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- Republicans split on START ratification this year
- Mexico assures climate delegates: no secret talks
- Visited porn? Web browser flaw secretly bares all
- Texas judge to hold hearing on death penalty law
- Sailor remembers Pearl Harbor attack 69 years ago
- Clinton uses WikiLeaks disclosures to draw a laugh
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- Devout Hispanic Catholics get new Pa. church
- NY bust: Medicaid patients' Rx drugs go to dealers
- New Resorts owner: All ailing casino needs is love
- Calif. gay marriage foes gamble on win in Round 2
- More waiting for Indian plaintiffs in $3.4B deal
- NY sen. seeks bill to deter body scan image misuse
- US works to secure networks as hackers advance
- Nuclear chief says Iran to process own raw uranium
- Big crowd expected at Wis. hostage taker's funeral
- Calif. coroner says body is lost Russian skydiver
- Duke University turns its attention to community health care effort
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| Republicans split on START ratification this year Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:11 PM PST Key Senate Republicans reflected divisions in the party Sunday over ratifying a new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons before year-end.           |
| Mexico assures climate delegates: no secret talks Posted: 05 Dec 2010 12:20 PM PST Mexico's foreign secretary is telling the global climate conference in Cancun there will be no secret negotiations in the meeting's final days, assuring delegates they will not see a repeat of the last hours of 2009's Copenhagen climate summit.  |
| Visited porn? Web browser flaw secretly bares all Posted: 05 Dec 2010 12:14 PM PST Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography, a team of computer scientists found.  |
| Texas judge to hold hearing on death penalty law Posted: 05 Dec 2010 11:10 AM PST In the deeply Republican state that has executed more convicts than any other and the county that has sent the most to death row, an unusual legal proceeding will begin this week: A Democratic judge will hold a lengthy hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty in Texas.  |
| Sailor remembers Pearl Harbor attack 69 years ago Posted: 05 Dec 2010 11:10 AM PST The morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Yeoman 2nd Class Durrell Conner was wrapping Christmas presents aboard the USS California when he heard a commotion. Peering through a porthole of the battleship, the 23-year-old saw an airplane approaching low.  |
| Clinton uses WikiLeaks disclosures to draw a laugh Posted: 05 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton knows how to try to get a laugh from a public embarrassment.  |
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| Devout Hispanic Catholics get new Pa. church Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:40 AM PST When the Rev. Frank Depman came to this farming area in 1990 to serve Latino Roman Catholics, he borrowed space in a church to celebrate one weekly Mass in Spanish.  |
| NY bust: Medicaid patients' Rx drugs go to dealers Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:21 AM PST Ethel Johnson couldn't get her prescription for pain medication filled fast enough. The 60-year-old Buffalo woman was hurting -- but investigators say that wasn't the reason for the rush.  |
| New Resorts owner: All ailing casino needs is love Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST Asked about his plans to save Resorts Atlantic City, the first casino in the United States to open outside Nevada, new owner Dennis Gomes briefly touches on spruced up hotel rooms, guest suites and a snazzier casino floor.  |
| Calif. gay marriage foes gamble on win in Round 2 Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:40 AM PST The defenders of California's gay marriage ban took a pummeling during the first federal trial to explore the civil rights implications of outlawing same-sex marriages. They summoned only two witnesses, one of whom left the stand looking thrashed. Even the lead attorney was left groping for words when pressed to explain how allowing gays and lesbians to wed would undermine ...  |
| More waiting for Indian plaintiffs in $3.4B deal Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST Native Americans who sued the federal government over lost royalties have been waiting nearly 15 years for the $3.4 billion settlement Congress passed last month. Now they'll have to wait some more.  |
| NY sen. seeks bill to deter body scan image misuse Posted: 05 Dec 2010 08:20 AM PST A New York senator wants to make it illegal for anyone to distribute or record images produced by full-body scanners at airports.  |
| US works to secure networks as hackers advance Posted: 05 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST It will take several more years for the government to fully install high-tech systems to block computer intrusions, a drawn-out timeline that enables criminals to become more adept at stealing sensitive data, experts say.  |
| Nuclear chief says Iran to process own raw uranium Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:30 AM PST Iran's nuclear chief says scientists have delivered the first domestically produced raw uranium to a facility that starts the process of nuclear fuel production.  |
| Big crowd expected at Wis. hostage taker's funeral Posted: 05 Dec 2010 12:10 AM PST A large turnout is expected at the funeral of a Wisconsin boy who shot himself after taking his social studies class hostage.  |
| Calif. coroner says body is lost Russian skydiver Posted: 04 Dec 2010 11:30 PM PST Investigators have confirmed that a body found by a Southern California farmer is a Russian skydiver who was last seen jumping from a plane more than two months ago.  |
| Duke University turns its attention to community health care effort Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:08 PM PST DURHAM, N.C. — This so-called City of Medicine has long represented the highs and lows of the US medical system: It has a private medical school with a proud and profitable tradition of producing practitioners of such specialties as neurology and gynecology — and it also has a population riven by diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses.  |
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| Senate rejects Obama plan to end tax cuts for top earners Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:05 PM PST Senate Republicans derailed legislation yesterday to extend expiring tax cuts at all but the highest income levels in a political showdown that paradoxically clears a path for a compromise with the White House on steps to boost the economy.  |
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