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Police: LA man kills wife, 5 children, himself

Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 10:19 p.m.

A father, apparently distraught over job problems, shot and killed his wife and five young children and then committed suicide at their home Tuesday, police said. The victims included two sets of twins.

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UN official: Sri Lanka fighting traps thousands

Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 12 a.m.

Fighting between Sri Lankan government forces and rebels retreating to a small patch of jungle has trapped thousands of innocent people and killed “many” civilians, a senior U.N. official said Monday.

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Airports testing radar that could spot birds

Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 12 a.m.

NEW YORK – Federal Aviation Administration officials say a handful of U.S. airports will soon begin testing experimental radar systems designed to track flocks of birds.

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3rd trial looms for alleged Sears Tower attack plotters

Tuesday, Jan. 27,2009 12 a.m.

Federal prosecutors will try for a third time to persuade jurors that six men from an impoverished Miami neighborhood were a blossoming al-Qaida cell bent on destroying Chicago’s Sears Tower to help ignite a war against the United States.

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Afghan president: U.S. forces killed 16 civilians

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:55 p.m.

President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday.

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Bolivians vote on new Morales-backed constitution

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:54 p.m.

President Evo Morales’ quest to transform Bolivia on behalf of its long-suffering indigenous majority is on the line Sunday as voters consider a new constitution that could keep the leftist leader in power through 2014.

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Swiss nuclear smuggling suspect claims CIA link

Friday, Jan. 23,2009 12:22 a.m.

A Swiss man suspected of being involved in the world’s biggest nuclear smuggling ring claims he supplied the CIA with information that led to the breakup of the black market nuclear network led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

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Victim of Virginia Tech slaying was decapitated

Friday, Jan. 23,2009 12:20 a.m.

A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.

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Obama’s inauguration censored

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:11 p.m.

China censored its translation of President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, removing references to communism and dissent, and quickly halted state television’s live broadcast of the address when Cold War-era animosities were mentioned.

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N. Korea, Iran open to U.S. efforts

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:09 p.m.

North Korea and Iran, two nations with nuclear aspirations the U.S. wants to thwart, both signaled Wednesday that they were open to new initiatives from President Barack Obama that could defuse tensions.

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GM falls behind Toyota in annual global sales

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:07 p.m.

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. sold more cars and trucks last year than General Motors Corp., stripping the Detroit automaker of the No. 1 global sales crown. But it’s a victory made hollow by the overall industry’s continued struggle for viability amid one of its worst sales declines ever.

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Chaos in Washington doesn’t keep people from having hope in Obama

By Kristi Oloffson · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 12:05 a.m.

About 2 million people packed the National Mall on Tuesday to attend the inauguration of America’s first black president. The sea of people extended from the Capitol building to the Lincoln Memorial, nearly a two-mile stretch. But the distance and commotion surrounding Washington hardly mattered to those who turned out, for one reason: history.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

President Barack Obama waves to the crowd just after being sworn in as the 44th president at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday in Washington.

Obama takes historic oath

By Audrie Garrison · Tuesday, Jan. 20,2009 11:58 p.m.

Barack Obama raised a hand to history as he recited the oath of office as the nation’s 44th president, declaring Americans have “chosen hope over fear” and promising to rebuild the country in difficult times. About 2 million people poured into the National Mall to watch the country’s first black president address the crowd from the Capitol building. The chanting throngs of spectators began to turn out before dawn in sub-freezing temperatures and spanned from the Capitol building past the Washington Monument.

NTSB inspectors examine the tail section of US Airways Flight 1549 as it sits on a barge Monday at Weeks Marina in Jersey City, N.J. The jet was moved Sunday night from a seawall at the southern tip of Manhattan where it was lifted out of the icy Hudson River.

Hundreds gather for King Day service in Atlanta

Tuesday, Jan. 20,2009 12:39 a.m.

The impending inauguration of the nation’s first black president is a huge step toward realizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality, but there is still work to be done, King’s nephew told a large crowd Monday at the church where the civil rights leader once preached.

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Gitmo war court back for what may be last session

Tuesday, Jan. 20,2009 12:38 a.m.

Two of the five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks offered unapologetic admissions of guilt Monday in a chaotic – and possibly final – session of the Guantanamo war crimes court.

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Iraqis out stumping for votes in show of democracy

Tuesday, Jan. 20,2009 12:37 a.m.

Candidates in this month’s provincial elections are answering questions from voters and debating issues ranging from Baghdad’s housing shortage to the need to attract foreign investment.

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