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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Las Vegas Herald.com http://www.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/154063713fe5da1f/ en-us Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:21:06 -0500 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:21:06 -0500 30 WASHINGTON - The US has partially waived off sanctions against Myanmar following a series of political reforms in the formerly military ruled South East Asian nation. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203305968/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:51:11 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203305968/cs/1/ Scarlett Johansson co-hosted a fashion-themed fundraiser for Barack Obama's re-election in New York on Tuesday along with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323121/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:50:06 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323121/cs/1/ Kate Winslet has revealed in an interview that she had trouble getting former President Bill Clinton to take part in her latest charity project. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323073/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:30:14 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323073/cs/1/ An American federal appeals court has rejected California's same-sex marriage ban, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown as early as next year. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203322513/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:40:14 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203322513/cs/1/ Actress Anne Hathaway and actor Adam Shulman threw an engagement party for family and friends in New York. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203313752/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:00:08 -0500 IANS http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203313752/cs/1/ The Obama administration is urging a group of Iranian dissidents living in northeastern Iraq to make a decision about moving to a new transit center near Baghdad as part of a U.N.-backed process of re http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203312791/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:16:01 -0500 VoA - Middle East http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203312791/cs/1/ Criticizing American think tank reports on differences between India and China on several issues, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said relations between the two nations are cordial. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203301033/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:51:03 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203301033/cs/1/ Eli Manning has revealed that his 11-month-old daughter, Ava Frances, learned how to clap after he led the New York Giants to a victory over the New England Patriots for their second title in five yea http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298871/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:30:01 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298871/cs/1/ The United States (US) Committee on Foreign Affairs' congressional hearing on Wednesday (February 8) for an exclusive discussion on Balochistan may lead to a problematic situation for Pakistan. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298528/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:12:36 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298528/cs/1/ Actor Clint Eastwood has insisted there was "no spin" in the Chrysler Super Bowl advertisement in which he starred, and that the spot was not meant to reflect a message about the Obama administrative http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298486/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:11:13 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298486/cs/1/ American swimming legend Mark Spitz has said Ian Thorpe faces a "monumental task" to qualify for the relays at the London Olympics, six years after retiring from the sport. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298480/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:10:27 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203298480/cs/1/ Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has said that the relationship between both the countries need to be reinvented on the basis of a parliamentary review on the current bi-latera http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203296457/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:02 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203296457/cs/1/ Gisele Bundchen defended her husband Tom Brady's performance at Super Bowl but criticized the New England Patriots' teammates for their loss in the hands of New York Giants. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203295568/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:30:05 -0500 ANI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203295568/cs/1/ NEW YORK Mining giant Xstrata and Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader, have announced a $90 billion all-share merger to create the world's fourth largest natural resources company. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203305958/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:34:15 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203305958/cs/1/ o Even as the White House is signaling a willing to compromise, battle lines hardened over the Obama administration's dictate that employers, including religious institutions, offer ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317587/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:12:13 -0500 St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317587/ An employee of a privately run Department of Revenue office in St. Louis County helped others provide Missouri IDs to undocumented immigrants, federal prosecutors say. In an indictment handed ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317588/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:55 -0500 St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317588/ LOS ANGELES -; A retired Los Angeles police officer has testified in the trial of a veteran LAPD detective charged with the murder of her ex-lover's new wife. Steven Hooks told jurors ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315976/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:44 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315976/ NEW YORK -; Prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges against the police commissioner's son following a woman's claim that he raped her. "After reviewing all of the evidence, ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315037/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:42 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315037/ FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Alyssa Bustamante, 15, listens during a brief hearing where her attorney entered not guilty pleas on her behalf to charges of armed criminal action and ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317288/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:40 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317288/ FILE - This undated file photo provided by Media Relations University of Virginia shows Yeardley Love. George Huguely is charged with first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317289/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:35 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317289/ In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, a welder works on steel pipe at the World Trade Center transportation hub construction site, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) - ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315242/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:32 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315242/ Historian Barry Landau walks out of federal court Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 in Baltimore. Landau plead guilty to stealing thousands of documents from historical societies and libraries stretching from ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317290/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:27 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317290/ PHILADELPHIA -; A federal judge on Tuesday recommended the release of an elderly man who remains in prison nearly two years after his acquittal on murder charges in the 2007 death of a police ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315977/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:25 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315977/ This photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. shows Michael Crane. Police said Crane, 31, would face two murder charges, as well as kidnapping, armed robbery, arson and burglary ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315906/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:22 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315906/ NEW YORK -; A New York City teacher's aide already accused of possessing child pornography was jailed Tuesday after prosecutors brought new allegations that he videotaped himself spanking one ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317291/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:18 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317291/ NEW YORK -; The criminal trial of a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has been moved from April to May after his lawyer grumbled that prosecutors want to keep ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317292/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:14 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317292/ WASHINGTON -; Senate Democrats say they plan to take up a bill to extend federal highway programs next week, even though they are still figuring out how to pay for them. The Senate Finance ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317293/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:10 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317293/ Ivis Urbina, right, with her granddaughter Alexa Agillon, 6, protest with others outside Miramonte Elementary school in Los Angeles Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. About three dozen parents and supporters ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317294/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:06 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317294/ WASHINGTON -- A bill to speed the nation's switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317622/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:04:17 -0500 New York Post http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317622/ priests first took to their pulpits more than a week ago to attack the new birth control mandate, the administration has been feeling heat from all sides. On Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317605/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:03:31 -0500 NPR http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317605/ A curious thing happens when an outsider tells you that you’re miserable, that you dwell, in fact, in the most miserable city in the land.All of a sudden, you’re not miserable at all. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318682/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:59:12 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318682/ IF YOU GO What: The gay “State of Our Community” luncheon sponsored by Shutts & Bowen When: Begins 11:30 a.m. Thursday Where: Hilton Miami Downtown, 1601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets: $35 ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315266/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:59:07 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315266/ Days after blocking a U.S.-backed peace plan at the U.N., senior Russian officials pushed for reforms Tuesday during an emergency meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, promoting a settlement ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317275/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:58:38 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317275/ A U.S. Postal Service employee died in a freak accident early Tuesday when he tumbled into a storm drain while trying to retrieve his cellphone in a parking lot of the mail processing facility in ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318696/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:58:17 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318696/ WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would speed the disposal of surplus federal property, a mundane-sounding but potentially significant money saver that's ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316183/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:57:37 -0500 McClatchy http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316183/ WASHINGTON - Of all the investments made by the super-wealthy partners at the private equity firm Bain Capital, perhaps none has a greater potential return than the one they've made in Mitt ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317636/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:57:35 -0500 McClatchy http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317636/ Tuesday7 February 20126 p.m. Southwest Airlines passengers may soon be able to watch baseball and football games while they fly. The company developing Southwest's in-flight broadband ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315578/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:57:14 -0500 Las Vegas Sun http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315578/ MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb 7, 2012 (IPS) - By the end of 2011, the United States had elite special operations forces in around 120 of the 192 countries recognised by the United Nations, with U.S. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315264/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:51:53 -0500 IPS http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315264/ Reuters February 7, 2012 A federal appeals court sanctioned two California lawyers on Thursday over a lawsuit they filed, dismissed as frivolous, that accused former officials in the Bush ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316021/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:51:16 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316021/ Alt-Market February 7, 2012 The Department Of Homeland Security is the very epitome of unnecessary bureaucracy. Its formation was predicated on the existence of terrorist threats, many of which ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317367/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:51:13 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317367/ Washington- The prospects for an extension of President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut, once considered a slam dunk on Capitol Hill, now seem far less certain as House-Senate talks ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317623/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:09 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317623/ President Barack Obama watches as a marshmallow is launched by a gun designed by Joey Hudy of Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington during the White ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317307/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:36:22 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317307/ The board of Missio Nexus poses for a photo during the public unveiling of Missio Nexus at Tabernacle Congregational Church in Salem, Mass., on February 6, 2012. Missio Nexus, formed through the ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317352/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:34 -0500 Christian Post http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317352/ WASHINGTON—Congress gave American Airlines Inc. an estimated $2.1 billion in pension funding relief over the past six years, nearly double an earlier estimate, the Pension Benefit Guaranty ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315585/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:32:01 -0500 Business Insurance http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315585/ A volunteer group raising money to offset San Francisco's costs when hosting the America's Cup must do "significant additional fund raising" to meet its $32 million goal, a ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317302/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:31:37 -0500 Business Journal http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317302/ COLUMBIA, S.C. — The U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote, the state's top prosecutor ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317586/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:26:11 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317586/ By msnbc.com staff Airline pilots and privacy rights activists are fretting over a provision of the FAA funding bill passed by Congress that would open up the U.S. skies to drones for law ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318678/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:18:38 -0500 MSNBC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318678/ A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals has ruled that California's Proposition 8 violates the rights of gays and lesbians, and is therefore unconstitutional. NBC's ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318679/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:18:27 -0500 MSNBC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318679/ An undated photo provided by the Oregon State Police shows Jared Townsley. Search and rescue teams on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 found the body of Townsley, an experienced mountaineer who apparently died ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318681/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:16:44 -0500 MSNBC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318681/ By Jenna Mullins, E! Online Ever since Ryan Murphy revealed that he was trying to bring back some original castmembers for "American Horror Story's" second season, we've been ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316446/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:16:34 -0500 MSNBC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316446/ Grains futures on the Chicago Board of Trade closed mostly lower with a bearish nudge from the U.S. dollar, which rose Tuesday. Corn was off 2 to off 6 3/4, soybeans were off 1/2 to off 1, wheat ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318698/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:08:34 -0500 UPI http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318698/ In the midst of New Year’s Eve celebrations, many may have missed President Barack Obama’s reauthorization of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act which allows for the ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317574/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:01:46 -0500 New America Media http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317574/ This year at South By Southwest (SXSW) Latinos in the digital media space will have their very own lounge, party, and award ceremony highlighting their innovative work in social media and beyond. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318668/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:01:40 -0500 New America Media http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318668/ The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s decision to discontinue funds to Planned Parenthood health centers for breast cancer prevention, screenings and education is "potentially ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318669/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:01:36 -0500 New America Media http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318669/ LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Tiaras, ball gowns, swimsuits-these feminine items are what people think of when conjuring the image of a beauty queen. Jenelle Hutcherson didn't see that though. Instead, ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318670/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:01:32 -0500 New America Media http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318670/ Hungry for Thin Mints? A Girl Scout store is opening Thursday at Mall of America. The pop-up store will sell Girl Scout memorabilia, including patches and T-shirts, as well as an assortment of swag ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317296/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:54:58 -0500 Pioneer Press http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317296/ A building inside the mammoth American Embassy compound in Baghdad. Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317639/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:20 -0500 New York Times http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317639/ The Giants returned from their Super Bowl win on Sunday to a spectacular New York celebration: a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway, where the city has honored stars for almost a ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316892/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:36 -0500 The Guardian http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316892/ Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder, was third most generous. Bill Gates was absent from the rankings, as the list doesn't include payments based on pledges made in previous years. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316893/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:28 -0500 The Guardian http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316893/ Wealthy Americans have become more charitable as the economy has improved, but giving has yet to reach pre-recession levels, according to a new study.The ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315232/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:18 -0500 The Guardian http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203315232/ Barbara Walters in December , according to leaked emails reported to have come from within the Syrian regime.In an insight into the contempt shown for international public opinion by those advising ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316770/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:05 -0500 The Guardian http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316770/ Winter evenings getting you down? Fear not! Here is an exciting parlour game to help you while away the dark hours. It is called Right or Left? and is, impressively, nearly as simpleminded as Red or ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316668/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:46:59 -0500 The Guardian http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316668/ SAN FRANCISCO -- A 63-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing another man at a homeless shelter in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Monday evening, police said ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318671/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:46:52 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318671/ Hamas and Fatah, saying "the fundamentals have not changed" despite claims that the deal imperils the already anemic peace process.  Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317643/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:46:01 -0500 Fox News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317643/ William Pfaff The annual Munich Security Conference is regularly the scene for the complaints of American official and semiofficial participants deploring Europe’s failure ';to pull its ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316854/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:35 -0500 Truth Dig http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316854/ journalist, wrote the book in the early Eighties based on rumors surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I and alleged corruption in the Vatican involving the Mafia and the Freemasons. The producers ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316424/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:01 -0500 Hollywood Reporter http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316424/ SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are building a steel and concrete barrier 300 feet out into the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego to curb dangerous attempts by illegal immigrants ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317576/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:06 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317576/ TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A proposal to privatize at least 26 prisons in south Florida is facing stiff opposition in the Florida Senate and may not have the votes to pass, the chamber's ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317577/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:00 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317577/ (Reuters) - Former Astronaut Janice E. Voss, one of the few women launched into space, has died of breast cancer in Arizona, her alma mater said on ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317578/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:42:54 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317578/ CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (Reuters) - A judge told 28 potential jurors to return to court on Wednesday as jury selection neared completion in the first-degree murder trial of a former University of ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317579/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:42:48 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317579/ (Reuters) - Arizona's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a city council candidate with limited English language skills can be kept off the ballot in a largely bilingual town on the Mexico ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317580/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:42:43 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317580/ (Reuters) - Two former Massachusetts recreation officials admitted in a plea deal on Tuesday that they allowed swimmers to frolic in a murky pool where a drowned woman's submerged body lay ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317581/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:42:37 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317581/ MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A former aide to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of soliciting campaign contributions while she was supposed to be working at her ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317582/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:42:32 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317582/ San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain has put his Noe Valley neighborhood house on the market, and he's asking for less than what it went for. The remodeled four-bedroom home was put on the ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318699/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:40:45 -0500 IBTimes http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318699/ C HICAGO - City officials were inspecting the elevators of a downtown Chicago high-rise condominium building Monday after one man was trapped in two separate cars on the same night. Firefighters ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318675/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:52 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318675/ Looking forward to the possible ramifications of the Obama administration's HHS mandate, Matthew Cullinan Hoffman wonders whether American Catholics of the 21st century might be put in the same ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317635/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:40 -0500 Catholic Culture http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203317635/ Friday: The Labor Department reports that the jobless rate in January fell to 8.3 percent - the lowest in three years - and the good news sends stocks prices soaring; Also, the Susan G. Komen ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318683/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:39 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318683/ The bells rang out over London where a congregation gathered to commemorate not just the birth of Charles Dickens, but the language he created as well. Mark Phillips ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318684/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:38 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318684/ A federal appeals court says California's ban on same-sex marriage - known as Proposition 8 - violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. John Blackstone ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318689/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:34 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318689/ (CBS News) Federal air marshals are the last line of defense against terrorists in the sky, but agency employees tell of major problems on the ground, including supervisors who mistreat them. CBS ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318688/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:33 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318688/ (CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors have filed a lewd-acts complaint against the second of two teachers removed from a Los Angeles-area elementary school, and the Board of Education has voted to fire ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318687/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:31 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318687/ (CBS/AP) A gunman shot a transit officer and two passengers were shot at a Dallas-area rail station Tuesday before killing himself, CBS station KTVT reports. The incident happened about 3:30 p.m. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318685/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:27 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318685/ Cameras follow the affable rocker through his spacious home, across his riverfront property and to his studio with many laughs along the way. Watch the full interview and more on "Person to ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318691/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:25 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318691/ Scientists at Bristol University in the U.K. have developed algorithmic software they say can predict whether a song will be a hit or a flop with 60 percent accuracy. Felipe Maya ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316447/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:24 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316447/ Steven Van Zandt and his "The Sopranos" co-star Tony Sirico speak to CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi about Van Zandt's new series, "Lilyhammer," the first original program ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318695/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:19 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318695/ A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages, is unconstitutional. CBS Legal Analyst Paul ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318694/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:18 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318694/ A pulsing red heart sculpture glows in the middle of New York's Times Square in honor of the upcoming Valentine's Day (Ho Kyung Lee,AP Photo/Times Square ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318693/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:16 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318693/ Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, left, walks with his attorney Joe Amendola, right, as he leaves the Centre County Courthouse after waiving a preliminary ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318692/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:13 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203318692/ (AP) SAN DIEGO - A federal judge for the first time in U.S. history heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316000/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:36:11 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203316000/ From Wikipedia. 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