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NYC to Pay Up to $657M to Settle WTC Health Cases

13 hours 21 minutes ago |AP

NEW YORK (March 12) -- A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before ...

Obama Delays Asia Trip to Focus on Health Reform Push

8 minutes ago |AP

WASHINGTON (March 12) -- President Barack Obama is postponing his long-scheduled Asian trip for a few days to make a final push for passage of historic legislation reinventing the health care system. ...

First Tallies Show Iraqi PM Locked in Tight Race

1 hour 21 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 12) -- Iraq's prime minister has a slight edge over his top secular rival in early and incomplete results from last weekend's election, but officials say the race is so close it could be weeks ...

Two Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens in Pakistan

2 hours 39 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 12) -- Two suicide bombers blew themselves up alongside soldiers patrolling a market in Pakistan's heartland today, killing at least 45 people and wounding 100 in the second major attack on U. ...

Report: Lehman Brothers Hastened Its Own Bankruptcy

2 hours 35 minutes ago |DailyFinance

(March 12) -- At $639 billion, Lehman Brothers Holdings' bankruptcy in 2008 was the biggest in U.S. history and touched off a withering financial crisis known as the Great Recession. On Thursday, a f ...

Lesbian Teen Files Suit to Force School to Hold Prom

2 hours 48 minutes ago |AP

JACKSON, Miss. (March 12) -- A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it cancel ...

Debate: Fix the Student Loan System? We Agree

4 hours 2 minutes ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 12) -- From the beginning of the debate on comprehensive student loan reform, Sallie Mae's position has been clear: We support it. We stand with the president in his effort to restructure the ...

Why the Internet Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

3 hours 11 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- The short list of nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize includes an unexpected contender: the Internet. This is the result of a campaign launched by the Italian edition of Wired ma ...

Boy May Be Tried as Adult in Killing of Dad's Fiancee

18 hours 2 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 12) -- A 12-year-old Pennsylvania boy charged with murdering his father's pregnant fiancee is "an all-around good kid" who is "too young" to understand the magnitude of the potential life sent ...

US Slams China on Human Rights Record

2 hours 57 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 11) -- The United States has taken a fresh swing at China's human rights record at a time when the Obama administration is wooing Beijing for support against Iran, highlighting the tension bet ...

Police Release Serial Killer's Photos of Women

15 hours 12 minutes ago |AOL News

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (March 11) -- Detective Patrick Ellis leafed through hundreds of photographs depicting young women in nude or provocative poses, nameless muses captured on film more than 30 ...

Long-Term Smokers Have Reduced Risk of Parkinson's

17 hours 56 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 11) -- In the heyday of cigarette smoking, a pack a day was "just what the doctor ordered." Of course, the purported health benefits of smoking have been largely debunked, and cigarettes today ...