FBI cuts down Mass. mom's door in wrong-home raid

FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts mother says the FBI used a chain saw blade to cut through her door and held her at gunpoint for at least 30 minutes before agents realized they were conducting a raid at the wrong home.Judy Sanchez, of Fitchburg, says she awoke to heavy footsteps in the stairwell on Jan. 26 and walked into her kitchen in time to see a blade chop through her door.She says she was held facedown on the floor...

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Michele Bachmann refutes Mitt Romney endorsement report

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Japan snowstorm kills 52, crushes steel bridge

Heavy snowfall has crippled much of Japan's western coast, killing more than 50 people and injuring nearly 600. The worst snowstorm in six years has dumped more than 10 feet of snow in the hardest-hit regions, causing at least one bridge to collapse and forcing school closures across the region.An avalanche today buried three people for more than an hour near a hot springs in Akita Prefecture in northwest Japan. The women were...

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Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he's "not concerned about the very poor" because they have an "ample safety net" and he's focused instead on relieving the suffering of middle-class people hit hard by the bad economy.In comments likely to become fodder for his critics, Romney emphasized, "You can focus on the very poor, that's not my focus."He brought up the subject of the poor...

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'Soul Train' Founder Commits Suicide: Report

'Soul Train' Founder Commits Suicide: Report (Credit: Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo) Don Cornelius, the man who created Soul Train, was reportedly found dead Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home.  Police sources tell TMZ.com that Cornelius appears to have taken his own life; sources say he died from what appears to be a self-inflicted...

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Romney hits morning shows, armed with talking points about Obama’s billions

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Separated at birth, Indonesian twins meet in Sweden

Twins born in Indonesia and put up separately for adoption, have been reunited after finding each other living just 40 kilometres (25 miles) apart, in southern Sweden, three decades later.Non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman -- strangers until last year -- were separated nearly 29 years ago.According to a DNA test the pair had done two months after reuniting in January last year, and which they shared with AFP, there...

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