Nation and World
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Shuttle Endeavour blasts off to begin longest space station mission ever
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into orbit Tuesday on what was to be the longest space station mission ever, a 16-day voyage to bui...
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Obama riding high as Mississippi Democrats head to polls
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - GREENVILLE, Miss. -- Barack Obama made a final appeal to Mississippi voters as Democrats Tuesday decide the last in a series of presidential contests between Obama and H...
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Gasoline prices near last spring's record
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Gasoline prices were poised Monday to set a new record at the pump, having increased to within half a cent of its record high of $3.227 a gallon. Oil prices,...
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Obama warns voters of Clintons' 'bamboozling'
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Don't fall for hoodwinks, bamboozling or the old okey-doke, Barack Obama told supporters Monday, because he wants to make one thing clear: He has no i...
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Fraud jeopardizes foreign adoptions
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - GUATEMALA CITY -- Luciany Ball's adoption file says she was born 14 months ago by Caesarean section to a single mother who gave her up so she could be raised by a loving...
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At least 16 passengers killed after bomb hits bus in southern Iraq
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in southern Iraq today, killing at least 16 civilians, while other violence killed at least 26 people around Iraq, police ...
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Should nation's schools become fragrance free?
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Those all-over body sprays that promise to turn teenage boys into babe magnets? Instead of attracting girls, they could be making them sick. A Minneso...
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24 killed in suicide attacks in Pakistan; more than 200 others hurt
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - LAHORE, Pakistan -- Massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police headquarters and a business today, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200 ot...
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Shares in home lender fall 14 percentMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Shares of Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest U.S. home lender, dropped 14 percent on concern a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into possible securitie...
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Our drugs wind up in fish, too
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Second of three parts. LAKE MEAD, Nev. -- On this brisk, glittering morning, a flat-bottomed boat glides across the massive reservoir that provides Las Vegas its dr...