Nation and World
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Bush sticks to plan, but OK troop reductions
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush, defending an unpopular war, ordered gradual reductions in U.S. forces in Iraq on Thursday night and said, "The more successful we are, the ...
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Greenspan late to see excessive lending
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledges he failed to recognize early on that an explosion of mortgages to people with questionable credit histories c...
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Convicted rapist out after six months
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - RICHMOND, Va. -- A man who sexually assaulted a fellow University of Virginia student then apologized to her two decades later as part of the Alcoholics Anonymous progra...
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China puts finishing touch on its tallest building
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - SHANGHAI, China -- After a more than a decade of delays, China's tallest building is slicing through Shanghai's hazy, skyscraper-studded skyline -- a new trophy built by...
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Bomb kills U.S. ally
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Associated Press President Bush shakes hands with Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, right, leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, also known as the Anbar Awakening -- an alliance ...
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EPA finishes fewer Superfund cleanups
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency will finish 24 Superfund toxic waste cleanups this year, far fewer than the average 76 completed annually during the Cl...
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Quakes rock Indonesia a second time
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - PADANG, Indonesia -- The ground shook so hard Yulinar had to grab a table to steady herself. Minutes later, she heard a warning crackling over the speakers of the neighb...
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Petraeus report shows U.S. has little time left to stitch Iraq togetherSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - "Tell me how this ends." That is the question Gen. David Petraeus posed to journalist Rick Atkinson in March 2003 as U.S. troops were moving to topple Saddam Hussein. An...
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Iraq report to show little progress
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one more political and security goal into the satisfactory column: efforts to let former ...
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Murder suspect may have killed 62 people
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - MOSCOW -- A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of his victims on a chessboard paced back and forth inside a glass cage as a jury was selected Thur...