Nation and World
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Microsoft sees potential in Yahoo deal
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - BOSTON -- A combination of Microsoft and Yahoo could reshape the Internet landscape for millions of Web users: Would the two companies join their online portals? Could t...
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U.S. envoy sees 2009 pivotal for Iraq
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush's top diplomat in Iraq said Friday the U.S. plans to keep combat troops there into 2009, seen as the tipping point for establishing the nati...
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Mentally disabled women used in bombings
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives -- and possibly used as unwitting bombers -- brought carnage Friday to tw...
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U.S. employers cut jobs last monthFeb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, according to the Labor Department, which showed nervous employers slicing pa...
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Disney signs chief executiveFeb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it signed Chief Executive Robert Iger to a new five-year contract that will pay him an annual salary of $2 million plus bo...
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U.S. warming to climate talks
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - HONOLULU -- A meeting of delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants ended without concrete targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, but participants ...
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Old photograph helps solve mystery of man's drowning 15 years later
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A treasured old photograph, a police investigator's long-shot appeal to the public and a retiree's sharp memory have combined to solve a 15-year-ol...
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GM stands alone in January salesFeb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - DETROIT -- U.S. car and truck sales slipped again last month as all major automakers reported declines except for General Motors Corp. Overall U.S. sales dropped 4.3 per...
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Aruba probe re-opened after student's comments
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Dutch student Joran van der Sloot denied Friday that he had anything to do with Natalee Holloway's disappearance, saying he lied when he told s...
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Anti-smoking drug has serious side effects: FDAFeb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators Friday said Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug Chantix appears increasingly likely to be linked to serious psychiatric behavior, and called for...