Study: Sleep Disorders Widespread Among Police A new study has found that four out of 10 North American police officers surveyed have some sort of sleep disorder. The researchers say the result can be impaired job performance, as well as a variety of

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Iraq Struggles To Create Jobs and Wealth Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the world, but its economy suffers from high unemployment, war damage and the lingering effects of past international sanctions. Crumbling infrastructure and politi

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Apple Changed Way the World Communicates Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple has produced products that have changed the way people around the world communicate, obtain information and entertain themselves. Here's a look at Apples success and w

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Displaced Syrian Children Struggle for Education During a school day at the Bab al-Salama school in northern Syria, several classes study under this tent, with one of four pitched on the edge of camp not far from the border with Turkey. About 1,000 c

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By Daniel Schearf Hua Hin, Thailand 26 October 2009 Meetings of Southeast Asian leaders and their dialogue partners have ended with a pledge to build a more flexible economic community that is less dependent on the United States. There were also som

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By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 30 September 2009 Palestinian relatives of Fatima Al Zaq, scheduled to be released from Israeli prison celebrate in Gaza City, 30 Sep 2009 Israel says it has agreed to release 20 Palestinian women from its prisons in exchan

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US Rally Highlights Worldwide Rights Struggle They began at the embassy of the Dominican Republic, calling for answers to the 2009 disappearance of rights activist Juan Almonte. Witnesses say police kidnapped him. Authorities call him a fugitive. Bar

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Slaid Cleaves Reflects on Struggles of War Veterans Over the past two decades, Cleaves has won acclaim for his songs about the small-town, working-class men and women just struggling to get bylike the ones hes singing about in Rust Belt Fields. Rust

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(So we can take the solar sunlight, right? create heat force, retain and save in this tank and store.) 20 homes soak off the suns rays on Washington D.C.s National Mall. They need all the energy they can get to power everything from ventilation syste

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For many of us a new year means a clean start, the chance to toss out things we don't need anymore or get rid of bad habits. Well, the folks at Lake Superior State University in Michigan say we ought to start with some of the lam

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you're a fan of sketch comedy, then you very likely know the name Jordan Peele, along with his partner Keegan-Michael Key. He wrote and performed in the show Key And Peele that ran for five seasons on Comedy Central and earned

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's shift our attention now to politics in France. The far-right presidential candidate there, Marine Le Pen, is hoping to become the first woman elected to the post. To do this, she has to woo female voters who have long co

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Not My Job: Keegan-Michael Key Of 'Key Peele' Gets Quizzed On Peels PETER SAGAL, HOST: And now the game where we ask talented people to do things they have no talent for. It's confusing to everyone. We call it Not My Job. So Keegan-Michael Key was a

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 11 June 2006 Iranian Top Nuclear Negotiator Ali Larijani, left , talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, during their meeting in Cairo, Egypt Iranian officials are rejecting some aspects of an international package o

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By Michael Bowman Washington 05 July 2006 Preparations are underway on the Space Shuttle Discovery for Thursday's planned docking with the International Space Station. Discovery's crew spent much of the day performing a thorough examination of the o

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By Al Pessin Tampa, Florida 17 March 2007 Admiral William Fallon (left) and General John Abizaid at change of command ceremony A U.S. Navy admiral took command Friday of the part of the U.S. military that is fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

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By Kari Barber Dakar 30 October 2007 Health workers in Liberia say it has been difficult to battle leprosy in the country and treat those who have it, because of the stigma associated with the disease. It has long been a local belief that the illnes

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 11 June 2006 Police investigators take a look at the damage caused by a suspected homemade bomb or a grenade as it exploded in a bus being used as a mobile police station in Manila's suburban Quezon city Philippine police

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 18 July 2006 Diplomatic efforts to end the latest conflict in the Middle East intensified, Tuesday, as United Nations diplomats met with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem, after holding talks in Beirut. The talks took pla

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By Cathy Majtenyi IDP Camps in Kenya 17 April 2008 Kenya's post-election violence has left some 150,000 children homeless. The signing of a power-sharing agreement has helped to stabilize the country, but many children still languish in displaced per

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