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Tuition protests day 3: Students sit tight full story
Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile. Protests are also occuring at Berkley and UCLA.
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CDC: H1N1 cases down, vaccine availability up full story
Health officials on Friday reported a slight decrease in H1N1 flu activity nationwide.
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Charge against Blackwater guard dropped full story
Federal prosecutors in Washington announced Friday they will dismiss a manslaughter charge against one of the Blackwater contractors charged in a high-profile shooting incident in Baghdad, Iraq, two years ago.
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Oprah ending talk show in 2011 full story
Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday's "Oprah Winfrey Show" that she is ending the talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey's Harpo Productions.
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Soldier guilty of abusing subordinates in Iraq full story
A U.S. military court demoted and jailed a soldier for mistreating troops in Iraq, behavior discovered during the investigation of another soldier's suicide.
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'Summers were the worst,' says woman in sex abuse case full story
Graphic details of bestiality, child rape and sodomy emerged in court documents filed Thursday in the case of a Missouri family accused of horrific crimes against their relatives.
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Senate vote next step on what could be a long road for health care full story
If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has his way, his chamber will vote Saturday to proceed with debate on its version of the health care bill.
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Attorney: Fort Hood suspect to be held in hospital full story
Prosecutors have requested a pretrial confinement hearing for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan in his hospital room on Saturday, Hasan's attorney told CNN on Friday.
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Burned Florida teen having skin graft surgery full story
A Florida teenager attacked and set on fire last month, allegedly by five teenage friends, was undergoing skin graft surgery Friday, the first procedure in his recovery, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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New cervical cancer screening guidelines released full story
The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.
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