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January 26, 2011

Pet owners more loyal to sweetheart than to Fido

Still, a sizable 14 percent say they would dump their significant other if they had to choose.
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January 26, 2011

Science exam sees most American students lacking

Educators fear the U.S. future as a science leader is in jeopardy with even basic ideas not understood.
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January 26, 2011

Judge: No mercy in embassy bombings

The defendant, the only Guantanamo detainee tried in a civilian court, receives a life sentence.
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January 26, 2011

Americans split on future of new health care laws

WASHINGTON — American attitudes toward changes in health care laws are “all over the map,” a Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey reported Tuesday. While 28 percent want the 2010 health insurance law expanded, 19 percent said leave it alone, 23 percent backed repealing it and replacing with Republican ideas and 20 percent […]
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January 26, 2011

Attacks on police raise security issues

Efforts to cultivate a more friendly image are tested by a wave of violence that has claimed 14 officers.

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January 26, 2011

Casualties from roadside bombs way up despite countermeasures

The number of U.S. troops killed by roadside bombs in Afghanistan soared by 60 percent last year, while the number of those wounded almost tripled, new U.S. military statistics show. All told, 268 U.S. troops were killed by the improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, in 2010, about as many as in the three previous years […]
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January 26, 2011

Federal judge shuts lawsuit over grisly ambush in Iraq

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in a grisly 2004 ambush on the streets of Iraq. U.S. District Judge James C. Fox said court-ordered arbitration fell apart because neither side was paying the costs of […]
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January 26, 2011

Republicans urge Obama to cut spending

'The days of business as usual must come to an end,' says Rep. Paul Ryan in the GOP's response.
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January 26, 2011

Analysis: Obama speech puts GOP on the defensive

His call for the nation to win the future may move the political debate to a friendlier place.
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January 26, 2011

Text of President Obama’s State of the Union

Text of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, as delivered and released by the White House: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new speaker, John Boehner. And […]

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