An Iraqi woman who was left brutally beaten in her Southern California home with an apparently xenophobic note beside her has died.

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Iraqi woman beaten to death; note left

US President Barack Obama pledges to fast-track federal approval for the southern leg of the much-disputed Keystone XL pipeline project.

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Obama backs south Keystone route

They are joining the Trayvon Martin crusade by the hour now. It feels like an echo from another era — when there was racial injustice in the headlines, when federal troops were dispatched to comb Southern swamps to look for blacks who had vanished. Read full article > >

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Fla. shooting stirs memories of civil rights era

Despite narrow primary wins in Alabama and Mississippi, Rick Santorum (Pa.) has fallen further behind in the delegate count to front-runner Mitt Romney, who won caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa and captured about 30 percent of the vote in the two Southern states. Read full article > >

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Santorum wins in Mississippi, Alabama, but Romney’s lead in delegates grows by 6

Charmaine Jefferson usually knows when Lonnie G. Bunch III is prospecting in her back yard. Bunch periodically slips into Southern California in search of money and historical objects for the National Museum of African American History and Culture , the symbolically potent, $500 million project that breaks ground Wednesday on the Mall. Read full article > >

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New African American museum inspires celebration, worries among competitors

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday approved a construction and operating license for new nuclear power reactors for the first time since 1978, giving Southern Co. the green light to build two new units at its existing Vogtle site in Georgia. Read full article > >

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NRC approves construction of new nuclear power reactors in Georgia

Gingrich may shift focus to Southern states in March.

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97 Percent Chance Mitt Wins in FL

At the La Brea Tar Pits, fossils preserved in tar provide a time capsule of the creatures that roamed Southern California 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.

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Remarkable Creatures: At La Brea Tar Pits, Relics From Long Before Freeways

A helicopter from NATO's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan crashed late Thursday in the southern province of Helmand, killing six members of the force, allied military spokesmen reported.

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6 Marines, 4 French killed in Afghanistan

Change has come to barbecue. The once-sleepy Southern comfort food is now an American culinary juggernaut. Scads of new restaurants have opened, the competition circuit continues to grow and sales of backyard grills show no sign of slowing down. Read full article > >

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Smoke Signals: The future of grilled meats

Howard McKeon and Elton Gallegly, both Republicans from Southern California, were on a list of House members who received special loans through a Countrywide Financial program.

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Countrywide ‘V.I.P.’ Loans Linked to McKeon and Gallegly

Scientists find prodigious numbers of a new crab species on the Southern Ocean floor that they have nicknamed “The Hoff” crab because its hairy chest.

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‘The Hoff’ crab is new ocean find

China reports its first human case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus for 18 months, in the southern city of Shenzhen.

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Human bird flu case in China city

A mass burial is being organised in the Philippines for scores killed by flash floods, which left at least 650 dead on the southern island of Mindanao.

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Mass burial for Philippines dead

Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after floods killed more than 400 people and left many others missing in the southern Philippines.

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Philippines steps up flood rescue