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    Democrats at Odds on Banning Earmarks to Companies (Update2)

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    Bloomberg

    March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats are at odds over an election-year proposal to ban so-called earmarks providing federal money to defense contractors, energy firms and other private companies. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey said today that the...

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    "JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden

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    Reuters

    By Jeremy PelofskyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.Colleen...

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    No-Fly List Doubles After Christmas Attack

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    CBS News

    In the months since the arrest of Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the man arrested for the Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound jet, the government's no-fly list has nearly doubled - from about 3,400 people to about 6,000...

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    Miss. prom canceled after lesbian's date request

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    USA Today

    A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event. "Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events,...

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    FDA to Investigate Osteoporosis Drug Risk

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    ABC News

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will look into whether a link exists between the long-term use of certain osteoporosis drugs and a particular type of leg fracture after ABC News reports investigated the...

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    Chief justice chides State of the Union as 'political pep rally'

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    CNN

    Simmering tension between the White House and U.S. Supreme Court spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at the State of the Union address "very troubling."With six members of the court...

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    Female WWII aviators honored with medal

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    MSNBC

    WASHINGTON - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own...

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    U.S. lays out set of common school standards

    MSNBC

    The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the...

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    Texas education board's social studies vote may have wide impact

    USA Today

    Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide....

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    California revenue jumps, tax refunds should be paid on time

    Reuters

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's revenue in February was $480 million or 8.7 percent above the estimate in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's state budget plan, so tax refunds should be paid on time, State Controller John Chiang said on...

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