Reuters – British-born author Christopher Hitchens on Wednesday cut short a book tour to undergo chemotherapy, which several media outlets reported was because the heavy smoker has been diagnosed with cancer.

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Writer Christopher Hitchens to undergo chemotherapy
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Reuters – British-born author Christopher Hitchens on Wednesday cut short a book tour to undergo chemotherapy, which several media outlets reported was because the heavy smoker has been diagnosed with cancer.

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Writer Christopher Hitchens to undergo chemotherapy
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Reuters – British-born author Christopher Hitchens on Wednesday cut short a book tour to undergo chemotherapy, which several media outlets reported was because the heavy smoker has been diagnosed with cancer.

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Writer Christopher Hitchens to undergo chemotherapy
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Reuters – Two accused Islamist extremists were all bluster and no substance, their defense attorneys said in opening statements on Wednesday at a trial on charges they planned to bomb a New York airport.

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Trial opens for accused NY airport bomb plotters
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AP – Sensitive to election-year resentment over big government, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he intends to get “our debt and our deficits under control.” With fears alive of a double-dip recession, Obama warned that he won’t slash spending at the expense of the economic rebound.

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Obama takes on election-year fears over big debt
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AP – For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin.

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We were family: Microsoft halts Kin phone rollout
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The Newsroom – Republicans noticeably ratcheted up their questioning of Elena Kagan on day three of her Senate confirmation hearings, strongly pressing the Supreme Court nominee on a myriad of social issues, including gay marriage and abortion.

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Kagan’s confirmation clear, Republicans shore up credentials
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AP – Elvis Presley archivists have found three rare photos dating back more than 50 years that show the young singer greeting fans at the gates of Graceland.

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3 rare photos give glimpse of Elvis, Graceland
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AP – It wasn’t snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night that stopped Chester Arthur Reed from his appointed round. The mail handler just felt it was time to call it quits at age 95.

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Oldest US postal worker retires in Calif. at 95
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AP – Tiger Woods has been interviewed by federal authorities investigating a Canadian doctor accused of distributing human growth hormone, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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AP Source: Tiger Woods interviewed in Galea probe
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