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<title>Investigators awaiting lab results in Whitney Houston's death</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whitney Houston's life of glorious song and unnerving self-destruction apparently ended in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Grammy weekend, but it could be weeks before investigators know exactly why she died.]]></description>
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<title>Induced labor allows dying man to see daughter </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:25:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then.]]></description>
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<title>At least your money can live like a millionaire's</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don't. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but anybody can legally open an offshore account.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:23:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Military planes fly food into snowbound European towns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Military planes flew in tons of emergency food Monday to towns and villages in eastern Romania where thousands have been stranded by blizzards. Some people had to cut tunnels through 15 feet of snow to get out of their homes.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:20:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Budget battle likely to extend to November elections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade while at the same time showering billions of dollars of increased spending on areas aimed at giving the economy a quick boost.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:37:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Greece passes new austerity deal amid rioting </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after riots in Athens and other cities left stores looted and burned and more than 120 people hurt.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:55:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:35:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Fuel removal under way on Italy cruise ship </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Underwater pumping operations began Sunday to remove some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the Costa Concordia, officials said, nearly a month after the cruise ship ran aground off Tuscany.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:26:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>R.I. player wins $336 million Powerball jackpot </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:55:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Maine GOP chairman says Romney wins caucuses</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign a much-needed boost.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:46:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child survives </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:45:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Hacker claims porn site users compromised</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A hacker claims to have compromised the personal information of more than 350,000 users after breaking into a disused website operated by pornography provider Brazzers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:59:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Dozens of pets rescued from Ohio fire find homes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Several dozen animals have found temporary shelter after Ohio firefighters rescued at least 60 pets from a house fire in a Cincinnati suburb.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:42:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Norwegians seek A-ha! moment in North Korean music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An arts festival in northern Norway is offering a rare glimpse into North Korean culture this weekend, including performances by musicians whose accordion version of A-ha's megahit "Take on Me" has become an online sensation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:56:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Britain's biggest-selling tabloid newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five of its employees were arrested Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:26:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Rio calm in 2nd day of police strike</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Few police officers have adhered to a strike just days before this city's world-famous Carnival kicks off, official said Saturday.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:31:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Sandusky says he feels people have turned on him</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jerry Sandusky walked out of a courthouse Friday where a judge was considering whether to let him see his relatives and friends while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges and told reporters Friday he felt people have turned on him.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:03:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Panetta calls for new probe into Marine photo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Montenegro almost cut off by heavy snow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The heaviest snowfall in Montenegro in 63 years has sealed off hundreds of villages, shutting down roads and railways and closing the main airport in the tiny Balkan state on Saturday.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:32:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The week's best photos</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:56:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Feds release new details about underwear bomber</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane began his path to terrorism with a text message from a top al-Qaida figure in Yemen, the U.S. government said Friday in a court filing that discloses new details about their relationship.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:55:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:34:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>J.K.Rowling says tabloids made her feel like a hostage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling described how press intrusion made her feel like a hostage, Hugh Grant traded insults with a newspaper editor and a former tabloid reporter insisted that only evildoers had any need of privacy.]]></description>
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<title>2 men, boy plucked from Pacific in dramatic rescue</title>
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<description><![CDATA["It was scary. I thought we were going to die," West James said Thursday in Honolulu.]]></description>
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