Nation and World
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'68 strikers help mark King death
Apr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- White-haired veterans of the sanitation workers' strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in 1968 marked the 40th anniversary Fri...
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Democrats popping up like daffodils in DuPageApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Several fresh faces and a few familiar names are filling some of the holes on the November ballot for DuPage County Democrats. DuPage Democrat Chairman Bob Peickert said...
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1 in 50 U.S. infants suffers neglect and abuse
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- About 1 in 50 infants in the U.S. have been neglected or abused, according to the first national study of the problem in that age group. Nearly a third of the...
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Government says money lost in Internet scams and auction fraud hits new high
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Money lost in Internet-related crimes hit a new high last year, topping about $240 million, according to a government report showing increases in scams inv...
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Obama outraises Clinton 2-to-1
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama raked in $40 million in March, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton and her $20 million in the fundraising dust and stuffing his campaign treasury s...
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Will mystery of czar be put to rest?
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WORCESTER, Mass. -- Answers to the mystery of what befell the heirs of the last czar of Russia nearly a century ago may rest behind locked laboratory doors in Moscow and...
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Trial begins in alleged plot to blow up planes
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Eight British men planned to set off homemade bombs aboard at least seven airliners flying over the Atlantic to the U.S. and Canada, hoping to kill hundreds in...
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NATO backs Bush plan for missile shield
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - BUCHAREST, Romania -- NATO allies gave President Bush strong support Thursday for a missile defense system in Europe and urged Moscow to drop its angry opposition to the...
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Glitches force Census to scrap hi-tech plans
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people the ol...
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Lawmakers have millions invested in defense firms
Apr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the ...