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It looks like we will have six more weeks of winter, according to Punxatawney Phil---or at least his handlers.

The annual event in Pennsylvannia was held this morning at Gobler's Knob.

Legend has it that if Phil sees his shadow on February 2-nd, there's another month-and-a-half of winter

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President Barack Obama's new declaration that he's open to legal status for many immigrants short of citizenship sounds a lot like House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders, an election-year compromise that numerous Republicans as well as Democrats crave

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Punxsutawney Phil may hog all the attention, but he isn't alone when it comes to weather-predicting groundhogs. Buckeye Chuck is the official State Groundhog in Ohio. General Beauregard Lee, Ph.D., is Georgia's Official Weather Prognosticator

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Watch out chips and dip, veggies are proving to be quite popular when it comes to snack foods at Super Bowl parties. A Nielsen survey shows that while salty snacks lead the way in the top ten foods being eaten and served, vegetables rank number three, right behind dips

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The NFL says security is in place on both sides of the Hudson for this weekend's Super Bowl.

New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says departments in both states have been preparing for any possible terror attack

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As attorney general, Eric Holder has approved pursuing the death penalty in at least 34 criminal cases, upholding a long-ago pledge to Congress that he would vigorously enforce federal law even though he's not a proponent of capital punishment

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Declaring 2014 a "year of action" as he unveiled a series of relatively meager executive actions, President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" he can in order to push through his agenda.

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College athletes are forming their own union.  Football players at Northwestern University are behind the movement to form the College Athlete Players Association.  

The group said this week that an "overwhelming majority" of Northwestern's scholarship football players have notified the National Labor Relations Board they're seeking union representation through CAPA

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A new study indicates there may be a link between a person's exposure to the pesticide DDT and their chances of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers in the U.K. found Alzheimer's patients had four times as much DDT lingering in their bodies as people without the disease

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says her biggest regret is "what happened at Benghazi."  Speaking at an auto dealers convention in New Orleans, Clinton called it a "terrible tragedy." 

Four Americans were killed in the 2012 terrorist attack on the U

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