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Mar 13 Texas Board Adopts New Social Studies Standards

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education agreed to new social studies standards yesterday after the far-right faction wielded its power to shape the lessons that will be taught to...

Mar 13 Tea Party Avoids Divisive Social Issues - For decades, faith and family have been at the center of the conservative movement. But as the Tea Party infuses conservatism with new energy, its leaders deliberately avoid discussion of issues like gay marriage or abortion

Mar 13 New York Cabs Gouged Riders Out of Millions - About 3,000 New York City taxi drivers routinely overcharged riders over two years by surreptitiously fixing their meters to charge rates that would normally apply only to trips outside the five boroughs, according to the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission.

Mar 13 Serious lab accident at UCLA in 2007 was not reported - A student was injured in an incident similar to one in 2008 that killed a research assistant

Mar 13 Strong numbers at Southland ports signal recovery "Our feeling is that consumers are coming back" says one expert after sharp gains in exports and imports in L.A. and Long Beach

Mar 13 South by Southwest home to 'nerd' networking

Mar 12 MIT researchers discover new energy source

Mar 8 For pursuit of education reform, give Obama credit

Mar 5 Toyota hearings may lead to new auto safety rules

Mar 5 Veil of secrecy covers Toyota cars’ ‘black boxes’ - Automaker won’t release information that could help crash investigations

Mar 5 Toyota chief to employees: We must restart

The head of Toyota Motor Corp. told his employees on Friday that the company must begin again if it is to regain its legacy of quality that helped make it the world's largest automotive company. "We must make February 24, the day of U.S. congressional hearing, as the day of restart for Toyota," said Akio Toyoda.

Mar 3 U.S. hearing some complaints about recalled Toyotas after being fixed

Mar 3 Three Spaniards arrested in alleged global computer-hacking scheme

Mar 3 Saga of WWII B-17 crew will end in England

Mar 2 An inconvenient challenge: Eat 'real food' for a month

Mar 2 Report: Airline recycling in 'sorry state'

Mar 2 AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands

Mar 1 Vancouver medals in condom distribution

Mar 1 Military Suicides

Feb 28 Suspected CIA suicide bomber calls American team 'gift from God'
"We planned for something but got a bigger gift -- a gift from God -- who brought us ...
a valuable prey: Americans, and from the CIA." "The target was Abu Zaid, but the stupidity of Jordanian intelligence and the stupidity of American intelligence is what has turned it into a valuable prey. It's a blessing from Allah."

Feb 26 Two huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica's coast

Feb 25 McGwire saddened by brother's book on steroids

Mark McGwire was saddened to learn his estranged brother was writing a book that chronicled their use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Feb 22 The Chemist's War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned
alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences

Feb 22 Olympian's strength built from life on the streets

Feb 22 In a memo last July, a Toyota executive boasted of saving $100 million by negotiating a limited recall for Toyota Camry & Lexus ES cars over a problem that could cause unintended acceleration FULL STORY

Feb 16 Taliban commander's capture called biggest since 9/11

Feb14 Seventy Percent of the Nation Covered in Snow

With the way the winter storms have been acting, it's not hard to believe there's snow in almost 50 states. Mary Yoon explains in today's Top Story

Feb 8 New Orleans: An Inspiration for America?

Feb 2 Air marshals say service roiled with cronyism, chaos
Despite calls from President Obama to beef up the program designed to provide security aboard U.S. flights,
the Federal Air Marshal Service is in disarray, a CNN investigation has found

Feb 2 We Have No Liftoff: Obama's Plan Grounds NASA

Jan 29 Snow & Ice Move Through the South

Jan 29 Obama Meets with a GOP caucus - "unprecedented"

Jan 29 Gates Foundation makes $10 billion vaccines pledge

Jan 21 Glaciers in meltdown

Jan 14 Cheating Mark McGwire gets a pass from Bud Selig
McGwire called father of suicide son before his recent revelation to the press

Jan 11 Can schoolyard bullying lead to PTSD?

Jan 10 Petraeus: More security funds heading to Yemen, but not troops

Jan 7 Japan's capsule hotels now coffin-sized homes

Mar 13 Serious lab accident at UCLA in 2007 was not reported - A student was injured in an incident similar to one in 2008 that killed a research assistant

Mar 13 Strong numbers at Southland ports signal recovery "Our feeling is that consumers are coming back" says one expert after sharp gains in exports and imports in L.A. and Long Beach

Mar 5 Veil of secrecy covers Toyota cars’ ‘black boxes’ - Automaker won’t release information that could help crash investigations

Feb 22 The Chemist's War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences

Feb 22 The Chemist's War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned
alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences