After three days of public debate, the Supreme Court now retreats to make decisions that could topple some or all of the health care reform bill championed by President Obama.

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Will court let health care law stand?

The lawyers debating President Obama’s health care law in three days of Supreme Court arguments this week have been busy with the mock arguments they call moot courts.

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In Supreme Court Health Care Case, Training for a Legal Marathon

After three days of “careful consideration” and increasing pressure, CNN suspended political contributor Roland Martin for a series of Super Bowl tweets that GLAAD and other groups condemned as homophobic and promoting anti-LGBT violence. Read full article > >

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The TV Column: CNN suspends Roland Martin over ‘regrettable’ tweets

Herman Cain, who ended his presidential bid in early December, endorsed Newt Gingrich on Saturday night, three days before the crucial Florida primary.

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The Caucus: Cain Endorses Gingrich for President

Ratings agency Moody’s is maintaining France’s top AAA credit rating for now, three days after it was downgraded by another agency.

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Moody’s keeps French AAA rating

The convoy’s departure came three days after the American military folded its flag in a ceremony to celebrate the end of its mission and marked the end of the nearly nine year war.

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Last Convoy of American Troops Leaves Iraq

Two District men were found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder while armed in the 2008 shooting deaths of three men in the Northeast Washington neighborhood of Trinidad. After three days of deliberations, a D.C. Superior Court jury found William N. McCorkle, 26, and Andre Clinkscale Jr., 25, guilty in the slayings of Duane Hough, Johnny Jeter and Anthony Mincey. The May 31, 2008, shootings sent authorities scrambling to set up neighborhood security checkpoints that were later ruled unconstitutional. Read full article > >

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Two Trinidad area men found guilty of first-degree murder in 2008 triple fatal shooting

Post-Tropical Cyclone Irene has killed 40 people in the US, and authorities are warning that flooding could continue for up to three days in northern US states.

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VIDEO: Irene US death toll still rising

For the second time in three days, a train hops the tracks and wreaks commuter havoc.

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City Room: New Jersey Trains Hobbled by Derailment in Queens

The president speaks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, three days after calling for a Palestinian state along Israel’s pre-1967 borders, adjusted for some Israeli settlement blocks.

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Obama Addresses Jewish Group, Just Days After Mideast Speech

The deputy governor of a prison in Durango, in northern Mexico is found decapitated along with seven other headless bodies, three days after being abducted.

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Mexican jail governor decapitated

Action film Fast Five, starring Vin Diesel, takes $86.2m (£51.9m) in its first three days, the biggest opener of the year so far in the US.

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Vin Diesel movie scores big in US

Scotland’s main political parties begin the last three days of campaigning ahead of the Holyrood election on Thursday.

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Final push for Holyrood campaign

Twenty-three people were killed in North Carolina, hit by monster supercells on Saturday, the weather service reports. Across the Southeast, as many as 44 people have died in three days of severe weather.

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North Carolina hardest hit by latest wave of severe weather

Pirates boarded an American yacht off the coast of Oman three days after the boat’s owners split off from the relative safety of a sailing group traversing a dangerous section of the Indian Ocean, according to the group, the Blue Water Rally.

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Hijacked yacht split from group