From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The death toll is rising in Haiti. As NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from Port-au-Prince, the Haitian government confirms at least 150,000 people have died since the earthquake struck nearly two weeks ago

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1. Senator Ted Kennedy remains in a Boston hospital awaiting test results to give clues to what led to a seizure. An aide says the Democrat was resting and watching the Red Sox game. 2. At the end of his Middle East trip President Bush chided Arab c

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Afghan Civilians Bear the Brunt of War Casualties Statistics posted on iCasualties.org, an independent monitoring group, show that more than 2,700 foreign troops have died during the past 10 years in Afghanistan. But since the start of the decade-lon

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When Bryan Lee moved to New Orleans to escape the harsh winters of his native Wisconsin, the city's French Quarter was home to a thriving blues scene. One of his steadiest jobs was playing five nights a week at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Stree

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice Fifty years ago this month, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as we know it today was published*, and in honor of the occasion, th

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Workers at a nuclear plant in Japan are battling to prevent a meltdown in one of the reactors, following the massive earthquake that struck the north-east part of the country on Friday. The latest government figures figures put the death toll from th

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