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Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate fallsYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | NEW YORK (AP) — The American Cancer Society — one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups — is 100 years old this week. |
Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillanceYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to seize them as terrorist suspects, officials say, but prefers to wait until investigators have enough evidence to try them in a U.S. civilian courtroom. |
Iran's Ahmadinejad says will challenge ally's ban from electionYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would take up the ban of his close aide from the June 14 presidential election with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported. Iran's electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff, and moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in the vote, eliminating two powerful and potentially disruptive candidates and leaving the field dominated by hardliners loyal to Khamenei. "I introduced Mr. ... |
Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear downYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Parents in a suburban Oklahoma City school district received a text message as an ominous tornado approached. Their children were being held at school until the storm passed or their parents picked them up. |
Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?Yahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. |
Fishermen pay price in Asia's volatile sea riftsYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | MASINLOC, Philippines (AP) — Along the northwestern Philippine coast, poor children with claw hammers clamber aboard an abandoned fishing vessel to pry loose and steal rusty nails from its deck. It's become a familiar sight in villages where some fishermen have been forced to give up their livelihoods since China took control of their fishing haven last year. |
Okla. residents come home to pick up the piecesYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years. |
GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groupsYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational. |
W. Bank pledges $1 bln to aid peace in Africa's Great LakesYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | KINSHASA (Reuters) - The World Bank on Wednesday announced $1 billion in development funding for Africa's Great Lakes region, where renewed fighting this week between the government and rebels in eastern Congo has raised fears once again of an escalation in conflict. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim unveiled the proposed aid financing for one of Africa's most intractable conflict regions on the first day of a trip with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. ... |
Gov't dysfunction may be baked into the systemYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so. |
Bay Bowl: San Francisco to host 50th Super BowlYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | BOSTON (AP) — Build a new stadium, host the Super Bowl to show it off. |
Sharks hang on to beat Kings 2-1 and tie seriesYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks barely held off the Los Angeles Kings at the end for a second straight home win. |
Bruins rally, push Rangers to brink of eliminationYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | NEW YORK (AP) — John Tortorella's message isn't going to change even though his New York Rangers are in an even more desperate situation than before their latest loss to the Boston Bruins. |
Spurs can't ease up despite 2-0 lead on GrizzliesYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | SAN ANTONIO (AP) — If the Western Conference finals seem the slightest bit over after two San Antonio wins, hold that thought for a minute. |
Immigration bill heads to full SenateYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
 | WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict. |
Afghan students protest women's rights decreeYahoo - 3 hour(s) ago
| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hard-line Islamist students are protesting in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. |