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Worldwide News
| 10/02/2012
Florida offers look at problems with education law(AP)
| |  AP - Yet when it comes to the federal No Child Left Behind law, the school hasn't lived up to expectations. Last year, 79 percent of students had to be at grade level in reading and 80 percent in math. Overall, the students exceeded those goals. But two groups— English language learners and the economically disadvantaged— did not.
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| 10/02/2012
Social worker recounts minutes before Powell fire(AP)
| |  AP - Josh Powell told his 7-year-old son he had a"surprise"for him moments before attacking and killing him and his 5-year-old brother, according to the state social worker who was supposed to supervise a visit between Powell and his sons.
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| 10/02/2012
Groups demand new probe into Marine photo(AP)
| |  AP - A leading Jewish organization and others outraged by a photo showing Marine snipers in Afghanistan posing with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol are demanding President Barack Obama order an investigation and hold the troops accountable.
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| 10/02/2012
Students, teachers adjust as LA school reopens(AP)
| |  AP - Some students wrote farewell letters to their former teachers. Even though it was the middle of the school year to them, it was the first day for the new staff of an elementary school where every worker was replaced following the arrests of two longtime teachers on lewdness charges.
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| 10/02/2012
Pa. judge to consider Sandusky jury, bail issues(AP)
| |  AP - State prosecutors don't want the people who live near former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in central Pennsylvania to sit as jurors in his pending child sex-abuse trial. On Friday, they will try to persuade a judge to fill the jury box with people from outside the State College area instead.
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| 10/02/2012
British man wanted in'93 heist arrested in Mo.(AP)
| |  AP - After nearly two decades as a fugitive, a British man suspected of driving off with an armored car loaded with cash worth about$1.5 million has been captured in southwest Missouri, where he appeared in federal court wearing blue jeans and asking for a court-appointed defense attorney because he didn't have enough money to hire one.
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| 09/02/2012
Women at war: Pentagon is easing its job limits(AP)
| |  AP - New orders from the Pentagon: The military on Thursday formally opened thousands of jobs to women in units that are closer to the front lines than ever before, reflecting what's already been going on as female American soldiers fight and die next to their male comrades.
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| 09/02/2012
Biden says contraceptives fight can be worked out(Reuters)
| | Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday the White House was working to address concerns raised by the Catholic Church over a new rule on contraceptives, and he believed an escalating election-year battle over the issue would be resolved. > more |
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| 03/02/2012
Kuwait Islamists ride opposition election surge(AP)
| |  AP - Opposition groups that include hard-line Islamists have taken control of Kuwait's parliament, according to election results Friday, in a rise that could limit the hands of pro-Western rulers in dealings such as U.S. plans to boost its military presence in the oil-rich Gulf nation.
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| 03/02/2012
Egypt protesters besiege Cairo ministry(Reuters)
| | Reuters - Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, pushing their protest against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst soccer disaster. > more |
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| 03/02/2012
Olympics, World Cup preparation bring evictions(AP)
| |  AP - Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos'devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium— this nation's temple to the sport.
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