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What dat? Seahawks send Saints limping home

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 05:45 PM PST

Matt Hasselbeck threw four touchdown passes and Marshawn Lynch scored on an electrifying 67-yard run in the final minutes to lead the Seattle Seahawks to an improbable 41-36 victory over the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints in the opening round of the playoffs.




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NFL playoff live updates: Jets vs. Colts

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST




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Scientists find a protoplanet's guts

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Astronomers identify a space rock that they say came from the interior of Vesta, a big asteroid thought to be in a class by itself.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Astronomers identify a space rock that they say came from the interior of Vesta, a big asteroid thought to be in a class by itself.




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Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST

Off the Bench: Spain's national broadcaster bans bullfighting

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:04 AM PST

Spain's leading broadcaster said Saturday it will no longer show the country's centuries-old tradition of bullfighting in order to protect children from viewing violence. Spain's leading broadcaster said Saturday it will no longer show the country's centuries-old tradition of bullfighting in order to protect children from viewing violence.




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US says American woman said jailed in Iran is free

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:42 PM PST

The State Department says an American woman reportedly arrested in Iran for espionage is safe and not in Iranian custody.

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Trailblazer Giffords known for speaking her mind

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:33 PM PST

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was born and raised in Tucson, Ariz., has established herself as tough on immigration during her political career.Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot and seriously wounded Saturday at a meeting with constituents, is not your typical congressional Democrat. The former Republican businesswoman is an avid motorcycle rider, a proud gun owner and is married to an astronaut.




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Cosmic Log: Tragedy's impact extends to space

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 03:11 PM PST

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Arizona shooting is likely to have reverberations that extend beyond Earth, for personal as well as political reasons.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Arizona shooting is likely to have reverberations that extend beyond Earth, for personal as well as political reasons.




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Loughner: I can't trust the government

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 05:46 PM PST

Emergency workers gather at the scene of a shooting involving Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Saturday, at a Safeway grocery store in Tucson.Profile of Jared Loughner, suspected in the shooting of a federal judge, congresswoman and others in Arizona on Saturday.




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Obama, colleagues call shooting a tragedy

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 05:34 PM PST

Expression of sadness over the shooting Saturday of Rep. Gabrielle , D-Ariz., came swiftly Saturday from friends and colleagues in the political world.

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Wounded congresswoman faced previous threats

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:44 PM PST



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Open Channel: Giffords discusses previous threats

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:46 PM PST



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Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:46 PM PST

Sheriff: Suspect may not have acted alone

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 05:42 PM PST

The Arizona sheriff helping investigate the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and several others says the gunman may not have acted alone.

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Video: Doctor: 'Optimistic' of Giffords' condition

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 10:50 AM PST

Jan. 8: Dr. Peter Rhee of University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., provides an update on the condition of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The congresswoman was rushed to the hospital Saturday after being shot in the head. (Other)Dr. Peter Rhee of University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., provides an update on the condition of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The congresswoman was rushed to the hospital Saturday after being shot in the head. (msnbc tv)




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Video: Obama: 'Gabby is as tough as they come'

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 12:35 PM PST

Jan. 8: President Obama comments on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., calling the congresswoman "a friend." (Other)President Obama comments on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., calling the congresswoman "a friend." (NBC News)




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Fiery package in DC triggers memories of anthrax

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 02:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2008 file photo, U.S. Postal employee Den Briscoe takes part in the questioning of officials from the Department of Justice, FBI and US Postal Service during a briefing involving the Washington post office anthrax attack at the Justice Department in Washington. After a package addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano burst into a flash of fire and smoke at a D.C. postal processing facility, Briscoe, now the president of the American Postal Workers Union local, told the Associated Press Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, that they want employees "to feel safe and secure and be able to trust management to respond properly if this were to happen again." (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson/File)Postal workers who returned to work Saturday said a package that ignited at a government mail facility conjured painful memories of the anthrax attacks that killed two of their colleagues in 2001.




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Bodies beheaded in Mexico tourist city

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco as drug violence in Mexico intensified.

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North Sudan faces its likely truncated future

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:43 AM PST

Sudanese men walk near the John Garang mausoleum where a polling station is being set up in Juba, Southern Sudan, on Saturday. Southern Sudan begins voting in a weeklong independence referendum Sunday that is likely to see Africa's largest country split in two. Sudan will lose a third of its land, nearly a quarter of its population and much of its main money-maker, oil, if south Sudanese vote for independence in a referendum Sunday as seems all but certain. Khartoum's government wants to make sure it doesn't lose its grip on power as well.




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France says 2 Frenchmen kidnapped in Niger killed

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 01:36 PM PST

The Toulousain restaurant sits closed around 2 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, hours after a witness said two Westerners believed to be French nationals had been kidnapped from inside at gunpoint by turbaned men in Niamey, Niger. The witness was dining inside when he said two men walked in, pulled out guns and told the citizens to follow them. Outside two more men were waiting and they forced the victims into a truck and sped off, according to the witness. (AP Photo/Djibo Tagaza)Two French hostages kidnapped in the Niger capital were killed by their captors despite a rescue attempt by French forces, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement Saturday.




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