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• Giffords flies to Texas rehab center (Reuters)
• Catholic church to pay $1 million to settle abuse lawsuit (Reuters)
• Low-tax states attract budget-conscious Americans (Reuters)
• Tiger Mom: Amy Chua Parenting Memoir Raises American Fears (Time.com)
• The Spy Who Loved Me: Undercover Cop Marries, Then Divorces His Target (Time.com)
• For Sale Cheap: House infested with slithering snakes (Reuters)
• $2.6M deal to settle FEMA mobile home claims (AP)
• Calif school eyes accounts of sex by 2nd graders (AP)
• Doc: Giffords heard cheers leaving Ariz., smiled (AP)
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter won't lead SCLC (AP)
• Abortion foes upbeat, see chance for tougher curbs (AP)
• US company stops making key death penalty drug (AP)
• Warrant issued for woman who raised stolen child (AP)
• A month into winter, Easterners have had enough (AP)
• Sargent Shriver remembered at wake in DC (AP)
• Mexican journalist asks judge for US asylum (AP)
• Ex-Chicago cop gets 4 1/2 years in torture case (AP)
• Do pets pose another threat to safe driving? (AP)
• 2 Russians go spacewalking outside space station (AP)

Giffords flies to Texas rehab center (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:42 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords arrived in Texas on Friday to start the next phase of her recovery at a Houston rehabilitation center following 13 days of treatment at an Arizona hospital for a gunshot wound to the head.

Catholic church to pay $1 million to settle abuse lawsuit (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:48 PM PST Reuters - The Catholic church on Friday said it would pay nearly a million dollars to a man allegedly sexually abused at age 16 by a priest, who then tried to cover it up and hire a hit man to kill the victim.

Low-tax states attract budget-conscious Americans (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:22 PM PST Reuters - Bob VanSickle was a lifelong New Jersey resident, but when he left after 52 years for what he calls "kinder, gentler" New Hampshire, he never looked back.

Tiger Mom: Amy Chua Parenting Memoir Raises American Fears (Time.com) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:35 PM PST Time.com - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother author Amy Chua's proudly politically incorrect account of raising her children "the Chinese way" has revealed American fears about losing ground to China and preparing our kids to survive in the global economy

The Spy Who Loved Me: Undercover Cop Marries, Then Divorces His Target (Time.com) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:35 PM PST Time.com - This true story of assumed identities, eco-terrorism and undercover romance makes Octopussy look realistic

For Sale Cheap: House infested with slithering snakes (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:38 PM PST Reuters - An Idaho home that has been infested with thousands of snakes for at least five years has been put up for sale for $66,000 less than its estimated market value after the recent owners gave up and walked away.

$2.6M deal to settle FEMA mobile home claims (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:09 PM PST AP - Companies that manufactured mobile homes for the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Katrina have agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve thousands of claims that the shelters exposed Gulf Coast storm victims to potentially dangerous fumes, according to a proposed class-action settlement filed Friday.

Calif school eyes accounts of sex by 2nd graders (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:07 PM PST AP - A second-grade teacher in Northern California was placed on leave while a school and police investigate accounts by students that classmates engaged in oral sex and stripped off some of their clothes during class, officials said Friday.

Doc: Giffords heard cheers leaving Ariz., smiled (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:21 PM PST AP - She heard them, smiled, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter won't lead SCLC (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:07 PM PST AP - For more than a year, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put off taking her oath as president of the landmark civil rights group co-founded by her father — and now she doesn't want the job at all.

Abortion foes upbeat, see chance for tougher curbs (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:17 PM PST AP - Buoyed by huge election gains for their allies, anti-abortion activists head into their annual March for Life rallies sensing a prime opportunity in many states to rein in the broad abortion access established 38 years ago by the Roe v. Wade decision.

US company stops making key death penalty drug (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:58 PM PST AP - The sole U.S. manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug said Friday it is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas — a move that could delay executions across the United States.

Warrant issued for woman who raised stolen child (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:54 PM PST AP - The woman who raised a child kidnapped from a New York hospital two decades ago has violated her probation and is believed to be on the run from authorities, North Carolina officials said Friday. A warrant was issued for her arrest.

A month into winter, Easterners have had enough (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:10 PM PST AP - In Rhode Island, a mayor tells parents of snowbound schoolchildren to "hang in there." Atlanta has blown nearly all the money it set aside to clear the streets. In Connecticut, they're literally praying for winter to end. And at travel agencies, the phones are ringing with callers pining for tropical vacations — when the skies clear up enough to fly out, that is.

Sargent Shriver remembered at wake in DC (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST AP - Former colleagues, friends and admirers gathered Friday to remember R. Sargent Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedys and the first director of the Peace Corps.

Mexican journalist asks judge for US asylum (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:23 PM PST AP - A journalist from Mexico pleaded his case for asylum in the United States on Friday, more than two years after he fled across the border with his 15-year-old son because of receiving what he called death threats for his critical coverage of the military during his country's bloody drug war.

Ex-Chicago cop gets 4 1/2 years in torture case (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:40 PM PST AP - A decorated former Chicago police officer whose name has become synonymous with police brutality in the city was sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in federal prison for lying about the torture of suspects.

Do pets pose another threat to safe driving? (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:56 PM PST AP - Man's best friend is not a driver's best friend.

2 Russians go spacewalking outside space station (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:29 PM PST AP - A pair of Russian spacewalkers breezed through a series of chores outside the International Space Station on Friday, installing a camera and an experimental radio system.

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