House Dems on track for vote on $940B health bill
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:00 GMT
AP - House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party's fiscal conservatives.
Obama signs jobs bill as health care intrudes
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:03 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public's top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation's health care system keeps getting in the way.
US, Russia clash over startup of Iran nuke plant
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:11 GMT
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly Thursday over the planned launch this summer of Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons.
Accused 'Jihad Jane' denies terror plot in court
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:22 GMT
AP - A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" while she cared for her boyfriend's father denied in court Thursday that she sought to kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.
Gaza rocket kills Thai farm worker in Israel
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:28 GMT
AP - A rocket fired by Gaza militants smashed into a greenhouse in an Israeli border village Thursday, killing a Thai worker in the first such death since Israel's massive offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza more than a year ago.
Cruise liner hit again with illness returns to SC
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:28 GMT
AP - A cruise liner hit by an outbreak of intestinal illness for a third straight trip from South Carolina returned a day early Thursday as operator Celebrity Cruises brought in extra crew to scrub the ship down for three days.
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:33 GMT
AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
Bullock cancels appearance at London premiere
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:05:33 GMT
AP - Sandra Bullock canceled her appearance at the London premiere of "The Blind Side" days after Internet reports alleged she was having trouble in her marriage and that she had left the couple's Southern California home.
Passers-by call Colo. police over topless gardener
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:18:51 GMT
AP - A nudist in Boulder who was threatened with eviction last spring for gardening outside wearing only pasties and a thong has caused another stir by gardening topless. At least four callers told police 52-year-old Catharine Pierce was in her yard topless on Wednesday. State law prohibits exposed genitals, but Pierce was wearing a thong and gardening gloves.
NCAA: North Texas hanging with Kansas St
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:06:43 GMT
AP - North Texas within 18-13 of Kansas State midway through the first half by beating the Wildcats at their own game: seven offensive rebounds in the first 10 minutes.
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