Nation and World
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Beefier border rules mean big changes coming in from Canada
Jan 17, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- New border-crossing rules that take effect in two weeks will mean longer lines and stiffer demands for ID, including for returning Americans, Homeland Secu...
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at 64
Jan 17, 2008 10:00 pm - REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion ...
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eLoyalty signs new analytics contractsJan 17, 2008 10:00 pm - LAKE FOREST -- eLoyalty Corp. announced it signed two behavioral analytics contracts: a deployment contract with a national utility and an assessment contract with a lar...
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Lohan to work in morgue, hospital ER
Jan 17, 2008 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. The 21-year-old actress will soon be working at a morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driv...
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NYSE agrees to buy rival exchangeJan 17, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The New York Stock Exchange on Thursday agreed to buy the American Stock Exchange, ending a once intense rivalry that began in colonial times when brokers tr...
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Republicans look to first South test; Democrats tightly packed in NevadaJan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Republican White House hopefuls turned their sights on South Carolina Wednesday, the day after Mitt Romney's decisive Michigan win focused a topsy-tu...
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The bad: a 1-ton rodent The good: it's extinct
Jan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rode...
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British PM's delayed after plane lands short of runway at Heathrow
Jan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - LONDON -- A passenger jet landed short of the runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, forcing Prime Minister Gordon Brown to delay his trip to China as his plane was on ...
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Ex-congressman charged in terror fund-raising ring
Jan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday on charges of working for an alleged terrorist fundraising ring that sent mo...
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Fortunate son: Romney lives his father's legacy
Jan 16, 2008 10:00 pm - BOSTON -- Asked recently to name his most treasured possession, Mitt Romney had a quick answer: A 1962 Rambler his sons gave him on his 60th birthday. The relic was manu...