Reuters – Mitt Romney accused rival Rick Santorum of dirty tricks for encouraging Democrats to defeat him in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday, when voters will determine whether Romney gets a big win or a humiliating defeat in his home state.
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Day of reckoning and "dirty tricks" as Michigan votes
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AP – A private research group says that consumer confidence in February rose dramatically from last month to the highest level since a year ago when the U.S. economy’s outlook started to look brighter before souring again.
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Consumer confidence up in February
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Reuters – A 17-year-old boy wounded in Monday’s shooting rampage at an Ohio high school was declared brain dead, authorities said on Tuesday, following the death of another student.
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Victim declared brain dead in Ohio high school shooting
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The Christian Science Monitor – Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D) of Nebraska has until Thursday to decide whether to mount an 11th-hour bid run to regain the US Senate seat he once held â a move that many analysts believe would give Democrats their best shot at holding onto that seat and their Senate majority in a tough campaign season.
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If Bob Kerrey runs for Senate, can he save the majority for Democrats?
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AP – The U.S. and its allies dismissed the Syrian regime’s referendum on a new constitution Sunday as a “farce” meant to justify the bloody crackdown on dissent.
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West dismisses Syria constitution vote as ‘farce’
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AP – The U.S military announced Sunday that it has recovered the remains of the last American service member who was unaccounted for in Iraq, an Army interpreter seized by gunmen after sneaking off base to visit his Iraqi wife in Baghdad during the height of the insurgency.
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Army IDs remains of last missing soldier in Iraq
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AP – Newt Gingrich warned members of a Georgia church Sunday that the “secular left” is trying to undermine American principles established by the Founding Fathers as he sought to rejuvenate his presidential bid in his home state.
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Gingrich warns of role of ‘secular left’
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AP – For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they’ll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying they’ve discovered the ovaries of young women harbor very rare stem cells capable of producing new eggs.
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Report: Women have rare egg-producing stem cells
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AP – An aviation training accident that killed seven Marines — one of the Corps’ deadliest aviation training accidents in years — left the military community shaken and was a solemn reminder that preparing for war poses some of the same risks as the real thing.
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7 Marines die when helicopters collide
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