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Jury Resumes Deliberations in Home Invasion Case

4 hours 36 minutes ago |AP

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Nov. 7) -- A Connecticut jury has begun a third day of deliberations on whether a man convicted in a deadly home invasion should be executed. Steven Hayes was found guilty last mont ...

AirTran Flight Makes Emergency Landing

5 hours 44 minutes ago |AP

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Nov. 7) -- An AirTran Airways flight carrying 65 people from New Orleans to Milwaukee had to make an emergency landing in Tennessee when smoke and an odor was reported onboard. The Bo ...

Obama Says 'Midcourse Corrections' Are Coming

5 hours 58 minutes ago |AP

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NEW DELHI (Nov. 7) -- Followed by the politics of home, President Barack Obama on Sunday acknowledged that he must make some "midcourse corrections" if he is to win over a frustrated electorate and w ...

Deck Stacked for Canadian as Poker Finals Down to 2

7 hours 12 minutes ago |AOL News

Isaac Brekken, AP

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 7) -- The World Series of Poker's Main Event heads into its most lopsided finale ever Monday. French Canadian Jonathan Duhamel holds more than 98 percent of the chips, making him the ...

Calif. Mother IDs Missing Daughter's Bracelet

14 hours 20 minutes ago |AP

Damian Dovarganes, AP

FULLERTON, Calif. (Nov. 6) - The mother of a Southern California woman who vanished almost 10 years ago says a bracelet found on recently unearthed remains belonged to her daughter. Nancy Ekelund of ...

Can Obama Emulate Reagan and Clinton -- and FDR?

14 hours 28 minutes ago |Politics Daily

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As a biographer of Ronald Reagan, I've been asked if Barack Obama can recover from the catastrophe of the midterm elections to win a second term, as President Reagan did in 1984 when he carried every ...

Five Options for Replacing Stalled Virtual Border Fence

17 hours 56 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Nov. 6) -- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has already frozen work on the controversial "virtual fence" that was supposed to secure roughly 1,900 miles along the United States' south ...

Top Marine Wants to Keep Ban on Gays

18 hours 18 minutes ago |Politics Daily

The new commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps says the don't ask, don't tell policy barring gays from serving openly in the military should stay in place while the nation remains in the heat of war in ...

Remember to Fall Back to Standard Time

20 hours 54 minutes ago |AP

WASHINGTON (Nov. 6) -- It's time to reclaim that hour of sleep you lost last spring. That's right, the clocks are turned back in most of the country. The majority of folks will do the switch before h ...

Microsoft CEO Sells $1.3B of Shares

22 hours 51 minutes ago |AP

(Nov. 6) -- Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer has sold about $1.3 billion worth of his company shares recently, the first time he's done so in seven years. Ballmer confirmed the stock sales Friday an ...

Bernanke Defends New Fed Plan to Boost Economy

22 hours 59 minutes ago |AP

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (Nov. 6) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's new $600 billion program to aid the economy on Saturday, rejecting concerns that it will spur runaway inflation ...

Obama and Boehner -- More Alike Than You Think

23 hours 28 minutes ago |AOL News

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(Nov. 6) -- One of the big open questions coming out of the midterm elections is how -- or better yet, whether -- President Barack Obama and presumptive future House Speaker John Boehner will get alo ...