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Obama: American dream in peril, fast action needed (AP)

President Barack Obama gives State of the Union address on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Vice President Joe Biden is behind the president. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama called Tuesday night for a flurry of help for a hurting middle class and higher taxes on millionaires, delivering a State of the Union address packed with re-election themes. Restoring a fair shot for all, Obama said, is “the defining issue of our time.”


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Warrant needed for GPS tracking, high court says (AP)

File - This Jan. 5, 2011 file photo shows Yasir Afifi at his home in San Jose, Calif., where a GPS tracking device was placed on his car. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP – In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge’s approval. The justices made clear it wouldn’t be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans.


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Advocates: More gay-friendly senior housing needed (AP)

Donald Carter poses for a photograph Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 in Philadelphia. Carter knows his arthritis and other age-related infirmities will not allow him to live indefinitely in his third-floor walkup apartment in Philadelphia. But as a low-income renter, Carter has limited options. And as a gay black man, he's concerned his choice of senior living facilities might be narrowed further by the possibility of intolerant residents or staff members. Elder advocates say a lack of gay-friendly affordable housing for seniors is leading many to hide their sexual orientation after years of being open about it.    (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – At age 62, Donald Carter knows his arthritis and other age-related infirmities will not allow him to live indefinitely in his third-floor walk-up apartment in Philadelphia.


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Israeli defense chief: Iran strike may be needed (AP)

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)AP – Israel does not want to take military action against Iran over its nuclear program, but at some point may have no other option, Israel’s defense minister said Thursday.


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Steve Jobs told us what we needed before we knew (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2008, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air after giving the keynote address at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. Apple on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 said Jobs has died. He was 56. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP – Steve Jobs saw the future and led the world to it. He moved technology from garages to pockets, took entertainment from discs to bytes and turned gadgets into extensions of the people who use them.


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NYPD chief: Police could take down plane if needed (AP)

AP – The chief of the New York Police Department says city police could take down a plane if necessary.

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Man bites woman while claiming to be a vampire; ‘He said he needed to feed’

A 19-year-old Texas man broke into a woman’s apartment and attacked her while screaming about being a vampire, police said.

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