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Al-Qaida confirms bin Laden’s death, threatens to retaliate
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Al-Qaida vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden...
BlackBerry maker slashes 2,000 jobs as revenue falters
LOS ANGELES — Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of...
Senate Democrats want tax on millionaires to pay for Obama’s jobs...
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders are proposing a...
EPA study links fracking to groundwater pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released...
Requiem for a Failed Education Policy: The Long Slow Death of...
Eleven years ago, I moved to Washington, D.C. to work on education...
Rescuers, back home from Haiti, used instincts to save victims
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— South Florida firefighters used a carjack to lift rubble from the leg of a wounded man trapped inside a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, hospital, relying on their instincts and makeshift tools...
Ex-BART officer sentenced to 2 years for fatal shooting of unarmed...
LOS ANGELES — A former transit police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed man on an Oakland train station platform was sentenced by a Los Angeles judge Friday to two years in prison...
Convicted cop killer Abu-Jamal won’t face death penalty
WASHINGTON — Former Black Panther and convicted cop...
NBC Olympics Site Delivers 75M Video Streams, 744M Page Views
NBC has been raked over the coals for continuing to tape-delay TV...
White House Taking Heat on Afghanistan
There’s been a lot of bad news coming from Afghanistan in recent...
