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Pope Expresses 'Shame and Remorse' to Irish Catholics

5 hours 57 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 ...

Can Dems Reverse Decades of Failure on Health Care?

5 hours 41 minutes ago |Politics Daily

(March 20) -- White House pressure, union pressure, leadership pressure – no stone is being left unturned this weekend as Democrats move to a final House vote Sunday on the health care overhaul ...

Obama 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 ...

Arrest Made in Walmart Racial Comment Case

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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (March 20) -- Police say they have made an arrest in the case of a racial comment being made over the public-address system at a Walmart store in southern New Jersey. The Wa ...

Judge Rejects $575 Million Settlement in WTC Case

5 hours 10 minutes ago |AP

NEW YORK (March 20) -- A federal judge rejected a multimillion dollar settlement for people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, ...

World's Most Useful Tree Purifies Water, Too

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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 ...

Father Uses Family Massacre to Help Others

4 hours 4 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 19) -- 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 ...

Obama to Rally Democrats in Final Health Care Push

17 hours 6 minutes ago |AP

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WASHINGTON (March 20) -- President Barack Obama set his sights on Capitol Hill, ready to rally House Democrats on Saturday for a final health care push as party leaders appeared confident they had ov ...

Atom Smasher Smashes Energy Record

17 hours 43 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 19) -- From broken down to record breaking, the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest, most expensive particle accelerator -- just achieved yet another milestone on the quest to discove ...

Thousands of BA Flights Canceled as Crews Strike

6 hours 27 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 ...

Opinion: Drawing the Right Lessons From Iraq

22 hours 49 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 19) -- Saturday marks the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- and finally the news out of that once seemingly hopeless nation seems to be hopeful. Recent parliamentary election ...

Could Virtual Worlds Make Better Spooks?

2 hours 34 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 20) -- Realistic video games are being used to help surgeons make fewer errors, train U.S. military forces to operate in urban areas, and even assist soldiers dealing with traumatic memories. ...