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Los Angeles Times - Top News
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Actor Corey Haim dies at 38
Actor Corey Haim, who starred in some popular movies in the 1980s and recently tried to relaunch his career with a reality TV show, has died.
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Recovery emerging from U.S. factories
Manufacturing booms, but its importance to the overall economy has diminished.
Improbable as it seems, the brightest spot so far in the nation's spotty economic recovery is a sector long considered all but dead -- good-old-fashioned manufacturing.
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China exports leap 46% in February
The nation's exports grow for the third consecutive month compared with a year earlier. Critics of China's artificially low currency are expected to increase demands for a hike in its value.
China's exports rose 46% in February from a year earlier, beating expectations and setting the stage for more calls to increase the value of the Chinese currency, analysts say.
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Ex-Congressman Massa says groping wasn't sexual
Former Rep. Eric Massa, a New York Democrat who resigned his seat Monday amid a sexual harassment investigation, goes on TV to defend himself.
A day after resigning his seat in the face of a House ethics investigation, former Rep. Eric Massa took to the airwaves Tuesday to deny that he had touched a male aide in a sexual manner.
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Rally backs health plan
Demonstrators in the capital issue 'citizen's arrest' warrants for insurance executives and pledge to step up pressure on Congress.
In a reverse twist on the old protesters' tactic of getting arrested to make a point, union leaders and other backers of President Obama's healthcare plan issued "citizen's arrest" warrants for health insurance executives Tuesday -- accusing them of exploiting consumers.
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Norwalk boy, 7, calls 911 and saves his family
'Bring cops . . . a lot of them!' he pleads during a home invasion.
Authorities were hailing a 7-year-old Norwalk boy as a hero Tuesday after he hid in a bathroom and called 911 as three armed attackers burst into his home and threatened his parents.
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Bali bombing suspect killed in police raids
Dulmatin, wanted for planning the nightclub attacks that killed 202 people in 2002, dies in raids by Indonesian police.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday confirmed that a militant wanted for planning the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub bombings was killed Tuesday on the outskirts of Jakarta.
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Egypt's controversial top cleric dies
Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi angered conservative Muslims with his more moderate views.
Top Egyptian cleric Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, whose moderate views angered conservative Muslims, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the state-owned news agency reported. He was 81.
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U.S. changing focus of Iran policy
With the apparent failure of Obama's initiative to open negotiations, the administration turns toward support of the opposition and a focus on sanctions targeting the powerful Revolutionary Guard.
After keeping a careful distance for the last year, the Obama administration has concluded that the Iranian opposition movement has staying power and has embraced it as a central element in the U.S.-led campaign to pressure the country's clerical government.
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Suicides complicate Native American artifact looting case
FBI informant Ted Gardiner's death last week is the third. Critics say the federal government has been overzealous in its prosecutions and that his videotaped testimony should not be allowed.
For 90 tense minutes last month, Sheriff Mike Lacy in Utah tried to prevent yet another person connected to the theft of Native American artifacts from committing suicide.
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