Nation and World
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Crude prices fall off record high; gas heading up
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil prices fell Friday as investors sold to lock in profits, but analysts doubt oil's record-breaking run is over and say gasoline prices are about to start ...
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Cuba airs new Castro video
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Fidel Castro looked alert and healthier during an hour-long interview taped and aired on Cuban television Friday, responding to rumors of his death with a defi...
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Blackwater back in business
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she had ordered a "full and complete review" of security practices for U.S. diplomats in Iraq following a d...
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Priest guilty of hitting woman with wine bottle
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- A Roman Catholic priest who smashed a wine bottle over the head of a woman in church pleaded guilty to felony battery with a deadly weapon. The Rev. Geor...
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Briefs: Private equity firms back out of dealSep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Harman International Industries said its private equity buyers are pulling out of their $8 billion buyout deal. The audio equipment maker said Kohlberg Kravi...
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Two university students shot
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - DOVER, Del. -- Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia...
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World receiving more Iraqi refugees
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - GENEVA -- The number of Iraqis seeking asylum in industrialized countries during the first half of 2007 more than doubled from the same period last year, the U.N. refuge...
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Church tries to heal rift in lieu of splitSep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The spiritual head of the U.S. Episcopal Church said Friday its leaders would likely respond in full next week to a request by the broader Angli...
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Home Depot CEO says no plans for job cuts
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- The Home Depot doesn't plan to make any broad-based job cuts or reduce the number of its core retail stores in the face of a persistent housing slump that isn...
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Fake bomb or art? Either way, she could have been killed
Sep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- An MIT student wearing what turned out to be a fake bomb was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, offic...