Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Heavy snow forecast for Ohio, Kentucky AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  COLUMBUS, Ohio - A heavy late-winter snowstorm Friday pummeled residents from Arkansas to the Great Lakes, knocking out electricity for thousands and promising to bring near-blizzard conditions to Ohio and Kentucky.

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  Safety probe puts FAA in hot seat AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration should "clean house from top to bottom" and has too cozy a relationship with the airlines, the head of a congressional committee investigating airline safety inspections said Friday.

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  'NYPD Blue' star evades rape charge AP - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - No criminal charges will be filed against "NYPD Blue" star Esai Morales over allegations that he raped his ex-girlfriend, a prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Friday.

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  Pro golfer defensive about killing hawk AP - 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

  ORLANDO, Fla. - Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period. Isenhour said it was a "one-in-a-million" golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces misdemeanor criminal charges for killing.

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  Latin presidents move to end crisis AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - South America moved away from talk of war as the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Colombian cross-border raid with testy handshakes and an apology.

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  Back on trail, Obama and Clinton trade digs Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 10:24 PM ET

  CHEYENNE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton questioned each other's sincerity and leadership on national security and the economy on Friday as they geared up for the next tests in a grueling struggle for the White House.

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  Recession fears rise on more job cuts Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 5:13 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February at the steepest rate in nearly five years, a second straight month of employment losses that heightened fears the world's largest economy has skidded into recession.

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  Obama aide quits over Clinton "monster" comment Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 1:33 PM ET

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned on Friday after calling campaign rival Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview with a British newspaper.

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  Peres says Israel will not act alone on Iran: report Reuters - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago

  PARIS (Reuters) - Israel will not consider unilateral action to stop Iran getting a nuclear bomb, President Shimon Peres was quoted as saying on Saturday.

• About 100 bodies found in Iraq mass grave: military Reuters - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday, one of the largest such finds in the country for months.

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  Latin American nations end crisis with handshake Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 11:02 PM ET

  SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela ended a border dispute on Friday with a summit handshake after a week of regional diplomacy in the face of hostile rhetoric and troop buildups.

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  One dead as tornadoes rip through Florida and Georgia Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 7:02 PM ET

  CAPITOLA, Florida (Reuters) - Tornadoes cut through Florida and Georgia on Friday, destroying homes, felling trees and power lines and killing one person as a record series of winter tornadoes continued to pound the United States.

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  Bush to veto CIA waterboarding ban bill: aide Reuters - Fri Mar 7, 9:51 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will veto legislation on Saturday banning U.S. intelligence agents from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation methods, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said on Friday.

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  UN envoy meets with Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi AFP - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

  YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Saturday with visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, officials said, as the nation's junta rebuffed global pressure to reform its election plans.

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  Putin warns West his successor will be just as tough AFP - 27 minutes ago

  NOVO OGARYEVO, Russia (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday that relations between the West and his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, would be no easier.

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  Clinton, Obama face off in Wyoming AFP - 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

  CASPER, United States (AFP) - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off in the western state of Wyoming Saturday as the campaign took a nasty turn following the resignation of a key Obama foreign policy aide.

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  Pleas for action as Asia marks Women's Day AFP - Sat Mar 8, 4:46 AM ET

  HONG KONG (AFP) - Asia marked International Women's Day from Afghanistan to Australia on Saturday with pleas for greater rights and equality for half the region's population.

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  Grand Canyon far older than previous estimate AFP - 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - A new dating technique has put the age of the Grand Canyon at 17 million years old, three times older than earlier estimates, according to a report in the latest edition of the journal Science.

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  US loses 63,000 jobs as economic woes deepen AFP - Fri Mar 7, 3:47 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - A stumbling US economy lost 63,000 jobs in February, according to a shockingly weak report released Friday as a top White House adviser offered a grim outlook for growth.

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  Spanish PM sees France's EDF launching operation in Spain AFP - Fri Mar 7, 1:35 PM ET

  MADRID (AFP) - French state-controlled utility EDF will likely launch an operation aimed at entering the Spanish market shortly, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in an interview published Friday.

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  Grand Canyon much older than previously thought Reuters - Thu Mar 6, 6:01 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Grand Canyon, carved out over the eons by rushing river water, began to form 17 million years ago, making it nearly three times older than previously thought, scientists said on Thursday.

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  U.S. troops buy own gear for safety, style The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Mar 6, 3:00 AM ET

  FORT BENNING, Ga. - U.S. soldiers go beyond military-issue uniforms in favor of top-of-the-line gear to help them get home in one piece — and look sharp, too. One reason, critics say, is that military procurement, especially of life-saving equipment, is still too slow.

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  Dildos to go on sale at Sweden's state-run pharmacies AFP - Fri Mar 7, 9:10 AM ET

  STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish pharmacies, which are run under a state monopoly chain called Apoteket, will begin selling sex toys such as dildos in June, a spokeswoman for the chain said on Friday.

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  Bangkok restaurant to give big spenders a taste of poverty AFP - Thu Mar 6, 2:32 AM ET

  BANGKOK (AFP) - A Bangkok restaurant is treating its biggest spenders to a 300,000-dollar meal prepared by Michelin-starred chefs -- but only after they have jetted to an elephant camp to see how the other half live.

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  Israel on alert, Gaza braces after Jerusalem killings AFP - Fri Mar 7, 1:26 PM ET

  JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel was on alert and Gaza braced for reprisals on Friday as crowds mourned eight teenagers killed by a Palestinian gunman at a Jewish religious school in an attack claimed by the Islamist Hamas.