Nation and World
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Report: Hoover planned to arrest 12,000 Americans for disloyalty
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being dislo...
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Presidency hangs on illegal immigrationDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - If Social Security is the third rail of politics ("touch it and you die") for politicians, then immigration must be the next. No other issue has aroused the emotions of ...
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Female officer loses discrimination case
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - A jury has ruled that a Chicago police commander didn't discriminate against a female police officer in denying her a 2002 special assignment. Forty-two-year-old Donna L...
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CIA: We cooperated with 9/11 Commission
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. 11 commission the videotaped interrogations of two suspect...
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Crash test videos available on Web
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Car shopping? Maybe you should go to the videotape. Jarring images of vehicles crashing into test barriers are becoming more prevalent on the Internet, giv...
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Briefs: Consumers spend in NovemberDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Consumers put aside worries about slumping home sales and soaring gasoline prices and headed to the malls in November, pushing spending up by the largest a...
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Gates optimistic on Iraq troop drawdown
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- In a year marked by progress in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday acknowledged two bits of unfinished business in his first 12 months on the j...
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Have Obama's views changed over time?
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday. They could argue about whether the death penal...
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Price-fixing at Christmas?
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- The Danish Christmas growers' association has been charged with rigging prices for the yuletide evergreens. The prosecutor for serious economic cr...
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Corporate tax code unlikely to change
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department released a long-awaited study Thursday on overhauling the corporate tax code that detailed several options but made no recommendati...