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• Hearing begins in labor complaint against Boeing
• 1st Libertarian presidential nominee Hospers dies
• Ga. gov: Hire people on probation for farm work
• Ex-contractor to serve 3 years in Afghan's death
• Torture, botched rendition investigations dog CIA
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• Lawsuit filed to demand Ariz. allow medical pot
• US, Argentina resolve spat over seized equipment
• APNewsBreak: Records clarify Loughner's outburst
• Monster matzo marks kosher bakery opening in NJ
• Lawmakers call for more fire prevention efforts
• Social Security makes $8B in improper payments
• NY gay marriage bill now in hands of GOP Senate
• US worried by deteriorating situation in Sudan
• Google expands spoken search to desktop computers
• Vegas judge's son pleads guilty in Bellagio heist
• House panel OKs defense bill, limits Pakistan aid
• Texas police won't charge 'psychic' with false tip
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• IG: NRC chief 'wrong' to mislead commissioners

Hearing begins in labor complaint against Boeing Posted: 14 Jun 2011 02:00 PM PDT Boeing on Tuesday asked a judge in Seattle to dismiss a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board that accuses the plane maker of breaking the law when it built a non-union production line in South Carolina.

1st Libertarian presidential nominee Hospers dies Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:50 PM PDT John Hospers -- the Libertarian Party's first presidential candidate -- has died. The party says on its website Hospers died Sunday in Los Angeles.

Ga. gov: Hire people on probation for farm work Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:50 PM PDT Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal offered a provocative solution Tuesday for farmers who claim workers have been scared away by a crackdown on illegal immigration: Hire people on probation to toil in the fields instead.

Ex-contractor to serve 3 years in Afghan's death Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:50 PM PDT A former Blackwater contractor has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for the May 2009 shooting death of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul.

Torture, botched rendition investigations dog CIA Posted: 14 Jun 2011 01:40 PM PDT Two of the CIA's biggest mistakes made under President George W. Bush are coming under fresh scrutiny.

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Lawsuit filed to demand Ariz. allow medical pot Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:20 PM PDT Arizona attorneys have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the agency that regulates the state's medical marijuana program to accept applications to operate from would-be pot shops.

US, Argentina resolve spat over seized equipment Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT The U.S. has settled a dispute with Argentina over that country's February seizure of military equipment brought in by an American police-training team.

APNewsBreak: Records clarify Loughner's outburst Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:01 PM PDT A transcript in the case against the Tucson shooting rampage suspect clarifies what he said in an outburst during a hearing last month in which he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.

Monster matzo marks kosher bakery opening in NJ Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT They're calling it the monster matzo. Kosher products maker Manischewitz rolled it out Tuesday to celebrate the opening of its new corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant in Newark.

Lawmakers call for more fire prevention efforts Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:51 AM PDT Western state lawmakers from both parties say they are worried that the federal government's firefighting efforts don't place enough emphasis on prevention, and the result is the kind of devastation taking hold in eastern Arizona, where more than 733 square miles have burned.

Social Security makes $8B in improper payments Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:21 AM PDT A government investigator says the Social Security Administration made $6.5 billion in overpayments to people not entitled to receive them in 2009, including $4 billion under a supplemental income program for the very poor

NY gay marriage bill now in hands of GOP Senate Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT The effort to legalize gay marriage in New York is getting an all-out lobbying effort from Democrats and celebrities, but there's still no sign of wavering among a critical bloc of Senate Republicans who led the defeat of the measure and blunted national momentum two years ago.

US worried by deteriorating situation in Sudan Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT The Obama administration says Sudan risks killing a process of normalizing relations with the U.S. if it continues a military campaign in areas disputed with Southern Sudan.

Google expands spoken search to desktop computers Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:04 AM PDT Making Google search requests on many office and home computers soon won't require a keyboard.

Vegas judge's son pleads guilty in Bellagio heist Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:51 AM PDT The son of a Las Vegas judge has pleaded guilty to being the motorcycle helmet-wearing gunman who made off last December with $1.5 million in chips from the Bellagio casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

House panel OKs defense bill, limits Pakistan aid Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:01 AM PDT The House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that imposes limits on U.S. aid to Pakistan and creates a special bipartisan group to review the U.S. role in Afghanistan.

Texas police won't charge 'psychic' with false tip Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:01 AM PDT Texas authorities will not file charges against a woman who sent them searching for bodies that didn't exist.

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IG: NRC chief 'wrong' to mislead commissioners Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:01 AM PDT The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general says the agency's chairman was unprofessional and "wrong" as he repeatedly misled fellow commissioners about his efforts to stop work on a disputed dump for high-level radioactive waste.

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