Four state lawmakers trying to regulate marijuana dispensaries sent a request to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday to stop raids on medical marijuana operations.
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National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Halt Sought on Medical Marijuana Raids
Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed until March 16 the execution of a killer who took an overdose of pills in his cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.
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National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Death Row Inmate Takes Overdose
A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern citizens obtain United States student visas.
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National Briefing | West: California: Man Charged in Student Visa Fraud
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba on Monday strongly criticized foreign press coverage of a dissident hunger striker as part of a campaign to discredit the island’s political system.
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Cuba Blasts Foreign Press for Dissident Coverage
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released Monday, but the U.S.
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Haiti Frees US Missionary; Group Leader Still Held
TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian Parliament’s restaurant will serve seal meat this week in support of hunters battling a European Union ban on seal products, a Liberal senator said Monday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A court in Haiti on Monday freed a U.S. missionary jailed for weeks on charges of kidnapping children in the chaos that followed the country’s devastating January 12 earthquake, witnesses said
GENEVA (Reuters) – The G20 major rich and emerging countries have been broadly successful in holding protectionist pressures in check in recent months but must remain vigilant, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Monday.
Asian shares gained on Monday as encouraging U.S. employment and consumer data reinforced views that the world’s largest economy is slowly but steadily recovering.
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Asian Stock Markets Rise on U.S. Jobs Data
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba devoted nearly a third of its official newscast Monday night to denying that state doctors purposely let a jailed dissident die from a hunger strike.
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Cuba TV Report Denies Gov’t Let Hunger Striker Die