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Romney faces the challenge of laying out specific policies without upsetting base

(CNN) -- While foreign policy became an unexpected pivotal point in last week's town-hall style presidential debate, Monday's final showdown will focus entirely on international affairs.


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International Cycling Union's president also says he was 'sickened' by the report

(CNN) -- Lance Armstrong is losing the seven cycling titles that made him a legend.


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Mother Marianne Cope is known for her work with Hansen's disease patients

(CNN) -- An American health care pioneer will receive the Roman Catholic Church's highest honor this weekend.


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Gray wolves were removed from federal protection earlier this year

(CNN) -- As Minnesota gears up for its first wolf hunt, advocates of the once-endangered gray wolf are hoping the court will intervene.


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McGovern lost a bid for the Presidency in a landslide to incumbent Republican Richard Nixon

(CNN) -- George Stanley McGovern, a staunch liberal who served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and House for more than two decades and who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1972, died Sunday at the age of 90, his family said.


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Boy Scouts criticized for gay ban and for 'perversion files'

(CNN) -- Disappointment, anger, disgust. Words like these are echoing throughout social media about a national icon: The Boy Scouts of America.


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The volume of illegal robocalls is increasing in the U.S.

(CNN) -- During election season, phones across the country ring with more unsolicited, automated calls than usual. So it's especially timely that on Thursday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission held a Robocall Summit to "explore innovations designed to trace robocalls, prevent wrongdoers from faking caller ID data, and stop unwanted calls."


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9 p.m. Updates with report on white house/intelligence conversations

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Obama administration official whose now controversial comment that the attack on the U.S. mission in Libya was "spontaneous" relied on talking points provided by the CIA based on its assessment that an intelligence official said on Friday was updated days later with new information.


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'Fixing the educational system is a really urgent priority, because we'll lose another generation if nothing is done'

Neal Shapiro is President and CEO of New York City's WNET, America's flagship public media outlet, bringing quality arts, education and public affairs programming to over 5 million viewers each week

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Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is charged with 10 murders but police have widened scope of investigation to 230 killings

(CNN) -- Los Angeles police have posted the images of 42 women culled from the photo collection of the "Grim Sleeper" serial murder suspect on social media and their website, officials announced Thursday.


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