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February 23, 2012

Is lying about medals free speech?

The Supreme Court questions if upholding the Stolen Valor Act would lead to a slippery slope of new laws.
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February 23, 2012

Brake trouble suspected in Argentina train crash that killed 49

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded around them. It was Argentina’s worst train accident in decades. The cause wasn’t immediately determined, but many pointed to a deteriorating rail system. Some passengers reported […]
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February 23, 2012

Faster-than-light-speed experiment found flawed

GENEVA – Researchers have found a flaw in the technical setup of an experiment that startled the science world last year by appearing to show particles traveling faster than light. The problem may have affected measurements that clocked subatomic neutrino particles breaking what Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein considered the ultimate speed barrier. Two separate […]
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February 23, 2012

Protests over Quran burnings kill seven

The U.S. has said it was a mistake and apologized, but to Afghans, it flouted their laws and their culture.
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February 23, 2012

Nation Dispatches

NEWARK, N.J. Mayor says NYPD mislead his city on Muslim surveillance The mayor and police director of New Jersey’s largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark’s Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have […]

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February 23, 2012

Journalist dies while telling of horrors in Syria

In Homs and other danger zones, Marie Colvin was driven to expose how war ravages innocent lives.
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February 23, 2012

As optimism for economy rises, Obama approval rating goes up, poll finds

WASHINGTON – President Obama is reaping political benefits from the country’s brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he’s addressing the nation’s post-recession period. But trouble could be ahead: Still-struggling Americans are […]
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February 23, 2012

Virginia anti-abortion bill dropped

The proposal, which would have required an invasive ultrasound test, provoked outrage and national ridicule.
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February 23, 2012

International rhino horn smuggling ring cracked

LOS ANGELES — Federal wildlife investigators in California and other states have cracked an international smuggling ring that trafficked for years in sawed-off rhinoceros horns, which fetch stratospheric prices in Vietnam and China for their supposed cancer-curing powers. More than 150 federal agents and other local enforcement officers raided homes, businesses and made several arrests […]
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February 23, 2012

In 20th debate, Romney and Santorum trade punches

In what may have been the last debate for Republican presidential candidates, the two front-runners clashed over health care and bailouts.