7.2 Earthquake Near Mexicali us.rd.yahoo.com
A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Mexico-California border on Sunday. It killed at least one person and panicked residents from Tijuana to Los Angeles. It was straight up freaky.
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8.8-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Chile
A giant earthquake hit Chile overnight, shaking most of the country and putting Hawaii under tsunami warning (Update: Hawaii ok.). The death toll is currently 700 but is expected to rise. Read More ›
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2010 Westminster Dog Show Winner
Meet Sadie, the Scottish terrier who won Best In Show. She is the eighth terrier to win Westminster, because snotty dogs win snotty competitions. View Image ›
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Haisong Jiang us.rd.yahoo.com
Meet the guy who triggered the shutdown of Newark Airport! Jiang was arrested on Friday night and faces a $500 fine and trespassing charges.
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Stockholm: 0 Arsonists: 3 news.yahoo.com
Every year for Christmas, the city of Stockholm erects a giant straw goat known as the Gavle Goat, and every year, despite strict security measures, arsonists find a way to burn the structure to the ground. For the third year in a row, the Gavle Goat was destroyed by arsonists, which is quickly becoming a Christmas tradition of it's own.
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Soros: Finance gap could ‘wreck’ climate talks us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is “not sufficient” and the gap between what’s offered and what’s needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said Thursday.
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Arts survey finds drop in movie, museum attendance us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - If you haven’t gone to a movie, jazz concert or an art exhibit in recent years, you are in steadily growing company.
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Obama defends US wars as he accepts peace prize us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners with humble words Thursday, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious prize to “reach for the world that ought to be.”
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Wartime US president picks up his peace prize us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - A wartime president being honored for peace, Barack Obama said Thursday that criticism of his Nobel prize as premature might recede if he advances goals such as a nuclear-free world and tackling climate change.
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Frigid temperatures follow heavy snow into Midwest us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - Frigid temperatures fell into Upper Midwest on Thursday as a massive storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in several states from Iowa to New England neared the end of its cross-country trek.
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Zelaya negotiating deal to leave Honduras us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his office back and prevent the election of his successor.
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5 missing Americans probed for terror links us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - Five young American Muslims captured in Pakistan are under investigation for possible links to terrorism after their families found a disturbing farewell video the missing men left behind showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.
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New health care benefits come at a price us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul â now looking like a real possibility â should give uninsured Americans options they’ve never had before.
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Obama, other Dems praise new health compromise us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - President Barack Obama as well as Democratic liberals and moderates all found something to like Wednesday in an emerging compromise to expand the role of government in the nation’s health care system, raising hopes inside the party that passage of overhaul legislation might be within reach afte
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Palestinian files $110M libel suit over ‘Bruno’ us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - A Palestinian shopkeeper and father portrayed as a terrorist in the movie “Bruno” is suing film star Sacha Baron Cohen, David Letterman and others for libel and slander.
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Storm dumps snow on Midwest, bitter cold to follow us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts and providing ammunition for a massive campus snowball fight in Wisconsin.
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Atheists at Christmas: Eat, drink and be wary us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - Angie O’Neill recently moved into a new apartment complex for seniors and she’s trying to make new friends. But Christmas is a tough time of year for an atheist.
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WWII veteran had Hitler’s art book on bookshelf us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler’s home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close.
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Administration extends $700B bailout until Oct. us.rd.yahoo.com
AP - The Obama administration has extended the $700 billion financial bailout program until October, setting up a struggle between Democrats who favor using some of the leftover money to help generate jobs and Republicans who say it should be used to shrink soaring budget deficits.
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Woman Finds Hungry Cat Hiding in $27 Couch us.rd.yahoo.com
Vickie Mendenhall's $27 couch started meowing shortly after she brought it home from the thrift store. This had not happened to her with previous couches, so she decided to investigate …
