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A win under belt, Gingrich lands in firing line (AP)

Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is greeted by supporters after Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington on Sunday, Jan. 22,  2012. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP – Fresh off his big South Carolina win, Republican Newt Gingrich found himself on the defensive Monday as the volatile GOP presidential contest shifted to Florida.


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Penn State shaken after firing of Paterno (AP)

Penn State students and others gather off campus following the firing of football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in State College, Pa.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – After nearly a half-century on the job, Joe Paterno says he is still getting used to the idea of not being Penn State’s football coach. So is the rest of the shaken campus, after one of the most tumultuous days in its history.


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PSU students riot in response to firing

Daily News reporter Michael O’Keeffe is in State College, where thousands of Penn State students and Joe Paterno supporters are rioting in response to the legendary coach’s firing.

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Starbucks to pay $75,000 for firing barista with dwarfism

Starbucks will shell out $75,000 to a Texas woman with dwarfism after she charged that she was denied barista job for being too short, according to a settlement.

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Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began (AP)

This is an undated image obtained from the Twitter page of Anders Behring Breivik, 32, who was arrested Friday July 22, 2011 in connection to the twin attacks on a youth camp and a government building in Oslo, Norway. Breivik is a suspect in both the shootings and the Oslo explosion Friday. (AP Photo/Twitter, Anders Behring Breivik)AP – Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn’t have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn’t find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.


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AP Source: Bin Laden went down firing (AP)

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<p>This video frame grab, obtained from ABC News on May 2, 2011, shows the interior bedroom in the mansion where Osama Bin Laden was killed May 1. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered, President Barack Obama said on Sunday.    REUTERS/ABC News/Handout  (PAKISTAN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) MANDATORY CREDITAP – A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden went down firing at the Navy SEALs who stormed his compound.


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Navy firing over videos raises questions of timing (AP)

In this frame grab taken from video provided to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, U.S. Navy Capt. Owen Honors appears in one of a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches that were broadcast on the USS Enterprise via closed-circuit television. A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew the series of sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported. The Virginian-Pilot reported in its Sunday editions that Capt. Owen Honors appeared in the videos in 2006 and 2007 while he was the USS Enterprise's second-ranking officer, and showed them across the ship on closed-circuit television. He took over as the ship's commander in May. (AP Photo/The Virginian Pilot) NO SALESAP – The Navy brusquely fired the captain of the USS Enterprise on Tuesday, more than three years after he made lewd videos to boost morale for his crew, timing that put the military under pressure to explain why it acted only after the videos became public.


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