The Christian Science Monitor – North Koreaâs surprise agreement to suspend uranium enrichment and missile testing in exchange for US food aid relieves tensions in one of the worldâs toughest security crises.
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North Korea nuclear moratorium: Will it last?
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AP – Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum collided Tuesday in a rancorous Michigan primary that tested the clout of the GOP establishment against conservative and tea party rebels as well as the candidates themselves.
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Romney and Santorum collide in Michigan primary
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AP – Shops and restaurants close early in Damascus these days, their owners eager to get home before dark, which sometimes brings shootings and other crime. Blast walls and checkpoints ring government buildings to guard against car bombs. Residents struggle with spiraling prices and power outages.
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Syrian capital is a city changed in a year
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AP – American drone strikes inside Pakistan are killing far fewer civilians than many in the country are led to believe, according to a rare on-the-ground investigation by The Associated Press of 10 of the deadliest attacks in the past 18 months.
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AP IMPACT: New light on drone war’s death toll
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AP – Most people like President Barack Obama’s proposal to make millionaires pay a significant share of their incomes in taxes. Yet they’d still rather cut spending than boost taxes to balance the federal budget, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows, giving Republicans an edge over Democrats in their core ideological dispute over the nation’s fiscal ills.
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Poll: Millionaire tax popular, spending cuts too
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AP – In the final months before she resigned as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin displayed growing frustration over deteriorating relationships with state lawmakers and their perceived efforts to “lame duck” her administration, along with outrage over ethics complaints that she felt frivolously targeted her and prompted her to write: “I can’t take it anymore.”
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Palin before resignation: I can’t take it anymore
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Reuters – Bailed-out insurer American International Group reported a $19.8 billion profit for the fourth quarter, after an accounting change that allowed the company to record an enormous one-time benefit.
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AIG posts huge 4th-quarter profit on tax benefit
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The Christian Science Monitor – Ron Paul has touted himself as the strongest fiscal conservative running for the Republican presidential nomination, and according to one new analysis, he may be right.
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Keen on slashing the national debt? Ron Paul is your man.
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AP – A former teacher whose arrest sparked a scandal at an elementary school that led to the replacement of all of its teachers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to committing lewd acts with 23 children in his classroom.
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Ex-LA teacher pleads not guilty to lewd acts
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AP – Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.
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11 children removed from Texas home in abuse case
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