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The Dow to 10,000: Stuck on You

May 26, 2010 - 4:14 PM |AOL News

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(May 26) -- Back in 1995, Robert Christian made a bold prediction: The Dow Jones industrial average would hit 10,000 by year 2000. At the time, the Dow had just cracked the 5,000 mark. Could it...

Gallup Poll Confirms: We Can't Get No Satisfaction

May 20, 2010 - 4:43 PM |AOL News

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(May 20) -- The Dalai Lama thinks the world is getting happier, but Gallup pollsters say they've never seen Americans as grumpy in a midterm election year as they are now. Gallup asks people across...

US Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Reach 1,000

May 19, 2010 - 3:52 PM |AOL News

Dion Nissenbaum, MCT

(May 19) -- The news out of Afghanistan is grim these days no matter how you look at it. Last week, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces there, told PBS's "Newshour" that no...

The World's Biggest Boozers

May 15, 2010 - 10:45 AM |AOL News

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(May 15) -- AOL News contributor Ioannis Gatsiounis brings us a grim account today of how scores of Ugandans have died in recent weeks after drinking a home-brewed alcohol known as waragi. The story...

Billion-Dollar US Weather Disasters Since 1980

May 10, 2010 - 2:18 PM |AOL News

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(May 10) -- Since it's estimated that the cleanup in Nashville alone will exceed $1.5 billion, it's safe to assume that the recent devastating flooding in the South can be added to the growing list...

Terrorism in the United States

May 5, 2010 - 9:40 AM |AOL News

(May 5) -- While terrorist attacks in the U.S. garner widespread coverage, they are a relatively rare phenomenon. The attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square was the second terrorist...

Poll Ranks CNN, Fox News Most Trustworthy

May 4, 2010 - 11:15 AM |AOL News

(May 4) -- CNN, which bills itself as "the most trusted name in news," gets some support for that claim from a new survey. But the poll done by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair shows Fox News a close...

Tornado Season Begins in Earnest

Apr 29, 2010 - 10:49 AM |AOL News

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(April 29) -- A widespread, four-day tornado outbreak last week, which included a deadly Mississippi twister, spawned more tornado reports during a single week than had been reported during the...

Charting the World's Worst Oil Spills

Apr 28, 2010 - 3:44 PM |AOL News

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(April 28) -- The crude that's pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from last week's rig explosion off Louisiana has the potential to cause widespread environmental damage, but it's a far cry from the...

Americans a Bit More Optimistic About Environment

Apr 22, 2010 - 3:59 PM |AOL News

(April 22) -- Only 16 percent of the people polled by CBS News expect the environment to be better for the next generation. And that's the good news on this 40th Earth Day. Three years ago, it was...

Volcanic Eruptions: The Violence Index

Apr 20, 2010 - 2:53 PM |AOL News

(April 20) -- For all the travel trouble it has caused, you might think the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano would rate as one of the bigger volcanic calamities in modern history. But...

Tax Return Shows Obama Family's Favorite Charities

Apr 16, 2010 - 4:17 PM |AOL News

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(April 16) -- The $5.5 million in income President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported on their 2009 federal tax return was the most ever for a first couple. The bulk of it came from book...