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• Bush breaks ground on presidential center in Texas (AP)
• FDA panel backs first new lupus drug in 50 years (AP)
• Summer hospital stay caused Cheney's weight loss (AP)
• Q&A: Author Kelly Valen on Mean Girls and Friendships (Time.com)
• FBI Lays Fraud Charges in Holocaust-Damages Investigation (Time.com)
• Mystery surrounds killing of Hollywood publicist (AP)
• EPA alerts coastal states on ocean acidification (AP)
• Trial recommendation for Fort Hood suspect sealed (AP)
• Grief, anger at vigils in 2 countries for NC girl (AP)
• Beatles' songs are finally available on iTunes (AP)
• Homeless woman charged in LA train track death (AP)
• Senate panel OKs Diamond as Fed member (AP)
• Airport body scans, pat-downs draw more complaints (AP)
• Minn. teen charged with killing Iowa store clerks (AP)
• Soldier given highest medal for heroism on a ridge (AP)
• Australian twins shot at Colorado firing range (AP)
• Wrongly convicted won't pay taxes on compensation (AP)
• Analyst: DeLay PAC listed donations as corporate (AP)
• US bishops elect NYC archbishop as leader in upset (AP)

Bush breaks ground on presidential center in Texas (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:06 PM PST AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney, looking noticeably thinner after heart surgery over the summer, told former President George W. Bush he believes time is shedding new light on the decisions Bush made while in office.

FDA panel backs first new lupus drug in 50 years (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:44 PM PST AP - Federal health experts on Tuesday voted in favor of the first new drug to treat Lupus in over 50 years, setting aside concerns that the experimental therapy does not work in some key patient groups, including African-Americans.

Summer hospital stay caused Cheney's weight loss (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:00 PM PST AP - A spokesman for former Vice President Dick Cheney says his thin appearance at the groundbreaking for the George W. Bush Presidential Center was a result of a long hospital stay following heart surgery over the summer.

Q&A: Author Kelly Valen on Mean Girls and Friendships (Time.com) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 09:20 AM PST Time.com - Kelly Valen, author of Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships, talks about what she learned from thousands of women she surveyed, how to avoid raising mean girls and why she has opened up to having female friends again

FBI Lays Fraud Charges in Holocaust-Damages Investigation (Time.com) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 09:20 AM PST Time.com - The FBI presses conspiracy charges against 17 people who allegedly filed false claims and stole $42 million from a German-funded charity for Holocaust survivors

Mystery surrounds killing of Hollywood publicist (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:56 PM PST AP - It was a scene befitting a Hollywood true crime drama: A prominent Beverly Hills publicist was gunned down in her Mercedes-Benz after attending a movie premiere, sending the luxury car careening into a light post near Sunset Boulevard.

EPA alerts coastal states on ocean acidification (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - States with coastal water that is becoming more acidic because of carbon dioxide should list them as impaired under the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Agency said.

Trial recommendation for Fort Hood suspect sealed (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:52 PM PST AP - An initial recommendation has been made on whether an Army psychiatrist should stand trial for last year's fatal shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but military officials aren't disclosing it.

Grief, anger at vigils in 2 countries for NC girl (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:43 PM PST AP - A sad and angry crowd of hundreds held candles, chanted for justice and sang "Happy Birthday" Tuesday on what would been the 11th birthday of a disabled girl whose dismembered remains were found more than a month after she was reported missing.

Beatles' songs are finally available on iTunes (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:54 PM PST AP - Nearly 50 years after the Beatles took television by storm, the Fab Four's songs became available on iTunes on Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible new outbreak of Beatlemania — this one online.

Homeless woman charged in LA train track death (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:14 PM PST AP - Betty Sugiyama was rushing to catch a train for a shopping trip when authorities say the unthinkable happened: A homeless woman leapt from a bench and shoved the 84-year-old Little Tokyo resident onto the tracks.

Senate panel OKs Diamond as Fed member (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:49 PM PST AP - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved the nomination of Nobel prize winner Peter Diamond to be a member of the Federal Reserve, marking the second attempt to push through Republican roadblocks.

Airport body scans, pat-downs draw more complaints (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:34 PM PST AP - An airport traveler who famously resisted a full-body scan and groin check with the words "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested" has become an Internet sensation, tapping into rising frustration over increasingly invasive searches.

Minn. teen charged with killing Iowa store clerks (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:11 PM PST AP - Authorities on Tuesday charged a Minnesota teenager with murdering two convenience store clerks at separate stores in northern Iowa.

Soldier given highest medal for heroism on a ridge (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:56 PM PST AP - Ambushed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta stepped into a "wall of bullets" and chased down two Taliban fighters who were carrying his mortally wounded friend away.

Australian twins shot at Colorado firing range (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:32 PM PST AP - Twin sisters from Australia were both shot in the head at an outdoor Colorado shooting range, killing one of the women and leaving the other critically injured, authorities said Tuesday.

Wrongly convicted won't pay taxes on compensation (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 03:43 PM PST AP - Some former inmates who were wrongly convicted say they feel twice cheated — first for being imprisoned and then again when the government that locked them up taxed them on the money they were paid to make amends.

Analyst: DeLay PAC listed donations as corporate (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST AP - A forensic accountant testified in Tom DeLay's money laundering trial Tuesday that the former U.S. House majority leader's political action committee referred to $190,000 it raised as corporate campaign contributions, which are illegal in Texas.

US bishops elect NYC archbishop as leader in upset (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:12 PM PST AP - New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was elected president Tuesday of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a surprise win that underscored the bishops' shift toward a more aggressive defense of orthodoxy.

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