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FBI: Last of 9 suspects in plot caught in Mich. (AP)

03.29.2010 20:15   1 views   0 comments
Tags: Nike, Detroit, Monday, Federal, Land, Stay, Christian

Two Detroit city police officers on horses wait outside the Federal Courthouse. Nine members of a radical Christian militia were charged with plotting to kill police in Michigan and wage war on the government, an indictment unsealed Monday said.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AP - The FBI says the last of nine people charged with plotting to kill police has been apprehended after a search in rural Michigan.


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US judge strikes down patent on cancer genes (AP)

03.29.2010 20:08   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Monday

AP - In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company's patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Read more »

Calif. man missing on Mount Shasta, friend rescued (AP)

03.29.2010 19:59   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Monday, California

AP - A California man was rescued Monday from Mount Shasta, but his climbing partner remained missing and was believed to be trapped near the summit, where stormy conditions restricted search operations. Read more »

Criticism of Vatican in Wis. over abuse scandal (AP)

03.29.2010 19:56   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Monday

AP - A man who says he was among some 200 deaf boys allegedly molested by a priest in Wisconsin said Monday the Vatican's defensive responses to revelations about the case make him feel like he did when he was 12, when no one would listen to him about the abuse. Read more »

Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults (AP)

03.29.2010 19:47   1 views   0 comments
Tags: Americans, Under, Health

AP - Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect. Read more »

French president, first lady take on New York (AP)

03.29.2010 19:29   1 views   0 comments
Tags: President, American, Wire, New York, Washington, University, Eris, Monday, French, France, York

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to students at Columbia University in New York. Sarkozy called Monday for US economic reforms, and in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past, said Washington cannot AP - With a lectern flown in from France and his fingers firmly entwined with those of his smiling wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a splash Monday even before he opened his mouth for a no-holds-barred speech at Columbia University.


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Criticism of Vatican in Wis. over abuse scandal (AP)

03.29.2010 19:03   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Monday

AP - A man who says he was among some 200 deaf boys allegedly molested by a priest in Wisconsin said Monday the Vatican's defensive responses to revelations about the case make him feel like he did when he was 12, when no one would listen to him about the abuse. Read more »

US judge strikes down patent on cancer genes (AP)

03.29.2010 19:02   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Monday

AP - In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company's patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Read more »

Calif. officials seek extradition of 'heroin king' (AP)

03.29.2010 19:02   0 views   0 comments
Tags: United

AP - The arrest of a man dubbed Mexico's "king of heroin" has disrupted a $10 million-a-month operation that smuggled tons of heroin a year into the United States, authorities said Monday. Read more »

French president, first lady take on New York (AP)

03.29.2010 18:54   1 views   0 comments
Tags: President, American, Wire, New York, Washington, University, Eris, Monday, French, France, York

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to students at Columbia University in New York. Sarkozy called Monday for US economic reforms, and in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past, said Washington cannot AP - With a lecturn flown in from France and his fingers firmly entwined with those of his smiling wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a splash Monday even before he opened his mouth for a no-holds-barred speech at Columbia University.


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Christian militia accused of plotting to kill cops (AP)

03.29.2010 18:43   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Nike, Detroit, Monday, Federal, Stay, Christian

Two Detroit city police officers on horses wait outside the Federal Courthouse. Nine members of a radical Christian militia were charged with plotting to kill police in Michigan and wage war on the government, an indictment unsealed Monday said.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AP - Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral — all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S. government.


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Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults (AP)

03.29.2010 18:41   1 views   0 comments
Tags: Americans, Under, Health

AP - Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect. Read more »

Feds pick Delaware, Tenn. for $600M ed grants (AP)

03.29.2010 17:47   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Army, Robert, March, David, High, Monday, School, Federal, Secretary, Fear

U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010.  (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - Federal officials on Monday awarded Tennessee and Delaware $600 million in grants to improve failing schools, sending a message to other states hoping to win money: revamp your education laws and get your districts and teachers to sign off.


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Republicans spent $1,946 at topless club (AP)

03.29.2010 17:36   1 views   0 comments
Tags: Republican, Michael, Jobs, Republicans, School, Party, National, Hollywood, Government, Committee

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.  A federal court Friday denied a Republican Party bid to raise soft money, the unlimited donations from corporations and individuals banned by a 2002 campaign finance law. In a separate ruling, judges said a conservative group can raise unlimited sums for independent election ads but must regularly disclose its donors. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - The Republican National Committee spent $1,946 last month at a sex-themed Hollywood club that features topless dancers and bondage outfits. Now the GOP wants its money back.


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US transit security beefed up after Moscow blast (AP)

03.29.2010 17:35   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Ministry, Paul, March, Monday, Russian

Emergency Ministry workers carry the body of a victim of a bomb explosion at Park Kultury metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. At least 37 people were killed and 33 wounded on Monday when suicide bombers detonated explosives on two packed Moscow metro trains during the morning rush hour, the worst attack in the Russian capital for six years, officials said. The blasts took place at Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations.  REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva (RUSSIA - Tags: DISASTER CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - U.S. transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday after the double suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system, sending more police into stations and officers to conduct random inspections of rail yards.


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Adult trial for boy in death of Pa. woman, fetus (AP)

03.29.2010 17:13   0 views   0 comments


AP - A Pennsylvania boy who was 11 when he was accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee with a shotgun blast to the back of her head as she lay in bed will be tried as an adult in the death of both the woman and the fetus, a judge ruled Monday. Read more »

Palin steps up rhetoric against her detractors (AP)

03.29.2010 16:56   0 views   0 comments
Tags: March, Former, Sarah, Facebook

AP - Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had some harsh words for her detractors in the health care debate with a thinly veiled, March Madness-themed Facebook post in which she declared, "never retreat, instead RELOAD!" Read more »

Specter pushes for stronger federal privacy laws (AP)

03.29.2010 16:47   0 views   0 comments
Tags: Obama, President, Barack Obama, University, March, Monday, Charles

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., speaks with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, March 8, 20201, after accompanying President Barack Obama on Air Force One to Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., where he spoke about health care reform. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Broadening wiretap laws to include videotaped surveillance could either safeguard privacy or thwart efforts to recover stolen property, a U.S. senator was told Monday at a hearing not far from a school that's being sued for trying to find missing laptops by activating their webcams.


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Heavy rain threatens to topple records in East (AP)

03.29.2010 15:41   0 views   0 comments
Tags: March, Monday, Heavy, Coach, Each

AP - Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Monday as they braced for a new round of flooding — and the wettest March on record in some areas. Read more »

Jewish leader doubts Carter apology on Israel (AP)

03.29.2010 15:38   0 views   0 comments
Tags: President, Israel

AP - A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month that the U.S. government has "yielded excessively" to Israel. Read more »

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