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A senior U.S. official says that the Bush administration warned India before last week&#8217;s Mumbai attacks.
Past reporting           ]]></description>
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Authorities responding to a shooting at suburban Miami mall say one person has been shot and taken to a hospital.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;The time has come for a new beginning, a new dawn of American leadership to overcome the challenges of the 21st century,&#8220; Obama said as his Cabinet picks stood behind him on a flag-draped stage.           ]]></description>
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Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India&#8217;s financial capital Thursday, wounding 25 people, police and witnesses said.           ]]></description>
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Sales of new U.S. homes fell in October to the lowest point in nearly 18 years while the median price of a new home dropped to the lowest level since 2004.           ]]></description>
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Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.           ]]></description>
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As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still give.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Attorney General collapses during speech</title>
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67-year-old awake and talking           ]]></description>
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          <title>CIA hid role in 2001 downing of missionary&#8217;s plane</title>
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Joint anti-drug program with Peruvian Air Force broke rules and procedures in shooting down suspect planes           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Until they show us the plan, we cannot show them the money,&#8220; Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a hastily called news conference in the Capitol.           ]]></description>
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The four-week average of claims, which smooths out fluctuations, was even worse: it rose to 506,500, the highest in more than 25 years.           ]]></description>
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Debate gets hot and lively betewen lawmakers, factions           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cantor named No. 2 Republican in U.S. House</title>
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Cantor is the first Virginian to hold the post in either party. As whip, he will work to coordinate the votes and messages of GOP House members.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lost tool bag forces changes to planned spacewalks</title>
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&#8220;What it boils down to is all it takes is one small mistake for a tether not to be hooked up quite correctly or to slip off, and that&#8217;s what happened here.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Car deal stalls on Capitol Hill</title>
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After throwing $700 billion to the banks, Congress balks at $25 billion to car makers.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UVa professors named to Obama transition team</title>
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Two University of Virginia law professors have been named members of President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s transition team.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Big 3 carmakers beg for $25 billion, see US peril</title>
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&#8220;What exposes us to failure now is the global financial crisis, which has severely restricted credit availability and reduced industry sales to the lowest per-capita level since World War II.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Residents pull keepsakes from Calif. fire wreckage</title>
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&#8220;We came here with a little hope and we walked around and pretty much everything&#8217;s ruined,&#8220; said Michael Hernandez.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ala. Guard unit returning home for Thanksgiving</title>
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Members of the Alabama Army National Guard&#8217;s 158th Maintenance Co. from Tallassee and Tuskegee will be headed home from training before being deployed to Iraq.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tibetan exiles reconsider their methods</title>
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Tibetans consider next move in freedom effort           ]]></description>
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          <title>UVa, Sabato to host political conference</title>
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A panel of party insiders, reporters and pundits will gather next week at the University of Virginia to discuss the 2008 presidential, senatorial and congressional elections.           ]]></description>
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Small-caliber gun used by 15-year-old high school sophomore girl to kill friend           ]]></description>
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          <title>Gov&#8217;t offers little help for stuck air passengers</title>
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The task force wasn&#8217;t even able agree on what constitutes a &#8220;lengthy delay&#8221; &#8212; one hour, two hours or 10 hours.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Religious rights to public places, monuments, goes to Supreme Court</title>
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Supreme Court to hear religious free speach argument from Utah           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bombers blast Baghdad rush hour</title>
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Violence returns big time to Baghdad           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Let us rededicate ourselves to keep a sacred trust with all who have worn the uniform of the United States of America: that America will serve you as well as you have served your country.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Our nation is blessed because our liberties have been defended by brave men and women in the past and we are blessed to have brave men and women defend our liberties today.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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The relatively obscure governor of Alaska, whose selection for the ticket by McCain last August brought excitement &#8212; and controversy &#8212; to the 2008 campaign, said she would be eager to do it all again under the right circumstances.           ]]></description>
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Campaign, clothing and controversy, failed GOP candidate discusses the presidential campaign           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pirate plague sends shipping scurrying for protection</title>
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Pirates continue to worry world in series of seizures           ]]></description>
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          <title>Twin bombs kill at least 31 in Baghdad</title>
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A suicide bomber struck Monday in a crowd that had gathered where an explosion moments earlier damaged a bus full of schoolgirls, with both blasts killing at least 31 people and wounding 71 others, officials said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Blunt steps aside as No. 2 House GOP leader</title>
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Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, the No. 2 Republican in the House, announced Thursday that he is stepping aside after Democrats expanded their congressional majorities and captured the White House.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Potential Obama appointments draw keen speculation</title>
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New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine has downplayed reports that he was being considered for treasury secretary, telling New York radio station WCBS on Wednesday that he isn&#8217;t looking for the job and wants to stay in New Jersey.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Potential Obama appointments draw keen speculation</title>
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Speculation swirled over what appointments President-elect Barack Obama would make as he pivots from an election campaign to the task of building a Democratic administration.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Election results show rising strength for Dems</title>
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Barack Obama won with wide voting margins in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, painting the metropolitan area a decidedly deeper shade of blue in Tuesday&#8217;s historic presidential election.           ]]></description>
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          <title>President&#45;elect Obama faces daunting challenges</title>
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Obama&#8217;s election a catharsis for many Americans           ]]></description>
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Big turnout sees change in voting demographic           ]]></description>
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Barack Obama declared winner in preliminary results           ]]></description>
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With 14 percent of precincts reporting, McCain had 140,161 votes or 54.84 percent, compared with 112,045 votes or 43.84 percent for Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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The White House was the main prize of the night on which 35 Senate seats and all 435 House seats were at stake. In both cases, Democrats hoped to pad their existing majorities, and Republicans braced for losses.           ]]></description>
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Late Monday, McCain&#8217;s campaign sued the Virginia electoral board, trying to force the state to count late-arriving military ballots from overseas. No hearing has been set.           ]]></description>
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McCain stepped out of a sport-utility vehicle Tuesday morning with wife Cindy as a small crowd cheered &#8220;Go, John, go!&#8220; and &#8220;We love you!&#8220; One person carried a sign that read, &#8220;Use your brain, vote McCain!&#8220;           ]]></description>
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&#8220;The journey ends, but voting with my daughters, that was a big deal,&#8220; Obama told reporters later.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;My friends, it&#8217;s been a long, long journey,&#8220; McCain told supporters gathered at an early morning rally Tuesday in Prescott, Arizona, where he kicked off his Senate campaigns. It was the final stop in a sprint across three time zones that took him to seven states Monday.           ]]></description>
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This time, Gov. Sarah Palin can claim vindication against allegations that she abused her power in office by firing her public safety commissioner.           ]]></description>
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Even in reliably red states where Barack Obama has little chance of winning on Tuesday, unprecedented numbers of registrations and early votes have been tallied, and elections officials are predicting a record turnout in places where neither candidate even bothered to campaign.           ]]></description>
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Election watchers won&#8217;t have to wait for polls to close in the West to know how things are going. The first clues will come early, when voting ends in Georgia, Indiana and Virginia.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances.&#8220; Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. with his sister.
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The presidential candidates are capping a history-making campaign with a dash from Florida through a half-dozen other crucial states as John McCain tries for an upset over Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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David Petraeus knows Iraq and he&#8217;s learning Afghanistan. But the biggest test facing the four-star general as he takes charge of Central Command is probably Pakistan &#8212; threatened with financial ruin, torn by an Islamic extremist insurgency and armed with nuclear weapons.           ]]></description>
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Their sense of urgency growing as the clock runs down, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are spending their time &#8212; and their money &#8212; trying to win over the same voters in those few states still too close to call.           ]]></description>
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Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican red states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.           ]]></description>
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As blustery winds and a biting cold settled in under gray skies, Palin promised that she and McCain would &#8220;shake things up in Washington,&#8220; cut taxes, win the war in Iraq and get the economy back on track.           ]]></description>
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In a rural Tennessee county where you can&#8217;t buy alcohol or even find a Wal-Mart, residents of tiny Bells stopped each other to ask if anyone knew the pale-skinned young local accused of plotting to kill dozens of black people, including Barack Obama.           ]]></description>
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Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that threatened to end the 40-year career of Alaska&#8217;s political patriarch in disgrace.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;They said that would be their last, final act &#8212; that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,&#8220; Jim Cavanaugh said. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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While in Virginia today, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hopes to upend Democrat Barack Obama&#8217;s advantage in pre-election polls in a state that hasn&#8217;t backed a Democratic White House hopeful since 1964.           ]]></description>
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Arkansas shooting kills two on college campus.           ]]></description>
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A judge ordered a one- to two-day halt to jury deliberations in Sen. Ted Stevens&#8217; corruption trial Friday, the latest setback in a gripping case and one that could delay a verdict until after Election Day.           ]]></description>
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OPEC said at an emergency meeting Friday that it will slash oil production by 1.5 million barrels to stem the &#8220;dramatic collapse&#8221; of oil prices, but crude prices plunged 5 percent anyway as financial markets spiraled downward across the globe.           ]]></description>
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A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband&#8217;s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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World stock markets sagged again Wednesday as a barrage of weak corporate earnings stoked fears that the government&#8217;s financial intervention won&#8217;t keep global economies out of recession.           ]]></description>
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Want to lose weight? Try eating. That&#8217;s one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling full.           ]]></description>
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Republican John McCain on Wednesday implored New Hampshire voters &#8220;to come out one more time&#8221; on his behalf, as the two-time primary winner tried to stave off a general election loss with sharp criticism of Barack Obama&#8217;s tax and spending plans.           ]]></description>
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Democrat Barack Obama is bouncing from one patch of Republican turf to another this week.           ]]></description>
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Government wants to confiscate group&#8217;s name and trademark           ]]></description>
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Opening arguments in Fort Dix terrorism plot begin today           ]]></description>
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Bomb hurts four at small-town law firm.            ]]></description>
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Wild gyrations on Wall Street, a loss of confidence in the U.S. banking system and worries the economy will be weak for some time are raising Americans&#8217; anxiety level.           ]]></description>
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The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.           ]]></description>
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Fresh off their energetic debate, Republican John McCain looks to hold onto traditionally GOP states while Democrat Barack Obama edges into that turf and pours money into TV ads less than three weeks before Election Day.
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The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl went before a judge Wednesday to hear charges she killed her daughter, a day after she was indicted following four months of searches that yielded no sign of the child.           ]]></description>
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Powerful winds stoked three major wildfires on Tuesday morning after destroying dozens of homes, forcing thousands to flee and killing two people.           ]]></description>
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Two wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, killing one person, destroying several dozen mobile homes and forcing evacuations.           ]]></description>
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Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,700-acre wildfire, burning mobile homes and industrial buildings and forcing the evacuation of eight patients from a nearby hospital.           ]]></description>
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Matthew Shepard&#8217;s mother still mourns lost opportunities to battle hate crimes and promote a greater tolerance of gays in the 10 years since her 21-year-old son was beaten, tied to a wooden fence and left for dead in a frigid Wyoming pasture.           ]]></description>
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President Bush said Friday that the government&#8217;s financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in.           ]]></description>
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Stock prices in Asia and Europe careened lower Friday, extending a stampede of selling that began in on Wall Street a day earlier, deepening a global financial crisis that has defied all efforts to stop it.           ]]></description>
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Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor           ]]></description>
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Stocks plunged in the final minutes of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 600 points to their lowest level in five years after a major credit ratings agency said it was considering cutting its rating on General Motors Corp. The Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index fell more than 6 percent.           ]]></description>
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A suspected U.S. missile strike targeted two areas in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghanistan border on Thursday, killing at least nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.           ]]></description>
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The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.           ]]></description>
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Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.           ]]></description>
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The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker charged with hacking the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has pleaded not guilty.           ]]></description>
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged southeastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where their forces are more urgently needed.
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The Federal Reserve and six other major central banks from around the world slashed interest rates Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a mushrooming financial crisis from becoming a global economic meltdown.           ]]></description>
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John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama &#8220;that one,&#8220; Obama mocked McCain&#8217;s &#8220;Straight Talk Express,&#8220; and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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As stocks plummeted for the second straight day Tuesday despite a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, several Charlottesville-area congressional candidates said much more must be done to bolster the struggling economy.           ]]></description>
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The winner of Tuesday night&#8217;s presidential debate is the candidate who can best use his performance to boost his standing with voters. For Republican John McCain, that means slowing if not reversing Democrat Barack Obama&#8217;s edge in national and swing-state polls.           ]]></description>
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Executives at American International Group Inc. hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released Tuesday by a congressional panel examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate.           ]]></description>
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As a U.S. judge considered whether to order the release of several Chinese Muslims into the United States, Beijing on Tuesday demanded custody of the men once they are released from the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay.           ]]></description>
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Children under 4 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold remedies, drug companies said Tuesday in a concession to pediatricians who doubt the drugs work in kids and worry about their safety.
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Oil prices rebounded to around $90 Tuesday in Asia after plunging to an 8-month low Monday on concerns a significant slowdown in global economic growth will undermine demand for crude.           ]]></description>
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Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, will appear in Virginia Beach next Monday morning at the resort city&#8217;s convention center.           ]]></description>
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Financial markets around the world had a rocky start Monday after European governments took steps to limit the damage from the growing global financial crisis. U.S. stocks appeared headed for a steep drop at the opening, and the credit markets remained under strain.           ]]></description>
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama&#8217;s character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.
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Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin on Friday played up her debate performance as polls showed voters judging her Democratic rival, Joe Biden, to be the winner of the only vice presidential face-off of the campaign.           ]]></description>
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Celebrity backers of Barack Obama will make a final push to register new voters this weekend in Virginia, where polls show the Democrat and Republican John McCain locked in a tight race for president.           ]]></description>
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Thirteen months after millionaire thrill-seeker Steve Fossett mysteriously disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small single-engine airplane: It slammed straight into a mountain on a cloudy day.           ]]></description>
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