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- Obama close to decision on Afghan troop drawdown
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- Man urinates in water, city flushes 8M gallons
- NJ doc eyed in bid to kill wife, lover, ex-partner
- San Diego woman may lose more limbs to dog attack
- Officials: $600M of NYC payroll project tainted
- Ban on mining claims near Grand Canyon extended
- Girl shot with mom in Calif taken off life support
- Husband: Giffords had reunion with staff in Tucson
- Hawaii high court allows for discipline defense
- FBI steps up efforts to find Whitey's girlfriend
- Havana artisan makes guayaberas for the famous
- Sununu loses suit over airline consulting deal
- Woman testifies about Iraq rape while KBR worker
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- Democrats outpace GOP in May party fundraising
- Anadarko to pay $17 million royalty settlement
- WH: Foreign investment in US up 49 percent in 2010
| Obama close to decision on Afghan troop drawdown Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT President Barack Obama is close to announcing the critical next phase in America's decade-long war in Afghanistan, outlining both a plan to start bringing U.S. troops home next month and a broader withdrawal blueprint aimed at giving Afghans control of their own security in 2014.            |
| Rural Maine couple lives in 2 shipping containers Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT A rural Maine couple calls home a pair of former shipping containers bought online for $1,500.  |
| 3 miners trapped in mine in southeastern Kentucky Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT A spokeswoman for the Mine Safety and Health Administration says crews are pumping 1,100 gallons of water per minute from a mine where three Kentucky coal miners have been trapped for hours.  |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT  |
| Man urinates in water, city flushes 8M gallons Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:10 PM PDT An Oregon city is flushing 8 million gallons of city drinking water because a man was caught on camera urinating in one of its reservoirs.  |
| NJ doc eyed in bid to kill wife, lover, ex-partner Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:10 PM PDT Prosecutors say a New Jersey doctor has been indicted on charges that he tried to have his wife, his lover and a former business partner killed.  |
| San Diego woman may lose more limbs to dog attack Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:20 PM PDT Relatives say a 75-year-old woman attacked by a pair of pit bulls in her San Diego backyard had one leg amputated and could lose her other leg and an arm.  |
| Officials: $600M of NYC payroll project tainted Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT Authorities say nearly all of the more than $600 million that New York City paid for a new payroll system was directly or indirectly tainted by fraud.  |
| Ban on mining claims near Grand Canyon extended Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT The Interior Department has extended a temporary ban on the filing of new mining claims in a 1 million-acre area near the Grand Canyon.  |
| Girl shot with mom in Calif taken off life support Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT A 14-year-old California girl who was gravely wounded after she and her mother were shot by a man they moved 350 miles to hide from has been taken off life support.  |
| Husband: Giffords had reunion with staff in Tucson Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT Astronaut Mark Kelly says a weekend visit home to Tucson was good medicine for his wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.  |
| Hawaii high court allows for discipline defense Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:10 AM PDT A divided Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled that a man convicted of punching his stepson should have been allowed to raise parental discipline as a defense.  |
| FBI steps up efforts to find Whitey's girlfriend Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:10 AM PDT The FBI is hoping to track down fugitive Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger by focusing public attention on his longtime girlfriend.  |
| Havana artisan makes guayaberas for the famous Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:01 AM PDT Under fluorescent lights and a whirling ceiling fan that is no match for the Havana summer morning heat, Emiliano Nelson Guerra traced a pattern onto a bolt of pink cotton cloth and carefully scissored the edges.  |
| Sununu loses suit over airline consulting deal Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT A judge is handing former White House chief of staff John Sununu a loss in a suit over a half-million-dollar consulting fee and a warning against handshake deals.  |
| Woman testifies about Iraq rape while KBR worker Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT A Texas woman tearfully told jurors Monday that she was "scared to death" and held against her will by her employer after being sexually assaulted in Iraq at the hands of co-workers for military contractor KBR Inc.  |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT  |
| Democrats outpace GOP in May party fundraising Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:54 AM PDT The Democratic National Committee raised $10.5 million in May, outpacing its Republican counterpart for the month and generating more money for a joint fundraising account with President Barack Obama's campaign.  |
| Anadarko to pay $17 million royalty settlement Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:10 AM PDT The Justice Department says Anadarko Petroleum Corp. , Kerr-McGee Corp. and affiliates have agreed to pay more than $17 million to settle allegations of knowingly underpaying royalties on natural gas produced from federal land and Indian leases.  |
| WH: Foreign investment in US up 49 percent in 2010 Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers says foreign investment in the United States has increased by 49 percent from last year, but still not enough to rise to the 2008 level.  |
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