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Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., …
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Judge Rejects Conservative Activists’ Case Against Proposition 8
Supporters of the effort to repeal Prop 8 gather in front of the Phillip J. Burton Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on June 16, 2010. Chief District Judge James …
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Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Washington - Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the …
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Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Uncertain Despite Carcinogen Ruling
Family members outside their FEMA trailer. Trailers supplied by FEMA to Katrina survivors were found to have harmful levels of formaldehyde in them. Last week, the Department of Health …
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Bachmann Calls for Huge Corporate Tax Cut Alongside Tax Increase for the Working Poor
Several of the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls have laid out economic platforms that would include huge cuts in the corporate tax rate. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) called …
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Syrian Unrest Stirs New Fear of Deeper Sectarian Divide
The Syrian government's retaking of a town this weekend that had teetered beyond its control is sharpening sectarian tensions along one of the country's most explosive fault lines: relations …
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Job Growth Is Theme of Obama’s North Carolina Visit
President Barack Obama visited the Triangle on Monday with some of the nation's leading corporate executives in tow, pledging to find ways to accelerate job growth in an economy …
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Detroit Catholics Clergymen Defy Bishop, Turn Out for Liberal Mass
Defying the Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit, a priest led a Mass Sunday organized by the American Catholic Council, a controversial umbrella group of liberal Catholics. And dozens of …
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Supreme Court Rejects Argument That Officials’ Votes Are Protected Free Speech
Denver - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld ethics laws across the nation that forbid legislators and city council members from voting on matters in which they have a …
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GOP Hopefuls Point Finger at Obama, Not Each Other
Republican candidates for president before a debate at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 13, 2011. From left: Former Sen. Rick Santorum, …