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GOP Is Taking Political Risks in Health Care Fight

9 hours 53 minutes ago |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (March 18) -- As the House moves toward passing sweeping health care reform, the threats from Senate Republicans keep coming. The latest is a promise to force a battle royal in the Senate ...

Obama Effigy Hung at Failing RI School

10 hours 24 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Protesting the imminent firing of all 74 of the teachers at a failing Rhode Island high school, an instructor hung a doll of President Barack Obama from its feet in his classroom. The e ...

Chicago Man Admits Helping 2008 India Attack

20 hours 47 minutes ago |AP

CHICAGO (March 18) -- A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspaper o ...

Grand Jury Subpoenas GOP Unit in Sen. Ensign Probe

12 hours 37 minutes ago |AP

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WASHINGTON (March 18) - A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to a Republican campaign committee and companies in Nevada in a probe of Sen. John Ensign, who has been under scrutiny for his effort ...

Boeing Proposes Missile With Global Reach

9 hours 22 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- For nearly a decade, the Pentagon has grappled with finding a way to field a weapon with the speed and range of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but without the political ramifica ...

Musician Alex Chilton of Big Star, Box Tops Dies at 59

22 hours 18 minutes ago |PopEater

(March 18) -- Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with the band Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59. Chilton died at a hospital in New Orle ...

College Killer Had Long History of Mental Illness

7 hours 56 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- The 27-year-old graduate student who went on a deadly rampage at Northern Illinois University had a long history of mental illness and may have started on a downward spiral after the de ...

Wal-Mart 'Appalled' by Racial Announcement

15 hours 6 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Authorities in southern New Jersey are trying to find the man who made an announcement in a Walmart store asking "all black people" to leave the store. The company said it was "appalled ...

Amid Growing Salt Storm, Kraft Offers 10 Percent Cut

11 hours 29 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Kraft Foods Inc., the country's largest food manufacturer, will cut the salt content of its products by an average of 10 percent within two years, the company announced Wednesday. It's ...

'Davy Crockett' Star Fess Parker Dies

13 hours 31 minutes ago |PopEater

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(March 18) -- Fess Parker, the actor who helped launch the Davy Crockett craze in the 1950s by playing the famed frontiersman in numerous Disney productions, died Thursday of natural causes, his rep ...

Zuma's 'Big Love' Costs South Africa Big Bucks

13 hours 20 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- Polygamous politicians don't come cheap, South Africans are discovering. Taxpayers there are coughing up more than $2 million a year to support President Jacob Zuma's three wives and 20 ...

Greece Plays IMF Card in High-Stakes Showdown

13 hours 26 minutes ago |AOL News

ATHENS, Greece (March 18) -- George Papandreou hates poker. But for the past month or so, the bewildered Greek leader has been trying to make the most of a weak hand in a three-way poker game involvi ...