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NASCAR Homestead Auto Racing

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Jimmie Johnson drives towards a practice session at the Homestead-Miami International Speedway in Homestead, Fla. Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 as he prepares for the championship race Sunday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Copyright 2009 AP News

Ala. jobless rate rises to 10.9 percent in October

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Alabama unemployment rate rises to 10.9 percent in October, highest in more than 25 years Just two years after hitting a record low, the unemployment rate in Alabama climbed to 10.9 percent in October, the highest it has been in more than ...

Leader of Sears Tower plot sentenced to 13 years

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A US federal judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors. Narcile Batiste, 35, was the fifth member of a ...

US lawmakers press on Taiwan arms sales

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Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress on Friday pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would almost certainly anger China. Obama sought warmer relations with China on his maiden visit this week ...

Canada, US seek warmer ties on Arctic

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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Friday said Washington aims to boost cooperation with Canada in the Arctic, as Russia and others eye its vast untapped resources. "Canada and the US are both Arctic nations," said Gates. "We share an interest ...

Texas inmate executed as governor rejects mercy plea

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An African American has been executed after Texas governor Rick Perry refused a last-minute recommendation to spare him because it was his accomplice who killed a store worker in an armed hold-up. Robert Thompson, 34, was pronounced dead late Thursday 15 minutes ...

Judge strikes down Tennessee guns-in-bars law

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Tenn. judge finds law allowing guns in bars is unconstitutional, 'fraught with ambiguity' Tennessee's new law allowing people with handgun permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled on Friday. Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman ...

Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over. Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant ...

Funeral workers risk cancer from formaldehyde

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Morticians who use formaldehyde to embalm bodies have a higher risk of leukemia, researchers reported on Friday. They found deaths from one particular kind of leukemia, myeloid leukemia, increased the longer the workers were involved with embalming. Their study ...

Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like ...

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