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Was the U.S. right to kill Osama bin Laden? Absolutely, and about time, Americans say. A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows the nation supporting the raid with rare unanimity, and the glow from the operation is also boosting approval for President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism and the war in Afghanistan. Few events have sparked such soaring approval from the nation, and almost nothing has

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Tens of thousands of granite-faced soldiers marched in lockstep across Red Square Monday in Russia's annual Victory Day display of military might, while President Dmitry Medvedev said the country is committed to peace and global stability. The parade, marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, is the centerpiece of Russia's most solemn secular holiday, both commemorating the Soviet

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook is influencing what news gets read online as people use the Internet's most popular hangout to share and recommend content. That's one of the key findings from a study on the flow of traffic to the Web's 25 largest news destinations. The study was released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Facebook was responsible for 3

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LONDON (AP) -- Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell are engaged, his publicist said Friday, nearly four years after they were first spotted together. McCartney, 68, started dating the 51-year-old New York socialite and businesswoman following his bitter split from second wife Heather Mills. McCartney publicist Stuart Bell confirmed recent media speculation over a proposal as true, but

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TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's economy created 58,300 jobs last month, bringing the unemployment rate down to 7.6 percent, matching the lowest jobless level since the early months of the recession, a reporting agency said Friday. Statistics Canada said most of the gains were in the service sector, and almost all of them were in Ontario. Although the jobs increase was dominated by part-timers, there

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A strong undertow in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica swept a group of Ohio high school students out to sea while they took a beach break during a religious mission trip, killing two of them and leaving a third missing. The current pulled them away from shore Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement from their school, Patriot Preparatory Academy in Columbus. They were

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PARIS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will support a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence if peace talks with Israel don't restart by September, dealing a tough setback to Israel's campaign to isolate the incoming Palestinian unity government. The comments published Thursday - similar to a message from Britain a day earlier - suggest Europe may be inching toward a

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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's army ordered a reduction in U.S. military personnel operating inside the country on Thursday in apparent protest at a unilateral American commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The army has been heavily criticized at home for allowing the country's sovereignty to be violated during Monday's operation in a busy garrison town not far from the capital, Islamabad. It

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Wednesday that it was ready to start talks with Congress on a free trade deal with Colombia, setting the stage for lawmakers to move ahead on similar agreements with South Korea and Panama, as Republicans had demanded. Administration officials said they expected technical discussions to begin Thursday with congressional aides, the first step in the approval

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NEW YORK (AP) -- ConAgra Foods Inc. made a $4.9 billion bid for Ralcorp Holdings Inc., which the maker of Post cereal and store-brand products rejected Wednesday. ConAgra has made two offers to acquire RalCorp in an effort to expand its business into private-label products. Ralcorp said the $86-per-share bid from ConAgra is not in shareholders' best interests. It followed an $82-per-share offer

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DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- Archer Daniels Midland's net income rose 37 percent, the company said Tuesday, thanks to a healthy third quarter for oilseed and corn processing and agricultural services. The company was forced to navigate volatile commodity prices during the quarter, as well as unstable political climates from the Middle East to Africa. ADM posted earnings of $578 million, or 86 cents per

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PUTTAPARTI, India (AP) -- Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions worldwide, died after nearly a month of hospital treatment near his southern Indian headquarters. He was 84. The news that Sai Baba died Sunday brought an outpouring of grief from his followers, including high Indian officials, who remembered him as a pious person who worked selflessly to help others with the billions of

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI consoled a 7-year-old Japanese girl, reassured a mother about her ailing son's soul and advised a Muslim woman that dialogue was the way to peace in Ivory Coast. In a push to engage the world online, the pontiff fielded their questions during an unusual Good Friday appearance on Italian TV. It was hardly a casual or spontaneous chat: Seven questions were

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A private research group said U.S. economic growth should strengthen by summer, but cautioned that consumer concerns over rising gas and food prices could drag on the expansion. The Conference Board said Thursday that its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.4 percent in March. The index, which is a measure of future economic activity, has increased for nine straight

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- In a financial and technological role reversal, a growing number of Americans are getting rid of their old telephones and using only cellphones, a trend being led not by the high-tech elite but by people in poorer states as a way to save money. Government estimates released Wednesday show at least 30 percent of adults in 10 states rely entirely on cellphones, with the

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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- Islamist extremists attacked an army post and killed at least 13 soldiers watching the Algerian president's televised speech promising reforms, security officials said Saturday. Two militants in the group were killed by soldiers at the post in Kabyle, some 80 miles (130 kilometers) east of Algiers, the officials said Saturday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because

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The six-month anniversary age 26 on your health plan if he or she can't get coverage through a job. New policies can't deny coverage for children up to age 19 based on pre-existing medical conditions. "Grandfathered" plans can, however, they also can set annual dollar limits on coverage and require patients to assist pay for a few preventive avails. Most people in the individual market are

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FREEPORT, Kan. (AP) -- It was only a year ago that this tiny hamlet proudly boasted as its motto that it was "the smallest incorporated city in the United States having a bank." But the Freeport State Bank has since abandoned the town of five residents. The old bank building is now the City Hall, where these last die-hard town dwellers along with farm folks from the surrounding area still gather

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President Barack Obama on Wednesday named his Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to China. If confirmed, Locke will be the first American of Chinese ancestry to serve as the nation's top liaison in Beijing. The president said that as the grandson of a Chinese immigrant to the United States, Locke is the right person to advance ties between the two countries. "More than

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Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued summonses for the six Kenyans suspected of organizing the country's post-election violence over three years ago. More than two months after the ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, revealed the so-called "Ocampo Six" under investigation for crimes against humanity in Kenya, the court's pre-trial chamber has issued summonses for the suspects

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LEWISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- National powers, beware: Bucknell is headed back to the NCAA tournament. Mike Muscala scored 18 points and Bucknell shut down Lafayette in the second half of a 72-57 victory Friday to win the Patriot League championship and an automatic bid to the NCAAs. Bryson Johnson added 15 points and Cameron Ayers had 12 for the top-seeded Bison (25-8), who earned their first trip to

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The new iPad model hitting stores Friday comes with several improvements over the original version but the same price tag, hobbling efforts by rivals at breaking Apple Inc.'s hold on the emerging market for tablet computers. Competitors such as Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. can't seem to match the iPad's starting price of $499. Tablets that are comparable to the iPad in

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State suspended football coach Jim Tressel for two games and fined him $250,000 for violating NCAA rules by failing to notify the school about information he received involving two players and questionable activities involving Buckeye memorabilia. Tressel also will receive a public reprimand and must make a public apology. "Wherever we end up, Jim Tressel is our

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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A young woman who made international headlines when she accepted the job as police chief in a violent Mexican border town was fired Monday for apparently abandoning her post after receiving death threats. Marisol Valles Garcia was granted a leave of absence from March 2-7 to travel to the United States for personal matters but failed to return to Praxedis G. Guerrero as agreed

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South Korea is investigating the latest high-technology assault against it. The attack targeted government computers and users of the GPS navigation system. It came as South Korea and the United States hold an annual military exercise that North Korea calls a prelude to an invasion. Fifteen million South Koreans logging online Monday received an alert from the country's Internet Security Agency.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's ferret owners are tired of being criminals. They live in the only U.S. state besides Hawaii that bans residents from keeping ferrets as pets, forcing an untold number of Californians to keep their beloved weasels hidden from the public. But these renegade ferret lovers have no plans to abandon their long, furry friends. Instead, they're ramping up their

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Refugees are pouring across the Kenyan border as fighting between the Somali government and rebel group al-Shabab rages across the war torn country. The Somali government's recent push to eliminate al-Qaida linked insurgents is spilling into Kenya, as fighting continues along the border. On February 24, the Transitional Federal Government launched a countrywide offensive to oust Islamist

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In India, the government has suffered another major embarrassment, with the supreme court striking down its controversial appointment of the country's anti-graft chief. The government is under attack for not doing enough to crack down on corruption. Overturning the appointment of Chief Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas Thursday, the supreme court said it was made without taking into account that

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor says he's dropping his nearly decade-long fight to persuade the government to let him grow marijuana in bulk for medical research. Horticulturist Lyle Craker wanted to cultivate marijuana to boost research into the plant's potential medicinal benefits. But he's been rebuffed - even as more than a dozen states have legalized

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BEIJING (AP) -- China's government called Saturday for higher social spending, controls on inflation and measures to urgently close a divisive rich-poor gap, betting that rising living standards, better services and heavy policing will dampen growing public expectations for change. In a speech that is China's equivalent of a state-of-the-nation address, Premier Wen Jiabao said the government will

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ATLANTA (AP) -- American adults have a significantly higher rate of obesity than their neighbors to the north, a new study says. About 24 percent of Canadians are obese compared to more than 34 percent of Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Wednesday. Researchers looked at height and weight data taken in surveys in both countries during 2007-

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CHICAGO (AP) -- From the day he arrived in 2008 until Tuesday when he quit, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis remained an outsider. A former FBI agent and Florida native, Weis had - and many say fulfilled - a mandate from Mayor Richard Daley to clean up the department's scandal-stained image. That mandate certainly made his force nervous. Hours before his contract expired Tuesday, Weis left

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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- You'll never look at hummingbirds the same again. The Pentagon has poured millions of dollars into the development of tiny drones inspired by biology, each equipped with video and audio equipment that can record sights and sounds. They could be used to spy, but also to locate people inside earthquake-crumpled buildings and detect hazardous chemical leaks. The smaller, the better

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The Libyan ambassador to the United Nations made an impassioned appeal Friday to the U.N. Security Council, calling on the U.N.'s most powerful body to adopt a strong resolution and "save Libya." His speech ended with him embracing his deputy, who had defected from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's camp earlier this week, and both men sobbing as the U.N. Secretary-General and other ambassadors came

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights wrapped up his fourth visit to Cambodia on Thursday saying significant issues remained unresolved. Surya Subedi said his fourth visit to Cambodia had produced a mixed bag of results, with limited government cooperation on measures for judicial reform that he had recommended after his last trip here in June. On Thursday Subedi highlighted

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(CNN) -- Termination notices have been sent to every teacher in the Providence public school system, setting off a wave of anxiety and anger in the Rhode Island city and prompting a union leader to accuse the mayor of anti-union maneuvering. The teachers will remain at work as the school year continues, though the notices sent out this week mean any of them now could lose their jobs at municipal

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(FT) -- AP Møller-Maersk has provided evidence that container shipping's sharp post-recession rebound is losing speed, warning that this year's fleet expansion is likely to outstrip growth in demand to move goods. The Danish group gave the warning as it reported record net profits of $5bn for 2010. These followed the first full-year loss in its 107-year history. Maersk said it expected demand to

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the studio behind "Megamind," said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit nearly doubled thanks to a one-time tax benefit. Absent the benefit, the adjusted earnings fell below analyst expectations, as did revenue. Net income at the Glendale, Calif.-based studio in the three months through Dec. 31 came to $85.2 million, or 99 cents per share,

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Rescue teams in New Zealand dug urgently on Wednesday through the rubble of a small number of collapsed buildings in Christchurch where they still hope to find survivors of Tuesday's powerful earthquake. Authorities told tearful friends and families of the missing that there was no longer any hope of finding survivors in a collapsed five-story building that had housed an international language

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is "outraged" by Libya's deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters, and told Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to stop the violence "immediately." Speaking on a visit to Los Angeles Monday, Ban said he had a 40-minute phone conversation with Gadhafi earlier in the day and "forcefully" urged the Libyan leader to end attacks on demonstrators by the

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A number of world leaders are demanding a peaceful resolution of the turmoil in Libya. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa called Monday for an end to the violence in the north African nation, and said he sees the Libyan protesters' demands as legitimate. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke by phone with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and expressed deep concern at the escalating scale of

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(FT) -- Private jet travel, shunned in the recession as a sign of ostentation, is recovering in a further sign that the world's richest people are spending more freely again. The number of business flights -- which includes celebrity, state and business hire -- grew 5.5 per cent last year, in both European and US airspace, according to figures from Eurocontrol, the air traffic management

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Efforts to cut the U.S. federal budget to counter a rising deficit projected at $1.6 trillion this year are now moving to the Democratic Party dominated Senate. The Republican controlled House of Representatives passed a bill early Saturday with about $60 billion in spending cuts. During Saturday's early morning debate House Speaker John Boehner said the next few months will be the most important

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Madagascar's exiled president says his country's aviation authority has blocked his return from South Africa. Marc Ravalomanana told reporters Saturday his planned trip to Madagascar was sabotaged by a letter from an aviation official to the South African Airways, denying him a boarding pass. Mr. Ravalomanana had vowed to return Saturday, despite his absentia conviction to life at hard labor for

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(CNN) -- World No. 1 Yani Tseng eagled the last hole to take a one-shot lead into Sunday's final round of the season-opening LPGA Thailand tournament in Chonburi. The Taiwanese golfer, seeking her third successive victory after two wins in Australia earlier this month, carded two-under-par 70 in her third round on Saturday in hot conditions at the Siam Country Club. She ended the day ahead of

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