Nation/World
Nation/World
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NATION/WORLD
Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction
Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings.
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NATION/WORLD
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover
Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door.
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STATE
West Ga. school board approves school closings
A west Georgia school system has approved a package of cuts that includes closing an elementary school and a middle school.
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STATE
2 Fantasy 5 players share $95,813.71 top prize
Two winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $95,813.71 each, the Florida Lottery said Tuesday.
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WORLD
4 arrested after more riots in Stockholm suburb
Police have arrested four people after a second night of escalating riots in a Stockholm suburb, during which some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in anger over the police shooting death of an elderly man.
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NATION
Obama declares disaster after at least 51 die in Oklahoma tornado
Recovery operations continue Tuesday morning after a tornado, reported to be a mile wide, touched down in Moore, Oklahoma, leveling Plaza Towers elementary school and killing 20 children inside.
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NATION
Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister
Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of...
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NATIONAL POLITICS
Alaska attempts public relations pitch on drilling ANWR
The state of Alaska is trying to drum up publicity for its offer to pay some of the cost of exploratory drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the pitch appears to stand no real chance.
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NATION
More tornadoes in forecast for central US Tuesday
More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this week.
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WORLD
Philippines protests Chinese warship's presence
The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its military in the disputed Spratly Islands, in the latest territorial squabble between the Asian countries, officials said Tuesday.




