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Student loans could be next 'debt bomb'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- More than four of five U.S. bankruptcy attorneys say the number of potential clients with student loan debt has increased in the past three to four years.
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Cable news is main political news source
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Americans' appetite for political news may be less in the 2012 election cycle, but cable news channels remain a popular information source, a survey indicated.
CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A 13-month-old toddler has become the fourth Chicago-area child to be killed by a falling television set since October, police said.
GORNO-ALTAISK, Russia, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A Russian woman who disappeared while hunting in the Siberian wilderness was rescued from a hunter's hut where she was trapped by snowdrifts, officials said.
Pillay upset over inaction on Syria
GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The failure of the Security Council to pass a resolution against Syria gave the government an excuse to "massacre its own people," a U.N. rights official said.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Nigerian militant group Boko Haram took responsibility for a suicide bombing, which military officials said killed five soldiers in the northern city of Kaduna.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Foreign diplomats stationed in Israel are preparing contingency plans in case Israel is hit with a missile attack, a Yedioth Ahronoth report said.
CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A man wanted for the killing of a Wisconsin woman and the abduction of their 2-year-old daughter was arrested Wednesday in Chicago, police said.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- An Indiana agency cited the State Fair Commission and a stagehands union Wednesday for violations in a stage rigging collapse that killed seven people.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has a 53 percent disapproval rating among the state's voters, a Public Policy Polling survey released Wednesday indicated.
DETROIT, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The attorney for wealthy Detroit businessman Bob Bashara says he expects his client will soon be charged in his wife's slaying.
Number of missing Libyan missiles unknown
TRIPOLI, Libya, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Weapons inspectors said they can't find what may be thousands of portable anti-aircraft missiles acquired by ex-Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Russian investigators say they'll proceed with posthumous prosecution of a lawyer for alleged tax fraud more than two years after he died in a detention center.
JUBA, South Sudan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Communities affected by the conflict in the Sudanese region are "immensely vulnerable," and ICRC delegate said from South Sudan's capital.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- After a two-week investigation, prosecutors said they have decided not to file rape charges against the son of New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Some 40,000 people in and around Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, were under boil water orders Wednesday after multiple purification failures, officials said.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York scheduled an Oct. 22 trial date for an Iranian-American accused in the plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Some urge aiding Syrian rebel forces
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Military support for the rebel Free Syrian Army may be the best way of toppling the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, diplomats and analysts say.
EU upset with Ukraine over Tymoshenko case
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Polish foreign minister said Wednesday that the European Union was finding it difficult to work with Kiev because of the Yulia Tymoshenko case.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Justice Ministry in Iraq said it carried out death sentences for 14 convicted terrorists, including members of the Islamic State of Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Iranian dissidents living in Iraq should move out of Camp Ashraf in Diyala province in preparation to leave the country, a U.S. official said.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A proposed new contract for workers at the biggest hotels in New York includes a provision for personal panic buttons, a lawmaker said.
OTTAWA, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Canada's population increased 5.9 percent to 33,476,688 people from 2006 to 2011, census data released by Statistics Canada showed Wednesday.
Lawmakers defeat pro-Tymoshenko bill
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian Parliament killed a bill Wednesday that would have decriminalized the country's law under which ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted.
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