Nation and World
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3-way race sets Democrats' stage in earliest states
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa could make or break a Democratic candidate on Thursday. The question is, who? While the state has long played a key role in choosing the Democra...
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Two more flight errors
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Aviation officials in the Chicago area reported two more errors in which airplanes flew too close to each other, but the Federal Aviation Administration said the planes ...
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Cruise ship hits icebergDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - A Norwegian Hurtigruten Group ASA cruise ship, carrying 247 passengers and 71 crew members, hit an iceberg in Antarctica after its engines had shut down, sending the fer...
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Iowa looms as first test
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Republican presidential race has gone from merely unpredictable to chaotic. As the first votes are cast Thursday, contests are tight in many stat...
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Lady Bird Johnson, Soviet leader Yeltsin, legend Pavarotti
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an e...
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Living a pampered dog's life
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- They're not as loaded as Leona Helmsley's pooch, but three Maryland canines are plenty rich enough to live high on the dog. The dogs -- named Buckshot...
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Fraud doesn't get 'Hannah' tickets
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - GARLAND, Texas -- A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn't going to the show after...
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Bush extends children's health care program
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush on Saturday signed legislation that extends a popular children's health insurance program after twice vetoing attempts to expand it. Po...
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Al-Qaida in decline?
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday al-Qaida was becoming increasingly fearful over losing the support of Sunni Arabs and had begun targeting the lea...
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Foreign help rejected
Dec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her...