Iran's president says it is ready to send enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment under a deal agreed with the West.
CHICAGO On Monday, the day before Chicago and Illinois go to the polls for party primary elections, the Chicago Sun-Times published a re-endorsement of its favorite Democratic candidate for Cook County Board President, the independent-minded Toni Preckwinkle.
CHICAGO In what's believed to be the first interview granted by the reclusive creator of "Calvin and Hobbes" in more than a decade, Bill Watterson tells the Plain Dealer in Cleveland that he has no regrets about ending the strip 15 years ago.
The Feb 1 story headlined "Backdoor taxes to hit middle class" is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration's budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no substitute ...
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The Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day is providing "useful" information, US officials say.
Model Katie Price and her boyfriend Alex Reid have married in Las Vegas, a spokesman for the couple says.
 
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Hitmen working for a drug gang are the main suspects in the weekend slaying of 16 young partygoers in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, an official said Tuesday, as families prepared to bury their dead. Some 15 gunmen opened fire on a party packed with teenagers in the early hours of Sunday, in a particularly extreme attack in [...]
WASHINGTON, DC—The Fiscal Year 2011 National Drug Control Budget proposed by the Obama Administration would devote significant new resources to the prevention and treatment of drug abuse, National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske said today. These resources are complemented by an aggressive effort to enhance domestic law ...
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Step Up on Second announces the launch of its newly enhanced Web 2.0 site. Step Up on Second is a California non-profit organization providing support services for adults affected by severe and persistent mental illness, and young adults experiencing the initial symptoms of a mental illness and their families.
 
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Perhaps the most commanding star in this appealing, fairly family-friendly production is the troupe’s home, a former Sunday school space in a Brooklyn church.
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Democrats say Republicans use petty tactics to block President Obama's agenda. But Senate Democrats had a hard time passing legislation even when they had a filibuster-proof majority.
The study found that abstinence-only sex education programs showed relative success in dissuading 12 year olds from having sex for two years afterward. It is the most comprehensive study to date to bolster an abstinence-only approach to reducing teen pregnancy.
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Schools are being sold detection equipment to catch mobile phones used secretly in exam rooms by students to cheat.
It's so scary it keeps some parents up at night: SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death syndrome. There are no symptoms, but soon there might be a test. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports that for the first time, researchers might know why some babies are at higher risk than others.
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A Picasso masterpiece unseen in public for 43 years is sold for �8.1m at auction to an unknown buyer at Christie's in London.
Last year's Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, N.Y., was due to pilot errors and poor training, officials said Tuesday. The board is looking to standardize safety norms across large and small carriers.
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The play “Neighbors,” a study of black identity and self-loathing, may come as one of the most sustained shocks of this theater season.
The United States and the United Nations are paying for thousands of new jobs to speed earthquake cleanup, put cash in people's pockets, and help the private sector recover.
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The United States and Russia have reached an "agreement in principle" to slash their nuclear weapons stockpiles, the first such pact in nearly two decades, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. State Department officials could not immediately confirm the report which said the two sides agreed to lower the ceiling for deployed nuclear weapons ...
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US lawmakers Tuesday unveiled plans to block public funding for US-based trials involving Guantanamo detainees who are accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks. Republican lawmakers Frank Wolf and Lindsey Graham joined forces to introduce legislation which "would explicitly block this dangerous and wasteful trial from any domestic ...
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