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UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts
2 hrs 29 mins ago
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Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them - or at least cut them in half - by 2050 under a draft agreement circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks.
Major makeover of Wall Street regs passes House
33 mins ago
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The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year's Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.
SC first lady files for divorce from cheating gov
4 hrs ago
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South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, filed for divorce Friday more than five months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an Argentine woman.
AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges
1 hr 8 mins ago
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People with knowledge of the case say FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as they gather evidence that may lead to a conspiracy charge against them.
Obama says Afghanistan not US 'protectorate'
5 hrs ago
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President Barack Obama says he needed to set a deadline to start withdrawing U.S. forces so the Afghans wouldn't assume their country would be "a permanent protectorate" of the United States.
Gun laws are getting looser across much of US
1 hr 24 mins ago
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It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
Novel drug combo improves breast cancer survival
1 hr 20 mins ago
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Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other medicines, doctors reported Friday.