Nation and World
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Is it possible to screen all shipping?
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The specter of a nuclear bomb, hidden in a cargo container, detonating in an American port has prompted Congress to require 100 percent screening of U.S.-b...
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BP withdraws lake plan in wake of pollution uproar
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- After weeks of criticism by environmentalists and politicians, BP America announced Thursday it will not increase the amount of pollution it dumps in...
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Mexico adds up Dean's toll
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - POZA RICA, Mexico -- It drove terror deep into Mexico, smashing ashore as the third most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to hit land. But the furious beast proved relat...
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Japan plans first earthquake warning system
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - TOKYO -- It's still beyond the reach of science to predict exactly when an earthquake will strike, but Japan will soon get the next-best thing -- televised warnings that...
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Police: Husband beat televangelist
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Juanita Bynum, a televangelist with a national following for sermons about women's empowerment, pressed charges against her estranged husband Thursday after s...
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New strains blamed in stomach flu bouts
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug ...
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Ex-prime minister wins right to return to Pakistan
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Nawaz Sharif, head of a powerful Pakistani political party that wants to oust embattled President Pervez Musharraf, vowed to return quickly after ...
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The 'precarious' situation in Iraq
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Iraqi government is strained by rampant violence, deep sectarian differences among its political parties and stymied leadership, the nation's top spy a...
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Iraqi failings could help U.S. exit
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was supposed to be the Bush administration's ticket out of Iraq -- a strong leader who could rap knuckles among the cou...
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Lohan down to one day in jail
Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve...