Nation and World
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Man pleads guilty in neighbor's beheading
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - MINEOLA, N.Y. -- A resident of an exclusive gated community has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the slaying of a neighbor whose head was found in the trunk of h...
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Democrats in Senate reject war analysis
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A day before President Bush was to deliver a major address on the war, Senate Democrats rejected a four-star general's recommendation to keep some 130,000 ...
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Paulson expects subprime woes to lingerSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday a recovery in the subprime mortgage market will be slowed by a wave of interest rate resets and urged ...
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Kilogram sample losing weight
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - PARIS -- A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key out...
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Buyers give Del Webb top ratingsSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - The J.D. Power and Associates new home customer satisfaction surveys out Wednesday moved Del Webb into the top spot for overall satisfaction. Del Webb, a subsidiary of t...
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Ebola puts gorillas at brink of extinction
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - GENEVA -- The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species rele...
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Fallen soldier comes homeSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - The body of a soldier with suburban ties who was killed in Iraq last week received a somber hero's welcome at a Waukegan airport this afternoon. About 30 members of the ...
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Castro claims Cuba alerted Reagan to assassination plot
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Fidel Castro claims Cuba's government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984. The essa...
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Flu suspected as U.S. deaths jump in 2005
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a ...
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Cotton prices poised for an advance, experts saySep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Cotton, the least profitable crop for U.S. farmers, is poised for its biggest advance in four years on demand for T-shirts and blue jeans from China and India...