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Mayor Frank Melton, who was facing another trial next week on civil rights charges, died less than two days after he lost his bid for a second term in office.
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The auto company is entertaining 500 ustomers at a golf course in Arizona. Critics remain unmoved.
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President Obama has proposed ending subsidies for private student lending programs. This is a smart step that should ultimately steer education dollars back to where they belong: with the students.
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Aboard the Starship Obama, it's all budget and high-level meetings today. And for Star Trek fans, the premiere of a new movie.
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President Obama will propose $17 billion in spending cuts today, less than half of 1% of his budget, including cuts in weapons systems.
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President Obama and the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan heralded "unprecedented cooperation" Wednesday.
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Twenty-six agencies are barred from receiving shares of $1 billion in federal stimulus money to hire more officers after misusing prior aid.
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Los Angeles Times, via AP
High winds pushed a mountain wildfire into the seaside resort community of Santa Barbara, Calif., on Wednesday, destroying homes.
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Former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 54, is back at Stanford as a senior fellow for the Hoover Institution, a research center.
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By Ray Mickshaw, AP
Paula Abdul returned to the stage to perform her new single last night as voters decided whether the finale will be an all-male affair.
Military
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Despite concerns over increasing violence between Pakistani troops and Taliban militants, there aren't any plans to deploy.
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The U.S. Embassy has confirmed that the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide has finished its work in Baghdad.
Auto industry
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Nissan says it could sell an electric car as soon as fall 2010 with an eye-popping fuel-economy rating equivalent to 367 miles per gallon.
Drive to a championship
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Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang scored 11:23 into overtime to give the Penguins a 3-2 win over Washington on Wednesday night.
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By Danny Moloshok, Reuters
Kobe Bryant scored 40 points and Los Angeles beat Houston 111-98 in Game 2 on Wednesday to even the Western Conference semifinal series.
Global issues
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Most businesses in Mexico reopened Wednesday but they faced a complex, utterly bewildering set of new health restrictions.
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By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
China's system in the past few decades has priced health care beyond the budget of many Chinese in rural areas. That is about to change.
Federal government
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Analysis: Federal funds to help families provides more than $3 in the coldest states for every $1 given to warm-weather states.
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The Food and Drug Administration is failing to meet goals for auditing food-safety inspections that states do on its behalf, FDA data show.
Student athletes
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By L.G. Patterson, AP
The NCAA on Wednesday hit two teams with the first postseason bans ever assessed for scholastic shortcomings.
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As Nigel Tupper of Merrill Lynch points out in a recent note to clients, "Some things in life are seasonal ..." So too are stock markets.
Golf
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By Richard Heathcote, Getty Images
Stretching just 137 yards from the tee to the green, the 17th hole on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass nonetheless seizes star billing.
