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Cookie sales barred at Girl Scouts founder's home

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:31 PM PST

Girl Scouts are no longer able to sell their famous cookies outside the historic Savannah home of the woman who founded the organization almost a century ago.

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Tea party 2012 poll favors Ga.'s Cain, Texas' Paul

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:20 PM PST

Tea party supporters voting in a straw poll at a national summit favor conservative Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Georgia radio host Herman Cain for president in 2012.

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Native American groups sue to stop solar projects

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:01 PM PST

Native Americans are clashing with the federal government over plans to fast-track approval and construction of massive solar energy projects that the Indians fear will harm sacred and culturally significant sites in Western deserts.

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Foreclosures helping change color of some suburbs

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:01 PM PST

Three years ago, Lamar Grace left Detroit for the suburb of Southfield. He got a good deal -- a 3,000-square-foot colonial that once was worth $220,000. In foreclosure, he paid $109,000.

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Clinton: US ready to aid to Libyan opposition

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 12:01 PM PST

The Obama administration stands ready to offer "any type of assistance" to Libyans seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday, adding a warning to other African nations not to let mercenaries go to the aid of the longtime dictator.

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Tea party members vow to hold GOP accountable

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:30 AM PST

Antsy for results, tea party supporters say they're intent on making sure Republicans elected last fall live up to promises to dramatically change course in Washington.

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Boehner makes budget case at religious convention

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 10:40 AM PST

House Speaker John Boehner is making his case for the GOP plan to prevent a shutdown of the federal government in a speech to religious broadcasters.

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Calif. pot dispensaries run afoul of taxman

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 10:30 AM PST

In Northern California, few cities have worked as long or as hard as Berkeley and Oakland to nudge medical marijuana into the mainstream.

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UN, world further isolate Libya's Gadhafi

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 10:20 AM PST

Armed with tough Security Council sanctions, the U.N. and many nations began moving to isolate Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from the international community in hopes of halting his deadly crackdown on protesters.

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Posted: 27 Feb 2011 10:20 AM PST

NJ gov compliments first lady's health efforts

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 09:31 AM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who says he's struggled with a weight problem most of his life, thinks first lady Michelle Obama is doing well to speak in favor of healthy eating and exercise.

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Lieberman: Report on Army mind tricks `weird'

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 09:11 AM PST

One of the U.S. senators allegedly targeted by an Army unit using psychological operations to help get more money and troops for the Afghanistan war says he doesn't believe he's been "brainwashed."

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Soldier impersonators target women in web scams

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 08:50 AM PST

Scamsters are targeting women on Facebook in what's becoming an all-too-common ruse: They steal photos of soldiers to set up profiles, profess their love and devotion in sappy messages -- and then ask their victims to cut a check.

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AP sources: Gingrich closer to presidential run

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 08:30 AM PST

Republican officials say former House Speaker Newt Gingrich intends to take a formal step in the next two weeks toward a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

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AP sources: Newt Gingrich intends to take step toward GOP

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 08:15 AM PST

AP sources: Newt Gingrich intends to take step toward GOP presidential run in next 2 weeks.

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Vt. 'town mother' retiring after Town Meeting Day

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 07:40 AM PST

Dog registrar, historian, justice of the peace, town meeting organizer: For nearly 48 years, Town Clerk Eva Morse has been "town mother" in this rural Vermont town.

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Wis. governor says protests haven't swayed him

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 07:30 AM PST

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the two weeks of protests in the state capital haven't swayed his resolve to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees.

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Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 07:11 AM PST

A Massachusetts biotech company is claiming it can produce renewable diesel fuel using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

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Search resumes for NY pilot in vintage jet crash

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:50 AM PST

State police in New York have resumed a search for the pilot of a vintage military jet that crashed into ice on the Hudson River as it came in for a landing at a Kingston airport.

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US citizen recalls 'humiliating' post-9/11 arrest

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 05:11 AM PST

Handcuffed and marched through Washington's Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking.

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