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  • Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy

    Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy

    02/23/12 06:54 AM UTC

    President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he's addressing the nation's post-recession period. But trouble could be ahead: Still-struggling Americans are fretting over rising gasoline price...

  • Early morning attacks across Baghdad kill 31

    02/23/12 06:38 AM UTC

    Iraqi officials say a string of morning attacks across Baghdad has killed at least 31 people. The officials say the bombings and shootings on Thursday mostly appeared to target police.

  • Study: Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer death risk

    Study: Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer death risk

    02/23/12 05:58 AM UTC

    Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy, believing the dreaded exam may help keep them from dying of colon cancer. For the first time, a major study offers clear evidence that it does. Removing precancerous growths spotted during the test can cut the risk of dying from colon cancer in half, the study suggests. Doctors have long assumed a benefit, but research hasn't shown before that removing polyp...

  • Teen arrested in flight ruckus sang of bin Laden

    Teen arrested in flight ruckus sang of bin Laden

    02/23/12 05:57 AM UTC

    A Saudi Arabian teenager who authorities say swung his fist at a flight attendant, tried to hit passengers and mentioned Osama bin Laden during a flight to Houston was indicted Wednesday on charges of interfering with a plane crew. A cousin who said he was flying with the teen said his relative suffers from schizophrenia, was flying home to see his sick mother and hasn't taken his medication for three we...

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  • Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy

    Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy

    President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he's addressing the nation's post-recession period. But trouble could be ahead: Still-struggling Americans are fretting over rising gasoline prices. Just weeks before the summer travel season begins, the Associated Press-GfK survey find... More ...
  • Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'

    Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'

    The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it. "If anyone in my police department had known this was a blanket investigation of individuals based on nothing but their religion, that strikes at the core of our beliefs and my beliefs very personally, and it wo... More ...

  • DC police official in celeb escort flap to sue

    A former District of Columbia police commander whose division provided a police escort to actor Charlie Sheen last April has given notice that he intends to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, saying he was demoted because he testified to the D.C. Council that such escorts for celebrities were commonplace. Hilton Burton was demoted in August as commander of the special operations division and transferred to the medical services branch. In a whistleblower notice filed with the city ... More ...
  • Jury: 26 years total for former U.Va. lax player

    Jury: 26 years total for former U.Va. lax player

    A jury convicted a former University of Virginia lacrosse player Wednesday of second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend in a drunken, jealous rage, rejecting a first-degree murder verdict and a possible life sentence. Instead, jurors recommended a 25-year prison term for George Huguely V in the May 2010 slaying of Yeardley Love. They added one more year for a grand larceny conviction. More ...

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  • Philippines' Arroyo pleads not guilty to fraud

    Philippines' Arroyo pleads not guilty to fraud

    Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pleaded not guilty to an electoral fraud charge Thursday at the opening of a landmark trial that is seen as a key test of her reformist successor's campaign to stamp out corruption. Arroyo, president from 2001 to 2010, is accused of rigging the results of senatorial polls in 2007 to favor her candidates. The electoral sabotage charge is the first of several criminal cases being prepared against her. More ...
  • Chavez surgery throws Venezuela into uncertainty

    Chavez surgery throws Venezuela into uncertainty

    President Hugo Chavez has never been one to share decision-making authority. Now, the voluble socialist strongman and acerbic critic of the U.S. may have no choice but to designate a successor. His announcement that he will go to Cuba to remove a growth that he says is likely malignant could not come at a worse moment for the leader who is working to transform Venezuela with what he calls "21st century socialism." More ...

  • Avalanches hit Indian Kashmir; 3 soldiers killed

    Indian army officials say two avalanches in snowbound regions of Indian-controlled Kashmir have killed at least three soldiers. Several more are feared trapped in a military camp that was partially buried under snow. Col. K.S. Grewal said Thursday that three soldiers were killed in an avalanche in the mountainous area of Sonamarg. A second avalanche took place in Dawar, a town close to the militarized line of control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Part of a massive army camp... More ...
  • Australian PM calls party vote as challenger rises

    Australian PM calls party vote as challenger rises

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by the premier she ousted in a Labor Party coup. But Kevin Rudd's supporters said that even if Gillard survives Monday's vote, the turmoil surrounding her unpopular government will continue until she is out. Rudd, who resigned as foreign minister Wednesday during an official visit to the U.S., told reporters in Washington that night that he thinks Labor will lose next ... More ...

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  • Lakers hit midway mark with 96-91 win over Dallas

    Lakers hit midway mark with 96-91 win over Dallas

    Andrew Bynum had a huge smile on his face after he grabbed a rebound of his own miss and got fouled on an attempted putback. Not long after making both those free throws that put the Los Angeles Lakers ahead to stay, Bynum was running after teammate Derek Fisher to give him a big hug following a 3-pointer. More ...
  • No. 6 Michigan State beats Minnesota 66-61

    No. 6 Michigan State beats Minnesota 66-61

    Outsmarted, outhustled and even outrebounded for most of the game, Michigan State snapped back to stun Minnesota. But in between laments about his team's performance, Spartans coach Tom Izzo offered his due praise. Sometimes, the most important wins aren't pretty at all. More ...

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  • Palin aides lash out at HBO's 'Game Change'

    Current and former aides to Sarah Palin lashed out Wednesday at HBO's "Game Change," describing the upcoming film's depictions of her on the 2008 campaign trail as "sick" and inaccurate. None of the aides said they have yet seen the movie, which debuts March 10, and some said they had asked for an opportunity to screen the film but had been denied. More ...
  • Franklin says Houston's mother raised her well

    Franklin says Houston's mother raised her well

    Aretha Franklin says Cissy Houston raised her daughter Whitney Houston well — and that an interview where Franklin said parents need to make sure children "leave home prepared" was taken out of context. Franklin released a statement Wednesday, four days after Houston's funeral. She was expected to sing at the funeral in Newark, N.J., Houston's hometown, but bowed out because of leg spasms she said she suffered after a concert at Radio City Music Hall the night before. She performed again at R... More ...
  • Cowell: 'X Factor' wants 2 female judges, 2 hosts

    Cowell: 'X Factor' wants 2 female judges, 2 hosts

    Simon Cowell is playing it coy about rumors that Fergie, Britney Spears and Janet Jackson are being considered for "The X Factor." Two judges' spots on the Fox TV singing contest opened up when Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger left after the first season. Cowell told a teleconference Wednesday that two women will replace them, but he declined to comment on who's being considered. More ...
  • Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M

    Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M

    Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million. Wright's 345 comics, nearly all of which were published from 1936 through 1941, included many of the most prized issues ever, including Detective Comics No. 27, which features the debut of Batman, and Action Co... More ...

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  • Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy

    Poll: Obama benefiting from improving economy

    President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he's addressing the nation's post-recession period. But trouble could be ahead: Still-struggling Americans are fretting over rising gasoline prices. Just weeks before the summer travel season begins, the Associated Press-GfK survey find... More ...

  • Obama administration seeks online privacy rules

    The Obama administration is calling for stronger privacy protections for consumers as mobile gadgets, Internet services and other tools are able to do a better job of tracking what you do and where you go. Administration officials outlined a proposed "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights" on Thursday and urged technology companies, consumer groups and others to jointly craft new protections. Such guidelines would initially be voluntary for companies, but those that agree to abide by them could be ... More ...
  • Asia stocks fall amid Greek debt deal doubts

    Asia stocks fall amid Greek debt deal doubts

    Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday as investors fretted over the details of a deal to save Greece from financial collapse and preserve its place among nations that use the euro. Japan bucked the trend as the yen weakened, boosting exporter shares. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 1 percent to 21,337.54 and South Korea's Kospi lost 1.1 percent to 2,005.47. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.3 percent to 4,279.10. Benchmarks in Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan were also lower. More ...
  • Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosures

    Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosures

    California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive information from smartphones and computer tablets. The crackdown comes six months after California Attorney General Kamala Harris began discussing the need for better privacy protections with six powerful companies that have shaped the mobile computing market, spawning nearly 1 million applications over the past four years. More ...

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  • Scientist admits taking, leaking think-tank papers

    In the field of climate science, when someone — especially skeptics — did something ethically questionable or misrepresented facts, scientist Peter Gleick was usually among the first and loudest to cry foul. He chaired a prominent scientific society's ethics committee. He created an award for what he considered lies about global warming. Now Gleick admits that he posed as a board member to get and then distribute to the media sensitive documents from a conservative think tank that is a leader... More ...
  • Pioneering molecular biologist Roy J. Britten dies

    Pioneering molecular biologist Roy J. Britten dies

    Roy J. Britten, a pioneering molecular biologist who discovered the crucial fact that humans and animals have multiple copies of some DNA segments, has died. He was 92. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where Britten performed research for decades, said Wednesday that Britten died of pancreatic cancer on Jan. 21 at his Costa Mesa home. More ...
  • NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques

    NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques

    Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping on conversations inside businesses owned or frequented by Muslims. More ...

  • Obasanjo meets Senegalese opposition

    Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in Senegal to observe and help mediate a solution to this weekend's contentious election, is spending his first day in-country meeting opposition candidates. In a statement, Obasanjo said that on Wednesday he will meet five of the 13 opposition candidates running against the country's 85-year-old leader in Sunday's ballot. They include Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Moustapha Niasse, Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Idrissa Seck and Ibrahima Fall, as well as the... More ...