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Obama on pope, bishops, prayers on his Blackberry
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
President Obama, in advance of his trip to Rome, met with seven reporters from Catholic media and "The Washington Post" on Thursday to talk about the pope, the church and his administration's plans on some contentious issues.
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Alaska Gov. Palin, ex-VP nominee, resigning
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Republican vice presidential candidate, said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of ...
USA
Social Life
U.S. study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is so far more a series ...
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IOUs spell uncertainty for Calif. small businesses
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold. Dairyman Mike ...
USA
Social Life
Study: Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a ...
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Social Life
'Incredibly unethical': Federal probe finds problems in chelation study
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment ...
USA
Social Life
$2.7B in stimulus money released for schools
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is releasing $2.7 billion in stimulus dollars earlier than planned to help states confront increasingly ...
USA
Social Life
Spiritual adviser: 'Darkness' gripped Sanford
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
Each Sunday afternoon in May, Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife hosted five other couples at the executive mansion for a spiritual ...
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Social Life
Religious broadcaster builds $4M home despite layoffs at his ministry
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
Inspiration Networks' CEO David Cerullo is building a $4 million home in a gated, lakefront community in western South Carolina ...
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Social Life
Judge tentatively acquits woman in MySpace case
03.07.2009 14:16
usatoday.com
A federal judge on Thursday tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed ...
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Social Life
Wife of S.C. Gov. Sanford says she may forgive affair
03.07.2009 14:15
usatoday.com
The wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his affair with an Argentine woman "inexcusable" but said Thursday ...
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Holiday weekend forecast: Rain for Northeast, Plains, & Florida
03.07.2009 14:15
usatoday.com
Showers and thunderstorms will plague much of the Northeast, central Plains, Ohio Valley, and Florida this Fourth of July weekend. ...
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Bench trial for D.C. woman accused in daughters' deaths
03.07.2009 14:15
usatoday.com
A judge will decide the case of a woman accused of killing her four daughters, whose bodies were found decomposing in the family's ...
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Social Life
California prepares to issue promissory notes
03.07.2009 14:15
usatoday.com
California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with promissory notes as soon as Thursday after lawmakers ...
USA
Social Life
Lisbon Treaty ratification endangered by demands from Bavaria's CSU
03.07.2009 14:15
dw-world.de
Germany’s drive towards ratifying the EU’s reforming Lisbon Treaty may have one more obstacle to overcome after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative sister party in Bavaria demanded more concessions for Berlin.
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