All Stories from February 5, 2013 (Change date)
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Top House Republican: Party must explain itselfFeb 05, 2013 8:38 am - WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is joining the growing list of Republicans who say the party needs to broaden its political appeal. The Virginia Republica...
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Guantanamo judge allows testimony about tortureFeb 05, 2013 8:38 am - FORT MEADE, Md. — Lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole will present expert testimony Tuesday at a pretrial ...
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Gun background checks drop by 10 percent in JanuaryFeb 05, 2013 8:38 am - WASHINGTON — The number of federal background checks for firearm sales declined last month following a surge in gun sales toward the end of the year that’s left many ret...
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GOP senator says Hagel ‘seems clueless’ on IranFeb 05, 2013 8:38 am - WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says Chuck Hagel “seems clueless” on U.S. policy toward Iran and he’s urging the Obama administration to reconsider its defen...
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For Mali amputee, Islamic extremist legacy lingersFeb 05, 2013 8:38 am - GAO, Mali — The Islamic extremists in Mali came to Issa Alzouma’s cell and brought him out to the public square they had renamed Place de Shariah. They laid him out, tyi...
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Boeing asks permission to conduct 787 test flightsFeb 05, 2013 8:33 am - WASHINGTON — Federal regulators say they are evaluating a Boeing request to conduct test flights of its 787 Dreamliners, which were grounded nearly three weeks ago after...
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Hanover Twp. accepting nominations for youth awardsFeb 05, 2013 8:27 am - The Hanover Township Committee on Youth is accepting nominations for the 2013 Youth Leadership Awards, which honor and recognize community youth and adult leaders for be...
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Amrich: Judge will show electoral board wrongly kicked me off ballotFeb 05, 2013 8:10 am - The morning after an electoral board knocked Island Lake mayoral hopeful Charles Amrich off the April 9 ballot, his political allies on Tuesday predicted a Lake County j...
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U.S. home prices rose last year by most in 6.5 yearsFeb 05, 2013 8:09 am - WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices jumped by the most in 6 ½ years in December, spurred by a low supply of available homes and rising demand. CoreLogic, a real estate data p...
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Clydesdale foal in Super Bowl ad named HopeFeb 05, 2013 8:03 am - ST. LOUIS — The 3-week-old star of Budweiser’s Super Bowl ad now has a name: Hope. Anheuser-Busch said Tuesday that its contest to find a name for the foal born Jan. 16 ...