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• HATE CRIME LAW

  Obama signs 1st major gay rights legislation

  A bill that President Barack Obama signed into law adds violence against gays to federal hate crime legislation.

• WASHINGTON, D.C.

  Congress honors Senate pioneer

  Former Sen. Edward Brooke, a part-time Miami resident, received the highest award that Congress can bestow.
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  HEALTH

  Study: 10 years of diet, exercise can keep diabetes at bay

  A national study on diabetes, to be published online Thursday, concludes that people who stuck to a 10-year diet and exercise plan cut their risk of developing the disease by 34 percent.

• IRAQ

  Al Qaeda offshoot claims bombings that killed 155 in Baghdad

  Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed that it was behind the two truck bombings that killed 155 people Sunday.

• U.S. CONGRESS

  Lawmakers wary of some plans for bank oversight

  A plan by the Obama administration to dismantle ``too big to fail'' financial institutions has been rolled back by a congressional panel.
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  FORWARD LOOK

  Fidel Castro's sister says she worked with CIA while in Cuba

  Fidel Castro's younger sister, Juanita, now living in Miami, reveals in a Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her new book that she worked with the CIA while living in Cuba.

• IMMIGRATION

  Haitian activists want Obama to address immigration goals

  With President Barack Obama coming to Miami, some Haitian-American activists want him to address the issue of Temporary Protected Status.

• THE ECONOMY

  Pay czar, Federal Reserve crack down on executive pay

  Treasury announced big pay cuts for top executives at companies that received bailout funds as the Federal Reserve sharpened banks' pay guidelines.

• JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

  Prosecutor in botched trial of senator steps down

  The lawyer who oversaw the botched prosecution of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens will no longer head the public integrity section.

• SENATE

  Senate rejects effort to avert Medicare fee cuts

  The Senate rejected an effort to avert Medicare fee cuts for doctors.

• FINANCIAL REGULATION

  Measure to rein in credit-rating agencies has loopholes

  A proposal under consideration in the House that is intended to improve transparency of credit-rating agencies fails to address some of the agencies' most egregious abuses.

• GUANTANAMO BAY

  Supreme Court agrees to consider Guantánamo Uighurs case

  The decision on whether or not Chinese Uighurs imprisoned at the Guantánamo prison camps can be released into the U.S. is now up to the Supreme Court.
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  U.S. SENATE

  Florida's new senator battles `placeholder' stigma

  Florida's new senator, George LeMieux, is working hard to avoid being seen as a figurehead who is keeping a Senate seat warm for former boss Gov. Charlie Crist.

• U.S. INTELLIGENCE

  Cuba's spy `walk-ins' target U.S., experts say

  Two Cuba experts said spies sent by Cuba to the United States after 9/11 were part of a permanent intelligence program to mislead, misinform and identify U.S. spies.

• LEGISLATURE

  Nelson seeks funds to help homeowners replace drywall

  U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is urging state lawmakers to provide financial help to homeowners dealing with Chinese drywall.

• THE COSMOS

  Astronomers seek glimpse of `Dark Ages'

  Huge radio telescopes with thousands of detectors will help astronomers peer back into a 800 million-year-old slice of cosmic history that has previously been unknown.
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  THE ECONOMY

  Florida's jobless rate hits 11 percent as public toll worsens

  Workers remain out of work longer and longer as Florida's unemployment rate hits 11 percent for the first time in 34 years.
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  GUANTANAMO BAY

  Nobel Prize draws wonder, surprise at Guantánamo

  President Barack Obama's Nobel prize fueled captives' interest, spread more slowly to some troops working at the prison camps at Guantánamo

• ESPIONAGE

  Convicted Cuban spy gets lighter sentence

  One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.

• U.S. SUPREME COURT

  U.S. Supreme Court considering whether bad legal advice can void guilty plea

  A legal U.S. immigrant has told Supreme Court justices that bad advice from his lawyer is behind his likely deportation.

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