Nation and World
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Fidel Castro resigns Cuban presidency after nearly half-century
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - HAVANA -- Fidel Castro, ailing and 81, announced Tuesday he was resigning as Cuba's president, ending a half-century of autocratic rule which made him a communist icon a...
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'Devil toad' fossil found
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago -- intimidating enough that scientists who unear...
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New law may not have stopped NIU gunman
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year's massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what w...
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Obama needs to give voters a clearer idea of how he would governFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - "Why is the press going so easy on Barack Obama?" asks a prominent Democratic Party strategist, echoing a criticism frequently made by the Clinton campaign. It's a fair ...
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GOP patriarch Bush endorses McCain
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - HOUSTON -- John McCain picked up former President George H.W. Bush's support on Monday, a critical blessing by a pillar of the Republican establishment whose members are...
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Irwin's 4-year-old son unfazed by first snake bite
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Like father, like son? The 4-year-old son of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin wasn't at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, acco...
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Serbs set border checkpoints on fire to protest Kosovo independence
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- Thousands of Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbia" marched Tuesday to a bridge dividing them from ethnic Albanians while others torched U.N. bo...
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Pentagon may try to shoot down spy satellite Wednesday
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile -- possibly Wednesday night -- would be the first real-w...
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Global rift over Kosovo widens
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The U.S. and the European Union's biggest powers quickly recognized Kosovo as an independent nation Monday, widening a split with Russia, China and ...
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Pakistan opposition takes big lead in voting
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan opposition parties took commanding leads in unofficial returns early Tuesday in parliamentary elections, heading toward a victory that co...