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- Florida fire consumes 3,500-year-old tree
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
Arson is ruled out in the blaze that destroyed the cypress, one of the world's oldest.— One of the world's oldest cypress trees was destroyed in a mysterious fire Monday.
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- House to take largely symbolic vote on debt ceiling
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The vote, one in a series built into last summer's congressional deal, is expected to die in the Senate. President Obama will then have enough borrowing authority to pay the nation's bills through...[more]
- Obamas mark King's birthday with volunteer work
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
The first family builds bookshelves at a school library, as the president evokes the slain civil rights leader's words about public service.— President Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s...[more]
- Recall vote on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appears imminent
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800
If petition signatures seeking the recall vote are valid, the election is expected to be a fact-twisting bout between the two sides and a preliminary peek into the November general election....[more]
- In South Carolina debate, focus is on tactics in GOP race
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 08:05 PM -0800
Mitt Romney came under renewed assault Monday night for his business record and tactics, but in a turnabout, his rivals found themselves forced to defend their criticism and the increasingly harsh...[more]
- At debate, Romney hedges on whether he would release tax returns
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 08:05 PM -0800
Under pressure to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney gave conflicting signals at the Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., as to whether he would make them public.
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- Rick Perry stands by defense of Marines shown urinating on Taliban
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 08:00 PM -0800
In the Republican presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry used a question on foreign policy to assail the Obama administration’s attitude toward the nation’s military, criticizing...[more]
- Nationally known ice climber dies after Colo. fall
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 07:39 PM -0800
A Colorado sheriff says a nationally known climber who wrote books and numerous articles on the subject has died after falling 60 feet during a climb.[more]
- Gingrich defends calling Obama 'the food stamp president'
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 07:37 PM -0800
Newt Gingrich, displaying the combativeness that helped him rocket to the top of the GOP field back in November and December, faced off against Fox News commentator Juan Williams at the debate in...[more]
- At debate, Romney takes hard-line stances on immigration, terrorism
Category: US News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 07:35 PM -0800
Playing to the conservative South Carolina GOP electorate, Mitt Romney at the Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach on Monday took hard-line positions on immigration and foreign policy, earning sustained...[more]
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