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• Jared Loughner hearings headed to Tucson: court (Reuters)
• New York City may have to lay off 15,000 teachers: mayor (Reuters)
• Obama tells Mubarak to deliver promised reforms (Reuters)
• The Role Model: What Obama Sees in Reagan (Time.com)
• Obama's SOTU Success: Making Democrats the Party of Optimism (Time.com)
• Five U.S. Air Force cadets expelled for using "spice" (Reuters)
• NASA marks 25th anniversary of Challenger accident (AP)
• LA chief apologizes for dragnet in shooting hoax (AP)
• Police: Wife of Army officer kills her 2 children (AP)
• Graphic video released in Detroit precinct attack (AP)
• Obama tells Mubarak: Must take 'concrete steps' (AP)
• AP finds execution-drug shortage widespread in US (AP)
• Relentless snow brings out the best in Easterners (AP)
• Air Force chief gets prison over sexual advances (AP)
• Lesbian teens sue Minn. school over pep fest (AP)
• Officials say defense consultant died from assault (AP)
• Ohio's Kucinich settles olive-pit-in-sandwich suit (AP)
• Internet cutoff fails to silence Egypt protests (AP)
• Missing mom, 2nd woman found buried in Mich. (AP)

Jared Loughner hearings headed to Tucson: court (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:10 PM PST Reuters - Court proceedings against accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner are set to move to a U.S. federal court in Tucson, after the prosecution and defense reached agreement, court documents showed on Friday

New York City may have to lay off 15,000 teachers: mayor (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:32 PM PST Reuters - New York City might have to lay off 15,000 teachers if the state, grappling with a $10 billion deficit, cuts the city's education budget by $1 billion, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday.

Obama tells Mubarak to deliver promised reforms (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:59 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama spoke to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday and said he told him to undertake sweeping reforms, while U.S. officials made clear that $1.5 billion in American aid to Egypt is at stake.

The Role Model: What Obama Sees in Reagan (Time.com) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST Time.com - Barack Obama realized long ago that Ronald Reagan was a transformational President who reshaped the nation and its politics. Now Obama is fashioning his own presidency to follow the Gipper's playbook

Obama's SOTU Success: Making Democrats the Party of Optimism (Time.com) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST Time.com - In a deft State of the Union address, Obama turns the tables on the GOP, redefining his party and himself

Five U.S. Air Force cadets expelled for using "spice" (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:47 PM PST Reuters - Five U.S. Air Force Academy cadets have been expelled and another 25 are under investigation for using the drug "spice," a synthetic substance that mimics the effects of marijuana, academy officials said on Friday.

NASA marks 25th anniversary of Challenger accident (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:25 PM PST AP - Hundreds gathered at NASA's launch site Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, receiving words of hope from the widow of the space shuttle's commander.

LA chief apologizes for dragnet in shooting hoax (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST AP - A school police officer who triggered a massive manhunt by saying he had been shot in his bulletproof vest was regarded as a pariah Friday by authorities who deemed the shooting a hoax.

Police: Wife of Army officer kills her 2 children (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:19 PM PST AP - The wife of a military officer shot and killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while she studied at her computer, police said Friday. Afterward, the woman told detectives she killed the teens for being "mouthy."

Graphic video released in Detroit precinct attack (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:44 PM PST AP - A graphic 68-second video released by Detroit police Friday shows a gunman striding into one of the city's precinct stations, spraying volleys from a shotgun at surprised officers before being fatally wounded within inches of three of his victims.

Obama tells Mubarak: Must take 'concrete steps' (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:46 PM PST AP - Stepping up pressure on a stalwart but flawed Middle East ally, President Barack Obama said he personally told Egypt's Hosni Mubarak Friday night to take "concrete steps" to expand rights inside the Arab nation and refrain from violence against protesters flooding the streets of Cairo and other cities.

AP finds execution-drug shortage widespread in US (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:02 PM PST AP - Most of the 35 states with capital punishment have run out of a key lethal injection drug or will soon, according to an Associated Press review. And in many places, switching to another drug could prove a difficult, drawn-out process, fraught with legal challenges from death row that could put executions on hold.

Relentless snow brings out the best in Easterners (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 07:52 AM PST AP - Between storms, a builder in Connecticut uses his skid loader to plow his neighbors' driveways. In Maryland, a good Samaritan hands out water and M&Ms to stranded drivers. The mayor of Philadelphia urges residents to "be kind" and help one another out — and they respond by doing just that.

Air Force chief gets prison over sexual advances (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST AP - A military jury on Friday sentenced a chief master sergeant of the Air Force to a year and eight months in prison and a dishonorable discharge for committing adultery with four married female subordinates and making unwanted sexual advances toward several others.

Lesbian teens sue Minn. school over pep fest (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:49 PM PST AP - Two lesbian teens at Champlin Park High School have taken the state's largest school district to federal court because they want a judge to force the district to allow them to make a political statement by making a high-profile entrance to a pep fest as a couple on Monday.

Officials say defense consultant died from assault (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:16 PM PST AP - A federal defense consultant whose body was found in a Delaware landfill was assaulted and died of blunt force trauma, the state medical examiner's office said Friday.

Ohio's Kucinich settles olive-pit-in-sandwich suit (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:26 PM PST AP - Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Friday that he settled a lawsuit filed against a Capitol Hill cafeteria over a split tooth he says he suffered when he bit into an olive pit in a sandwich wrap.

Internet cutoff fails to silence Egypt protests (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:21 PM PST AP - In its effort to silence protesters, Egypt took a step that's rare even among authoritarian governments: It cut off the Internet across the entire country.

Missing mom, 2nd woman found buried in Mich. (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST AP - Two women who were fatally shot, including a mother reported missing several days ago, were found buried in a wooded area in southern Michigan, and a man who knew them has been charged with murder, authorities said Friday.

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