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Friends: Corey Haim was beating drugs

CNN Top Stories - 1 hour 26 min ago
Corey Haim seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death, according to both his manager and closest friend.

Report: 12-year-olds abusing inhalants

CNN Top Stories - 1 hour 44 min ago
When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something else: getting high on inhalants.

3 strong quakes strike Chile

CNN Top Stories - 1 hour 54 min ago
Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile this morning, just as the country was swearing in a new president.

House GOP adopts earmark ban

CNN Top Stories - 2 hours 26 min ago
House Republicans agreed Thursday to adopt a ban on congressional earmarks in spending bills for next year, upping the ante with Democrats in the political battle over fiscal responsibility and pork barrel spending.

Bacterial meningitis kills Oklahoma girl

CNN Top Stories - 2 hours 29 min ago
An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

Former NFL star, actor Merlin Olsen dies

CNN Top Stories - 2 hours 53 min ago
Former football star and television actor Merlin Olsen has died after a long battle with cancer, the St. Louis Rams said Thursday.

28 schools closing in Kansas City, MO

CNN Top Stories - 4 hours 57 sec ago
Superintendent John Covington called for the closing or consolidation of almost half of the schools in the Kansas City, Missouri, school district.

Dems go behind doors on health plan

CNN Top Stories - 4 hours 9 min ago
Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement.

BA employee faces terrorism charges

CNN Top Stories - 4 hours 44 min ago
A British Airways employee appeared in court Thursday on charges related to terrorism.

1 killed in Arkansas tornado outbreak

CNN Top Stories - 4 hours 56 min ago
Parts of Arkansas were under a tornado watch until early Thursday after a series of powerful tornadoes ripped through dozens of homes, critically injuring two people.

Early Iraq election results reported

CNN Top Stories - 5 hours 7 min ago
Iraq's election commission is expected Thursday to announce partial results of last week's vote.

Who is alleged 'Jihad Jane'?

CNN Top Stories - 5 hours 18 min ago
Colleen LaRose, the U.S. woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted suicide in 2005, police said.

How to stop a suicide

CNN Top Stories - 5 hours 42 min ago
For five days, Alexis Moore carefully planned how she would take her own life. She's not a violent person, so she knew handguns were out. She settled on vodka instead, to be followed by a bottle of Xanax.

Hustler can't have pics of hiker's body

CNN Top Stories - 5 hours 56 min ago
Gruesome photos of a murdered hiker sought by Hustler magazine will not be released, a Georgia judge ruled. Lawmakers now want a permanent fix.

Sony unveils its answer to the Wii

CNN Top Stories - 6 hours 20 min ago
On Wednesday, Sony unveiled Move, its motion-sensitive controller.

British journalist freed in Gaza

CNN Top Stories - 6 hours 42 min ago
British journalist Paul Martin was free Thursday and on his way to Israel after his arrest by Hamas in Gaza a month ago.

Background check missed prison stint

CNN Top Stories - 7 hours 9 min ago
A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire Tuesday on his co-workers turned up no criminal record, even though he apparently served five years in prison.

Opinion: Jobs bill doomed to fail

CNN Top Stories - 7 hours 55 min ago
Congress has stripped the jobs bill of the reinvestment in America's infrastructure that would put people back to work and make the country more prosperous in the long run.

Chief justice: Obama speech 'troubling'

CNN Top Stories - 8 hours 32 min ago
Simmering tension spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at the State of the Union address "very troubling."

Eatery charged with serving whale meat

CNN Top Stories - 11 hours 49 min ago
Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- an investigation that was spurred by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove."
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