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Obama budget predicts $1.3 trillion deficit for 2012

Obama budget predicts .3 trillion deficit for 2012

The deficit would drop to $901 billion next year under the administration's tax and spending policies.
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Fed chief: Weak housing hurts consumer spending

Fed chief: Weak housing hurts consumer spending

Ben Bernanke says the broader economy won’t fully recover until the depressed housing market turns around.
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Sandusky takes stand at pretrial hearing

Sandusky takes stand at pretrial hearing

Judge John Cleland set a tentative trial date of May 14 for the ex-PSU assistant coach on 52 criminal counts related to allegations of sexual contact involving young boys.
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U.S. jobs gap between young, old is widest ever

U.S. jobs gap between young, old is widest  ever

A Pew survey indicated that 41 percent of Americans who were questioned said that younger adults have been hit harder economically than any other group.
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German court sentences U.S. airmen's killer to life

German court sentences U.S. airmen's killer to life

Arid Uka is found guilty in the March 2 attack on Afghanistan-bound servicemen as they boarded a bus at an airport.
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Dozens of pets rescued from Ohio fire find homes

Several dozen animals have found temporary shelter after Ohio firefighters rescued at least 60 pets from a house fire in a Cincinnati suburb.
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Comforter in Powell unit tests positive for blood

Missing Mom Utah

Police in Washington state who searched a storage unit rented by Josh Powell found a stained comforter that tested positive for blood in initial exams, according to documents filed in court Friday.
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Justice Department calls Swiss Bank a "fugitive"

The U.S. Justice Department called Switzerland's largest private bank a fugitive from justice on Friday after it didn't send any representatives to a court hearing in New York, where it has been charged with conspired with American clients to hide $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Argentina: UK sent nuclear sub to Falklands

UN Argentina Falklands

Argentina said Friday it has information that Britain sent a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic near the disputed Falkland Islands in the latest verbal salvo in a dispute over the territory.
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Fight breaks out at a funeral in Phoenix

A fight broke out during a funeral at a Phoenix church after a friend of the departed punched a man who had reportedly been fighting with the deceased before he died.
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