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| MiamiHerald.com - 13 minutes ago Dolphins Junior Seau celebrates stopping Redskins Rock Cartwright for a 4 yard loss in the 4th quarter of their game at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, August 21, 2004. |
| Atlanta Journal Constitution - 26 minutes ago By Bo Emerson and Ernie Suggs Pam Champion could think of only one thing Wednesday: Her son lost his life, but those charged with killing him stand only to lose six years. |
| Reuters - 17 minutes ago By Steve Holland | CHANTILLY, Virginia (Reuters) - In a blast from the past, Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney is likening President Barack Obama's economic record to the weak performance of a Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter. |
| Los Angeles Times - 49 minutes ago Joss Whedon pulls off a heroic feat in making the superheroes of 'The Avengers' work together. By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic "The Avengers"are here, and resistance is futile. |
| New York Times - 23 minutes ago Target, signaling its growing irritation with its rival Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it would stop selling the online retailer's Kindle e-readers. |
| By Tom A. Peter, Special for USA TODAY KABUL - Hours after President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed the strategic partnership agreement that will serve as the framework for future relations between their two nations, the Taliban issued ... |
| * Angry Sarkozy accuses Socialist rival of lying * Duel seen as conservative leader's last hope of catching up * Hollande leads runoff polls, Le Pen won't endorse Sarkozy By Catherine Bremer and Paul Taylor PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - French President ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago In a troubling sign of the continuing violence in Syria despite a United Nations peace plan, a new video posted online by Syrian dissidents purports to show United Nations vehicles idling next to a decaying body. |
| Los Angeles Times - 33 minutes ago News Corp.'s board of directors offered their unanimous support for Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch one day after Britain's Parliament issued a report on the phone hacking scandal that concluded the mogul was "not a fit person" to run the ... |
| CBS News - 33 minutes ago (AP) GILBERT, Ariz. - A man fatally shot four people, including a toddler, at a home in a Phoenix suburb Wednesday before being found dead, authorities said. |
| Los Angeles Times - 46 minutes ago By Kim Murphy The US Justice Department's decision to open a civil rights investigation into the handling of sexual assault cases in Missoula, Mont. |
| CBS News - 45 minutes ago (CBS News) - In many parts of the country, Republican candidates are running against President Obama, even if he's not technically the Democratic opponent on the ballot. |
| Another day, another big, bad revelation about Aubrey McClendon. A tip of the hat to the seven Reuters' reporters who uncovered this latest story on the $200 million hedge fund that McClendon and co-founder Tom Ward were running inside Chesapeake ... |
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| Wall Street Journal - 2 hours ago By Erin McCarthy Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The euro tumbled against its main rivals Wednesday after a stream of disappointing economic data across Europe and the US reignited global-growth concerns. |
| Washington Post - 2 hours ago NEW YORK - It's on. Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements in competitive states for the November general election, providing political cover against President Barack Obama's well-financed campaign while the ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago By Robin Abcarian The tenure of an openly gay spokesman for Mitt Romney's campaign lasted less than two weeks. On April 19, Romney's campaign announced it had hired Richard Grenell, 45, as its foreign policy spokesman. |
| Sydney Morning Herald - 23 minutes ago BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has shown off advanced new features that will be available on new BlackBerry 10 smartphones - and a new prototype - but analysts are already questioning whether it's "too late" to claw back market share lost to ... |
| Chicago Sun-Times - 36 minutes ago AP May 2, 2012 9:44AM Facebook will go public on May 18, a published report says, in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004. |
| Written by in 5,089 Google+ circles Tomorrow the Samsung Galaxy S III will be unveiled at the end of a long line of rumors, tips, and leaks which we've collected here. |
| USA TODAY - 13 minutes ago By Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY Tonight on American Idol, the Top Five Idols will sing '60s tunes and British pop. Plus, the duos and trios are back, with versions of Jackie Wilson's (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher and the Righteous ... |
| E! Online - 51 minutes ago Just as he did in The Avengers, Jeremy Renner had Scarlett Johansson's back today. And he used that position to tickle her ribs! |
| People Magazine - 2 hours ago “There was a little misunderstanding,” she explained on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno of her pre-Christmas cut. “I said, 'Oh I just want a little bit off' … and it went from here to here,” she added, gesturing two very different hair lengths. |
| By Nate Davis, USA TODAY Saints middle linebacker and team captain Jonathan Vilma, whose season-long suspension (effective immediately) was the most severe punishment, said in a statement: "I am shocked and extremely disappointed by the NFL's decision ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 44 minutes ago By Steve Dilbeck As a shock to absolutely no one, Matt Kemp was selected Wednesday the National League player of the month for April. |
| By Lester Munson | ESPN.com WASHINGTON, DC -- Wednesday was a rough day for the prosecutors who are trying to persuade a jury that Roger Clemens lied to the US Congress when he denied that he had ever used performance-enhancing drugs. |
| New York Times - 12 minutes ago NEWARK - Adam Larsson, the Devils' 19-year-old rookie defenseman, had grown a playoff beard, just in case he would actually get into a playoff game. |
| National Geographic - 3 hours ago The Iceman mummy is refrozen in an Italian lab after a series of experiments (file picture). Three-dimensional atomic force microscope image of a red blood cell found in the Iceman's arrow wound. |
| Science Codex - 1 hour ago Plants are leafing out and flowering sooner each year than predicted by results from controlled environmental warming experiments, according to data from a major new archive of historical observations assembled with the help of a NASA researcher. |
| (CBS/AP) Controversial bird flu research is now one step closer to being public. One of the two papers on bird flu is being published, with the approval of the US government. |
| BusinessWeek - 1 hour ago By Diane Brady on May 02, 2012 In the US, they're often known as “miracle” babies, children born several weeks–even months–before they're due to enter the world. |
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