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Ex-US Secretary Of State Kissinger Hospitalized - WJZ
L UBBOCK, Texas — Mike Leach is sitting across from his accuser as Craig James gives sworn testimony in the former coach’s lawsuit against Texas Tech. James, whose complaint of mistreatment of his son led to Leach’s firing, declined to comment Saturday as he walked into the university’s ...
Read moreMike Leach faces Craig James in Texas Tech lawsuit deposition - Boston Herald
DENVER (AP) — Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland , where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. Christine Mott of Leadville told ...
Read moreColo. mom says daughter held in Ireland in alleged terror plot against Swedish cartoonist - Baltimore Sun
Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP ...
Read moreNew Sen. Brown bashes Obama's `bitter' health push - Arizona Daily Sun
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over ...
Read moreSenate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects - kgw.com
BERLIN -- Berlin police said Saturday they had released a man previously suspected of taking part in the storming last weekend of a poker tournament in which armed robbers made off with euro240,000 ($328,000) in jackpot money. A spokeswoman for Berlin police - who did not give her name in keeping ...
Read morePolice: Suspect in poker heist released - Forbes
Olympic champion Bryan Clay of the United States defended his world indoor heptathlon title Saturday, defeating teammate Trey Hardee and Russia's Aleksey Drozdov. In a good day for the U.S. team, Christian Cantwell won his third shot put title and Debbie Dunn added gold in the 400 meters. Clay ...
Read moreClay of US wins heptathlon at indoor worlds - Times and Democrat
BEIJING —China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. "If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you ...
Read moreGoogle dispute: China says company must obey the law - Inside Bay Area
DOHA, Qatar— The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans are the focus of a United Nations conference in the Gulf state of Qatar. The 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, is discussing new proposals to regulate the shark ...
Read moreBlufin tuna tops CITES conference agenda in Doha - Boston Globe
CHICAGO - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system. Is it doctors practicing ...
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