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Gov. David Paterson listens to a question during a news conference in New York. (Photo by Frank Franklin II / AP)

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Gov. David Paterson drops campaign

New York Gov. David Paterson plans to drop his campaign for election to a full term amid news that he and the State Police intervened in a domestic violence case involving a close aide, sources say.

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Politico

Iceberg breaks from Antarctic glacier

An iceberg the size of Luxembourg has broken off from a glacier in Antarctica after being rammed by another giant iceberg, scientists said, in an event that could affect ocean circulation patterns.

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Vast iceberg 'may disrupt ocean currents'

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BBC

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Icebergs could mean cold winters

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Daily Mail

Calif. insurers subpoenaed in rate probe

California Attorney General Jerry Brown subpoenaed financial records and other documents from the state's seven largest health insurance companies as part of a widening investigation of the industry.

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Reuters

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Health insurance hikes stun small businesses

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San Francisco Chronicle

Pittsburgh tops housing markets list

The best place to buy right now: Pittsburgh. In the metro area, 85 percent of homes are affordable to those making the median family income of $62,500.

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January home sales fall 7.2 percent

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CBS News

VA to reopen 'Gulf War Illness' cases

The Veterans Affairs Department will re-examine the disability claims of what could be thousands of Gulf War veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service.

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CBS News

Gmail holds 'graduations' and 'funerals'

A color system filter has graduated to become a full-time part of Gmail. At the same time, Google also held "funerals" for five Gmail Labs features that were unpopular with e-mail users.

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High court to take up gun-control laws

In June 2008, the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban and declared an individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms. They now appear poised to revisit the Second Amendment.

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USA TODAY

Prominent Harvard law professor joins Justice Department

Prominent Harvard law professor Laurence H. Tribe will join the Justice Department to lead an effort focused on increasing legal access for the poor, federal sources say.

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Washington Post

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Justice to launch indigent defense program

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POLITICS

Holder, Gates urge House not to restrict terror trials

Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged House leaders to block legislation to limit their ability to try suspected terrorists in federal court or before U.S. military tribunals.

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BusinessWeek

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US court sets hearing date for Tahawwur Rana

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Daily News & Analysis

Senators to FAA: Address exhausting airline pilot commutes

Senators are demanding that federal regulators do something about airline pilots who regularly make exhausting commutes of hundreds — and sometimes thousands — of miles to work.

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HEALTH

Study: Preventive double mastectomy may not improve survival

In a new study, researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston provide the first evidence that preventive mastectomy prolongs life, but only for a subset of breast-cancer patients.

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TIME

Be open to sesame

The tiny ivory-colored sesame seed may actually be one of the oldest condiments and one of the most nutritious seeds known to man.

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Study: Exercise less, but harder

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Van Gogh experts authenticate previously unknown work

Dirk Hannema was known as a brilliant art curator but a bit of a fool. He claimed he had seven Vermeers in his collection, several Van Goghs and a few Rembrandts, but no one believed him.

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MSNBC

'Letters to Jackie': nation's grief over JFK poured onto paper

"Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation" is the product of research into how people felt during a tragic period in America's history.

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nouns and verbs learned in separate sections of the brain

Nouns and verbs may go together in a sentence, but they are learned in different regions of the brain, a new study suggests.

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LiveScience

Lawmakers say president's new NASA plan lacks direction

As the head of NASA visits Capitol Hill, some lawmakers are telling him that President Barack Obama's new plan for NASA sounds like a road to nowhere.

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NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NIH Director ruffles feathers again with new religion book

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins is again riling some scientists by publicly sharing his religious beliefs — this time by publishing a book about faith.

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Science

Lutheran Church seeing fallout over gay clergy issue

Several hundred congregations are moving toward a permanent split with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, but the number is still a small portion of the 10,000-church denomination.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Global temperature to be re-analyzed

The world's instrumented temperature record — millions of observations dating back more than 150 years — is to be re-analyzed in an attempt to remove doubts about the reality of global warming.

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The Independent

Trees growing faster as planet warms

Trees in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the last two centuries in response to Earth's warming climate, a new study finds.

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GOOD NEWS

Teaching kids from the back of a burro

For hundreds of children in the rural villages of Colombia, Luis Soriano is far from a clown. He is a man with a mission to save rural children from illiteracy.

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Vancouver transit system displays Olympian quality

Vancouver's driverless trains have been steady winners at the Winter Olympics as passengers have poured on to a transit system that has stretched way beyond expected capacity but has not snapped.

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WORLD

Australian intel in fresh Israel spy probe

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization is investigating at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens whom it suspects of using Australian cover to spy for Israel.

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Australian fury over Dubai hit

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Danish newspaper apologizes in Muhammad cartoons dispute

A Danish newspaper apologized to eight Muslim organizations for reprinting controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, in exchange for their dropping legal action.

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Guardian

Afghans plant flag, hopes in Marjah

The flag of Afghanistan was hoisted over the center of this onetime Taliban stronghold as Afghan officials symbolically claimed control after a major American-led military offensive.

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Who’s who in the Taliban leadership

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BUSINESS

Citibank backpedals on shutting down account for gay Web site owner

Citibank executives backpedaled after a low-level Citibank executive froze an account associated with a gay Web site, stating that the account did not meet Citibank’s standard policies.

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Citibank’s gay site snafu looks familiar

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Wall Street Journal

AIG ‘boys club’ punished women, ex-workers claim

American International Group Inc.’s derivatives unit, which brought the firm to the brink of failure, was sued by two ex-vice presidents who said a “boys club” culture discriminated against women.

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BusinessWeek

Walmart presses for emissions cuts

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants its suppliers to reduce 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2015.

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Special section:

Greenhouse gas emissions

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WINTER OLYMPICS

Canadian women beat US women for hockey gold

The Canadian women, who gave up only two goals this entire Olympic hockey tournament, have their three-peat. They are golden once again.

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Toronto Star

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The Winter Olympics

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CBS News

Eastern exposure: With Kim's gold, Asian skaters come into their own

For the first time in Olympic history, Asian skaters filled the podium in three of the four figure skating events.

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TIME

SPORTS

NFL, union hold bargaining session

If a new deal is not reached before March 5, the league will have its first non-salary cap season since 1993, and players are anticipating a lockout before the start of the 2011 season.

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ESPN

MLB fights cancer with Bat Girl initiative

The 2010 season marks the sixth year that MLB has joined forces with Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help raise awareness of breast cancer and drive funding for research and treatment.

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MLB.com

EDUCATION

Fired RI school faculty to appeal

The entire staff of teachers fired in a radical attempt to improve one of the worst performing high schools in Rhode Island will appeal their dismissals to school authorities, the teachers' union said.

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Will mass teacher firings happen elsewhere?

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Christian Science Monitor

Barbed wire down at Houston schools

Dozens of Houston schools no longer leave a first impression that pupils are housed in a prison-like environment.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

State to set limits on wait to see doctors

California is poised to become the first state to set time limits for doctors to see patients, the Department of Managed Health Care said.

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An Indian army officer walks to his office in New Delhi. India began to rollback tax cuts as the government's new budget pledged to trim the swollen fiscal deficit while maintaining spending on social programs and infrastructure. (Photo by Manish Swarup / AP)

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