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Official: $20 billion arms sale to Saudis in the works
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Official: $20 billion arms sale to Saudis in the works

Politics – The United States is developing a proposed $20 billion, 10-year arms sales package for Saudi Arabia, a senior administration official confirmed on Saturday. The proposed sale, first reported in The New York Times, is intended to upgrade the Saudi military's ability to counter possible Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf region, the official said

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Boys Face Trial Over Slapping Charges
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Boys Face Trial Over Slapping Charges

Do No Evil – Two middle-school students in Oregon are facing possible time in a juvenile jail and could have to register as sex offenders for smacking girls on the rear end at school.

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NASA building evacuated due to reports of shots fired
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NASA building evacuated due to reports of shots fired

News – There's a developing story out of Clear Lake, where part of Johnson Space Center has been evacuated amid reports of gunfire. According to ABC News reports, a SWAT team has rushed the building, but has not yet emerged with the suspect.

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182 Die In Baghdad
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182 Die In Baghdad

News – Four bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 182 Shiites yesterday provided a tragic backdrop to a meeting with President Bush and Democratic leaders over funding for his troop surge. In all, 233 people were killed or found dead yesterday across Iraq, second only to the 281 toll on Nov.23 last year.

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Va. Tech Gunman Sent Material to NBC
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Va. Tech Gunman Sent Material to NBC

News – BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package of photographs, video and writings to NBC News in New York before he killed himself in the massacre that left 33 people dead, authorities said Wednesday. NBC said that a time stamp on the package indicated the material was mailed in the two-hour window between the first burst of gunf

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Witness: Va. Tech Gunman 'didn't say a single word'
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Witness: Va. Tech Gunman 'didn't say a single word'

News – "He didn't say a single word the whole time," said Perkins. "He didn't say get down, he didn't say anything. He just came in and started shooting." Perkins and his classmates instinctively fell to the ground, turning over desks to create barriers between themselves and the shooter, who seemed to be firing randomly.

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Police: 33 Dead After Virginia Tech University Shooting
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Police: 33 Dead After Virginia Tech University Shooting

News – At least 32 people are confirmed dead and at least another 21 are wounded after a shooting at Virginia Tech University Monday morning, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News. Campus police said there was only one shooter and he is now dead.

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Capsule carrying billionaire docks at station
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Capsule carrying billionaire docks at station

News – A Russian-built Soyuz capsule docked at the international space station late Monday, two days after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word. Simonyi shelled out $20-25 million to be the 5th paying private space traveler.

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Communist Leader Tries Hand at Cracking Jokes
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Communist Leader Tries Hand at Cracking Jokes

Humor – Gennady Zyuganov rattled out joke after joke at a news conference Thursday, but was only met with the occasional polite chuckle from attending journalists. The Communist Party leader's jokes went along these lines: "There are two main problems in Russia: roads and fools. In the Duma, one is trying to fix the other." Zyuganov was speaking during the release of a book of jokes to tie in with April Fool's Day on Sunday.

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Amid political battles, Bush sticks to ethanol
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Amid political battles, Bush sticks to ethanol

Politics – The attorney general is struggling to keep his job. The war spending bill is stuck over whether troops should stay in Iraq. And President Bush is again talking, for two days in a row, about converting switchgrass and wood chips into ethanol.

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9 Diet-Sabotaging Foods to Avoid.
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9 Diet-Sabotaging Foods to Avoid.

Health & Fitness – Eating certain foods will make you so hungry that you'll feel hollow inside. We call these "appetite-stimulating foods." These include any food that has been stripped of its fiber such as white bread; foods that turn to sugar quickly in the body such as white potatoes; and foods loaded with sugar, starch, and fat.

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 Earthquake of Magnitude 7.1 Hits Off Japan's Coast
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Earthquake of Magnitude 7.1 Hits Off Japan's Coast

News – Japan issued a tsunami warning for the country's Sea of Japan coast after a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck early Sunday. The quake struck shortly before 10 a.m. off the north coast of Ishikawa prefecture, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.

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Canadian killed by poison pills bought on the net
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Canadian killed by poison pills bought on the net

Health & Fitness – A 57-year-old Canadian has died a month after she consumed tainted pills bought on the net. Marcia Bergeron died of poisoning after taking drugs labelled as anti-anxiety and sedative pills, bought from a site featuring fake endorsements from medical agencies.

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Officers To Be Blamed For Tillman Coverup
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Officers To Be Blamed For Tillman Coverup

News – It's been nearly 4 years since Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire. We have learned that investigations by the Pentagon's inspector general will blame 9 officers - including 4 generals - for failing to follow regulations and using poor judgment in a series of missteps that kept the truth of how he died from his family for more th

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Iran in Sailors' 'Confession' Claim
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Iran in Sailors' 'Confession' Claim

News – The Iranian military has questioned 15 detained British soldiers and said they confessed to illegally entering the country's territorial waters.

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