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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leaves his apartment building on New York's Fifth Ave. Spitzer announced that he would resign effective March 17, completing a stunning fall from power after he was nationally disgraced by links to a high-priced prostitution ring. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

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Obama winner in Mississippi's Democratic primary

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Houston Chronicle

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Can Clinton pull it off?

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CNN

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Barack Obama

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CBS News

Military chief Adm. William J. Fallon resigns after comments about Iran policy

For Navy Adm. William J. Fallon, the perception of disagreement with President Bush's policies on Iran was enough reason to step down as the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East.

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Star Tribune

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Central Command chief resigns

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CNN

Spitzer will step down

N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he will step down from top office, saying he cannot allow his "private failings to disrupt the public's work."

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David Paterson: New York's next governor?

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Spitzer's money trail

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House approves outside ethics panel

House Democrats, trying to restore integrity to the chamber's tarnished image, pushed through a measure to create an outside panel to review possible ethical lapses by its members.

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ABC News

Fed says it’ll spend, markets react

The Fed promised a $200 billion booster shot for ailing markets — and Wall Street answered with its biggest bounce in more than five years.

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MSNBC

Hamas sets terms publicly for ceasefire with Israel

Hamas publicly set its terms for a ceasefire with Israel, calling for an end to Israeli raids in Palestinian territory and a reopening of Gaza border crossings.

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Reuters

NATION

NASA shuttle embarks on record stay at space station

NASA's Endeavour lifted off before dawn for the International Space Station, beginning an almost 16-day mission that will be the longest by any shuttle.

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Raw video: liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour

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US sees long fight to oust al-Qaida in Iraqi city of Mosul

American soldiers say the battle for the northern Iraqi city of Mosul is a complicated mix of counterterrorism, economic incentives and political solutions.

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Christian Science Monitor

Dems seek alternative on phone immunity

Lawmakers drew fire when they offered an alternative to President Bush's demand that phone companies that participated in warrantless domestic spying receive lawsuit immunity.

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Reuters

POLITICS

Bush's veto of anti-torture bill stands

House Democrats failed to overturn President Bush's veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects.

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CBS News

Waterboarding our sacred rights

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Huffington Post

Drake seeks vote on border security

Rep. Thelma Drake, R-Va., will file a discharge petition in an effort to force a floor vote on a bipartisan border security bill.

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The Hill

BUSINESS

Video ramps up unions' hostility

Campaigning by two unions vying to represent United Airlines mechanics has become a vitriolic battle pitting a specialized craft union against one representing a larger labor movement.

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The Denver Post

Boeing files protest over lost deal

Boeing Co. filed a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office over the loss of a $35 billion Air Force contract to build 179 next-generation tankers used for refueling military aircraft.

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MarketWatch

SPORTS

Fitzgerald signs 4-year deal with Cards that frees cap space

Pro Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald signed a blockbuster four-year, $40 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals, helping free up much-needed salary-cap room for the team.

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ESPN

George Mason wins Colonial's berth in NCAA tournament

George Mason is going back to the NCAA tournament, and so is the smothering defense that sparked its run to the Final Four two years ago.

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Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett doubtful for Tokyo trip

Boston Red Sox starter Josh Beckett has a back injury and is unlikely to travel with the World Series champions to Tokyo for an Opening Day game against the Oakland Athletics.

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Guardian

EDUCATION

Life expectancy tied to education

Life expectancy in the United States is on the increase, but only among people with more than twelve years of education, a new study finds.

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LiveScience

Georgia brawl over single-sex school plan

Students in all of Greene County's regular public schools in Georgia will be separated by gender starting next fall, a move educators hope will improve low test scores and curb teen pregnancies.

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Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION

Southern Baptist leaders urge climate change action

Influential Southern Baptist leaders are seeking to move the country's largest Protestant denomination beyond its skeptical stance on climate change.

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Christian Science Monitor

Turkish scholars aiming to modernize Islam's Hadith

The Hadith deals with events that took place some 1,400 years ago, but an ambitious Turkish project is aiming to reinterpret them to create a collection addressing modern-day concerns.

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Elderly enlist to aid US military

Spread out across the country is a small army of old ladies determined to do their part in the war on terror. Their weapons of choice: scissors and coupons.

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Child dials 911, saves mom's life

A 9-year-old stayed calm, dialed 911 and gave rescue officials all the information they needed to help his mother who had collapsed unconscious.

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WORLD

Ban Ki Moon emerges as dogged reformer of United Nations

In his 15 months as U.N. secretary-general, he has insisted that the U.N. come to embody two qualities not always associated with it: efficiency and responsiveness.

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Christian Science Monitor

Turkey to invest $12 billion to help impoverished Kurds

Turkey plans to invest up to $12 billion in its impoverished, mainly Kurdish southeast region as part of efforts to drain support for separatist PKK rebels, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.

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Reuters

Beijing rebuffs Olympics critics

China's foreign minister has strongly criticized "anti-China forces" he says are determined to politicize this year's Beijing Olympics.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Pygmy hippo caught on camera

Emerging tentatively from the forest cover, a pygmy hippo recently caught on film proves that the mysterious species still survives in war-ravaged West Africa.

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National Geographic

Queen weighs in on environment

The Queen of England is urging government and business in developed countries to develop strategies that will leave future generations with unpolluted air and clean water.

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EPA considers tougher requirements for cutting smog

The Enivronmental Protection Agency is planning to announce whether it will tighten the federal health standard for ozone, commonly known as smog.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers create character with reasoning abilities

A group of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is working to make engineering characters with the capacity to have beliefs and to reason about the beliefs of others.

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Stealth bomber slips into history

The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, will be put in mothballs next month in Nevada.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Gilligan's Island' good girl in hot water

The woman who starred as Mary Ann on the television show "Gilligan's Island" is serving six months probation as a result of her arrest last fall in eastern Idaho and subsequent guilty plea to reckless driving.

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Showbuzz

Madonna, Mellencamp honored at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

A broad range of newly inducted artists at this year's emotional Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies included John Mellencamp, the Ventures, Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five and Madonna.

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Special section:

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame 2008

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TIME

Billy Crystal to play exhibition game for New York Yankees

Billy Crystal will get to "look mahvelous" in pinstripes. The actor will sign a one-day, minor league contract with the Yankees and play in an exhibition game against the Pirates.

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Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Aspirin may lower breast cancer risk

Regular use of aspirin and possibly other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce breast cancer risk by as much as 20 percent.

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WebMD

Deadly superbug evades detection

Efforts to screen patients for drug-resistant staph infections at their hospital admissions appear to be ineffective in stemming the spread of the potentially deadly MRSA, research suggests.

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ABC News

Sex-transmitted diseases afflict 26 percent of teen girls

One in four teenage girls in the United States had at least one common sexually transmitted disease, according to the first national study to assess combined rates of the most common STDs.

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Bloomberg

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Breast milk helps premature infants

Even the tiniest premature babies should get breast milk while they are in a hospital's intensive care unit because it appears to boost their mental development, a new study said.

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MSNBC

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Sunrise can be seen over the London skyline and Tower Bridge, right, the morning after a day of heavy storms lashed England. (Photo by Sang Tan / AP)

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