“One exposure on a roll of 36 exposures,” Stan Stearns marveled decades later. The young news photographer, in one instinctive click, captured one of the most poignant and reproduced images of the past half-century: little John F. Kennedy Jr., grief-stricken, saluting his father’s coffin as it rolled by on a caisson. Read full article > >

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Stan Stearns dies; captured immortal image at JFK’s funeral

Kitakyushu has declared war on the yakuza, just as authorities say any romantic aura that may have enveloped gangsters in the past is falling away in Japanese society.

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With Risk, Japanese City Takes On Once Accepted Fact of Life: Its Gangsters

President Obama drew on the Bible and his interpretation of the Christian faith Thursday to deliver a sharp, if tacit, critique of his chief Republican rival’s economic program, speaking at a forum that in the past has been largely free of electoral politics. Read full article > >

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At prayer breakfast and with birth-control decision, Obama riles religious conservatives

From the investigations of the Clinton White House to the more than 1,000 subpoenas he issued almost single-handedly, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) cut an investigative path along Pennsylvania Avenue unlike that of almost any other committee chairman of the past 50 years. Read full article > >

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Rep. Dan Burton, who transformed House panel into a feared committee, to retire

At least eight sea lions have been shot dead in the US state of Washington in the past few weeks, wildlife officials say.

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Sea lions ‘shot’ on US west coast

Hijackings have declined sharply in the past year, but where interdiction ends, a problem begins: what to do with the detained pirates?

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News Analysis: Seized Pirates in Legal Limbo, With No Formula for Trials

The United States lost more than a quarter of its high-tech manufacturing jobs during the past decade as U.S.-based multinational companies placed a growing percentage of their research-and-development operations overseas, the National Science Board reported Tuesday. Read full article > >

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U.S. losing high-tech manufacturing jobs to Asia

Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren (D) raised a whopping $5.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, her campaign announced today. Sen. Scott Brown (R) raised $3.2 million for the race against Warren in the past three months — a respectable total for a Senate candidate but one that pales in comparison to Warren’s haul. Read full article > >

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Elizabeth Warren raised $5.7 million in fourth quarter

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Dozens of National Guard troops have arrived to help an Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows that have collapsed roofs, trapped some people in homes, and triggered avalanches. Cordova is used to snow, but not like this season’s blanketing. The Guard reported more than 18 feet of snow has fallen in the past weeks, although the National Weather Service did not immediately have a measurement. Read full article > >

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National Guard helps Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows

In the past twelve hours the six men running for the Republican presidential nomination have debated not once but twice. We live-blogged both debates — the Saturday night set-to sponsored by ABC/WMUR and the “Meet the Press” debate this morning. Read full article > >

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New Hampshire GOP debate(s): Winners and losers

The number of shootings has increased dramatically in Oakland in the past year, and many children end up being the victims.

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The Bay Citizen: Children Are Often Victims as Shootings Soar in Oakland

A Labour peer who has advised Ed Miliband in the past suggests he has “no strategy and little energy”.

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Miliband ‘lacks energy as leader’

TEHRAN, Iran — Talk of blocking the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz is a discussion of the past, a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Saturday in comments that seemed to back away from an earlier threat. But he said Iran had other, unspecified strategies for reacting to any Western aggression. Read full article > >

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Iranian commander backs away from threat to close Strait of Hormuz, strategic oil route

The deeply depressed housing sector finally seems to have found its bottom — and may even be starting to bounce back. A wide range of housing indicators — construction, home sales, prices — has stabilized in the past few months, though remain at historically very low levels. And it looks as if construction activity in particular will pick up in 2012. Read full article > >

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The leaders of a congressional committee investigating the Dover Air Force Base mortuary said Thursday that they would broaden their probe to include all military burial practices over the past decade, including reports that partial remains of hundreds of war dead were incinerated and dumped in a Virginia landfill. Read full article > >

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