LONDON – A judge sentenced two white men to at least 14 years in prison on Wednesday for killing a black teenager 18 years ago, a case that exposed racism in Scotland Yard and prompted discussions about race relations in Britain. Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were sentenced to at least 15 years and two months and 14 years and three months in prison respectively for the murder. Read full article > >

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2 men sentenced in race-based 1993 murder in Britain

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Monday morning that the House is poised to defeat a Senate-passed bill to extend the payroll tax cut for two months and instead will send the bill to a bicameral conference committee, because, Boehner said, the Senate bill “creates uncertainty” for the U.S. economy. Read full article > >

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Boehner reaffirms that House will defeat Senate payroll tax bill, sending it back to conference committee

On the morning of Friday, Nov. 18, as most of the Washington Redskins gathered for special teams meetings, offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan called quarterback Rex Grossman into his office. On a flat-screen television, Shanahan ran tape of what seemed to be an innocuous play from nearly two months earlier — a third-down pass on a Monday night in Dallas, when Grossman had looked for wide receiver Terrence Austin. The play was designed to go for a touchdown, but Austin tripped, and the ball fell incomplete. Read full article > >

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In the NFL, one play can alter a season

Longtime Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel has resigned. The embattled coach-who had led the university’s team for 10 seasons-left this post two months after a scandal that got him and several of his players suspended. In March, Tressel apologized…

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Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel Resigns

News of the missing peahen came less than two months after an Egyptian cobra disappeared for seven days at the Bronx Zoo.

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Another Bronx Getaway, This Time Without the Scales

Nearly two months after a popular revolt, Egyptians now want tourists to come back to their country.

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Egypt wants tourists to return

On March 15, two months after a deadly shooting spree in Tucson left a U.S. congresswoman in critical condition, the nation’s leading gun-control activists took seats in Room 4525 at the Department of Justice to push the Obama administration for more firearm regulation. In the hour-and-a-half-long meeting, Assistant Attorney General Christopher H. Schroeder, who has coordinated the government’s work on the issue, went around a long conference table soliciting views from representatives of the major advocacy and law enforcement groups.

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Over a barrel? Meet White House gun policy adviser Steve Croley

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian autocrat forced from power two months ago, spoke for the first time since then in an audiotape.

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Mubarak Denies Corruption and Defends His Legacy

MPs were paid £3.2m in expenses from the final two months of 2010, with Nick Clegg the cabinet’s biggest recipient, new figures suggest.

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Latest MP expense claims released

Maybe this good news will keep them from crying: Babies born in 2009 have a life expectancy of 78 years, two months, according to the Center for Disease Control-an all-time high. The new figure is based on a drop in the number of deaths, which fell by…

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U.S. Life Expectancy Passes 78

Harvard will formally recognize the Naval R.O.T.C. on Friday, two months after the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

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Harvard Says It Will Allow the R.O.T.C. to Return

TUNIS – Tunisia, whose revolution convulsed the Arab world, ousted its second leader in less than two months Sunday, as the euphoria triggered by the uprising in January began to give way to the realization that achieving meaningful reforms may prove tougher than toppling dictators.

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Pressure for change builds across Arab world

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi obtains internet access, two months after she was freed from years of house arrest.

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Aung San Suu Kyi allowed internet

Australian airline Qantas is resuming flights of its Airbus A380s to the United States, two months after suspending them following a mid-air engine explosion.

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Following in the footsteps of many other celebrities, the miners who spent more than two months trapped underground in a Chilean mine are “going to Disney World.”

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Freed miners head to Disney World