Nation and World
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Macy's to combine regional officesFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - CINCINNATI -- Department store operator Macy's Inc. said Wednesday it will cut about 2,300 management jobs as it consolidates three regional divisions and decentralizes ...
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Congress set to make do-not-call permanent
Feb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Politicians have finally found an issue on which they all can agree: Telemarketers calling at dinnertime are a scourge that must be repulsed. Congress on W...
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This time, the Illinois primary matteredFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Think back to the Illinois presidential primary in 2004, when voters here had no say in who would emerge as the candidates for the White House in November. Democrat Joh...
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McCain's beginning to look like a formidable candidateFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The continuing drama of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination should not diminish what John McCain has accomplished on the Republican side of this campaign...
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Clinton wins -- at least near hometownFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Hillary Clinton may have lost the state she grew up in, but she scraped out a victory among voters around her hometown of Park Ridge. Voters in Maine Township, which in...
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Now, every delegate matters for presidential candidatesFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Presidential candidates barely paused for breath after Super Tuesday before plunging ahead with the next phase of their campaigns. With good reason. For Democrats Hillar...
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Obama says he's raised $7 mil since polls closed
Feb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has raised $7.2 million for his presidential campaign since the first polls closed on Super Tuesday night, his campaign said ...
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Merck to pay $671 mil in rebate scam
Feb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA -- Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $671 million to settle claims that it overcharged Medicaid programs for two big-selling drugs, Vioxx and Zocor, and to reso...
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Ex-beauty queen arrested in Las Vegas
Feb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- A former beauty queen who was stripped of her tiara after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet has been freed from jail following her arrest on traff...
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Mass arrests in anti-Mafia sweep in U.S., Italy
Feb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in a takedown of the remnants of New York's Gambino crime family also meant to cripple a ...