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Republican John McCain&#8217;s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate was a &#8220;brilliant&#8221; pick, according to two University of Virginia political scientists.
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          <title>Help&#45;wanted ad for nanny: &#8216;My kids are a pain&#8217;</title>
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Soodak tells the Times: &#8220;I hope she likes it here. I sent the ad to one of my old sitters and she said she felt it was pretty accurate, which sort of stung a little bit.&#8221;
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Updated 2:18 p.m. &#8220;&#8230; Politics isn&#8217;t just a game of competing interests and clashing parties,&#8221; added Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who has built her career in large measure by challenging fellow Republicans. &#8220;The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons.&#8221;
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          <title>On Katrina&#8217;s 3rd anniversary, another storm brews</title>
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The solemn ceremonies for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Friday for the most part were blown away by Tropical Storm Gustav, which threatens to become a hurricane and poses the biggest threat to New Orleans since the killer 2005 storm.
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          <title>Speculation over McCain veep turns to Alaska gov.</title>
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Two GOP strategists close to the McCain campaign said all indications pointed to Palin, a self-styled &#8220;hockey mom&#8221; and political reformer. The strategists spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized by the McCain camp to discuss the matter. There was no confirmation from McCain or his advisers.
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          <title>Obama accepts nomination</title>
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Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the &#8220;broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush&#8221; Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation&#8217;s first black president.&nbsp;
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          <title>Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions</title>
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Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn&#8217;t expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too &#8212; to help convict him of killing four family members.
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          <title>McCain says no vice presidential decision yet</title>
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Looking toward his turn in the spotlight, Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain sought to siphon attention from Democrat Barack Obama&#8217;s show in Denver by playing coy about his pick for vice president.
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          <title>Officials may evacuate New Orleans as Gustav nears</title>
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National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles are selling briskly, and one small-town mayor has spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area is skittishly watching as a storm marches across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina&#8217;s third anniversary.
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          <title>Democrats poised to give Obama historic nomination</title>
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Democrats were poised to formally deliver the party&#8217;s presidential nomination to Barack Obama on Wednesday, making him the first black nominee of a major party. While the historic outcome was certain, suspense remained over how a vote of delegates would proceed, and for how long
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          <title>FAA says communication breakdown delaying flights</title>
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The Federal Aviation Administration says a communication failure at a Georgia facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. is causing flight delays around the country.
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          <title>Number of uninsured drops; poverty holds steady</title>
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The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
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          <title>Fire destroys 10 Boise homes, damages 9 more</title>
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A wildfire that started in a field of sagebrush and cheatgrass spread quickly up a ridge Monday night, destroying 10 homes and damaging another nine, the Boise fire chief said.
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          <title>Warner&#8217;s bipartisan tone could rankle Democrats</title>
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Former Gov. Mark Warner plans to offer a lesson in Virginia-style bipartisanship to thousands of hardcore Democrats in his convention keynote speech Tuesday night.
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          <title>Dealmaking and drama lead up to Clinton speech</title>
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging her supporters to heal a fractured Democratic Party by lining up behind Barack Obama as his Republican opponent asks voters to remember Clinton&#8217;s own criticism that Obama isn&#8217;t ready to take that 3 a.m. phone call.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>E=mc squared? Not in this economy</title>
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If you think hard enough about it, the economic malaise starts to make sense....
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          <title>Six inmates still loose in the West</title>
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Six escaped New Mexico inmates still sought as officials comb the state and region, from Texas to Colorado.
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          <title>Obama taps Biden to be running mate</title>
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Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.
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          <title>Ex&#45;US diplomat gets 20 years for child porn</title>
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An ex-U.S. diplomat who admitted taping his sexual encounters with teenage girls while stationed in Brazil and the Congo was sentenced Friday to 20 years, the maximum possible prison term.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:53:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Face transplant patient can smile, blink again</title>
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Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Death toll at 5 as Fay pours more rain on Florida</title>
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Tropical Storm Fay hobbled across Florida for a fifth day Friday as the state&#8217;s death toll rose to five, while residents began plodding through muddy water to assess the flood damage to their homes.
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          <title>Universities try to control students off campus</title>
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Ah, life in the university district. Cheap ethnic food. Vibrant street life. Fresh-faced students whizzing by on bicycles.
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          <title>Obama says he chose veep</title>
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Barack Obama has decided on his running mate. He&#8217;s just not telling who &#8212; yet.
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A 41-year-old auto body shop worker was convicted Thursday of grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club in Texas.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>US, Iraq have draft to pull US troops out</title>
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Iraq and the U.S. have reached preliminary agreement to withdraw American forces from Iraqi cities by next June, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday after meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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          <title>US softball team denied gold, loses 3&#45;1 to Japan</title>
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Losing for the first time since 2000, the U.S. softball team was denied a chance for a fourth straight gold medal Thursday, beaten 3-1 by Japan in the sport&#8217;s last appearance in the Olympics for at least eight years &#8212; and maybe for good.
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          <title>Kaine on VP chances: &#8216;They&#8217;ll let us know when they want to&#8217;</title>
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine this morning would not say whether he still is in the running to be Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s running mate.
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          <title>1 student dead after shooting at Tenn. school</title>
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Authorities say a 16-year-old student has died after a shooting at a Knoxville high school.
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          <title>Congresswoman Tubbs Jones dead at 58</title>
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Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, from Ohio, died Wednesday at age 58 from a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm.
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          <title>Jersey girls get out of Georgia</title>
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Two New Jersey girls visiting family in Russian-occupied Georgia, finally make it home.
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          <title>45 dead as jet swerves off Madrid airport runway</title>
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A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people, the Interior Ministry said.
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          <title>Illegal foreign contributions come into campaigns</title>
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Obama leads McCain in receiving illegal foreign campaign contributions, campaign camps not checking citizenship
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          <title>Nearly&#45;last Confederate widow dies</title>
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One of the last Confederate widows died on Sunday.
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          <title>Fay showers Florida, working its way north</title>
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Tropical Storm Fay provides soaking rain to parched areas.
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 An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.
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A small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles has left the strategically key Georgian city of Gori and an officer says they are headed back to Russia.
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Tropical Storm Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida, bringing soaking rains and gusty winds but failing to reach the minimal hurricane status that had been predicted.
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The tourists are leaving and the residents are staying&#8212;some of them praying&#8212;as Tropical Storm Fay nears Key West.&nbsp;
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Fuel costs, food costs, create cuts for schools, students, parents and everyone in education.
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Adam Nelson, a Darden School student and two-time Olympic silver medalist tried to play through the pain.&nbsp;
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Man awaits possible death sentence for abducting and raping two children and killing one of them while the sibling watched.
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Soon-to-be released files from the World War II era spy organization, OSS, reveals an interesting array of undercover operatives and employees. Full files to be released later today.
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Senate candidate and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner is scheduled to deliver the Tuesday night keynote address at this year&#8217;s Democratic National Convention&#8212;the same role that launched Barack Obama to national prominence four years ago.
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Victims of priestly sexual abuse win settlement, unsealed despositions by Catholic Church heirarchy.
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Yellowstone&#8217;s 1988 mega-fire has renewed the park and revised the playbook for fighting forest fires.
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Mayor of Arkansas town says infringing Constitutional rights is justified to protect residents from drug violence.
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You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy.
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Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing a military base and police stations in the country&#8217;s west, officials said
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Credit drying up, leaving students grasping for loans.
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Issac Hayes, singer and songwriter, dies at 65.
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Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn&#8217;t love her.
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Power produced by nuclear plant cut as reactor shut down
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Texas bus crash kills 13, injures two dozen.
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White supremacists see rivival in possible Obama presidency.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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On and off retirement is off; Packers&#8217; quarterback to play for New York Jets.
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A hospital CEO was arrested in California and hospitals are being sued for giving beds to homeless people and filing Medicare claims.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A giant vulnerability in the Internet&#8217;s design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.
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Texas&#8217; execution of Mexican national, a long-time U.S. resident and gang member convicted of gang rape and murder of two juveniles, of international concern.&nbsp;
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Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip.
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Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas Gulf coast east of Galveston on Tuesday with strong winds and heavy rain, but did little more than soak the travelers who came to relax on the tourist town&#8217;s beaches.
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Fences make good neighbors but poor neighbor relations lead to fences.
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Self-proclaimed American Indian &#8220;Grand Chief Thunderbird IV&#8221; in trouble for selling tribal memberships to immigrants, claiming tribal membership conferred U.S. citizenship.
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Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of Soviet&#8217;s slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.


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Michigan man arrested in connection with triple-slaying by a Wisconsin river bridge
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Tropical Storm Edouard blowing west toward Texas.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Lawmakers sped for the exits Friday as Congress was to begin a five-week recess after a summer session noteworthy for bitter partisanship and paralysis on the issue topmost in the minds of many voters: the cost of gasoline.
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A top scientist in anthrax research reportedly has committed suicide after government inquiries into the 2001 anthrax attacks began to focus on him.
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A judge denied bond Thursday for a part-time evangelist charged with murder in the death of his wife, a mother of eight whose body was kept in a freezer for at least three years.
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Scientists positively identified the presence of liquid ethane on Saturn&#8217;s moon, Titan. Liquid ethane is a component of crude oil.

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&#8220;What&#8217;s good for Tim Kaine, ironically, would be very bad for his party,&#8221; Larry J. Sabato said Wednesday.
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&#8220;At some point, relying on miracles is not going to be the best way to manage our system,&#8221; said Pete Rahn, the transportation commissioner of Missouri.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:52:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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Talk about New Jersey&#8217;s fat cats.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts.
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President Bush, on a campaign to open offshore waters to oil drilling, said Wednesday that the Democratic-run Congress was letting down the American people by refusing to allow votes on the matter.
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Visitors to Yosemite imagine the breathtaking views through breathtaking smoke and ash from hundreds of acres of burning forest.
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&#8220;I haven&#8217;t sought it. I&#8217;m not running for it. I&#8217;m not asking for it. I&#8217;ve never asked anything of the campaign.&#8221;
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A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. No immediate damage was reported.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
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In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find &#8212; and that&#8217;s a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.
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President Bush could have commuted the death sentence of Ronald A. Gray, a former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders.
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Syndicated columnist and former ``Crossfire&#8217;&#8217; host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.&nbsp;
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The University of Florida can raise a glass to another national title - best party school in the country.&nbsp;
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Female suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300, police said.
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Seven injured, two killed as gunman shoots into Unitarian Church audience during  a children&#8217;s musical performance based on the musical &#8220;Annie.&#8221;
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Drought, rain makes West Virginia farmers wonder what&#8217;s next.
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Yet another town-hall meeting isn&#8217;t doing the trick. Neither is dropping in on a former Republican president. So just what can John McCain do to draw attention away from his showy Democratic rival?
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Construction crews began removing row after row of Xcel Energy Center seats. Forklift drivers slid load after load of electrical equipment off semi trucks. And the arena&#8217;s manager handed over a ceremonial key to the building.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that security in Iraq has improved and that the United States urgently needs to turn its attention to Afghanistan
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A Palestinian rammed a construction truck into three cars and a bus near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is supposed to stay Tuesday, injuring four people before an Israeli civilian shot and killed the attacker, police and witnesses said.
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Firefighters became victims of what appeared to be an ambush Monday when they were fired upon from a house as they worked to put out a vehicle fire across the street, police said. One young firefighter was killed, two police officers were wounded and the house where the shots were fired later burned to the ground.
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Texas soldier found alive after husband allegedly kidnaps and stabs her.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Friday urged religious leaders of all kinds to unite against those who use faith to divide communities &#8212; an apparent reference to terrorism in the name of religion.
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Nearly half of Americans are concerned they may get sick from eating contaminated food and are avoiding items they normally would buy.
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President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame&#8217;s identity.
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Hezbollah handed over two black coffins Wednesday with the bodies of two Israeli soldiers and Israel prepared to set free a notorious attacker in a dramatic prisoner swap that will close a painful chapter from the 2006 war in Lebanon.
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A Los Angeles judge handed down two life terms without parole to two elderly women who befriended homeless men, took out life insurance policies on them and then killed them in murders staged to look like hit-and-run auto accidents. 


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The Massachusetts state Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from marrying in the state.&nbsp;
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Fire and mud; the elements keep California residents away from the homes and worrying.
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