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Americans think tax bill is fair

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT

A new poll shows the majority believe so even if the majority also thinks they won't get a refund.

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Something new, much that wasn't, in Obama speech

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:27 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about fiscal policy at George Washington University on Wednesday in Washington, DC.President Barack Obama broke some new ground in his speech Wednesday, but much of it was a reprise of proposals and arguments he has made before.




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Too little sleep can harm young brains

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:12 PM PDT

Across the country each morning millions of groggy teens are dragging themselves out of bed and trudging sleepily off to school. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports on some surprising findings about the toll sleep deprivation has on our kids.

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Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:12 PM PDT

PBT: Kobe fined $100K for anti-gay slur

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:07 PM PDT

PBT: The NBA reacted swiftly to Kobe Bryant's anti-gay slur, fining him $100,000 on Wednesday for "offensive and inexcusable" comments.PBT: The NBA reacted swiftly to Kobe Bryant's anti-gay slur, fining him $100,000 on Wednesday for "offensive and inexcusable" comments.




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Mortgage lenders settle but still face probe

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:32 PM PDT

Since the housing market collapsed in 2006 after a wave of rogue mortgage lending, some 5 million homes have been lost to foreclosure.A settlement between federal regulators and 14 of the nation's biggest financial institutions does not mean the end of a wide-ranging probe into shoddy lending practices and wrongful foreclosures.




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Amid losses, Japan to reopen schools

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:11 PM PDT

An unidentified mother who lost her children stands in front of Okawa Elementary School devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan. The March 11 tsunami killed 74 of the 108 students at Okawa Elementary School and all but one of the dozen teachers.All along Japan's battered northeastern coast, schools have been heavily damaged or converted to shelters, and families are without jobs, permanent homes or cars.




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Bonds found guilty of obstruction of justice

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:46 PM PDT

Major League Baseball career home run leader Barry Bonds faced four charges for allegedly lying under oath to a federal grand jury in 2003 about the use of performing-enhancing anabolic steroids.Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice Wednesday but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids and human growth hormone.




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Egyptians on Mubarak: 'We never expected this'

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 01:42 PM PDT



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Thief? World leader teased for pocketing pen

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 07:03 AM PDT

Czech media chided President Vaclav Klaus on Tuesday after a viral Internet video showed him discreetly pocketing a ceremonial pen during a visit to Chile in what viewers are calling a theft.

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Obama's first 2012 campaign speech

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 12:29 PM PDT

More than anything else, the address on the deficit was the president's first 2012 campaign speech a week after he formally filed for re-election

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U.S. settles with big lenders on foreclosure flap

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 10:46 AM PDT

U.S. bank regulators announced settlements with the largest home lenders over allegations of shoddy foreclosure practices, but the pacts did not include financial penalties.

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Posted: 13 Apr 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Obama eyes tax increases, Medicare changes

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 01:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed lowering the nation's future deficits by $4 trillion over a dozen years with a package that includes reducing spending on politically sensitive health care programs and raising taxes on high-earning Americans.

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US jets strike Libya sites for NATO

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:56 PM PDT

U.S. warplanes hit three Libyan anti-aircraft sites overnight, U.S. officials told NBC, as the Pentagon revealed that U.S. pilots have continued to strike Libya after turning the mission over to NATO.

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Sleeping controllers prompt FAA to add staff

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT

An air traffic controller was suspended Wednesday after being asleep while a medical flight was landing in Nevada, marking the fifth lapse so far this year among controllers at the nation's airports. Four involved sleeping controllers.

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Yale student dies in chemistry lab accident

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 04:44 PM PDT

Michele Dufault died in an apparent accident Tuesday night.A Yale University student nearing graduation was killed in a school chemistry lab when her hair was pulled into a piece of machine-shop equipment, officials said Wednesday.




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Town piles on sandbags as river rises faster

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:39 PM PDT

Trina Lee tries to close the door to her garage in Valley City, N.D., on Wednesday as floodwaters from the Sheyenne River made their way in.Residents in Valley City, N.D., were sandbagging Wednesday after forecasters said the Sheyenne River was coming in higher and faster than expected.




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Back off S.C.! Fla. claims first shot of Civil War

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 07:46 AM PDT

Tourists cross a bridge to enter Fort Barrancas at Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola Beach on Wednesday, April 6. Some people claim that the first shot fired in the Civil War occurred at the fort, about three months before the battle at Fort Sumter.Some claim the clash at Pensacola was the Civil War's first, three months before the battle on April 12, 1861, at South Carolina's Fort Sumter.




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Woman: I was raped in Denver airport concourse

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 12:36 PM PDT

A woman who missed a connecting flight at Denver International Airport said she was raped in a deserted concourse by a man she met at an airport bistro.

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