Nation and World
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Boat's aim: Keep SEALs healthy
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - BOOTHBAY, Maine -- Navy SEALs are tough by nature, but they take a beating from their patrol boats: bruises, bumps and sore backs, even sprained ankles and chipped teeth...
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Crime moves across the border
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - PHOENIX -- A woman leaving an eyeglass store is grabbed in the parking lot by four men who force her, kicking and screaming, into a pickup truck. The kidnappers demand a...
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Michigan is latest battle ground for GOP
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - YPSILANTI, Mich. -- Mitt Romney and John McCain argued about their concern for the auto industry, while Mike Huckabee spotlighted his opposition to abortion, as the Repu...
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Economy trades Iraq as top issue
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The faltering economy has caught the Iraq war as people's top worry, a national poll suggests, with the rapid turnabout already showing up on the president...
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Repairs could complicate inquiry
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether e...
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Gene scan advances fight against AIDSJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Researchers have found more than 200 possible new targets for better AIDS drugs by doing a kind of backward search -- looking at human cells to see what r...
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More big cat trouble at San Francisco zoo
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Since a tiger escaped its pen and killed a person, a snow leopard has ripped a small opening in its wire cage and workers have had to dart a polar bear ...
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Woman, 4 kids dead in fire; husband charged
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - MASON, Ohio -- Police charged a man Saturday with killing his wife and their four children, who were pulled from their burning home the night before. Michel Veillette, 3...
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Retirees returning to reduce immigration backlog
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has authority to rehire retired workers to reduce a backlog of immigration applications that is preventing thousands of people from...
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Captivity, childbirth in Colombian jungle
Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - CARACAS, Venezuela -- Clara Rojas, one of two hostages freed after years held captive by Colombian rebels, gave birth to her son nearly four years ago by kitchen-knife C...