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Hurt dog limps into New Mexico ER
March 19, 2010The patient was only slightly injured when he limped into a hospital in the northwest New Mexico city of Farmington.
65 years later, war photo caption corrected
March 19, 2010The AP is correcting the caption on one of the most famous photos in its library — an image that purportedly showed the Bataan Death March during World War II.
Social Security needs Uncle Sam's IOUs
March 19, 2010The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in a small town: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.
Obama backs senators' immigration overhaul outline (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year.
US, Russia clash over startup of Iran nuke plant (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly Thursday over the planned launch this summer of Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power plant, highlighting a split in views over how to steer Iran away from nuclear weapons.
Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff reportedly assaulted in prison (The Newsroom)
March 19, 2010
The Newsroom - Last December, officials at the federal prison in Butner, N.C., rebuffed rumors of a prison-yard beatdown involving the facility's most famous inmate, Bernie Madoff—he of the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that crashed to earth so ingloriously in 2008. Yes, the prison’s administrators conceded, Madoff had suffered facial fractures and lacerations, broken ribs and a collapsed lung requiring an extended hospital stay. But the former Wall Street titan had just fallen out of his bunk bed, they insisted.
Warships take new strategy against Somali pirates (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - An international fleet of warships is attacking and destroying Somali pirate vessels closer to the shores of East Africa and the new strategy, combined with more aggressive confrontations further out to sea, has dealt the brigands a setback, officials and experts said Thursday.
Feds: Brakes weren't applied on crashed NY Prius (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - Computer data from a Toyota Prius that crashed in suburban New York City show that at the time of the accident the throttle was open and the driver was not applying the brakes, U.S. safety officials said Thursday.
Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.
Retired general: Gays made Dutch weak in Bosnia (AP)
March 19, 2010AP - A retired U.S. general says Dutch troops failed to defend against the 1995 genocide in the Bosnian war because the army was weakened, partly because it included openly gay soldiers.
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