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Police: 4 Detroit police officers shot at precinct

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

A gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police precinct on Sunday, wounding four officers including a commander before police shot and killed him, authorities said.

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Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

'No Strings Attached' ties up top box-office spot

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 11:58 AM PST

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher play friends who try to maintain a sexual relationship with no emotions involved in "No Strings Attached."Audiences weren't afraid of committing to "No Strings Attached," making it the No. 1 movie at the box office in its opening weekend.




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Search goes on for missing Americans in Iraq

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:51 PM PST

U.S. Air Force Maj. Jimmy Smith holds a flyer with the photos of missing persons Bob Hamza, left, Abbas Kareem Naama, center and U.S. Army reservist Ahmed Kousay al-Taie, right, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maj. Smith is the head of the Personnel Recovery Division that is responsible for finding missing U.S. service members and others. The U.S. soldier was out of uniform when he sneaked off base on a motorcycle to visit his Iraqi wife in central Baghdad. The militiamen hiding nearby weren't fooled. They were seen seizing him at gunpoint.




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McConnell keeping his seat for State of Union

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 09:09 AM PST

Don't look for the Senate's Republican leader to take a different seat during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

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Brain fluid buildup delays full rehab for Giffords

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST

The Houston hospital treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Sunday that her condition is improving daily, but gave no update on the buildup of brain fluid that has kept the Arizona congresswoman in intensive care.

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Green Bay holds off Bears, packs for Super Bowl XLV

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST

Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers celebrates a score. Rodgers helped the Packers beat the Bears on Sunday in the NFC title game.Aaron Rodgers ran for a touchdown and made a saving tackle, B.J. Raji returned an interception for a score and Sam Shields had two interceptions to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 21-14 win over the Chicago Bears in the NFC championship game Sunday.




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Live: Updates on Packers-Bears

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 11:51 AM PST

Live updates: Follow along as Green Bay, Chicago battle in NFC championship game. The winner goes to the Super Bowl.Live updates: Follow along as Green Bay, Chicago battle in NFC championship game. The winner goes to the Super Bowl.




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Expect a subdued Fed appraisal of the economy

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST

If Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are too sparing in describing the recovery's progress, that could be interpreted as a lack of faith that this latest burst of economic vigor will last.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may have to muffle his applause for the sturdier U.S. economic recovery.




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Gas prices rise almost 3 cents in last 2 weeks

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:37 AM PST

A new survey finds the average price of regular gasoline in the United States has jumped 2.99 cents in the last two weeks.

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Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:37 AM PST

Civil War site is now a battlefield for Wal-Mart

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:31 AM PST

The proposed Walmart is located near the site of the Battle of the Wilderness, which is viewed by historians as a critical turning point in the war. The Supercenter would be outside the limits of the protected national park where the core battlefield is located.Nearly 150 years after Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant fought in northern Virginia, a conflict over the battlefield is taking shape in a courtroom.




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A wing and a prayer: outsourcing at Boeing

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:02 PM PST

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits on the tarmac at Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash., after its maiden flight.The 787 is not merely a historic feat of engineering. The program also marks Boeing's departure from its own time-honored manufacturing practices.




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U.S. diplomacy embraces Twitter amid global crises

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:46 AM PST

P. J. Crowley, communications director at the State Department, peeks out of a doorway of the Franklin Room at the Department of State in Washington, on July 31, 2009. The State Department is tightening its embrace of Twitter and other social media as crises grip the Middle East and Haiti, with officials finding new voice, cheek and influence in the era of digital diplomacy.




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Best bets: 'The Mechanic' ready for action

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 11:48 AM PST

Jason Statham stars as an elite assassin out for revenge in this remake of a Charles Bronson film. Also this week: Goofy animated spy "Archer" returns; "Secretariat" and "Nowhere Boy" come to DVD.

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Fraud plagues global health fund backed by celebrities

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:06 AM PST

Irish rock star Bono is among celebrities who have backed the Global Fund to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. That fund is now under fire for allegations of corruption.A $21.7 billion development fund backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations sees as much as two-thirds of some grants diverted by corruption.




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Stuck in limbo, families pursue Nepal adoptions

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 09:21 AM PST

Celia Bergman holds Karina, as she tries to spin a prayer wheel during a visit to the Boudhanath Buddhist stupa in Katmandu, Nepal. Bergman and her husband, Chad, say they've decided to sell their condominium in Chicago to help defray the high costs of persisting with efforts to adopt the 3-year-old girl after the U.S. suspended adoptions.Last summer, Vicki and Jed Taufer excitedly traveled from their home in Illinois to Nepal to adopt a baby girl. "We'll be back in September," Vicki wrote Aug. 4 in a new blog named after their daughter-to-be. That hopeful timetable didn't hold.




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Suspect in 1987 baby-stealing case is being held

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:41 PM PST

Ann Pettway, who raised a baby girl kidnapped from a Harlem hospital, has been taken into custody, more than 20 years after her alleged crime. A woman who raised a child kidnapped in 1987 from a hospital surrenders to authorities, days after a widely publicized reunion between the biological mother and the daughter taken from her as a baby.




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Cynical earnings season may weigh on stocks

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:15 PM PST

The much anticipated pullback is finally under way, some investors say, after a mid-week wobble. But the market is showing it still has some juice left.

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Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:15 PM PST