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Monday, Feb 25, 2013 10:13 AM PST
 A general view of the U.S. Capitol is seen from the Russell Senate Office Building in WashingtonConservative groups urge lawmakers to embrace the sequester.
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Census Bureau drops use of segregation-era term 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:45 AM PST
 This handout image obtained by The Associated Press shows question 9: "What is Person 1's race", on the first page of the 2010 Census form, with options for White: Black, African Am., or Negro. After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in its surveys. Instead of the term popularized during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern-day labels, “black” or “African-American”. (AP Photo)After more than a century, the agency will no longer use "Negro" to describe black Americans in surveys.
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Entrepreneurial bug bites San Quentin inmates 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 10:30 AM PST
 Inmates in the Last Mile program at San Quentin State Prison prepare to present their startup ideas in San QuentinSAN QUENTIN, California (Reuters) - One by one, the entrepreneurs, clad in crisp blue jeans and armed with PowerPoint presentations, stood before a roomful of investors and tech bloggers to explain their dreams of changing the world. For these exuberant times in Silicon Valley, the scene was familiar; the setting, less so. With the young and ambitious flocking again to northern California to launch Internet companies, there were signs one recent morning that startup mania has taken hold even behind the faded granite walls of California's most notorious prison. "Live stream has gone mainstream. ...
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Militants say they'll kill French hostages 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 11:08 AM PST
 Members of Boko Haram splinter group attend a media conference in MaiduguriA radical Islamic group took the family outside a national park in Cameroon's north region.
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What's cooking? Just ask Pippa 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 11:10 AM PST
 Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, poses for photographers to promote her first book "Celebrate", on party planning, in LondonThe sister of the Duchess of Cambridge will give cooking tips a new column.
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Manhunt for Vegas shooter widens to East Coast 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 11:36 AM PST
 Search widens for suspect in Vegas Strip shootingAmmar Harris is accused and firing shots into a Maserati, and killing an aspiring rapper.
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No joke: The Onion begs for forgiveness over tweet 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:58 AM PST
 Quvenzhane Wallis attends the Twentieth Century Fox And Fox Searchlight Pictures Academy Awards Nominees Party at Lure on Sunday, February 24, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for Fox Searchlight/AP)The satirical newspaper apologizes for an offensive reference to a 9-year-old actress.
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Michelle Obama’s Oscars gown gets a makeover in Iran 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:04 AM PST
 Jack Nicholson along with First lady Michelle Obama seen on the video board present the Best Picture award onstage during the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, on February 24, 2013 -- Getty ImagesThe first lady's outfit apparently was too much for that nation's news agency.
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Supreme Court justices reprimand Texas prosecutor 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:41 AM PST
 U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor gestures to the audience after speaking at The Commonwealth Club of California in San FranciscoSonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer admonish the official for a racially charged remark.
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Fine print may protect NASCAR from lawsuits 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 08:37 AM PST
 Jimmie Johnson poses next to the trophy after he won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona BeachInjured fans at the Daytona 500 face hurdles if they want to bring a case against the racing organization.
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Monarchs by the millions flock to Mexico's drug country 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 07:33 AM PST
 This photo taken Feb. 14, 2013 shows Samantha Goldberger showing off her engagement ring next to a Monarch butterfly soon after Jason Skipton proposed to her at El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. Skipton found the love of his life 2,000 miles from home in a chance encounter that gave him butterflies. So of course, he said, there could be no better place to propose marriage than in a swirl of orange and black butterflies that had migrated thousands of miles to mate, at the monarch butterfly sanctuary in central Mexico. (AP Photo/Jason Skipton)Millions of butterflies migrate 2,000 miles every year.
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Ikea's Swedish meatballs latest victim of horsemeat scandal 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 07:22 AM PST
 FILE - In this April 27, 2006 file photo, an exterior view of the Ikea furniture store in Duisburg, western Germany. The Czech veterinary authority said Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 it detected horse meat in meat balls labeled as beef and pork imported to the country by Sweden's furniture retailer giant Ikea. The State Veterinary Administration says the one-kilogram packs of the frozen meat balls were made in Sweden to be sold in Ikea's furniture stores that also offer typical Swedish food. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)Czech authorities detected horse in products labeled as beef and pork.
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Not everyone made it out in 'Argo': Americans left behind in Tehran remember 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 06:04 AM PST
 The Americans who didn’t make it out of the embassy were subjected to torture for 444 days.
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One corner of Manhattan still a ghost town months after Sandy 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 06:42 AM PST
 NYC seaport a 'ghost town' months after SandyRoughly 85 percent of small businesses near South Street Seaport are boarded up.
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Three years on, BP's day in court 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 04:28 AM PST
 Video image of leaking oil from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of MexicoThe company should pay billions more for Gulf oil spill, the government says.
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Economy will grow, but slowly in 2013, experts say 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 02:59 AM PST
 Rebound or recession: What lies ahead for US economy?The prediction shows uncertainty over budget battles in Washington and Europe.
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Cleric resigns after allegations of 'inappropriate' conduct with priests 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 05:02 AM PST
 File photograph shows Cardinal Keith O'Brien speaking to the media outside St.Marys Cathedral in EdinburghCardinal Keith O'Brien had been expected to vote on a new pope.
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Billboard converts desert air into drinking water 
Monday, Feb 25, 2013 06:21 AM PST
 An advertising agency has created what it's calling the world's first billboard that converts air into drinking water. The billboardâ€"a collaboration between agency Mayo DraftFCB and Peru's University of Engineering and Technologyâ€"was placed in Peru's rain-starved desert capital, Lima. Lima gets less than an inch of rain per year on average, but since the city's [...]
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