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BAGHDAD – A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Friday alongside a crowd of Shiite ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Ten Baptist missionaries are facing kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to ...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Afghan border police mistook a group of villagers gathering wood near the ...
WASHINGTON – A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday, quickly dumping large amounts of ...

Goodell hopes union is wrong about lockout chances (AP)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The only thing certain about pro football for the rest of this year is that either the Colts or Saints will win Sunday's Super Bowl. After that, the NFL likely will enter its first season since ...
Goodell hopes union is wrong about lockout chances (AP)

Police: Sheen vehicle stolen, crashed in ravine (AP)

LOS ANGELES – A Mercedes that Charlie Sheen reported stolen from his Sherman Oaks home was found overturned hundreds of feet down a nearby cliff early Friday, but there's no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into ...
Police: Sheen vehicle stolen, crashed in ravine (AP)

Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill (AP)

WASHINGTON – No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress. The president's newly conflicting signals could ...
Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill (AP)

Afghan police patrol kills 7 civilians (AP)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Afghan border police mistook a group of villagers gathering wood near the Pakistan border as insurgents and opened fire, killing seven civilians, a police official said Saturday. All six officers involved in Friday's pre-dawn shooting have been ...
Afghan police patrol kills 7 civilians (AP)

US missionary freed by NKorea starts journey home (AP)

BEIJING – Looking pale and drawn, an American missionary headed home Saturday after North Korea released him from six weeks' detention for crossing its border on Christmas Day to protest religious suppression in the totalitarian regime. Robert Park, his eyes ...
US missionary freed by NKorea starts journey home (AP)

Snow piles up, paralyzing nation’s capital (AP)

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WASHINGTON – A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday, quickly dumping large amounts of snow on that piled up on roadways and toppled trees onto apartment buildings and cars.
Officials urged people to huddle at home for the weekend, out of the way of crews trying to keep up with a storm that forecasters said [...]

European crisis highlights fragile global recovery (AP)

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IQALUIT, Nunavut – A crisis in Europe over unsustainable government debts that sparked renewed global market turmoil leapt to the top of the agenda Saturday for global financial leaders meeting half a world away in the Canadian Arctic.
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrial countries are also thrashing out differences [...]

Japanese media criticize Toyota chief for response (AP)

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TOKYO – Japanese media sharply criticized Toyota’s president Saturday as offering a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive car recall that has sullied the world’s biggest automaker and Japanese corporate icon.
Akio Toyoda, the founder’s grandson appointed to lead Toyota Motor Corp. last June, emerged late Friday to apologize and address criticism that the company [...]

Alito objected to Obama’s history claim (AP)

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WASHINGTON – Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words “not true” during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address? He objected to the president’s saying the ruling reversed a century of law.
The president touched off a controversy when he broke with tradition — and decorum, his critics [...]

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