Romney looks to squelch Santorum's late rise
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:25:51 GMT
AP - Mitt Romney hopes his presidential campaign hasn't ignored Rick Santorum's aggressive attacks for too long, as caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday could reshuffle the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Russia's FM arrives in Syria for talks with Assad
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:25:27 GMT
AP - Russia says its foreign minister has arrived in Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad.
Autopsy: Kids killed in WA suffered hatchet wounds
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:29:52 GMT
AP - Josh Powell painted himself as a tortured man, ridiculed without reason in the disappearance of his wife, steadfastly insisting he was innocent until the end.
Staff removed at LA school during abuse probe
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:56:16 GMT
AP - The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school's teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a classroom.
Obama to seek more Alzheimer's research money
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:03:11 GMT
AP - The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.
Looking for work? There may be an app for that
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:09:59 GMT
AP - Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.
Oregon copter pilot has knack for finding the lost
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:20:56 GMT
AP - A few years ago, John Rachor painted his helicopter orange and yellow, so it would be easier to spot if he ever crashed and became the target of a search and rescue operation in the rugged forests of southwestern Oregon.
US trip of China's next leader: From Obama to Iowa
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:21:25 GMT
AP - In 1985, Xi Jinping led a delegation to Muscatine, Iowa, to study advanced hog-raising techniques. He comes back next week, preparing to lead the world's most populous nation.
Jay-Z enters new musical heights at Carnegie Hall
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:47:06 GMT
AP - As Jay-Z transitioned from hit song to hit song at a Carnegie Hall concert Monday night, so did the lighting, changing from red to white to blue.
New York to fete Giants with parade up Broadway
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:08:25 GMT
AP - The New York Giants are returning from their Super Bowl win to a celebration the likes that only New York can throw: a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway, where the city has honored stars for almost a century.