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David Knowles

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A musician and a novelist, David has covered politics for AOL for the past three years. His writing has appeared in such publications as USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

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Where Have All the Monarch Butterflies Gone?

posted: 1 day 8 hours ago

(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 ...

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ABC News Paid Casey Anthony $200,000

posted: 2 days 7 hours ago

(March 19) -- In journalism, paying sources for interviews is supposed to be a no-no. The promise of money in exchange for information violates the profession's ethical code and can often lead to dub ...

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College Killer Had Long History of Mental Illness

posted: 3 days 2 hours ago

(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 ...

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Obama Effigy Hanged at Failing Rhode Island School

posted: 3 days 5 hours ago

(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 ...

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CIA Chief: Al-Qaida 'Scrambling'

posted: 4 days 6 hours ago

(March 17) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta believes the current U.S. strategy against the al-Qaida terrorist network is showing major signs of success. In an interview with The Washington Post, Panetta ...

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American Charities Raise Nearly $1 Billion for Haiti

posted: 4 days 5 hours ago

(March 17) -- Following Haiti's devastating earthquake, Americans opened their hearts and picked up their cell phones. A tally by The Chronicle of Philanthropy finds that in the nine weeks following ...

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Environmental Concerns at 20-Year Low in US

posted: 4 days 5 hours ago

(March 17) -- From polluted drinking water to the extinction of animal species to global warming, Americans are less worried about a range of environmental issues today than they have been for the pa ...

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Poll: Republicans Are Warming to Census

posted: 5 days 3 hours ago

(March 16) -- Despite months of skepticism from conservative politicians and pundits, at least as many Republicans as Democrats now say they are certain to participate in the 2010 census, a new poll ...

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Illness Sweeps Cruise Ship Again

posted: 5 days 7 hours ago

(March 16) -- Modern cruise ships are self-contained wonders equipped with anything that vacationing tourists could want -- and some that they don't. Celebrity Cruises said it is delaying the depart ...

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Dentist Charged Over Using Paper Clips in Root Canals

posted: 5 days 9 hours ago

(March 16) -- Open wide and say "fraud." A grand jury in Bristol County, Mass., has indicted a dentist for bilking Medicare for false claims, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said today. ...

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