Nation and World
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'Action, action, action'
Sep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - UNITED NATIONS -- With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into ...
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Feds crack down on illegal steroids
Sep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Federal authorities announced the largest crackdown on illegal steroids in the nation's history Monday, arresting more than 120 people and raiding do...
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Iran's president gets blistering reception
Sep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went to Columbia University expecting tough questions from students, but first he got a tongue-lashing from the school'...
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Bush challenges U.N. to revisit its roots and advance freedom
Sep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - UNITED NATIONS -- President Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of imposing "a 19-year reign of fear" that den...
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'Not a clear and present danger'Sep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - As rumors of war gather around Iran, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, are determined to head off any r...
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Anglican schism grows deeper
Sep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- As Episcopal leaders consider barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism, the world Anglican family is already dying by a thous...
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Emancipation Proclamation on rare display in Little Rock
Sep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- As she looked at the Emancipation Proclamation, Catherine Jewell-Gill recalled her days of picking cotton in Arkansas as a child and later becoming ...
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Buy two laptops and donate one overseas
Sep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadi...
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Bush rarely on lips of GOP
Sep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Analysis MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Republican presidential candidates can't be any more clear: President Bush isn't welcome on the campaign trail. Competing to succeed h...
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Cubs fans name their newborn son Wrigley Fields
Sep 23, 2007 11:00 pm - His parents say he can go by his middle name when he's old enough to decide. For now, the newborn will be known by his first name: Wrigley. And his last name: Fields. Hi...