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On Thursday, the president plans to deliver a speech focusing drone attacks and military detention — a pretty sweeping agenda for a simple policy speech, one that might signal a sea change in America's counterterrorism efforts, and Obama's foreign policy legacy.
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Rick Santorum says he raised $250,000 in one night after winning three GOP contests this week — a nice amount that wouldn't pay for the snack chips Mitt Romney throws at hungry reporters on his plane.
Homs continues to be pummeled by Syrian forces who shelled the city for the sixth straight day on Thursday, killing more than 30 people with rockets fired into residential neighborhoods.
"The Oracle" comes down from on high this month to deliver his annual wisdom to the shareholders of Berksrhire Hathaway, and naturally people want to know: Where does Warren Buffett put his money?
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After announcing his resignation yesterday because he didn't want to "run the country with an iron fist" former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed says he was forced to make that decision at gunpoint.
Rick Santorum rose from the near dead to win all three Republican voting contests last night, halting Mitt Romney's momentum and throwing another huge curveball at the GOP.
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The Washington Post has a huge exposé on 33 members of Congress who directed earmarks to projects close to their homes, but it's hard to see how this latest "scandal" should surprise or outrage anyone.
People are still talking about the middle finger and the marching bands, but now they're finally coming back to the forgotten star of Madonna's halftime show — the flying dude in the toga.
Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed resigned today after a "mutiny" by police officers who took over the state broadcaster in the nation's capital.
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Cyclist Alberto Contador has been banned from competition for two years and stripped of his 2010 Tour de France victory after being found guilty of using a banned substance during the 2010 race.
Josh Powell, a man who was a "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife two years ago, killed himself and their two children after blowing up his house on Sunday, possibly because he was about to be charged with her death
Did you miss the Big Game? Or just need to catch up on what everyone is saying about it this morning? Here's a recap of what happened... and what happened after the New York Giants pulled of their big 21-17 victory.
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Despite the angry words and hurt feelings on both sides of the argument, this week's controversy will see both the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and Planned Parenthood come out ahead in one very important area: fundraising.
The Associated Press reports that the federal government's list of those who are banned from flying in or to the United States has more than doubled in the last year, to 21,000 names.
As four states prepare to hold Republican caucus votes in the next week, The New York Times would like to remind you that the entire caucus system is a terrible way to elect a candidate.
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Punxsutawney Phil "saw his shadow" this morning, proclaiming six more weeks of winter, but animal meteorologis watchers in New York city received a dissenting view from rival Staten Island Chuck.
An analysis by The Los Angeles Times has found that there are 17 people or companies who gave more than $1 million to a super PAC last year, showing how just one wealthy individual can make a big impact on the election.
The state Senate in Washington passed a bill on Wednesday night that puts the Evergreen State on a course to becoming the seventh state in the country to legalize gay marriage.
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The BBC says that a leaked NATO report "fully exposes" the intimate relationship between the Taliban and Pakistan's internal security services.
Mitt Romney scored a monster victory on Tuesday, one so decisive that it may finally convince Republicans that their primary race has already been decided.
More than 1 million packets of birth control pills are being recalled after packages were made with the incorrect dosage of active and inactive tablets.
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According to a new study, the introduction of non-native snakes into southern Florida swamps has devastated the population of small mammals, almost completely wiping out some vulnerable species
In a candid admission that is both revealing of the inner circle of the White House — and designed to make the president look good — Joe Biden says that he, along with most of Barack Obama's senior advisers, told the president not to undertake the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
In the interest of providing equal time for all presidential candidate singing voices, here's a video of Mitt Romney singing "America The Beautiful."
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After a violent and ugly battle at Occupy Oakland this weekend, the Occupy D.C. protest is bracing for a fight today when a noon deadline to evacuate two Washington parks expires.
The lead story in The New York Times today concerns U.S. surveillance drones, operated not by the Pentagon or the CIA, but by the State Department, that are patrolling the skies over Iraq even after our combat troops have gone home.
The last batch of polls to come out before Tuesday's Florida primary show Mitt Romney to be a virtual lock for his first big primary win.
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The tragic story of a deadly Christmas Day fire in Connecticut took another sad turn after it was reported that the woman who survived attempted to kill herself.
Former Yale quarterback Patrick Witt supposedly gave up a chance to win a Rhodes Scholarship for a chance to play a game against rival Harvard, but a new report in The New York Times says there may have been another reason why he lost his shot at Oxford.
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Northrop Grumann is developing a next-level drone aircraft that not only flies without a pilot, but without any human controlling it from the ground.
A huge A1 story in The New York Times about safety problems at Chinese electronics factories is sure to turn up the heat on Apple as Americans become more and more aware of the true price of their beloved gadgets.
The founder of a company that sold thousands of breast implants made with an unapproved, industrial-grade silicon was arrested in France this morning, amid investigations for fraud and possibly manslaughter.
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Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the only Marine convicted of a crime for his role in the killing of two dozen civilians in Iraq in 2005, will not go to jail after a plea deal dropped all of the most serious charges against him.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians swarmed Tahrir Square on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of protests that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, but the demonstrations show that the revolution is far from over.
Right around the time President Obama arrived at the Capitol to deliver the State of the Union address, a U.S. military unit swooped into Somalia, killing nine pirates and rescuing aid workers who they had taken hostage.
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At least one protester was killed and perhaps as many as 50 others wounded in western China on Monday, as violence between Tibetan activists and Chinese security forces continues to escalate.
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