Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:40:45 GMT
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ATLANTA (AP) -- The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor's No Child Left Behind law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:44:55 GMT
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DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims, a U.S. official said Saturday....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:27 GMT
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POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:16 GMT
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:44:58 GMT
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:32 GMT
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LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) -- In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:18:25 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- America is springing forward....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:40:07 GMT
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York politics, which has consumed more than a dozen elected officials or top staffers in the past two years, has become a kind of bizarre 'Survivor' show. And although careers have been ruined and some face prison sentences, none of them lost their jobs by actually being voted off this island....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:20:05 GMT
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests....
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:43:21 GMT
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck....
