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Watch: President Obama Takes Gun Proposal to Minneapolis

Watch: President Obama Takes Gun Proposal to Minneapolis The president is taking his campaign on the road for new gun control measures.


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Iran Denies Space Monkey Hoax

Iran Denies Space Monkey Hoax After Iran announced last week that it had launched a monkey into space, web sleuths compared before and after photos of the furry astronaut and cried hoax. They claimed the monkey that made public appearances after the space flight in a bespoke suit looked nothing like the animal that had been shot into space, which seemed to have lighter fur and a mole above its eye.


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Hot to Rent Out Your Spare Room

Hot to Rent Out Your Spare Room Where most of us may see an empty bedroom, homeowners around the country are seeing new ways to make big bucks by renting out those rooms, for an average of $65 per night, to vacationers. Families like the Norries, from Montclair, N.J., are listing their...


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Group Hits Obama on Gay Scouts

Group Hits Obama on Gay Scouts A conservative group that wants the Boy Scouts to keep their ban on gays today released an ad apparently countering President Obama’s remarks this weekend urging the scouts to drop the ban. “To compromise moral principles under political and financial pressure would teach the boys...


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Bus Accident Co.'s Record Questioned

Bus Accident Co.'s Record Questioned The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has launched an investigation into a tour bus crash that killed eight people and injured dozens on a remote California road east of Los Angeles Sunday evening. “The fact that there were fatalities involved, we will be looking at...


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Boehner, GOP Press Obama on Budget

Boehner, GOP Press Obama on Budget As President Obama misses a deadline today to submit a budget proposal to Congress, Republicans are working to advance techniques that not only pressure the president to present a budget plan, but also to rein in federal spending. By law, the president is required to...


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Politics Upstage Products in Super Bowl Ads

Politics Upstage Products in Super Bowl Ads Super Bowl XLVII featured many big name advertisements, but brands like Jeep, Dodge, and Volkswagen stood apart from the rest by including political messages in their commercials.


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What if You Ate It All? Super Bowl Ad Calorie Count

What if You Ate It All? Super Bowl Ad Calorie Count Between keeping track of the score, the clock, the down and yardage, the Super Bowl involves a lot of number-watching, but what viewers tend not to count during the wing-munching, chip-chomping free-for-all are calories. And with ads full of taco-loving senior citizens and a violent...


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Credit Rating Agency Faces US Lawsuit

Credit Rating Agency Faces US Lawsuit More than five years after the recession, credit rating agencies may finally face some legal fallout for actions that led to the 2008 financial crisis. A recent move by the Justice Department brings validation to many who believe credit rating agencies were among the main...


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Porn Star Likely in Hospital a While

Porn Star Likely in Hospital a While Porn star Ron Jeremy likely to stay at Los Angeles hospital 'for some time' after aneurysm


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Oscars Aim to Cut Out Boring Parts

Oscars Aim to Cut Out Boring Parts Oscar luncheon: Producers aim to cut out the boring parts to keep awards show moving


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Biggest Gas Price Jump in Two Years

Biggest Gas Price Jump in Two Years The weekly average price of a gallon of regular gas is $3.54, up 18 cents from a week earlier.  That’s the biggest weekly price increase in two years, according to the Department of Energy. This price is also up 6 cents from a year ago. The...


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Mesh Cap Gives Instant Info on Hits to the Head

Mesh Cap Gives Instant Info on Hits to the Head Reebok and the electronics company MC10 have teamed up to create a mesh cap intended to measure the severity of blows to the head and alert people around them to check the athlete for possibly serious injury.


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Alabama Bunker Hostage Standoff Ends

Alabama Bunker Hostage Standoff Ends


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Do Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Find Bombs?

Do Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Find Bombs? At Dulles International Airport just outside Washington, D.C., the Transportation Security Administration puts Woody, a black Labrador retriever, to the test as a bomb-sniffing dog. Woody was born in early 2010, and weighs 64 pounds. He was trained at the Auburn University  Canine Detection Training Center...


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Sarai Sierra's Two Young Boys Don't Know Mom's Dead

Sarai Sierra's Two Young Boys Don't Know Mom's Dead The two young sons of slain New York mom Sarai Sierra are under the impression that their father has gone to Turkey to bring their mother home - alive.


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Preschool Oral Sex Scandal: Encounters an 'Everyday Thing'

Preschool Oral Sex Scandal: Encounters an 'Everyday Thing' Sexual encounters between 4- and 5-year-olds were allegedly an "everyday thing" at a California preschool that is closing its doors after coming under scrutiny for a lack of supervision, the mother of a 5-year-old former student said.


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