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FDA panel: No warning needed on food dye

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:47 PM PDT

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration has recommended that the agency further study the link between food coloring and childhood hyperactivity, but said products that contain the dyes do not need package warnings.

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Waitresses fired when new uniforms don't fit

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:34 PM PDT

Sixteen cocktail waitresses at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City were fired after being told they're not a fit for the casino's new sexy uniforms.

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400-year-old King James Bible found in English church

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:48 PM PDT

A printing error helped a 12th century English village church realize it owned a rare 400-year-old King James Bible, the book that changed the world.

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Video: Politician regrets 'chocolate covered' remark

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:01 AM PDT

March 31: A South Carolina city councilwoman says her remark calling for a "chocolate covered" city event was off the top of her head, and regrets saying it, though she does want more inclusive events in the future. WSAV's Joann Merrigan reports. (NBC News Channel)A South Carolina city councilwoman says her remark calling for a "chocolate covered" city event was off the top of her head, and regrets saying it, though she does want more inclusive events in the future. WSAV's Joann Merrigan reports. (NBC News)




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Video: Gadhafi troops outgun rebels

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:35 PM PDT

March 31: Despite that high-profile defection, on the ground it's Gadhafi's troops who are making gains. They've re-taken the oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega, and are now threatening Aj-daabiya. Each time the opposition try to advance they are forced back in disarray - as ITV's Geraint Vincent has witnessed.  (Nightly News)Despite that high-profile defection, on the ground it's Gadhafi's troops who are making gains. They've re-taken the oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega, and are now threatening Aj-daabiya. Each time the opposition try to advance they are forced back in disarray - as ITV's Geraint Vincent has witnessed. (Nightly News)




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Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:35 PM PDT

Boehner signals compromise in budget talks

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:56 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other GOP leaders comment on the Senate Democratic leadership and the problems in passing a long-term spending bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.Despite fresh pressure from tea party conservatives, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that Republicans "can't impose our will" on the White House and Senate Democrats on legislation to cut tens of billions of dollars in federal spending.




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Where's the spending squabble heading?

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:45 AM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner is trying to keep his own members aligned behind a bill to cut federal spending.Here's a look where the budget debate stands when it comes to funding the government for the rest of this fiscal year and why Democrats and Republicans are struggling to strike a deal.




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Hernandez's walk-off HR lifts Reds

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PDT

Reds catcher Ramon Hernandez rounds the bases past Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder after hitting a walk-off three-run home run off reliever John Axford in the ninth inning Thursday. Cincinnati won 7-6.Ramon Hernandez hit a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday, rallying the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in an opening-day flashback to their NL Central title season.




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Scots ask to question Libyan defector on Lockerbie

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:13 AM PDT

Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa holds a news conference in Tripoli in this March 18, 2011 file photo. Koussa flew to London from Tunisia on March 30, 2011, Tunisia's official news agency reported, and the Libyan government said he was travelling on a diplomatic mission. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/Files (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT HEADSHOT)Scottish prosecutors are seeking to question Libya's ex-foreign minister Moussa Koussa, who has defected, about his knowledge of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103.




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Teixeira, Granderson homer as Yanks win opener

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PDT

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira belts a three-run homer in the third inning against the Tigers on Thursday.Curtis Granderson hit a go-ahead homer leading off the seventh inning and Mark Teixeira had a three-run shot off Justin Verlander, lifting New York over the Detroit Tigers 6-3 Thursday in the first regular-season game played in the Bronx in March.




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Billionaire pays $100 million for mansion

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:35 AM PDT

Aerial shot of the 25,500-square-foot home in Los Altos Hills, Calif. home purchased by billionaire Yuri Milner for a reported $100 million, which may be the highest known price ever for a single-family home in the U.S.Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner has paid the highest known price for a single-family U.S. home ever — a whopping $100 million.




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Chipper, Heyward, Lowe help Braves beat Nats 2-0

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez stands near home before their opening day baseball game with the Washington Nationals on Thursday, March 31, 2011 in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Welcome back, Chipper. Nice way to start, Fredi.




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Your boss: The office referee

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:48 AM PDT

Life Inc.: Here's a reason to have sympathy for your managers: They are spending nearly 20 percent of their time dealing with the fact that their employees can't play nice.Life Inc.: Here's a reason to have sympathy for your managers: They are spending nearly 20 percent of their time dealing with the fact that their employees can't play nice.




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Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:48 AM PDT

Former aide says she saw trainer inject Bonds

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:34 PM PDT

Barry Bonds arrives at the federal courthouse for his perjury trial in San Francisco,  Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Tears streaming from her eyes, Barry Bonds' former personal shopper became the first and only one of the government's 23 witnesses at his federal trial to say she saw the all-time home run leader getting an injection from his trainer.




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Betty White to host new NBC reality show

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:28 AM PDT

The unstoppable Betty White, 89, is taking on reality TV with a hidden-camera show that turns senior citizens into merry pranksters.The unstoppable Betty White is taking on reality TV with a hidden-camera show that turns senior citizens into merry pranksters.




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Fighting rages in Ivory Coast's main city

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:29 PM PDT

A pro-Gbagbo militiaman mans a post in the empty streets of Abidjan on Thursday. Fighters trying to install Ivory Coast's democratically elected president descended Thursday on its largest city and seat of power, poised for a final push to unseat entrenched ruler Laurent Gbagbo.




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Soldier admits sneaking into Auschwitz during WWII

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:43 AM PDT

Former British prisoner of war, Denis Avey just wrote the biography, "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz."It took him more than 60 years to break his silence, but in a new book 92-year-old Denis Avey tells the story of how he broke into Auschwitz concentration camp twice to witness for himself the horrors of the Holocaust.




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Olympic judo silver medalist Heill dies at 29

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2004 file photo Austria's judoka Claudia Heill displays her silver medal she won at the Olympic games in Athens, after her arrival at Vienna's Schwechat airport. Heill died at the age of 29 after committing suicide the Austrian Judo federation said on Thursday, March 31. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)The Austrian judo federation says former Olympic judo silver medalist Claudia Heill of Austria has committed suicide by jumping out of a sixth-story window in central Vienna. She was 29.




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