Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues.

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• N.Y. Post cartoon seems to liken Obama to dead chimp

Seeking to tackle "a crisis unlike any we've ever known," President Obama unveiled an ambitious $75 billion plan to keep as many as 9 million Americans from losing their homes to foreclosure.

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• Bernanke vows to do all he can to revive economy
• Obama could change tactics in bipartisan battle

The owner of a 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee that went berserk and mauled a Connecticut woman is disputing police reports that she gave the animal an anti-anxiety drug.

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• Missouri man convicted of '92 slaying to go free
• Man shoots himself at Crystal Cathedral
• Cops match evidence to Anthony home

It wasn't long ago that Robert Lane was a full-time fisherman and industry activist. But that life is not for him anymore. The Massachusetts man recently sold one of his two boats and bought a landscaping business.

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• Nebraska offering young ranchers aid, loans

The crime drips with irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the TV  network the couple founded with the hope of improving the image of Muslims.

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• Ruling bringing 17 Gitmo detainees to U.S. reversed