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| Hot, dry weather stokes raging Texas wildfires Posted: 10 Apr 2011 01:21 PM PDT Firefighters are battling blazes across much of West Texas in what state forest service officials are calling the single worst fire day the state has ever seen.           |
| Debate stirred over 1st major US tar sands mine Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:31 PM PDT Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new domestic source of petroleum for the United States. It would be a first-of-its kind project in the country that some fear could be a slippery slope toward widespread wilderness ...  |
| Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:31 PM PDT  |
| US gas prices jump 19 cents a gallon Posted: 10 Apr 2011 11:31 AM PDT The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 19 cents over the past three weeks.  |
| Fervor of Wis. debate shifts to recall elections Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:31 AM PDT Nearly a month after the Wisconsin standoff over union rights ended, some of the fervor from that debate has shifted to recall efforts targeting lawmakers in both parties -- Republicans who voted to cut back collective bargaining and Democrats who fled the state to try to stop them.  |
| Federal judge, 103, still hearing federal cases Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:11 AM PDT In a courtroom in Wichita, the day begins much as it has for the past 49 years: Court is in session, U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown presiding. But what happens next is no longer routine; it's a testament to one man's sheer determination.  |
| A paperwork mix-up nearly derails asylum seeker Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:01 AM PDT Kesnel Sineus thought he was following all the rules in his bid for asylum. The Haitian native filed an application, wrote letters to nudge his case along, had an interview, then waited for the next step.  |
| How to fix 'massive crisis' in immigration courts Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:01 AM PDT The mother from Cameroon came to immigration court bearing scars: She'd been imprisoned back home, she said, beaten with cables, burned with cigarettes and raped repeatedly, contracting HIV. Her husband had died behind bars; her three children she'd left behind were struggling to survive.  |
| A 17-month detention, now an uncertain future Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:01 AM PDT It was supposed to be just a night in jail for Juan Carlos Davalos. He'd serve his time, then go home.  |
| Conn., RI marine industry say taxes will sink them Posted: 10 Apr 2011 09:11 AM PDT Owners of businesses that build and service boats worry proposals to tax boaters in Connecticut and Rhode Island could sink their industry.  |
| Conn. judge to release home invasion witness list Posted: 10 Apr 2011 09:01 AM PDT A judge plans to release the names of potential witnesses in the trial of a Connecticut man charged with a home invasion that killed a mother and her two daughters.  |
| AP photographer missing in Libya Posted: 10 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT An award-winning Associated Press photographer covering the conflict in Libya is missing, the news agency said Sunday.  |
| Obama aide dismisses Trump 'sideshow behavior' Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT A senior White House aide says real estate tycoon and prospective GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is displaying "sideshow behavior" in questioning President Barack Obama's American birth and respect for the Constitution.  |
| Gang rape alarms residents of Calif. suburb Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT When Melissa Noriega moved to a quiet street in this suburb east of Los Angeles five years ago, she thought it was the perfect family place: kids played in the cul-de-sacs, neighbors knew each other and a small park was a stone's throw from her doorstep.  |
| Pentagon's second thoughts on Iraq withdrawal Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:31 AM PDT Eight months shy of its deadline for pulling the last American soldier from Iraq and closing the door on an 8-year war, the Pentagon is having second thoughts.  |
| Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:31 AM PDT  |
| US gay-marriage ban under assault but still potent Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:31 AM PDT These are frustrating, tantalizing days for many of the same-sex couples who seized the chance to marry in recent years.  |
| Maine Woods National Park idea faces challenges Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:01 AM PDT Conservationist Roxanne Quimby has some convincing to do if she's to sell her idea of another national park in Maine, starting with the state's congressional delegation.  |
| Critics fault retired Justice O'Connor over ethics Posted: 10 Apr 2011 05:51 AM PDT Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts, while also playing a role in public policy issues. Her critics say she should do one or the other, but not both.  |
| GOP presidential field sees budget wars from afar Posted: 10 Apr 2011 09:21 AM PDT Republicans are pressing ahead with one of the most ambitious and risky long-term spending agendas in memory, yet the dozen or so potential White House hopefuls are nearly invisible on the issue.  |
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