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Attacks by Afghans on US troops often personal (AP)

FILE - Afghan policemen walk ahead of the U.S. soldiers with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a foot patrol in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo. In testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012 to the House Armed Services Committee, defense officials said that in most cases the Afghans acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled or directed by insurgent groups. The second most common circumstances involved insurgents impersonating or infiltrating Afghan security forces. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)AP – Supposedly friendly Afghan security forces have attacked U.S. and coalition troops 45 times since May 2007, U.S. officials say, for the first time laying out details and analysis of attacks that have killed 70 and wounded 110.


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With time, money running out, SC often turns nasty (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets supporters at Cherokee Trike and More in Greer, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012.  (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Michael Justus)AP – In mailboxes across South Carolina in 2007, likely Republican voters received a Christmas card signed by “The Romney Family” with a quotation from a 19th century Mormon leader suggesting God had several wives.


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In NH, GOP voters’ questions often omit jobs (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, speaks to members of the media after a Republican presidential debate at the Chubb Theater, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Judging from the presidential forums being held all over New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday’s Republican primary, the biggest threats to America appear to be online piracy, an insidious United Nations and “crony capitalism.”


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AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored (AP)

In this Thursday, Nov. 3,  2011 photo, bundles of documents to be revised, organized and scanned sit in piles at the former National Police archive in Guatemala City. Guatemala adopted a freedom of information law in 2008. In the first worldwide test of freedom of information in 2011, Guatemala was among the most responsive of 105 countries involved, confirming a request from The Associated Press in 72 hours and sending all documents in ten days. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Satbir Sharma’s wife is dead. His family lives in fear. His father’s left leg is shattered, leaving him on crutches for life.


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Teens often loiter at East Harlem mall where woman was hurt by thrown shopping cart.

Shoppers at an East Harlem mall where a mom was critically injured after two boys tossed a shopping cart from a walkway say loitering and horsing around by teens is common at the shopping center.

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In Kagan’s e-mails, politics often trumps policy (AP)

FILE - In this May 13, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan walks a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP – As a Clinton White House aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan called herself one of the Clinton administration’s biggest fans of a law to protect religious freedom but warned then-Vice President Al Gore against endorsing it for fear of creating “a gay/lesbian firestorm.”


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Airlines required to check no-fly list more often (AP)

A China Airlines plane taxis on the tarmac at Taiwan's international airport in Taoyuan, in 2009. Taiwan is seeking the extradition from China of an airline passenger who allegedly claimed to have a bomb in his luggage during a flight bound for Shanghai, an official has said.(AFP/File/Patrick Lin)AP – The government is now requiring airlines to check no-fly lists within two hours of being notified of list updates — a move aimed at preventing known terror suspects from boarding airplanes — as the man accused in the Times Square bombing attempt did.


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