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Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care
5:20 PM on 03/15/2010
VIDEO - With a fresh sense of urgency, President Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress...
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Appeals court upholds conviction in KKK killings
4:24 PM on 03/15/2010
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the kidnapping...
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NCAA graduation rates between blacks and whites widening
3:37 PM on 03/15/2010
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The disparity in graduation rates for white and black players on NCAA tournament-bound men's basketball teams grew this year...
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Obama portrait removal is a prank to some, prejudice to others
10:43 AM on 03/15/2010
VIDEO - Oklahoma state lawmakers are investigating a presidential mystery. A portrait of President Obama keeps moving from a wall in the House chamber...
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ACORN branches rename, rebrand after video scandal
10:24 AM on 03/15/2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization...
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LaDainian Tomlinson is bolting for the Big Apple
10:15 AM on 03/15/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Tomlinson's agent, Tom Condon, said Sunday that the New York Jets signed the former Chargers running back to a two-year contract.
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Oil field near 'black Beverly Hills' may be threat to residents
9:53 AM on 03/15/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - For decades, it had been assumed that one oil field, the historic Inglewood, just minutes from the downtown skyline, would eventually play out...
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Obama promises bright future for children left behind
9:48 AM on 03/15/2010
VIDEO - The Obama Administration is proposing education changes to ensure students are ready for college or a career rather than grade-level proficiency, dropping "No Child Left Behind"...
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A look at Democrats' health care overhaul
9:47 AM on 03/15/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for votes as early as this week...
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New Bible for black teens aims to bring God down to earth
8:37 AM on 03/15/2010
A new Bible attempts to respond to complex questions youths often ask themselves and adults...
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California police stop proves racial profiling is alive and well
8:37 AM on 03/15/2010
OPINION - In an address to a joint session of Congress in 2001, then President Bush blasted racial profiling, "It's wrong and we will end it in America." It hasn't...
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African-American women seek 'interactive' route to Mr. Right
8:14 AM on 03/15/2010
Most women know it's hard to find love, but black women specifically may be looking in all the wrong places...
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Lesbian sgt. discharged after police outed her to Air Force
8:04 AM on 03/14/2010
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) - Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian...
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African-American named nation's only female HS football coach
7:28 AM on 03/13/2010
VIDEO - A petite, unassuming young science teacher made history when she became what's believed to be the only female high school head football coach in the country ...
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Democrats look to resurrect ambitious college aid plan
6:49 PM on 03/12/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill ...
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Pelosi promises swift passage of health care reform
4:46 PM on 03/12/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the White House, officials worked to maximize Obama's influence over lawmakers who control the fate of legislation that has spawned a yearlong struggle...
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Yemen terror suspect worked at five US nuke sites
3:15 PM on 03/12/2010
HADDONFIELD, NJ (AP) - Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes...
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Abandoned 6-year-old escapes locked school bus
12:50 PM on 03/12/2010
VIDEO - First-grader Tevin Smith said he fell asleep during the ride home from Estabrook Elementary in Ypsilanti, Michigan and woke up to find the bus parked in a bus yard...
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Ray Charles musical heading for Broadway
12:41 PM on 03/12/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway later this year...
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Man breaks into church, beats up nun
12:16 PM on 03/12/2010
VIDEO - Police are searching for the heinous individual who heartlessly beat a nun at St. Lucy's Church in Newark, N.J. Thursday morning...
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