Nation and World
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Elite divers join bridge collapse search
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- An elite team of Navy divers joined the search for victims of the interstate bridge collapse Tuesday, bringing to the job lessons learned from such disast...
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Russia wants a more open Iran for fuel
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - VIENNA, Austria -- Russia is increasing pressure on Iran to be more open about its nuclear program, threatening to indefinitely withhold fuel for a Russian-built reactor...
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Coral reefs dying faster than believedAug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Coral reefs in much of the Pacific Ocean are dying faster than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday, with the decline dr...
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Drug trafficking suspect may be extraditedAug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A top leader of Colombia's biggest cocaine cartel was captured Tuesday in South America's largest city after a two-year investigation into traf...
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Court: Patients don't have right to experimental drugs
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is a...
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Britain will take 5 Guantanamo residents
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked the United States on Tuesday to free five British residents from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay -- a pol...
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Lawmakers: Tax can repair infrastructure in bridge collapse wake
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Minneapolis bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure could tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars i...
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Defense rests in Padilla case
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- The defense rested its case Tuesday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two other men charged with supporting terrorism, with Padilla's lawyers calling no witnesse...
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Flooded areas on verge of health crisis
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - LUCKNOW, India -- Aid workers scrambled to get food, water and medicine to the millions marooned in flood-hit South Asia following an outbreak of diarrhea and other wate...
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Seismic activity stops crews at Utah mine
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - HUNTINGTON, Utah -- Seismic activity has "totally shut down" efforts to reach six miners trapped below ground and has wiped out all the work done in the past day, a mine...