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Authorities: Powell kids struck with hatchet before blaze - CNN International

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Authorities: Powell kids struck with hatchet before blaze
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By the CNN Wire Staff Puyallup, Washington (CNN) -- The tragic tale of two boys killed along with their father in an apparent murder-suicide took another gruesome turn after authorities said the children suffered hatchet wounds before dying of carbon ...
Grandparents of 2 dead boys saw ominous signs in Josh PowellLos Angeles Times
Report: Father of man who killed sons in suicide house fire 'person of ...Fox News
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Appeals court to rule on California's Proposition 8 - CNN International

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Appeals court to rule on California's Proposition 8
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By the CNN Wire Staff San Francisco (CNN) -- A three-judge pannel with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution. After a two-week trial in 2010, ...
Court to rule on California gay marriage banReuters
Long-awaited ruling on CA gay marriage ban dueSTLtoday.com

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Maldives leader quits after police revolt

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President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned Tuesday after members of the nation's police force revolted against his government.
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Iran: US assets ban "antagonistic," will have no impact - Reuters

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Iran: US assets ban "antagonistic," will have no impact
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By Parisa Hafezi | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday denounced as "an antagonistic move" a tightening of US sanctions targeting Tehran's central bank and giving US banks new powers to freeze Iranian government assets, and said it would have no impact.
Jews With Ties To Iran And Israel Feel ConflictedNPR
Tehran 'ready to impose oil ban' on EuropeansJerusalem Post
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Looking to reset campaign, Santorum hits 3 states - Boston.com

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Looking to reset campaign, Santorum hits 3 states
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By Philip Elliott AP / February 7, 2012 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Republican Rick Santorum is planning some last-minute campaigning in each of the three states holding presidential contests Tuesday. The former Pennsylvania senator is set for a morning ...
Romney looks to squelch Santorum's late riseKansas City Star
Messy contests in Nevada, Iowa raise questions as several states prepare to ...Washington Post
Romney intensifies fight for social conservativesThe Associated Press

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Appeals court to rule on Proposition 8

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A three-judge pannel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.
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Obama should amend birth-control order - TheDay.com

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Obama should amend birth-control order
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If the Obama administration's goal was to come up with a policy decision that in one fell swoop could reinforce the worst fears about the Affordable Care Act, while at the same time damaging the president's re-election chances in some key toss-up ...
Catholic outcry over Obama administration's birth control decision could be ...Fox News
Romney Says Obama Infringing Upon ReligionKMBC Kansas City
Bishop Galante urges protest of health care policyCherry Hill Courier Post
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Amid Debt Crisis, A Trail Of Broken 'Promises'

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Financial writer Philip Coggan traces the current global financial crisis to the 1970s when the U.S. went off the gold standard. In his book Paper Promises, Coggan says governments will have to choose whether to keep their promises to their creditors or to their citizens.

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China's Heir Apparent Rekindles Early Ties To Iowa

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China's Vice President Xi Jinping is coming to America. Next week, he'll meet with President Obama at the White House. He'll lead a trade delegation to California. And he'll also make a stop in Muscatine, Iowa. Xi visited the town (population 22,886) in the 1980s, as part of an agricultural mission.

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Drought Ravages Farms Across Wide Swath Of Mexico

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Mexico is facing one of its worst droughts in decades. Government officials say more than half of Mexico's 31 states are affected, and in some areas farmers haven't been able to harvest crops for two years in a row. Mexico's federal government is pledging more than $2 billion to help.

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'Chicago-style politics' in Clint's Super Bowl ad? - Chicago Sun-Times

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'Chicago-style politics' in Clint's Super Bowl ad?
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By Corey Williams February 7, 2012 2:40AM This advertisement provided by Chrysler Group LLC, shows actor Clint Eastwood, featured in an ad titled "It's Halftime In America," which aired during Super Bowl XVLI, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.
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Was Eastwood's Chrysler Ad Political?WMUR Manchester
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Police: Sons struck with hatchet before fatal blaze

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Two boys killed with their father in an apparent murder-suicide suffered hatchet wounds before a fire in their Washington state home, police say.
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Amanda Knox appeals slander conviction

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Amanda Knox's Italian lawyer has filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy, a family spokesman said Monday. In October, an Italian appeals court overturned the young Seattle woman's murder conviction in the 2007 death of her British roommate in Perugia.





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Trouble in paradise: Maldives president driven out

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Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigned Tuesday following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge.


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Staff of Miramonte replaced pending sex abuse inquiry - Los Angeles Times

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Staff of Miramonte replaced pending sex abuse inquiry
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LA Unified Supt. John Deasy seeks to assure angry parents, who demonstrated at campus over allegations against two teachers. Officials say no other instructors are under suspicion. Angry parents demonstrate outside Miramonte Elementary on Monday.
Staff removed at LA school during abuse probeAlbany Times Union
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LA Miramonte school removes entire faculty over sex abuse claimsThe Guardian
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L.A. school replaces staff after abuse

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Students at Miramonte Elementary School will return to class later this week to a new staff because administrators do not want any more "surprises" at the Los Angeles school that is at the center of two child abuse cases.
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Russia Seeks to Prod Syria's Assad After Blocking UN Vote - BusinessWeek

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Russia Seeks to Prod Syria's Assad After Blocking UN Vote
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By Henry Meyer Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will seek to prod President Bashar al-Assad toward a political settlement at talks in Damascus after blocking United Nations action over his 11-month- old crackdown. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the ...
Syrian crisis: Army renews assault on HomsBBC News
Australia imposes new sanctions on Syrian leadersReuters
Search for a Syria strategy focuses on stiffening fragmented oppositionThe Guardian
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Iran calls US assets ban an 'antagonistic' move - Jerusalem Post

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Iran calls US assets ban an 'antagonistic' move
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By REUTERS 02/07/2012 09:30 Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman says "Sanctions will not have any impact on our nuclear course," calls US sanctions targeting central bank "psychological war which has no impact." By Reuters TEHRAN - Iran on Tuesday rejected ...
Iran calls US assets ban "antagonistic" moveReuters
New US sanctions on Iran aim to head off IsraelThe Associated Press
Iran's central bank hit by US sanctionsArizona Daily Star

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Messy caucuses in Nevada, Iowa raise questions - Boston.com

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Messy caucuses in Nevada, Iowa raise questions
Boston.com
By Cristina Silva AP / February 7, 2012 LAS VEGAS—After back-to-back fiascos in Nevada and Iowa, the term "caucus" may be on its way to becoming a bad word in the GOP lexicon. Those troubled contests cast a shadow over the volunteer-run presidential ...
Romney looks to squelch Santorum's late riseAtlanta Journal Constitution
Romney eyes new caucus battle in ColoradoAFP

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Staff To Be Removed During Probe At LA School

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The entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates, the Los Angeles school superintendent said Monday night.

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