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The hypocrisy of Republicans over oil prices, 3-2-12

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Iranians head to the polls Friday in a parliamentary election marking the first nationwide balloting since a disputed vote triggered massive protests nearly three years ago.

James Q. Wilson, who has died at 80, understood America's unending argument about how freedom both depends upon government and is threatened by it.

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation amid the nuclear standoff with the West....

Researchers in the US have built a prototype which could generate electricity from waste water.

Northern Rock Asset Management, the so-called "bad bank" that manages Northern Rock's mortgage book, repaid £2bn of the government's loan in 2011.

Researchers describe a completely new way to pack information into radio, TV, and wi-fi signals - shown off at a public experiment in Venice.

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -- New Balance running shoes rest on a Boston College floor mat as Luzmila Garcia starts the climb to her son Franco's attic bedroom....

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -- New Balance running shoes rest on a Boston College floor mat as Luzmila Garcia starts the climb to her son Franco's attic bedroom....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school were set to return to class, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school were set to return to class, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect....

A day after overrunning the rebel stronghold of Baba Amr, Syrian forces executed 14 civilians there Friday, opposition groups said, even as an international aid convoy said it was waiting to get into the city.

An inquest confirms a 16-year-old Dorset schoolboy died after being struck on the side of the head by a cricket ball.

The funeral of stabbed South Yorkshire teenager Casey-Lyanne Kearney will take place later.

A university says despite plans to cut its fees to meet funding changes it still risks losing up to 20% of its full-time students.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- As the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's liaison with another man heads into its sixth day, prosecutors won't say who they intend to call to testify....

Fiscal conservatives unwittingly sabotage themselves by invoking "the children" when explaining the dangers of America’s ballooning national debt.

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