Two hours before Florida debate.

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Newt Releases Freddie Mac Contract

Had the Washington Wizards started the season on time last Wednesday, Donte Hance would have arrived at Verizon Center about three hours before tip-off, stocked the ice cream, pretzels and cotton candy, and cleaned and set up equipment in preparation for a busy evening. But since the game against the New Jersey Nets was canceled, Hance was at his home in Baltimore, mostly “sitting around, doing nothing,” but also contemplating whether he should find a part-time job or seek unemployment benefits to make up for monetary losses that he will incur as a result of the NBA lockout . Read full article > >

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Last Saturday, some 24 hours before John Beck made his first NFL start in nearly four years, his mind slid down that slippery slope that he sometimes finds inescapable. Offensive plays and defensive schemes and guesses about what an opponent might do to him all danced wildly, a runaway jumble of X’s and O’s. “Your wheels can just keep turning,” he said, “and you can’t slow them down.” Read full article > >

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Last Saturday, some 24 hours before John Beck made his first NFL start in nearly four years, his mind slid down that slippery slope that he sometimes finds inescapable. Offensive plays and defensive schemes and guesses about what an opponent might do to him all danced wildly, a runaway jumble of X’s and O’s. “Your wheels can just keep turning,” he said, “and you can’t slow them down.” Read full article > >

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) announced Friday the city now has enough money to keep its main library open seven days a week, heading off plans for it to be closed on Sundays. In a statement issued just 48 hours before the Martin Luther King Jr. Library on G Street NW downtown keep its doors shut for the day, Gray said the administration had found $316,000 to keep it open on Sundays through fiscal year 2012. Read full article > >

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HAVANA — Endurance athlete Diana Nyad was about halfway through her swim from Cuba to Florida during what her helpers described as a crucial overnight stretch, overcoming jellyfish stings and ignoring sharks and barracudas on a quest to break her own world record. Updates have been coming from her handlers via Internet posts, and already Nyad has been in the water longer than her aborted attempt at a Florida Straits crossing last month, when she lasted 29 hours before a crippling asthma attack forced her to call it quits. Read full article > >

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Thousands of protesters have rallied in the Spanish capital, Madrid, against the cost of a visit by the Pope, hours before he is due to arrive.

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Thousands of people protest in the Spanish capital, Madrid, against the cost to taxpayers of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, hours before his arrival.

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NEW DELHI — Indian police arrested the country’s leading anti-corruption campaigner and detained at least 1,400 of his supporters Tuesday morning, hours before the veteran activist was due to begin an indefinite hunger strike to demand tougher laws against graft. Anna Hazare , dressed in homespun white cotton and a white cap, waved to supporters as he was driven away from his lodgings in the Indian capital in a police vehicle, after earlier being denied permission to stage his protest. Fellow activists said Hazare, a 74-year-old disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, had begun his fast in police custody. Read full article > >

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Police in India detain prominent activist Anna Hazare hours before a planned fast against a proposed new anti-corruption law.

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A leading Brazilian rainforest activist and his wife are found dead, hours before Brazil’s Congress passes a law easing deforestation rules.

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PHILADELPHIA — At 3:40 Thursday afternoon, Manager Jim Riggleman and hitting coach Rick Eckstein called every hitter in the Washington Nationals ’ clubhouse into Riggleman’s office. They closed the door. Riggleman and Eckstein spoke first. A few players followed. “All positive,” one player said later. “Usually,” Riggleman said, “you like to have those meetings when you’re facing an emergency starter or something.” Riggleman had called his meeting hours before his team faced Roy Halladay, “the best pitcher “I’ve ever faced,” said Jerry Hairston, who has faced 826 of them. Read full article > >

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A giant clock counting down the days until the start of the London Olympics is unveiled in Trafalgar Square, hours before tickets go on sale.

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2012 clock begins counting down

Manchester United say they have no issue over Sunday’s game at Chelsea being postponed – despite the decision being made 27 hours before kick-off.

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A man called the police after using a pillow to smother his elderly mother, who survived for 24 hours before she died, the authorities said.

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Brooklyn Man Held in Mother’s Death