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| Obama seizes bully pulpit online to pitch budget (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:24 pm
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|  AP - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy.
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| Man tosses gas bomb in fight, sets own cars ablaze (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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| | AP - Authorities said a man threw a Molotov cocktail at his neighbor's trailer, but the wind shifted and set fire to two cars, a pickup and a travel trailer in the man's own yard. The Florida Highway Patrol reported that a 51-year-old man got into a fight with his neighbor on Tuesday night and threw the makeshift gasoline bomb. |
| Sources: More US troops for Afghan war (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:07 pm
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|  AP - Confronting an inherited and faltering war, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers to Afghanistan by the fall on top of the 17,000 combat troops he has already ordered, senior administration officials said Thursday.
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| Cracks in levee force evacuations in Fargo, ND (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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|  AP - Officials ordered the evacuation of one neighborhood and a nursing home late Thursday after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built to protect the area from the threat of the rising Red River.
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| Alaska volcano erupts twice, sends ash 12 miles up (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 9:56 pm
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|  AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted several times Thursday, spewing a more than 12-mile-high cloud that could drop ash on Anchorage for the first time since the volcano began erupting Sunday night.
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| Key Senate panel backs Obama's budget blueprint (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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|  AP - A key Senate panel stacked with allies of President Barack Obama approved his ambitious budget blueprint Thursday, giving the president a symbolic endorsement of efforts to boost clean energy, fight global warming and improve access to health care.
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| Baptist preacher runs again for office he bilked (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 9:04 pm
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|  AP - The ousted former president of a national organization of black Baptist churches is running for the position again, a decade after he was sent to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group.
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| Israel challenges Palestinian claim on Gaza dead (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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|  AP - The Israeli military on Thursday disputed Palestinian claims that most of the people killed in the recent Gaza Strip war were civilians, claiming the "vast majority" of the dead were Hamas militants.
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| Doctors say kidney stones in kids are on the rise (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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|  AP - Doctors are puzzling over what seems to be an increase in the number of children with kidney stones, a condition some blame on kids' love of cheeseburgers, fries and other salty foods.
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| Dallas officer delayed NFL player as relative died (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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|  AP - A police officer was placed on administrative leave Thursday over a traffic stop involving an NFL player whom he kept in a hospital parking lot and threatened to arrest while his mother-in-law died inside the building.
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| Sources: Obama to add US troops in Afghanistan (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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| AP - Concerned about the faltering war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers on top of the 17,000 fresh combat troops he's already ordered, people familiar with the forthcoming plan said Thursday. |
| Obama seizes bully pulpit online to pitch budget (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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|  AP - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy.
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| Pa. court to officer: No sense of smell, no job (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:16 pm
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| | AP - Police officers who lose their sense of smell also risk losing their jobs, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Thursday. A suburban Pittsburgh township had the right to terminate Officer David J. Agostino after he lost his sense of smell in an off-duty motorcycle accident, because officers must be able to detect drugs, alcohol, hazardous materials, natural gas and other substances, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel ruled. |
| John McEnroe duped in art scam (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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| | Reuters - Former tennis champion John McEnroe was duped along with investment firms, art owners and collectors and the Bank of America in a sophisticated $88 million art investment scam revealed in New York on Thursday. |
| Officials: Madonna trying to adopt Malawian child (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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|  AP - Madonna is planning to adopt a second child from Malawi, officials said Thursday, but questions have already been raised over whether the newly divorced pop star will face obstacles because of her single mom status.
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| Somali pirates hijack 2 tankers in 24 hours (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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|  AP - Pirates armed with machine guns hijacked a Norwegian chemical tanker Thursday off the coast of Somalia, the ship's owner said, an attack that came less than 24 hours after a smaller Greek-owned vessel was seized in the same area.
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| Official: Mexico not in danger of collapse (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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|  AP - The Mexican government is not on the verge of collapse, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, seeking to tamp down increasing alarm over the powerful and violent drug cartels operating in the country that is the United States' southern neighbor.
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| Gordo the skateboarding parrot stolen (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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|  AP - A birdnapper snatched Gordo the skateboarding parrot. The 30-year-old green Guatemalan parrot, a popular attraction for a decade in the San Gabriel Valley community of Baldwin Park, was taken from his front porch cage Wednesday morning.
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| 17 injured after tornado rips through Mississippi (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm
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|  AP - Severe weather across the South unleashed tornadoes in rural Mississippi, including one that shattered dozens of homes, flattened a church and injured at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday.
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| Obama wants high-paying, high-skill jobs in future (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:42 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama fielded questions on jobs, the auto industry, universal health care, mortgages, education, veterans' care and legalization of marijuana as he kicked off a first-of-its-kind Internet era Town Hall at the White House. Obama said job creation in America is difficult in a time of economic hardship and that the work of the future should be in more high-paying, high-skill areas like clean energy technology.
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| Tejada gets probation for misleading Congress (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:19 pm
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|  AP - With an apology to Congress, baseball and the kids who looked up to him, All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada received a sentence of one year probation Thursday for misleading Congress about the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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| Mortgage rates drop to record low (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:47 am
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|  AP - Rates on 30-year mortgages fell this week to the lowest level on record after the Federal Reserve launched a new effort to assist the staggering U.S. housing market.
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| Matt Lauer returns to chorus of jokes (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 11:43 am
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|  AP - Matt Lauer returned to the "Today" show on Thursday with his arm in a sling after flipping his bicycle over a deer — only to see his playful colleagues don deer antlers.
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| North Korea readies missile, makes new threat (Reuters)
March 26, 2009 at 9:48 am
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|  Reuters - North Korea said on Thursday that if the international community punishes it for next month's planned missile launch it will restart a nuclear plant that makes weapons grade plutonium.
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| NKorea positions rocket for April liftoff (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:57 am
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|  AP - North Korea has mounted a rocket on a launchpad on its northeast coast, American officials said, putting Pyongyang well on track for a launch the U.S. and South Korea warned Thursday would be a major provocation with serious consequences.
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| AP IMPACT: For troops in Iraq, shower may be fatal (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:31 am
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|  AP - The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances.
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| Obama budget on the march through Congress (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:30 am
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|  AP - For now, President Barack Obama's Democratic allies are endorsing his ambitious budget plan, but general agreements on fighting global warming and boosting health care promise to be severely tested later in the year as details are penciled in.
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| 20,000 ring Thai PM's office, demand resignation (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:27 am
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|  AP - More than 20,000 protesters ringed the prime minister's office Thursday, demanding the government resign, deriding its distribution of checks to millions of low-income workers as a payoff.
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| Fargo, ND, officials to raise dikes as river rises (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  AP - As the Red River rises into "uncharted territory," officials Thursday pleaded for thousands of volunteer sandbaggers, readied their evacuation plans, and vowed to build the dikes a foot higher than planned in an effort to hold back the water.
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| Vigil held for suspected Oakland cop killer (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:21 am
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|  AP - As the city prepares for a massive public funeral for four police officers slain in the line of duty, dozens took to the streets in a show of support for the man authorities say was their killer.
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| China criticizes new US report on its military (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 5:21 am
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| | AP - China on Thursday criticized a newly released U.S. report on Beijing's growing military power as a "gross distortion," saying it could damage military relations between the two countries. | | |  |
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