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600-Plus Species at Risk From Deadly Gulf Oil Spill

Apr 29, 2010 - 8:30 PM |AOL News

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(April 29) -- With oil from a destroyed rig gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated rate of 210,000 gallons per day, the effects on wildlife will almost certainly be profound. The April 20...

Group Wants Military Units Out of Prayer Day Events

Apr 29, 2010 - 5:55 PM |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (April 29) -- First it got evangelist Franklin Graham booted from a Pentagon prayer service. Now a watchdog group wants military color guards and bands to retreat from dozens of National...

Delayed Plane Passengers Get New Rights

Apr 29, 2010 - 3:20 PM |DailyFinance

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(April 29) - The plane is stuck on the tarmac, waiting to take off, and you're trapped with screaming babies, miserable fellow passengers, no food or water and a stench wafting from the toilets.

FDA Approves 'Vaccine' for Prostate Cancer

Apr 29, 2010 - 3:13 PM |DailyFinance

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WASHINGTON (April 29) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind prostate cancer treatment that uses the body's immune system to fight the disease, offering an important...

NY Police Mistakenly Tell Parents Their Son Is Dead

Apr 29, 2010 - 3:06 PM |AP

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MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. (April 29) -- It was a 90-minute nightmare. Alfred and Geri Esposito of Mastic Beach were told Saturday morning that their son Freddy and another passenger had been killed in a...

Immigrants Set Illustrious Precedent on High Court

Apr 28, 2010 - 10:05 PM |AOL News

Al Goldis, AP

WASHINGTON (April 28) -- Since its founding in 1789, the Supreme Court has seen nearly 100 justices take a seat on its ever-changing bench. One thing, though, has remained constant: the court's...

Senate Republicans Yield on Financial Reform Bill

Apr 28, 2010 - 9:21 PM |AOL News

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(April 28) -- The Wall Street overhaul championed by President Barack Obama was headed to the floor of the Senate after Republicans gave up filibuster efforts to keep it from debate. Senate Minority...

Rielle Hunter 'Doesn't Think She's a Home Wrecker'

Apr 28, 2010 - 9:00 PM |AP

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CHICAGO (April 28) -- John Edwards' mistress said the former presidential candidate's wife didn't know about the full extent of their relationship until after he gave an interview to ABC News...

Barber Gets Life in Prison for Setting Homeless Man on Fire

Apr 28, 2010 - 8:48 PM |AOL News

Nick Ut, AP

LOS ANGELES (April 28) -- A barber was sentenced to life in prison today for murdering a homeless man by pouring gasoline on him and then lighting him on fire with a road flare. The victim, John...

$2M Pentagon Contest to Recruit Bomb-Busting 'Bots

Apr 28, 2010 - 7:40 PM |AOL News

Kathrine McDowell, USAF

(April 28) -- Part wood chipper, part shredder, with a little bit of "The Hurt Locker" thrown in. That's the Pentagon concept for a robot that can clear large tracts of land filled with unexploded...

Cape Wind Finally Won, but Guess Who Loses?

Apr 28, 2010 - 7:16 PM |AOL News

Peter Dejong, AP

(April 28) -- A nearly decade-long process of permitting and protesting came to an end today when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the green light to Cape Wind, a 130-turbine wind farm in...

End of US Census Mail-Ins Shows Tally 72 Percent Done

Apr 28, 2010 - 7:03 PM |AOL News

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WASHINGTON (April 28) -- An army of 635,000 census workers will hit the streets Saturday to fill in the blanks of the 2010 census. And if you don't answer the first time they knock, they will come...

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