parking lot to get help. A roughly four-minute surveillance video shows 86-year-old Aaron Brantley struggling to get from the fuel pump to […]

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    February 26, 2012

    Saudi Arabia steps up crude oil exports

    The Saudis also offer more output to their largest customers in an effort to help contain prices.

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    February 26, 2012

    Trial of 16 Americans due to begin in Egypt

    CAIRO – The trial of 16 Americans and 27 others opens today at a Cairo courthouse in what critics say is a politically charged case linked to a government crackdown on nonprofit groups that has touched off the deepest crisis in U.S.-Egyptian relations in decades. The case, which involves American employees of four U.S.-based pro-democracy […]

  • Published
    February 25, 2012

    Two U.S. advisers shot to death in Kabul

    The Taliban claims it killed the men, inside a guarded government building, amid unrest over Quran burning.

  • Published
    February 25, 2012

    Santorum vows to cut taxes, regulations, spending in first 100 days

    Republican Rick Santorum vowed Friday to cut government spending, regulations and entitlement programs during his first 100 days in office if elected president.

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    February 25, 2012

    Romney: Raise retirement age for Social Security and Medicare

    Mitt Romney says the U.S. must raise the retirement age one month every year to become economically sustainable. He said 65 and 67 is too young to retire because Americans live longer than they used to.

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    February 25, 2012

    Texas hog-killing contest wipes out 12,632 hogs

    Texas gave out $80,000 to the counties who killed the most hogs, which the state says are an agricultural nuisance.

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    February 25, 2012

    Dmitri Nabokov, 77, writer’s son, an opera singer, race car driver

    VEVEY, Switzerland – Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov who helped protect and translate his father’s work while also pursuing careers as an opera singer and race car driver, has died. He was 77. The younger Nabokov died Wednesday at a hospital in Vevey after a long illness, literary agent Andrew […]

  • Published
    February 25, 2012

    17 tons of silver coins heading back to Spain

    Spain's ambassador to the U.S. says the recovered treasure is not money, but 'historical heritage.'

  • Published
    February 25, 2012

    Donors to GOP see strong chance of winning Senate

    Democrats, defending many more seats than Republicans, expect to keep their majority.