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Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey

NTV - ‎10 hours ago‎
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack.
US embassy bombing in Turkey called 'act of terror' by Obama administration
Suicide bomber attacks US Embassy in Turkey
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Tales From the Pressroom About a Man Who Relished Publicity

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch, who died on Friday at age 88, loved to be in the spotlight and to spar with the press. Here are the recollections of the man from three reporters at The New York Times who covered him: Enlarge This Image ...
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A new plan for birth control coverage

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, trying to defuse one of the most contentious issues in its healthcare law, proposed Friday a new way to shield religiously affiliated organizations, such as hospitals and universities, from having to provide ...
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Alabama abduction: Boy still held in underground bunker

Los Angeles Times - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Police negotiated through a 4-inch ventilation pipe Friday with the suspected gunman holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural southeast Alabama, four days after a man shot and killed a bus driver while abducting the boy from a ...
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NFL's Goodell sees HGH testing by fall

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎46 minutes ago‎
New Orleans --. There were a lot of interesting bullet points in Commissioner Roger Goodell's state of the NFL address Friday, but the only big announcement was that he expects to begin testing players for human growth hormone by the start of the 2013 ...
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Dow Jones index closes above 14000

Los Angeles Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
Americans are doing something they haven't done in years - they're buying stocks. Individual investors are pouring money into the stock market this year.
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Accident suspected in deadly Pemex blast in Mexico

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
MEXICO CITY - With rescue operations winding down, the head of Mexico's oil monopoly suggested Friday that a huge explosion that claimed at least 33 lives at the company's headquarters was a calamitous industrial accident.
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Egypt's Divisions Deepen as Protests Rage Outside Presidential Palace

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
CAIRO - During an anti-government demonstration on Friday, protesters hurled fire bombs over the wall of Egypt's presidential palace, setting fire to a gatehouse in a symbolically potent show of disregard for the country's leader.
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Suicide Attack at Market in Northwest Pakistan Kills at Least 21

New York Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - An explosion in a market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 21 people and wounded 33 in what the police described as a suicide bombing.
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Islamists' Harsh Rule Awakened Ethnic Tensions in Timbuktu

New York Times
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Written by
Lydia Polgreen
TIMBUKTU, Mali - Zahby Ould Ibrahim's general store was looted to the studs this week. The horde that descended upon it took not just the shop's stock of pots, pans and bedding but the electric sockets, the light bulbs and the doorframe, too.
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In Senate, Traditional Decorum Gives Way to New Discord

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
WASHINGTON - If Senator John McCain had an inkling of curiosity how his old buddy Chuck Hagel felt as the senator raked him over the confirmation coals on Thursday, Mr. McCain would get a slight taste an hour later during his own rendezvous with ...
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Scott Brown says he won't seek Kerry's Senate seat

Boston.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
BOSTON (AP) - Former Sen. Scott Brown said Friday he would not run in a special Senate election in Massachusetts, dealing a setback to Republican hopes of winning the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Files show church missteps, evasions with priests

Milton Daily Standard - ‎27 minutes ago‎
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles released 12,000 pages of personnel files on sexually abusive priests that Archbishop Jose Gomez described as "brutal and painful reading.
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SF nude activists cited by police

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎1 hour ago‎
Public nudity in San Francisco did not go away quietly on Friday, as police began enforcing a controversial new ordinance that prohibits baring all outdoors.
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Payroll Gains in Recent Months Show Progress in US Jobs Market

Bloomberg - ‎35 minutes ago‎
Companies kept expanding headcounts in January and revisions to previous months' showed even bigger gains as the U.S. job market made further strides.
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Chicago beer firm Crown Imports is caught in antitrust fight

Chicago Tribune
1 hour ago
Written by
Ameet Sachdev
An antitrust brouhaha in Washington has thrown the future of Crown Imports, a Chicago-based beer importer, into question. The company, which ranks third in U.S.
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US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Increase May Boost Spending

Bloomberg
13 hours ago
Written by
Jeanna Smialek
Confidence among American households unexpectedly rose last month in a possible benefit to consumer spending, the largest part of the economy.
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Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts

Newsday - ‎14 minutes ago‎
(AP) -- Twitter confirmed Friday that it had become the latest victim in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks against media companies, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users.
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Google Settles Dispute with French Newspapers

Wall Street Journal - ‎9 hours ago‎
PARIS—Google Inc. committed Friday to spend EUR60 million ($82 million) to help settle a festering dispute with French newspaper and magazine publishers over whether the search giant should pay them to link to their stories on the Web.
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Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2011 to include Office 365 activation

ZDNet - ‎11 hours ago‎
Summary: A new minor update for Office 2011 for Mac adds activation support for use as part of Microsoft's newest Office 365 subscription services.
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Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem expecting second child -report s

Reuters - ‎6 hours ago‎
LOS ANGELES | Fri Feb 1, 2013 7:25pm EST. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are expecting their second child, according to U.S.
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Plans for what could have been

Atlanta Journal Constitution - ‎1 hour ago‎
It was, as we said in our headline two weeks ago, a sad end to a super season. Today, when the Baltimore Ravens face the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, it's easy to imagine what could have been.
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NBA: Pau Gasol leads Los Angeles Lakers in return to starting lineup

San Jose Mercury News - ‎30 minutes ago‎
Maybe Pau Gasol deserves to start after all. Gasol had 22 points and 12 rebounds in his return to the starting lineup, and Kobe Bryant nearly had a triple-double in leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 111-100 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on ...
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US Proposes to Protect Wolverines

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
The federal Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Friday to give Endangered Species Act protections to the wolverine, one of the largest and hardiest members of the weasel family, largely because climate change is whittling away its wintry habitat in the ...
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NASA's SDO Captures Images of Theoretical Magnetic Flux Rope [Video] [Images]

Guardian Express - ‎10 hours ago‎
NASA Space Observatory (SDO) Makes "Nostradamus Like" Discovery, could be one for the record books. Added by GM on February 1, 2013.
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CMS Issues Sunshine Rule

MedPage Today - ‎6 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a long-awaited rule Friday finalizing the details for a database that will list payments made to physicians by pharmaceutical and device manufacturers.
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Rules call for swing to healthier snacks in schools

Reuters - ‎7 hours ago‎
By Susan Heavey and Charles Abbott. WASHINGTON | Fri Feb 1, 2013 6:29pm EST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Snacks sold in U.S. schools would need to be lower in fat, salt and sugar and include more nutritious items like fruits, vegetables and whole grains ...
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