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Mar 10 2010

Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill (AP)

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Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill
(AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP – Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.

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Mar 10 2010

Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill (AP)

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Pelosi says Dems near deal on health care bill
(AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP – Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them off stride.

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Mar 09 2010

Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in Calif. (AP)

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Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in Calif.
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Driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif.  Sikes' 2008 Toyota Prius raced out of control on a San Diego freeway Monday. A California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP – Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway.

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Mar 08 2010

Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51 (AP)

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Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51
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In this image from TV,  showing emergency workers and local people as they work to clear rubble to reach victims in Elazig Province, eastern Turkey, following a strong earthquake Monday March 8, 2010.  A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey on Monday,  knocking down many stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages in Elazig Province, an official said. (AP Photo / DHA TV)AP – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.

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Mar 07 2010

25 die as Iraqis defy violence to vote in election (AP)

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25 die as Iraqis defy violence to vote in election
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Zahiya Kadim, who is blind, displays her inked finger after casting her vote in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgents attacks, Iraqis went to the polls on foot Sunday in an election testing the ability of the country's still-fragile democracy to move forward at a time of uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and still jagged sectarian divisions. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP – Iraqis voted Sunday in an election testing the mettle of the country’s still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people across the Iraq, unleashing a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the historic day.

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Mar 05 2010

Pentagon shooter had a history of mental illness (AP)

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Pentagon shooter had a history of mental illness
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This undated booking photo provided by the Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal on Friday, March 5, 2010 shows John Patrick Bedell. Authorities said Bedell pulled a handgun at a Pentagon entrance in Washington on Thursday, March 4, 2010, shot two police officers and was mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries. (AP Photo/Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal) NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUTAP – The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

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Mar 04 2010

AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data (AP)

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AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data
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In this Jan. 12, 2010 family photo released by Roberts & Roberts law firm, an event data recorder taken from the 2008 Toyota Avalon in a deadly 2009 crash, commonly known as EDR, is shown at a wrecker service in Euless, Texas. In the Southlake, Texas crash, four people died when their 2008 Avalon ripped through a fence, hit a tree and flipped into an icy pond. Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline 'black boxes' that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts. The AP investigation found that Toyota has been inconsistent — and sometimes even contradictory — in revealing exactly what the devices record and don't record, including critical data about whether the brake or accelerator pedals were depressed at the time of a crash. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Roberts & Roberts Law Firm) NO SALESAP – Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline “black boxes” that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

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Mar 04 2010

AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data (AP)

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AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data
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In this Jan. 12, 2010 family photo released by Roberts & Roberts law firm, an event data recorder taken from the 2008 Toyota Avalon in a deadly 2009 crash, commonly known as EDR, is shown at a wrecker service in Euless, Texas. In the Southlake, Texas crash, four people died when their 2008 Avalon ripped through a fence, hit a tree and flipped into an icy pond. Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline 'black boxes' that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts. The AP investigation found that Toyota has been inconsistent — and sometimes even contradictory — in revealing exactly what the devices record and don't record, including critical data about whether the brake or accelerator pedals were depressed at the time of a crash. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Roberts & Roberts Law Firm) NO SALESAP – Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline “black boxes” that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

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Mar 04 2010

AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data (AP)

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AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data
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In this Jan. 12, 2010 family photo released by Roberts & Roberts law firm, an event data recorder taken from the 2008 Toyota Avalon in a deadly 2009 crash, commonly known as EDR, is shown at a wrecker service in Euless, Texas. In the Southlake, Texas crash, four people died when their 2008 Avalon ripped through a fence, hit a tree and flipped into an icy pond. Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline 'black boxes' that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts. The AP investigation found that Toyota has been inconsistent — and sometimes even contradictory — in revealing exactly what the devices record and don't record, including critical data about whether the brake or accelerator pedals were depressed at the time of a crash. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Roberts & Roberts Law Firm) NO SALESAP – Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline “black boxes” that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

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Mar 03 2010

Time to act on health care, Obama declares (AP)

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Time to act on health care, Obama declares
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President Barack Obama speaks to reporters as he visits Meddin Studios, a digital production facility and recipient of a Small Business Administration loan, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – Declaring the nation is “waiting for us to act” after a year of debate, President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to enact his signature health care legislation swiftly. He said it now contains the best ideas from both political parties.

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