Nation and World
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Many of the nation's statehouses gleefully mix sex and politics
Mar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- Of all the wisecracks heard in the marble halls of New York's Capitol after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall in a call-girl scandal, one jest enlightened as...
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China fans troops across Tibet
Mar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - ZHONGDIAN, China -- China blanketed restive Tibetan areas Thursday with a huge buildup of troops, turning small towns across a wide swath of western China into armed enc...
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Good marriage can lower blood pressure
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be worse than being single, a preliminary study suggests. That second finding is a s...
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Obama to Clinton: Let's split Mich. delegates
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday splitting Michigan's delegates with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a fair way of resolving the dispute over ho...
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Bush: War 'noble, necessary, just'
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Almost 4,000 U.S. troops killed. Nearly 30,000 wounded. Half a trillion dollars spent and counting. As the Iraq war entered its sixth year Wednesday, Presi...
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Inspector arrested in deadly NYC crane collapse
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A city inspector has been charged with lying about checking on a construction crane that collapsed 11 days later, killing seven people in a dense Manhattan n...
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Feds probing electrocutions in Iraq
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - PITTSBURGH -- A U.S. House committee chairman has begun an investigation into the electrocutions of at least 12 service members in Iraq, including that of a Pittsburgh s...
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McCain missed out on chance to distance himself from BushMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - These are salad days for John McCain, touring world capitals with his buddies Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, his nomination secure and polls confirming that he is wel...
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British tabloids pay for libelous stories
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- For British tabloid editors, sorry always seems to be the hardest word. Readers and journalists got a shock Wednesday when they saw the headlines in the Daily ...
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Census estimates Katrina-hit areas grew fastest
Mar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- This hurricane-ravaged city and neighboring St. Bernard Parish top a U.S. Census Bureau list of fast-growing counties released Thursday, but some local of...