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1 dead in Ark. as more storms roll in - Yahoo! New...

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Violent weather pounded several Southern states for a second straight night, killing at least one person in Arkansas a day after a series of powerful storms killed 10 people in flooding and a tornado ...

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Lawmakers: Did bin Laden hide in plain sight? - Ya...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110503/ap_on_re_us/us...

Incredulous lawmakers are pressing Pakistan for answers to two simple questions: What did its army and intelligence agents know of Osama bin Laden's whereabouts and when did they know it?

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setting up 11-week fight - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110516/ap_on_re_us/us...

The government has maxed out its credit card.

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Feds must stop writing gibberish under new law - Y...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110519/ap_on_re_us/us...

The federal government is rolling out a new official language of sorts: plain English.

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Rescuers race to find survivors of Joplin tornado ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us...

Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri to...

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Netanyahu: Israel ready for painful compromises - ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cheering U.S. Congress on Tuesday he was willing to make "painful compromises" for peace with the Palestinians, but he offered little concrete to entic...

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Former street preacher gets life in Smart case - Y...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110526/ap_on_re_us/us...

Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront the street preacher convicted of holding her captive and raping her for months when she was just 14. Now 23, she stood tall in the courtroo...

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Weiner won't go; new photos surface on Internet - ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110613/ap_on_go_co/us...

The second-ranking House Democrat on Sunday joined the party leadership in urging Rep. Anthony Weiner to quit because of his sexting scandal, a request the New York lawmaker has sidestepped in favor o...

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US Rep. Giffords released from Houston hospital - ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110616/ap_on_re_us/us...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned home to her astronaut husband on Wednesday, leaving behind a Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her in the head five months ago.

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Hecklers disrupt Weiner's somber resignation in NY...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110617/ap_on_go_co/us...

Nearly three weeks after Rep. Anthony Weiner accidentally tweeted a photo of his bulging crotch, his final act as congressman was to attempt to resign with dignity.

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