Nation and World
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House bill to restrict U.S. reconstruction dollars
May 05, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A new war spending bill proposed by House Democrats would prohibit using U.S. aid to rebuild towns or equip security forces in Iraq unless Baghdad matches ...
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Double-barreled criticism
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS -- Barack Obama likened Hillary Rodham Clinton to President Bush for threatening to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacks Israel, and called her gas-tax h...
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Boat carrying 110 people sinks in Brazilian Amazon; at least 12 dead
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Rescue workers on Monday found two more bodies near the site where a boat ferrying people home from a religious festival sank in Brazil's Amazon reg...
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Austrian police: Dungeon plans date to 1978
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - AMSTETTEN, Austria -- An Austrian man came up with the idea for a windowless warren under his apartment building years before locking his daughter in a cell secured by s...
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Bush says he's troubled by rising gas prices
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Monday that he's troubled by rising gas prices and will take a look at proposals to relieve the crisis but warned that there is no quic...
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Cyclone death toll could top 10,000, foreign minister says
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Myanmar's government said Monday more than 10,000 people were feared killed in a cyclone that unleashed 12-foot tidal surges and high winds that swept away bamboo homes ...
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Sea lions shot dead on Columbia River as salmon battle rages
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. -- For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds. O...
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Texas tries to crack down on wrongful convictions
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - DALLAS -- A district attorney whose office leads the nation in wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing says prosecutors who intentionally withhold evidence from t...
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Teller describes being shot
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS -- A pregnant bank teller who lost the twins she was carrying after being shot during a holdup choked back tears Saturday as she recalled lying on the bank'...
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White House weighing broader response to cyclone in Myanmar
May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- First lady Laura Bush on Monday said the United States stands ready to pump more aid into Myanmar to help its recovery from a cyclone so devastating the de...