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AP IMPACT: EPA rules threaten older power plants (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.  Mitt Romney is interviewed on the Fox News program 'America's Newsroom', in New York. For the intertwined U.S. economy and presidential politics, it was a year of twists and unexpected turns. The wobbly economy framed the agenda for both parties, and how it performs in the coming months will help decide whether President Barack Obama wins a second term. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP – More than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down and an additional 36 might have to close because of new federal air pollution regulations, according to an Associated Press survey.


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Divisions over EU treaty threaten crisis solution (AP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts during a news conference with Afghan President Afghan President Hamid Karzai where she has to answers questions about the the news that Standard & Poor's is examining the credit rating of 15 eurozone countries for a possible downgrade, at the chancellery in Berlin, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Merkel told reporters Tuesday that 'what a rating agency does is the responsibility of the rating agency' but that European leaders would plot a course to 'regain confidence' when they meet later this week. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP – Plans by France and Germany to save the euro through closer European unity faced a serious challenge Tuesday from Britain, as deep divisions emerged between the 17 EU nations that use the euro and the 10 others that don’t.


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Somali militants threaten suicide attacks in Kenya (AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 file photo, Kenya Army soldiers rehearse a military parade at Uhuru Park, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defence officials said the country has the right to defend itself after a rash of militant kidnappings of Europeans inside Kenya. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)AP – A spokesman for the Somali militant group al-Shabab is threatening Kenya with suicide attacks like those that killed 76 people in Uganda last year.


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Eva Longoria: Extremists threaten to derail Bam

Actress Eva Longoria appeared on Jimmel Kimmel Live on Tuesday and insisted she’s “a big Obama supporter no matter what he’s been through.” The “Desperate Housewives” star was among a slew of celebrities who attended a fundraising dinner in the president’s honor on Monday.

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Experts: Accuser’s lies threaten Strauss-Kahn case (AP)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, former head of the IMF leaves his house, accompanied by his wife, Anne Sinclair, left, for the first time after the judge changed the terms of his house arrest, Friday, July 1, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP – The hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault may have inflicted fatal damage on her own case by lying to prosecutors about her life story and what she did in the moments after the suspected attack, legal experts said.


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Heat, winds still threaten West wildfire lines (AP)

This image provided by the Pecos Zone Team 3 shows a firefighting air tanker passing over the Loop Fire near Carlsbad Caverns National Park, in southeastern N.M.  Wednesday June 15, 2011. Crews raced to get a jump on flames marching along the New Mexico-Colorado border and through the rugged desert canyons on the opposite on end of the state Wednesday before the weather took a turn for the worse. (AP Photo/Pecos Zone Team 3)AP – Gusty winds and high temperatures are hampering firefighters trying to protect homes, a popular national park and tinder dry patches of forest from several wildfires burning throughout the Southwest.


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Heat and high winds threaten West wildfire lines (AP)

A helicopter dumps water on smoke billowing from a forest fire north of Raton, N.M., Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Crews raced to get a jump on flames marching along the New Mexico-Colorado border and through the rugged desert canyons on the opposite on end of the state Wednesday before the weather took a turn for the worse.  (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP – Firefighters trying to protect homes, a popular national park and tinder dry patches of forest were tested Thursday as temperatures peaked and winds started to whip up the flames of several wildfires burning throughout the Southwest.


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