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• US delays massive oil pipeline from Canada

  The Obama administration said Thursday it is delaying approval of a massive oil pipeline until it can study new potential routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska, an action that likely puts off a decision until after the 2012 election.

  November 10, 2011 1 Photo

• No Child Left Behind: 10 states fleeing education law

  President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education. In exchange, the states are promising higher standards and more creative ways to measure what students are learning.

  February 9, 2012

• Best Super Bowl ad? Vote for your favorite

  Naked M&Ms, an out-of-shape dog on a mission and Clint Eastwood delivering a passionate speech about American adversity -- these are among the favorite commercials that aired during Sunday's Super Bowl.

  February 6, 2012 1 Photo

• Viral video: Kids cover living room in flour

  There's no question toddlers are capable of making some serious messes, and the latest viral video making the rounds on YouTube claims to show an award-winning mess made by two boys and a bag of flour.

  November 23, 2011 1 Photo

• States with most, fewest smokers revealed

  Which states have the highest smoking rates, and which have the lowest? New data released Thursday about smoking rates coincides with the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.

  November 19, 2011 1 Photo

• Slideshow: Other tragic plane crashes in sports history The sports world has lost several athletes and even whole teams to air tragedies such as the one that took the lives of the Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach and his assistant on Thursday night.

  November 19, 2011

• Libya confirms Gadhafi has been killed

  Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril says Moammar Gadhafi has been killed.

  "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed," Jibril told a news conference in the capital Tripoli.

  During nearly 42 years in power in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi was one of the world's most eccentric dictators, so mercurial that he was both condemned and courted by the West, while he brutally warped his country with his idiosyncratic vision of autocratic rule until he was finally toppled by his own people.

  October 20, 2011

• Running account of the day's development in Libya

  The hometown of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fell today as the last vestige of control for the man once hailed as the "king of kings of Africa" came to an end. And officials in the transitional government say Gadhafi, who has been in hiding since rebels seized control of Tripoli, was captured or killed.

  October 20, 2011

• Steve Jobs in 2005: Death is life's 'change agent' (VIDEO)

  Following the news of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' death, the video and text from a speech he gave at Stanford University several years ago are making the rounds on the Internet.

  October 6, 2011 1 Photo

• SLIDESHOW: 10 states with highest poverty rates The country’s overall poverty rate increased in 2010 to its highest level since 1993, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week. So which states are among the nation's poorest?

  September 14, 2011

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