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End in sight, Dems lobby health bill waverers

March 19: Congressional Democrats struck an optimistic tone as President Barack Obama let loose, giving a fiery speech on why his signature issue should pass. NBC’s Chuck Todd reports. (Nightly News)President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining precious "yeses" less than 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.




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'Dating Game' killer's photos: More victims?

These are five of the hundreds of photos recovered during court-authorized searches of Rodney Alcala's Calif. home and a storage locker he rented in Seattle.Calif. police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 old photos found in a serial killer's storage locker of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair.




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Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholics

Victims' rights activists say that to begin mending the church's battered image, Pope Benedict's message — his first pastoral letter on child abuse in the church — must break his silence on the role of the Catholic hierarchy in shielding pedophile clergy from prosecution.Tarantino)The pope addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal — a message being watched  by Catholics worldwide to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.




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9 major changes in the new health care bill

March 19: Democratic leaders are demanding crucial “yes” vote commitments in the House after the estimated $940 billion cost of health care overhaul was announced. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports. (Today Show)In their attempt to pass a sweeping health care overhaul this weekend, House Democrats are pushing a package of legislative fixes to lure undecided or opposed members of their party to the "yes" category.




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Homeowners who get aid see credit scores dive
Some homeowners who sign up for the government's mortgage assistance program are getting a nasty surprise: lower credit scores.

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Judge rejects ground zero settlement

An American flag, erected by rescue workers, stands in the wreckage of the World Trade Center two days after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.A federal judge rejects a settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanges  ground zero workers.




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In Fargo, no guarantees in flood forecasts

Residents of Fargo, N.D. prepare for flooding as the Red River continues to rise.As the Red River swells again, Fargo, N.D., residents are weighing the National Weather Service forecasts. They are well aware that predicting what happens on the river is not an exact science.




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Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq

The wreckage of an Iraqi military vehicle destroyed during the air campaign in the early stages of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 still scar the landscape. Seven years after the first bombs fell, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary. Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.




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Whew! No. 4 Wisconsin survives scare

Wisconsin's Jon Leuer, right, scored a game-high 20 points in the Badgers' victory over Wofford on Friday.Badgers defeat No. 13-seed Wofford 53-49, will face Cornell next.




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World’s biggest particle collider hits a new high

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider's control center point to the readings on a computer screen that indicate proton beams are running at an energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts — their target level for this year's science experiments.Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.




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Anna Nicole estate denied piece of oil fortune

The short, tragic life of the former Playboy playmate and model.A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith’s estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.




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Pakistan wants recognition for terror fight
Saying it has bowed far enough to U.S. interests, Pakistan will use next week's high-level talks with the Obama administration to seek more recognition for its part in the fight against terrorism.

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Cornell thrashes Temple, ends Ivy’s NCAA woes

No. 12 Cornell shredded the 5-seed Owls, which came into the game ranked No. 1 in field-goal percentage defense, and grabbed the Ivy League's first NCAA tournament win since Princeton in 1998.




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Nuke deal with Russia is close, says Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.

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FDA warns of muscle risk from statin drug
The Food and Drug Administration says the highest available dose of the cholesterol drug Zocor can cause muscle damage as well as severe and potentially lethal kidney damage.

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Mom of octuplets may lose home to foreclosure

Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home. This Jan. 26, 2010 photo shows an unidentified woman carrying eight balloons towards the La Habra, Calif., home on the day of the octuplets’ first birthday.The mortgage holder for Nadya Suleman's $565,000 Southern California residence says he is starting foreclosure proceedings because the family hasn't kept up the payments.




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Heavy rains swamp Haiti’s homeless camps

Rain drenched a camp for homeless quake victims in Port-au-Prince on Friday. Promises that vulnerable camps will be moved to better sites have not been kept. One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamps homeless camps, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water and flooding latrines.




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‘Lawyer’ to U.S. missionaries in Haiti arrested
A man who acted as a lawyer for U.S. missionaries who were detained in Haiti has now been arrested in the Dominican Republic on migrant-trafficking charges.

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Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial

From film star to media mogul, Oprah Winfrey has built an empire and secured a legion of devoted fans. When news of the scandal broke in 2007, Winfrey said she had “lost confidence” in headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane and was “cleaning house from top to bottom.”




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World powers demand Israeli settlement freeze

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other members of the Quartet meet in Moscow on Friday.The so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators called on Israel to freeze all settlement activities and denounced Israel's aim to build new housing in East Jerusalem.




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Sandra Bullock still poised for successful future

March 19: As news surfaces about the unraveling of Sandra Bullock’s marriage, NBC’s Lee Cowan takes a look at other best-actress winners who walked the red carpet to Splitsville after the Academy Awards. People magazine’s Peter Castro and psychiatrist Janet Taylor join the discussion. (Today Show)The brand-new Oscar winner isn't likely to experience any professional consequences from the public exposure of her personal pain. "If anything, it would engender a massive amount of sympathy toward her," said veteran publicist Michael Levine.




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Who exactly is Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee?

Michelle Bombshell McGee on the cover of International Tattoo magazine Who is Michelle "Bombshell" McGee? What little she's said about herself comes from the most unreliable of sources: profile blurbs and videos on adult and edgy Web sites. But one thing is constant: she projects the image of a woman with a hard-partying lifestyle.




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Cops: Computer glitch led to wrong address

The house where Rose and Walter Martins live in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A senior New York City police official apologized Friday for 50 or so visits made by police there over the past eight years. A senior New York City police official apologizes for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple.




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Women in critical condition after bees attack
Two Arizona women are in critical condition with hundreds of bee stings after a swarm attacked them while they were out for an evening walk.

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