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A Year in the Making, Health Care Vote Nears

6 hours 57 minutes ago |Politics Daily

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(March 20) -- With a controversy over abortion funding still unresolved and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemingly just short of the votes necessary to pass the Democratic health care bill, the House i ...

Former Interior Secretary Udall Dies at Age 90

8 hours 56 minutes ago |AP

SANTA FE, N.M. (March 20) - Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation ...

Pope Expresses 'Shame and Remorse' to Irish Catholics

20 hours 49 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 20) -- Pope Benedict XVI sent an impassioned and unprecedented pastoral letter to the people of Ireland Saturday, apologizing for decades of clerical sexual abuse but placing the blame squarel ...

Three Die After Small Planes Collide Over Central Florida

11 hours 47 minutes ago |AP

WILLISTON, Fla. (March 20) -- A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three people, authorities said. A Williston woman wh ...

Deadly Snow Storm Hits Plains on First Day of Spring

11 hours 39 minutes ago |AP

NORMAN, Okla. (March 20) -- A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures ...

How a Coloratura Soprano Saved the Metropolitan Opera

6 hours 16 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 20) -- Two weeks ago, the Metropolitan Opera in New York found itself in a predicament. Ten days before the opening night of "Hamlet," a French opera that had not been performed there for 103 ...

Thousands Protest on Iraq War Anniversary

11 hours 56 minutes ago |AP

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WASHINGTON (March 20) -- Thousands of protesters - many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama - marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops ...

Where Have All the Monarch Butterflies Gone?

12 hours 55 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 20) -- For the beloved monarch butterfly, these are dire times. In the 1980s, as many as 170,000 monarchs would descend each fall and spring upon Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, Ca ...

Father Uses Family Massacre to Help Others

18 hours 56 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 20) -- In the early morning hours of March 1, 2008, two young men burst into the Caffey home in Alba, Texas, and embarked on a killing spree. Two young children and their mother were brutally ...

President Offers Dialogue in Web Video to Iranians

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(March 20) -- President Barack Obama issued an online video to the Iranian people today as they celebrate the Persian new year, saying the United States wants them to have more cultural exchanges for ...

World's Most Useful Tree Purifies Water, Too

14 hours 27 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 20) -- A widely cultivated and useful tropical tree may provide a solution to the diminishing supply of safe drinking water in many parts of the world, a researcher says. The seeds of the Mori ...

British Airways Flights Canceled as Crews Strike

21 hours 19 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 20) -- Thousands of British Airways flights have been canceled amid a three-day strike by cabin crew that's throwing a kink into vacation plans for tens of thousands of travelers beginning the ...