Nation and World
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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...
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Rudolph's job put into jeopardy
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Mars will be unusually bright this Christmas Eve and the moon will be shining full -- a development that might make Santa Claus rethink his need for Rudolp...
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Navistar to buy GM truck unitDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - DETROIT -- General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, agreed to sell a truckmaking unit with an estimated value of $500 million to Warrenville-based Navistar I...
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Bit of a Nixon revival seen in the Clinton, Huckabee campaignsDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - In a political season that has become a '70s Show, a Richard Nixon revival infects both parties' primaries. Even Spiro Agnew -- Nixon's Nixon -- is being reprised. Hill...
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Airport screeners as unpopular as the IRS?
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open...
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Briefs: Blockbuster boosts some DVD plansDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - DALLAS -- Blockbuster Inc., which has been losing money on online movie orders, is boosting prices of its DVD-by-mail service for new customers and some existing ones by...
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Elizabeth oldest monarch in history of British crown
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's oldest-ever monarch Thursday, reaching a new milestone in a job she has held for more than a half century -- one that comes...
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New South Korean leader unafraid to criticize North
Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - SEOUL, South Korea -- President-elect Lee Myung-bak said Thursday he would not shy from criticizing North Korea's authoritarian regime, ending a taboo by a decade of lib...