In a large yet cozy house in North Arlington, Christen Bensten has a lot going on. Between carpools and ballet classes for three children under the age of 5, Bensten is painting old furniture, selling it online and blogging about it all as fast as she can. “I always wanted to be a writer,” she says. She never dreamed she would be writing about furniture rescue through a blog called Blue Egg Brown Nest . Read full article > >

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An Arlington blogger’s home renovation

In a large yet cozy house in North Arlington, Christen Bensten has a lot going on. Between carpools and ballet classes for three children under the age of 5, Bensten is painting old furniture, selling it online and blogging about it all as fast as she can. “I always wanted to be a writer,” she says. She never dreamed she would be writing about furniture rescue through a blog called Blue Egg Brown Nest . Read full article > >

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An Arlington blogger’s home renovation

Researchers say most of the world’s continents will merge somewhere over the Pacific “ring of fire” in 50-200 million years.

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America and Asia ‘will join up’

It’s nine months until Election Day, but President Obama is already bringing out the big guns. Specifically, he is shouldering the Extreme Marshmallow Cannon . Obama walked into the State Dining Room at midday Tuesday and encountered 14-year-old Joe Hudy and the compressed-air cannon he invented to launch marshmallows as part of a science fair. Read full article > >

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Obama’s lucky break

Before they were killed in father’s house fire.

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Powell Boys Spoke of Missing Mom

A five-year-old girl was “happily playing” in a shop when she was hit by gang gunfire and left permanently paralysed, a jury hears.

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Girl shot ‘while playing in shop’

“We are the only people on the earth that put our hand over our heart during the playing of the national anthem. It was FDR who asked us to do that, in honor of the blood that was being shed by our sons and daughters in far-off places.” Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s misfire on the national anthem

A man who allegedly set fire to his County Antrim home appears in court charged with arson.

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Husband on arson charge over fire

An advertising agency for BMW pays to name Europe’s cold weather “Cooper” in Germany, after the firm’s Mini Cooper car, but the stunt backfires.

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Cold front ad for Mini backfires

For the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable-energy future. But natural gas has become so cheap that many energy experts and environmentalists now wonder whether it will turn into a long, bumpy detour. Read full article > >

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Cheap natural gas jumbles energy markets, stirs fears it could inhibit renewables

MOSCOW — A staunchly pro-government newspaper published a warning Wednesday that Russia faces ruin if Vladimir Putin is not returned to the presidency next month, but critics said the lengthy article recalled the old Soviet Union and contained vitriol so extreme that it appeared probable to backfire. Read full article > >

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In Moscow, a throwback to Soviet vitriol

Updated at 6:52 p.m. with news that Hasner will run in West’s district Tea party firebrand Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday that he will switch districts and run for reelection in Florida’s new 18th district. Read full article > >

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Rep. Allen West to seek reelection in new district

Amid heavy smoke from brush fire.

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Nine Dead in Florida Car Crashes

After police fired tear gas.

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300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland

Mattress set on fire during a melee.

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26 Killed In Peru Rehab Fire