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The Supreme Court upheld a stay of execution just before midnight

(CNN) -- A flurry of last-minute legal maneuvers Tuesday spared, for now, the life of John Ferguson, a Florida death row inmate who suffers from mental illness and at one point called himself the 'prince of God.'


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Romney's assertion that 313 ships are required for a fully operational Navy uses an outdated figure - Navy Secretary Ray Mabus dropped the number to 300 ships in April

(CNN) -- Perhaps it only makes sense that a candidate who prepared for a presidential debate near Colonial Williamsburg would choose to slam Mitt Romney's plan for more Navy ships by using the phrase "horses and bayonets."


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Radcliffe Haughton shot seven women before killing himself, police say

What prompted the 45-year-old former Marine to open fire at a suburban Milwaukee salon Sunday -- killing not just his wife and two other women, but also wounding four others -- was foreshadowed in no uncertain terms by his estranged wife just three days earlier.


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'Please, Mr. President, stop talking about rewarding and punishing teachers. Teachers are professionals, not toddlers'

(CNN) -- Earlier this month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered his state of education speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., which was part self-review of his department's goals and achievements and part campaign speech for his boss, President Obama.


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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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