Nation and World
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Women play greater role in running family farms
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Diane Grezenski grew up a city girl, but now she and her husband run a dairy farm where she has taken on more and more of the work over the years. "I do alm...
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Candidates upbeat on Iowa caucus eve
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Uplifting appeals largely replaced stinging insults Tuesday as Democratic and Republican candidates did the only thing left to do in Iowa races that ...
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Up and down year for 'Subway Superman'
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The train was bearing down, and Wesley Autrey Sr. was trying to lift Cameron Hollopeter off the wet, slippery subway tracks where the young man had fallen af...
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United flight diverted after alleged groping
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - PITTSBURGH -- Federal air marshals charged a Seattle-area man with groping a female passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that the pilot diverted to Pittsburgh becau...
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Sharif seen as only opposition to Musharraf
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - LAHORE, Pakistan -- In his two turns as prime minister in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif tried to endear himself to Pakistan's people with populist policies and did little to p...
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Gay couples cement civil unions in N.H.
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - CONCORD, N.H. -- Dozens of gay and lesbian couples entered into civil unions in New Hampshire in the early moments of New Year's Day as a new state law legalized the par...
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Mob torches refugee-filled Kenyan church
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - NAIROBI, Kenya -- A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people -- including children -- were burned alive or hack...
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FBI makes new plea in 1971's D.B. Cooper skyjacking caseJan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. _ The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details t...
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Protests don't mar the pageantry of Tournament of Roses parade
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - PASADENA, Calif. -- A giant blossoming rose, a pickup truck that morphed into a spacecraft, and a Chinese dragon undulating in the breeze brought cheers from thousands o...
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High court to hear case on executions
Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - FRANKFORT, Ky. -- One of the biggest capital punishment cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in a generation was put together largely by a young, fresh-out-of-law...