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March 30, 2012

Senate turns down bid to end oil company tax breaks

WASHINGTON – President Obama’s plea to Congress to end $4 billion in tax subsidies to oil companies was rebuffed Thursday as the Senate turned back a Democratic bill to repeal the tax breaks. Moments after Obama made his election-year appeal in the White House Rose Garden, the Senate failed to reach the threshold of votes […]
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March 30, 2012

A split House passes budget destined to fail in Senate

WASHINGTON – A divided House approved a $3.6 trillion Republican budget on Thursday recasting Medicare and imposing sweeping cuts in domestic programs, capping a battle that gave both political parties a campaign-season stage to spotlight their warring deficit-cutting priorities. But the partisan divisions over the measure, which is dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate, […]
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March 30, 2012

Pesticide suspected of causing bee problems

But the two recent studies fail to explain all the reasons behind a long-running bee decline.
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March 30, 2012

Diabetic man survives 10 days in desert

LAS VEGAS – A 76-year-old diabetic Colorado man survived 10 days in the remote Nevada desert by melting snow and using skills he learned as a Boy Scout, but a friend who was with him and ventured away to get help died. James Klemovich and Laszlo Szabo, 75, went to scope out some mines in […]
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March 30, 2012

Biggest war chest belongs to Obama

Campaign costs have drained the wallets of GOP hopefuls during primaries, though Romney has a sizable fund.

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March 30, 2012

One in 88 U.S. kids believed to be autistic

The increase in the rate from five years ago is attributed largely to wider screening, officials say.
Published
March 29, 2012

Cancer rates continue downward trend

New cancer cases have been falling at a rate of about half a percent each year since 1999.
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March 29, 2012

Protection, rights urged for Afghan women

A call to stop imprisoning victims of violence comes amid fears that abuse will worsen as the U.S. leaves.
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March 29, 2012

Afghan forces nearing full control

The NATO chief says the transition to local command of national security is on track for a 2014 finish.
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March 29, 2012

Climate scientists: All cities need to prepare for disasters

WASHINGTON — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday. The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the […]