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NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's largest St. Patrick's Day celebration gave the city's Irish-Americans a chance to settle a score Thursday with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, still taking heat for disparaging comments about Irish stereotypes, but most parade-goers chose instead to enjoy the spectacle of bands, dancers and dignitaries. Irish cheer visited cities across the world, including Washington,

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- On a road that curves around a swath of vegetation at the far north of this commercial capital, cars leave territory controlled by strongman Laurent Gbagbo at a checkpoint consisting of a pile of logs. Beyond it is the first barricade manned by gunmen loyal to the country's internationally recognized president Alassane Ouattara. The line of control is slowly creeping

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COPEMISH, Mich. (AP) -- Redwoods and sequoias towering majestically over California's northern coast. Oaks up to 1,000 years old nestled in a secluded corner of Ireland. The legendary cedars of Lebanon. They are among the most iconic trees on Earth, remnants of once-vast populations decimated by logging, development, pollution and disease. A nonprofit organization called Archangel Ancient Tree

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The attorney representing William Ruto, Kenya's suspended higher education minister, says the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has no case against his client after the court summoned six suspected Kenyans, including Ruto, to appear before the court April 7. Katwa Kigen says the defense team is not privy to the evidence the court has against his client, but insists Ruto is being

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bankers and merchants, pillars of the business world and frequent allies, are embroiled in a bitter lobbying battle over something Americans do 38 billion times a year - swipe their debit cards. Both sides vigorously claim to speak for consumers. At stake is $16 billion annually that the Federal Reserve says stores pay to banks and credit card companies when customers use the

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A school police officer was charged Thursday with falsely claiming he was shot outside a high school - a report that led authorities to seal thousands of youngsters inside classrooms and scour miles of the San Fernando Valley for a gunman in January. Jeff Stenroos, 30, was charged with four felony counts of perjury, filing a false insurance claim, preparing a false police

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two failed marriages were the cost of war for Sgt. Jennifer Schobey. The breaking point in her first marriage came when her husband deployed to Afghanistan, the last in a long line of separations they had endured as they juggled two military careers. Schobey married another combat veteran, but eventually that union failed under the weight of two cases of post-traumatic stress

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. and its NATO allies edged closer Monday to formulating a military response to the escalating violence in Libya as the alliance boosted surveillance flights over the country and the Obama administration signaled it might be willing to help arm Moammar Gadhafi's opponents. Europe, meanwhile, kick-started international efforts to impose a no-fly zone. It still appeared

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(CNN) -- Spanish champions Barcelona continued their relentless pace at the top of La Liga with a 1-0 home win over Real Zaragoza Saturday night. It was their third league win in eight days and took them 10 points clear of arch-rivals Real Madrid, who play at Racing Santander Sunday. Mali international midfielder Seydou Keita scored the only goal in the Nou Camp shortly before halftime, set up by

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Jasmine Thomas scored 21 points and No. 8 Duke won its second straight Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship by beating No. 19 North Carolina 81-66 on Sunday. Freshman Haley Peters added 14 points and Karima Christmas had 13 for the top-seeded Blue Devils (29-3). They shot 46 percent against a stingy North Carolina defense and held the Tar Heels (25-8)

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Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military officer accused by the United States of offering to sell weapons to terrorist groups, appeared in federal court in New York on Thursday. Bout's lawyer asked the government to provide his client with better prison conditions. Bout's attorney told Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin that the prison room where he and his client meet is unacceptable. A prosecuting

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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A Navy admiral on Thursday recommended that the captain who produced and starred in a series of raunchy videos shown to thousands of sailors aboard the USS Enterprise be censured along with three other high-ranking officers. Capt. Owen P. Honors Jr. was the aircraft carrier's No. 2 officer when he helped produce and appeared in the series of videos that aired on the ship's

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Courtney Love's settlement of a case sparked by online attacks on a fashion designer show that while Twitter posts may be short, they can also be costly. The singer has agreed to pay Dawn Simorangkir $430,000, plus interest, to settle a lawsuit the designer filed in March 2009 over comments Love made on Twitter and her MySpace blog. While the case didn't go to a jury, First

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mazda has some creepy crawly culprits in its new safety recall - spiders. After discovering spider webs in the vents, the Japanese automaker is recalling more than 50,000 Mazda6 cars from the 2009-2010 model years in the United States and an additional 15,000 vehicles in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The company said Thursday a spider could weave a web in a vent connected to

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The brains behind social-networking company Ning have launched a new venture, a smart-phone communication tool called Mogwee. Mogwee is short for "more great weekends." That's what Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and chairman Marc Andreessen, the Web pioneer, hope people will get from using the service. Mogwee is a free application available on the iPhone. An Android version and others

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HONOLULU (AP) -- Wally Kaname Yonamine, the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II and a former running back with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 85. His son, Paul Yonamine, told The Associated Press that two-sport standout died Monday night at a Honolulu retirement home after a bout with prostate cancer. "Most people remember him for his

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is telling Congress that the Obama administration wants Congress to approve legislation overhauling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's troubled housing finance giants, within two years. In remarks he planned to deliver Tuesday to the House Financial Services Committee, Geithner said that failing to act by then would worsen uncertainty

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Kyle Kuric scored 12 points, including two big baskets in overtime, to lead No. 16 Louisville past No. 4 Pittsburgh 62-59 on Sunday. Kuric had a potential game-winning layup blocked at the end of regulation, but atoned by hitting a 3-pointer early in the extra session then adding the clinching dunk with less than a second on the clock. Then things got a little bizarre. The

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Tim Lincecum had butterflies, admittedly nervous taking the field with the added hype as a World Series winner. He threw back-to-back balls, then allowed a single up the middle to Willie Bloomquist. The Freak hardly looked like his dominant self in his short exhibition debut Friday, but that's often the case for San Francisco's two-time NL Cy Young Award winner this time

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The mayor insisted Friday that the vast majority of Providence teachers wouldn't lose their jobs even though the school district has warned them all they could, but the prospect of a mass teacher firing in New England's second-largest city sent another ripple of uncertainty through public sector unions that feel under attack in Wisconsin and elsewhere. The school board of

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple Inc. on Thursday said its new MacBook Pro laptops are the first to include a "Thunderbolt" port for high-speed connections to both displays and other peripherals, like external hard drives. The technology was developed by Intel Corp., which is aiming to spread it to the rest of the PC industry. Thunderbolt replaces the Mini DisplayPort on MacBooks. It can connect directly

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St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright is getting a second opinion on his injured right elbow, which the team fears will require reconstructive surgery. Team spokesman Brian Bartow said Wednesday night that results of MRIs and other tests were being examined by Dr. Lewis Yocum in Los Angeles. The team anticipated a news conference Thursday afternoon to disclose findings. Wainwright, a 20-game

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CAIRO (AP) -- An angry crowd of hundreds taunted three former high-ranking members of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime as they arrived in court for a corruption hearing Wednesday, screaming "thieves" and "you robbed our money." Egyptian authorities also imposed a travel ban on two former ministers and the head of state TV and radio - a measure that often serves as a prelude to a criminal

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PHOENIX (AP) -- A sweeping bill that targets illegal immigrants in public housing, public benefits and the workplace drew vocal opposition Tuesday from Democrats who say its sponsor is plotting his political strategy and not focused on Republicans' stated top priority, the economy. "We should be thinking about turning around Arizona's economy, not running for higher office," said Sen. Richard

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CAIRO (AP) -- Two Iranian naval vessels entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday en route to Syria, officials said, the first time in three decades that Tehran has sent military ships through the strategic waterway. Canal officials said the ships - a frigate and a supply vessel - are expected to reach the Mediterranean later in the day. Israel has made clear it views the passage as a provocation.

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike killed four alleged militants in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border early Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike was the first since the arrest of an American who shot two Pakistanis in late January, and indicates Washington won't abandon the controversial tactic even as it is engaged in a dispute

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RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- Thousands of people marched in cities across Morocco on Sunday, demanding a new constitution to bring more democracy in the North African kingdom amid the wave of Arab world upheaval. Demonstrators shouted slogans calling for economic opportunity, educational reform, better health services and help coping with rising living costs during a march on central Hassan II Avenue

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Anti-government protests have spread to Djibouti, the tiny, but strategic country that hosts the only U.S. military base in sub-Saharan Africa. Demonstrators are demanding that the president step down. Protesters marched down a Djibouti street Friday after Muslim prayers, demanding that President Ismail Omar Guelleh give up plans to run for a third term. The 63-year-old president came to power in

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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- One of Sarah Palin's trusted advisers is planning a tell-all memoir, drawing upon thousands of personal e-mails during his time with the former Alaska governor to paint what his agent calls an expose of the inner workings of her operation. Frank Bailey rose from a campaign volunteer to administration official and figure in the "Troopergate" scandal that fixated the public's

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A group of oil companies led by Exxon said Thursday it has built a system that can stop an undersea oil spill within weeks, a critical step toward resuming drilling in the deepest parts of the Gulf of Mexico. The group said its combination of equipment and support vessels can contain a spill similar to BP's massive gusher, which took almost three months to plug. Some of the

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Burmese news reports say a former top member of Burma's military government has resigned his seat in parliament, in a surprise move less than three weeks after he was sworn in. The reports say a letter of resignation from former Lieutenant General Tin Aye was read aloud Wednesday by the speaker of the military-dominated parliament. No explanation was given for the departure. Wednesday's

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- NASCAR has reduced the size of the restrictor plate in an attempt to cut speeds before the season-opening Daytona 500. The move announced Wednesday is one of many NASCAR has made since last weekend's exhibition Budweiser Shootout saw speeds top 206 mph at one point. The reduction of the restrictor plate is 1/64-inch and could cut about 10 horsepower from the engines.

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Berlin (CNN) -- A 48-year-old German man admitted being the father of his stepdaughter's eight children Tuesday, but denied he had sexually abused her, a German court official said. The man, identified only as Detlef S., is on trial in Koblenz, Germany, charged with the sexual abuse of dependents and facilitating the sexual abuse of minors. He is accused of hundreds of incidents of sexual abuse

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- For Sunday night's Grammy winners, nominees and just about anyone tangentially related to the music industry in Los Angeles, the actual ceremony was only a jumping off point. From 9 p.m. until the early morning, musicians hit Hollywood, West Hollywood and beyond to toast a year -- 2010, that is -- in which the music industry seemed to have multiple reasons to celebrate. And

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Thomas A. Saenz, a nationally known Latino civil rights lawyer who led the fight against Proposition 187, the 1994 measure that would have barred illegal immigrants from public services, is among the top candidates Gov. Jerry Brown is considering for the California Supreme Court, according to judges and law professors who have been consulted about the selection. Brown has yet to interview any of

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The arrest in Burma of Ross Dunkley, the Australian publisher of the Myanmar Times, has raised fears of even tighter control over Burma's media by the military. Dunkly was was arrested in Rangoon shortly after returning from overseas last week. A pioneer in Southeast Asia news media, he founded the Times in 2000. But there have been reports of a conflict over control of the paper. Dunkley

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Fourth-year medical students - at least those at the University of Illinois at Chicago -- are not very proficient at detecting melanomas, the most serious type of skin cancer, researchers from that school said this week at the 69th annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. Actors wearing a medical moulage (a simulated melanoma) were examined for carpal tunnel syndrome with the

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(FT) -- China is in talks to build an alternative to the Panama Canal that would link Colombia's Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail -- a move that Bogotá also hopes will spur Washington to push for Congressional approval of a US-Colombia free-trade pact. "It's a real proposal ... and it is quite advanced," Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's president, told the Financial Times. "The studies [the

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A day after the United States postponed a key meeting with Pakistani and Afghan officials to discuss the war in Afghanistan, Islamabad says it is confident the tri-lateral talks will be re-scheduled soon. The annual ministerial level meeting was to be held in Washington February 23-24 to review progress on the Afghan war and the regional campaign against extremism. Pakistan Foreign Ministry

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Investigators looking into the cause of a gas explosion that killed five people in Allentown, Pa., last week are focusing on an "imperfection" in a pipe near the blast site. Wednesday night's explosion flattened a pair of row houses and set fire to a block of homes, killing five people - including a 4-month-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. On Saturday, investigators told The Morning Call of

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(CNN) -- Spain's Alvaro Quiros carded a hole-in-one on the way to a remarkable victory in the Dubai Desert Classic as Tiger Woods and a host of big-name contenders fell away in Sunday's final round. The 28-year-old from Cadiz clinched the most notable victory of his career with a four-under 68 which included a eagle-two at the second, a triple bogey seven on the eighth and tellingly an ace on the

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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- A Lebanese bank has denied accusations by the U.S. Treasury Department that it is involved in laundering hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of a drug kingpin -- and rejected claims it has links with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militia. On Thursday the Treasury described the Lebanese Canadian Bank in Beirut as a "financial institution of primary money laundering

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More than one-quarter of women with apparent early-stage ovarian cancer don't receive recommended lymph node biopsies to check for cancer spread, which nearly doubles these patients' risk of death, say U.S. researchers. The team at the University of California Davis Cancer Center and California Cancer Registry analyzed the medical records and cancer registry data of 721 presumed early-stage

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SAN DIEGO -- A taxi cab driver plowed slowly into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego's busy Gaslamp District early Saturday, injuring more than two dozen people, police said. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the crash occurred about 2 a.m. in the middle of the popular restaurant and nightclub zone, close to the city's convention center. One young woman was pinned against a wall by the

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Reporting from Cairo - The announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's exit Friday was too much for Amr Nassef, an Egyptian who anchors the news on Al Manar TV, which is operated by Hezbollah in Lebanon. "Allahu akbar, the pharaoh is dead," Nassef said on the air, his voice rising with emotion. "Am I dreaming? I'm afraid to be dreaming." Across the Middle East, the euphoria was contagious

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MANASSAS, Va. - A Salvadoran man who was ordered deported nearly a decade ago but never left has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings and a knife attack in a Virginia suburb of Washington, authorities said Friday. Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant, was charged in the pair of attacks blocks apart Thursday night that left three people dead and

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Hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have spread out across Cairo and other Egyptian cities, after President Hosni Mubarak refused their demand to resign immediately. Crowds massed after Friday prayers in several areas of Cairo and big cities throughout Egypt. The military is deployed as tens of thousands of protesters packed into Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square. Chanting

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New gene-based tests that map out a person's entire genetic code can help explain why a child has birth defects or developmental delays, but they are also exposing some dark family secrets. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston recently started using such tests and have uncovered several cases of likely incest, says Dr. Arthur Beaudet, chairman of molecular and human genetics at

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As weeks go, House Speaker John Boehner's had better. First Republicans failed to extend parts of the Patriot Act. Then they fell short on a bid to claw back millions of dollars in excess U.N. funding. And then they started squabbling over the scope of their own budget cuts. To top things off, a GOP congressman -- who is married -- resigned Wednesday after being accused just hours earlier of

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