Conversational snow flakes may move inside beltway Saturday afternoon; power outage risk outlying N & W areas * Winter storm watch for Loudoun and Frederick county (and points north and west, including much of northern Md. and northwest Va.) Saturday – primarily above 1,500 feet * A rapidly developing, intense East Coast storm will bring unseasonably cold temperatures and heavy precipitation to the entire metro region Friday night and Saturday. For the immediate metro region, rain is likely to be the predominant precipitation type, but snow may begin to mix with the rain late Saturday morning and possibly change to all snow briefly during the afternoon. Accumulation is unlikely but cannot be ruled out. Read full article > >

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Rare October snow likely for D.C.’s north and west suburbs

The MP for Skipton and Ripon calls for the immediate resignation of North Yorkshire Police’s chief constable.

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Call for police chief to resign

The MP for Skipton and Ripon calls for the immediate resignation of North Yorkshire Police’s chief constable.

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Call for police chief to resign

Despite the dire state of Fukushima’s damaged nuclear power plant-highly contaminated water is leaking from one of its reactors, sending radiation levels in nearby water soaring-dozens of residents in the immediate area are refusing to leave. At least…

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40 Residents Still in Evacuation Zone

A drug derived from the curry spice turmeric may be able to help the body repair some of the damage caused in the immediate aftermath of a stroke.

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Spice drug fights stroke damage

The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan is calling for the immediate release of a consular employee who allegedly shot to death two Pakistanis as they tried to rob him.

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U.S. asks Pakistan to release diplomat

Several “preventable human and engineering failures were the immediate causes” of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster last year, a presidentially appointed commission said in its much-awaited report Tuesday.

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Report: Gulf oil disaster ‘preventable’

In a survey, 15 percent of workers who were unemployed in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis said the economy would “never” begin to recover.

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Economix: Losing Hope About a Recovery

A federal judge in California on Tuesday ordered the immediate destruction of 256 acres of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) sugar beet seedlings because the crops were planted in violation of federal law. The ruling is the first of its kind in the United States. In 2009, Judge Jeffrey White found the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2005 decision to deregulate Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beets to be unlawful because the USDA failed read more

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Judges Orders Uprooting of Monsanto Genetically Modified Sugar Beets