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AP - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watchlist with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

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Napolitano concedes airline security system failed
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AP - The credibility of the government’s $700 billion financial rescue program was damaged by claims a year ago that all of the initial banks receiving support were healthy, a new report contends.

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Government report questions rescue claims
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AP - When Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in Saturday to the Supreme Court, she’ll be able to claim two firsts: first Hispanic justice and first high court member to have her oath-taking made available to TV cameras.

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Sotomayor’s swearing in to court set for Saturday
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Reuters - Israel is encouraged by recent U.S.

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Israelis quietly question U.S. resolve against Iran
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AFP - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is set to endorse Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president on Monday, two days before the re-elected hardliner is sworn in for a second amid intense political turmoil in the Islamic republic.

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Iran supreme leader Khamenei to endorse Ahmadinejad
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Reuters - Long after President Barack Obama’s first term ends in 2013, millions of U.S. families will still be paying the price for the recession.

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The price of U.S. recession is paid in jobs
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Reuters - A task force is studying the possibility of moving some suspected militants from Guantanamo Bay to a maximum security prison in the United States with its own courtrooms for criminal and military trials, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

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Task force weighs moving Guantanamo prisoners to U.S.
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Reuters - After more than a century of making cars, the U.S. state of Michigan is retraining thousands of unemployed workers for new careers now that many of their jobs may be gone for good.

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U.S. auto workers seek to retrain for scarce new jobs
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AP - A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday’s edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

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New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon
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Reuters - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on Sunday that he believes the Senate will this week approve $2 billion in new funding to extend the popular “cash for clunkers” auto sales incentive program.

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U.S. official optimistic on "clunker" plan extension
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