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Connecticut home invasion killer gets death sentence
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 12:38pm UTC
Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, will be given a lethal injection for his role in a 2007 home invasion that killed a woman and her two daughters. -
Obama promotes college affordability
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 12:36pm UTC
College affordability takes center stage Friday for President Barack Obama as he makes the final stop on his road trip highlighting themes from the State of the Union address this week. -
Car bomb kills dozens in Baghdad
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 12:30pm UTC
A suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said. -
Italy ship survivors to get compensation
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 11:48am UTC
Passengers on the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship are expected to receive a compensation lump sum of 11,000 euros ($14,400) each, the Italian Association of Tour Operators said in a statement Friday. -
'Stomping the Worm' in 8 countries
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 11:26am UTC
For his efforts to protect Haitian children from parasites, Aaron Jackson was honored as a CNN Hero in 2007. -
Opinion: Romney delivers at debate
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 9:50am UTC
Todd Graham says Mitt Romney beat Newt Gingrich with stronger arguments and better delivery -
VP Marco Rubio? The man in demand
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 9:33am UTC
Will he or won't he? And would it matter? -
Opinion: Can immigrants save us?
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 9:32am UTC
For the last 20 years, what name is always in the top 100 most popular baby names given to boys in the United States? Jesus (pronounced hey-seus). And among 4,500 boys names in England in 2009, what was the No. 1 most popular baby name? Mohammed. In Brussels? Mohammed. Oslo? Mohammed. Amsterdam? Mohammed. And what do babies and their names have to do with the global economy? Everything. -
Last debate before Florida primary
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 12:35pm UTC
Republican presidential hopefuls today head into the homestretch of the critical Florida primary campaign after a fractious debate. FULL STORY -
Rescued aid workers arrive at U.S. base
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 11:41am UTC
Freed hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted arrived at a U.S. base in Sicily Thursday, a day after being rescued in a U.S. special forces raid in Somalia. -
Aid group: Libya detainees tortured
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 11:31am UTC
Doctors Without Borders is halting its work in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because detainees are "tortured and denied urgent medical care," the international aid agency said Thursday. -
ABBA to release new song
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 10:36am UTC
ABBA have announced plans to reissue their final album, "The Visitors," with a previously unreleased song on April 23. -
Opinion: Why debates matter
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 9:56am UTC
John Avlon says critics of the number of GOP debates are wrong; they've been the most enlightening part of the campaign. -
Mob threatens Australia's PM
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 9:55am UTC
Security officers dragged Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of a restaurant Thursday after angry protesters surrounded the building, police said. -
N. Florida voters: Romney's too rich
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 9:50am UTC
While media outlets and Beltway pundits might use state polls to gauge the race in Florida between GOP presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, Ron Crum uses poles. -
Gates donates $750M to fight diseases
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 8:00am UTC
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Thursday. -
Tensions flare over Falkland Islands
Posted: January 26th, 2012, 5:52am UTC
It's been nearly 30 years since British and Argentinian troops fought over the Falkland Islands, but politicians from both countries are ratcheting up their rhetoric over the British-controlled territory. -
New rules for school lunches
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:51pm UTC
School meals will have to offer fruits and vegetables to students every day under standards issued by the United States Department of Agriculture on Wednesday. -
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords resigns from Congress
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:09pm UTC
Gabrielle Giffords, who moved the nation with an improbable comeback after being shot in the head last year, resigned from Congress today in an emotional appearance. -
Marine's sentence angers Iraqis
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:02pm UTC
A plea deal for a U.S. Marine squad leader charged in connection with the deaths of 24 people, in which he received a rank reduction and pay cut but avoided jail time, triggered outrage among Iraqis. -
Cruise ship captain admits 'mistake'
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:02pm UTC
In his answers to prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge, the captain of the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia admitted he made a "mistake" in colliding with rocks off the Italian island of Giglio. -
Actor James Farentino dies
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 12:44pm UTC
Actor James Farentino, whose television acting career began in the early 1960s, died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, according to a hospital spokeswoman. He was 73. -
Man refuses surgery, drops 279 pounds
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 11:35am UTC
After suffering a pulmonary embolism, Bryan Ganey ignored his doctors' advice to get weight loss surgery and left the hospital determined never to return. -
50 new tech tools
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 7:33am UTC
You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn't mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips. -
Kidnapped aid workers rescued in raid
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 6:51am UTC
U.S. troops, including Navy SEALs from the same unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, shot it out with Somali kidnappers and rescued two aid workers who had been held since October. -
Ready or not, here's Facebook Timeline
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 5:32am UTC
Facebook announced in a blog post Tuesday that Timeline will be coming to all users in the next few weeks. -
Google changes privacy policy
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 5:31am UTC
Google plans to start combining information the company collects about each user of its various websites and services into a single profile, the company announced on Tuesday. -
UW official resigns amid sex allegations
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 4:18am UTC
A University of Wisconsin senior official resigned after making unwanted sexual advances to a male student employee of the school's athletic department, according to a report released this week. -
'We've come too far to turn back now'
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 3:21am UTC
With his re-election at stake, President Obama in his State of the Union address late Tuesday said 'no challenge is more urgent' than keeping the American dream alive. FULL STORY -
Paterno to be laid to rest today
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 3:07am UTC
Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will be laid to rest Wednesday at a private funeral and burial service after thousands of mourners lined up to say goodbye. -
Landslide kills dozens
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 1:14am UTC
A big landslide has ripped through a village in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, killing at least 40 people and leaving 20 others missing, the authorities said Wednesday. -
Marine in Haditha killings gets demotion
Posted: January 25th, 2012, 11:05pm UTC
A U.S. military judge sentenced a Marine squad leader charged with alleged war crimes in Iraq with a maximum of 90 days in prison and a reduction in pay and rank. -
L.A. arson suspect faces 100 counts
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 6:31pm UTC
Prosecutors added 63 new counts of arson Tuesday to the charges against a German national accused of setting one of the worst arson sprees in the history of Los Angeles. -
White House releases speech excerpts
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 6:00pm UTC
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Below are excerpts of the speech, as prepared for delivery. -
GOP rivals rip Obama, each other
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 4:34pm UTC
On a day that President Barack Obama is the headliner with his State of the Union address, his prospective Republican challengers did not sit idly by. -
Mourners line up to pay respects to Paterno
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 3:04pm UTC
A long line of mourners ran through the campus spiritual center at Penn State today as people waited their turn to pay respects to the school's late football coach. -
Carville, Begala: GOP, we don't get it
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:58pm UTC
Our esteemed CNN colleague Ari Fleischer says we don't understand Republicans. -
Arab League Syria mission extended
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:36pm UTC
A foreign ministry spokesman confirmed that Syria has extended the monitors' mission. But some manpower was lost. -
Obama plans ambitious State of Union
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:20pm UTC
If history is any guide, President Barack Obama will reach for the stars during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But in the end, reality will bring his plans back down to Earth. -
Oral Roberts' son faces DUI charge
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:05pm UTC
The son of late evangelist Oral Roberts and former president of Oral Roberts University was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding, authorities said. -
Google+ swerves, allows nicknames
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 1:46pm UTC
In a big swerve in policy, Google has decided to allow people to sign up using nicknames or other pseudonyms on its growing social network, Google+. -
Conn. cops accused of racial profiling
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 1:09pm UTC
The FBI has arrested three police officers and one sergeant from East Haven, Connecticut, on charges related to the racial profiling of Latinos while on patrol, prosecutors said Tuesday. -
Opinion: Romney does some damage
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 12:47pm UTC
Staying focused on Gingrich in the Tampa debate, Romney launched a focused volley of attacks in an effective critique of the former Speaker as an influence peddler -
5 things from debate
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 12:09pm UTC
After Saturday's South Carolina primary shook up the Republican presidential race, the four major candidates matched up on Monday in the first of two debates in Florida, which votes next on January 31. Here are five things we learned: -
Rick Warren and church tackle obesity
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 10:41am UTC
The epiphany occurred at a baptism. -
16th body found on cruise ship
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 9:22am UTC
Rescuers searching the stricken Costa Concordia found a body on bridge 3 Tuesday, bringing the number of confirmed dead from the wreck to 16, civil protection officials said. -
Media falsely report Paterno's death
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 5:31am UTC
Erroneous reports that Joe Paterno had died spread like wildfire, highlighting a clash between getting it fast and getting it right. -
Paterno family: 'Joe continuing to fight'
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 4:59am UTC
Throngs of Penn State students gathered in front of a statue of Joe Paterno early Sunday, braving freezing temperatures to pay tribute to the ailing legendary ex-coach. -
Abortion ads to air during Super Bowl
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 4:22am UTC
It was tongue in cheek, blogger Sophia Brugato said, because let's be honest: Tim Tebow, for all his athletic attributes, isn't the biggest scorer. -
Gingrich: From life support to victory
Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 1:43am UTC
Newt Gingrich told supporters chanting, "USA, USA," at his South Carolina primary victory party on Saturday night that they had captured the heart of his campaign.