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			<title><![CDATA[Mo'Nique, Waltz win supporting-acting Oscars]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES &mdash; Villainous roles have snatched the supporting-acting prizes at the Academy Awards: "Precious" co-star Mo'Nique as a loathsome mother and "Inglourious Basterds" co-star Christoph Waltz as a sociable Nazi fiend.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Toyota's ads drop apology theme ppastpologies, aims for sales]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; New ads for troubled automaker Toyota Motor Corp. are skipping the apologies and easing back into sales pitches &mdash; too soon, some say.<br>
The campaign pushes the idea that Toyota customers remain loyal, even as the company faces congressional inquiries and some reports that its repairs may not fix the problem.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Japanese airfield feud still simmering affect relationship]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; Japan-U.S. ties could be adversely affected if the dispute over the relocation of a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa Prefecture is left unresolved, a U.S. senior official told visiting Japanese lawmakers Friday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[RFK's grandson weighs US House run]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (AP) &mdash; A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[No go for Joe]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (AP) &mdash; Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday he had decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doctors: President is healthy but should finally quit smoking]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama hasn't kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded yesterday after the 48-year-old's first medical checkup as commander in chief.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tsunami sets off panic but does little damage]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU (AP) &mdash; With a rapt world watching the drama unfold on live television, a tsunami raced across a quarter of the globe yesterday and set off fears of a repeat of the carnage that caught the world off guard in Asia in 2004.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats push ahead on health care despite long odds]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Democrats pushed hard to revive President Barack Obama's stalled health care overhaul yesterday &mdash; and pointed to glimmers of hope &mdash; but the long odds facing them seemed little changed after Obama's extraordinary summit with both parties' leaders.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NY governor abandons full-term bid for full, 4-year term]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Less than a week after declaring he would seek a full four-year term, New York Gov. David Paterson abruptly dropped his election bid yesterday under pressure from fellow Democrats concerned about his faltering agenda and his handling of a domestic abuse case involving a trusted aide.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Seventh anniversary of Station fire marked]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:37:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) &mdash; Survivors of The Station nightclub fire and relatives of the 100 victims who were killed seven years ago gathered Sunday at a memorial service and were urged to share their grief.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Credit card reform may shock some]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use.<br>
Now, thanks to a long-awaited law that goes into effect Monday, you'll know that if you pay the minimum on a $3,000 balance with a 14 percent interest rate, it could take you 10 years to pay off.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two charged in Texas church fires]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[TYLER, Texas (AP) &mdash; Two men who once attended church together were charged Sunday with intentionally burning down a church in east Texas and are suspected in a string of similar blazes, authorities said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama sets up deficit panel without help from Hill]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday unilaterally creating a bipartisan commission to rein in unruly deficits after Congress rejected a similar body with considerably more enforcement power.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gibbs: Obama gives 'strong support' to Dalai Lama]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama welcomed the Dalai Lama for closely-watched White House talks Thursday, risking fallout in China over the get-together and Obama's statement supporting preservation of Tibet's identity and human rights.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Official: Plane crash pilot left anti-IRS Web note]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas (AP) &mdash; A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building that houses federal tax employees in Austin, Texas on Thursday, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[AP IMPACT: Haiti flight logs detail early chaos]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Washcloths arrived before water, and senators before surgeons. In the first chaotic days after Haiti's earthquake, some vital aid was forced to wait because the U.S. military took relief flights at the Port-au-Prince airport on a first-come, first-served basis, according to landing logs.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Not guilty plea after cops say NJ man threw baby]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEWARK, N.J. (AP) &mdash; A New Jersey man has pleaded not guilty after police say he told them he threw his 3-month-old daughter off a bridge.<br>
Twenty-one-year-old Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem appeared composed during his video arraignment Thursday in Newark. He is charged with kidnapping, attempted murder, aggravated assault and child endangerment.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Head lice delays hearing for six charged in woman's death]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH &mdash; A hearing for six people charged with torturing and killing a mentally disabled woman has been postponed because they have head lice and are being quarantined in prison, where they were already on suicide watch.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Missionaries freed in Haiti, return to US]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[MIAMI (AP) &mdash; Eight American missionaries were back in the U.S. on Thursday but still face possible child kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake ravaged country.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Snow shuts down federal government]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice?<br>
With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia and New York, we're about to find out. The federal government in the nation's capital has largely been shut down since Friday afternoon, when a storm began dumping up to 3 feet of snow in some parts of the region. Offices could remain closed at least through today.]]></description>
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