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Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage. (www.newsvine.com)

A Santa Rosa woman was arrested for allegedly stealing her landlord's airplane, then abandoning it in a field after it ran out of gas. Authorities said a 27-year-old woman had access to the Piper Cherokee because she had been borrowing it for piloting lessons. But she allegedly took the plane without permission Tuesday from a hangar at the Sonoma C... (www.newsvine.com)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ... (rssfeeds.usatoday.com)

The French and British leaders accused the U.S. of protectionism on Friday over a contract to build a new Air Force refueling tanker. (www.newsvine.com)

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On the seventh anniversary of Elizabeth Smart's return from her kidnapping ordeal, a judge sets a trial date for the man charged in the case. (pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)

Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. (www.newsvine.com)

The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan has helped only about 16 percent of borrowers who signed up since its launch last year, and hundreds of thousands of homeowners are in limbo without an answer. (www.newsvine.com)

Discover Financial will implement a new accounting rule requiring companies to bring their off-the-books securitized loans onto their balance sheet in fiscal 2010. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

Obama plans to nominate Janet Yellen as vice chairman of the Fed, and is vetting Maryland official Sarah Bloom Raskin for another open seat on the Board. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

Attorneys for the man charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart are telling a federal judge they plan to present an insanity defense. (www.newsvine.com)

BUENA, N.J. — Sharif Mobley, who is in custody in Yemen as a suspected member of the same branch of al-Qaida that's linked to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a Detroit-bound jet, worked for a time at several US nuclear plants, authorities said. Mobley, who also is... (www.nypost.com)

Orange County prosecutors say they'll file a lawsuit against Toyota because of continuing problems with their vehicles. (pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)

Michelle Obama will make her first solo trip abroad as first lady next month when she visits Mexico. (www.newsvine.com)

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New Hampshire's House and Senate will hold joint hearings next month into the failed Financial Resource Mortgage investment firm. (feeds.boston.com)

An experiment that detonated a bomb similar to the so-called "underwear bomber's" shows that the plane would have withstood the impact. (feeds.digg.com)

The state of Vermont is rejecting a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to dispose of 33,000 tons of hazardous soil at a Moretown landfill. (feeds.boston.com)

CBSSports.com Senior Writer Says Tiger Woods Skillfully Keeping Fans, Golfers in Suspense (feeds.cbsnews.com)

The union representing British Airways cabin crew says workers will strike for a total of seven days this month. (feeds.nytimes.com)

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Fighting between Afghan subtribes raises questions about using tribes as part of a counterinsurgency strategy. (feeds.nytimes.com)

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Obama plans to nominate Janet Yellen as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. (feeds.wsjonline.com)

New Jersey Man Arrested in Yemen, Accused of Killing a Guard to Break out of a Hospital (feeds.cbsnews.com)

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An American accused in Yemen of being a member of al-Qaida worked at nuclear power plants in the U.S., a spokesman for a group of plants in New Jersey says. (pheedo.msnbc.msn.com)

Since capturing the Olympic gold medal in men's figure skating, Evan Lysacek has become a bona fide celebrity, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Today." (feeds.chicagotribune.com)

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The Obama administration plans to reorganize and more than double the annual budget for a troubled weather satellite program ... (rssfeeds.usatoday.com)

BUENA, N.J. (AP) -- A spokesman for a group of nuclear power plants in New Jersey says a U.S. man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida had previously worked at the plants.... (hosted.ap.org)

A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair. (www.newsvine.com)

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has met with a developer a day before a deadline to work out a new schedule for rebuilding parts of the World Trade Center site. (feeds.boston.com)

Gov't "Race to the Top" to Dole out $4.3 Billion in Education Funds, but Unions, Some Others Balk at Strings Attached (feeds.cbsnews.com)

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