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Congress battles over how to ax unwanted tax

Associated Press
Dec 18, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The congressional struggle over how to protect millions of middle-class people from getting soaked by the alternative minimum tax this year entered its fin...
Briefs: GM to offer buyouts to 5,200 workers

Dec 18, 2007 10:00 pm - DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. is offering buyouts and retirement incentives to 5,200 hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers. GM would not reveal how man...
Hillary Clinton will struggle to sell herself as an agent of change

By Richard Cohen
Dec 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Things are not working. The war in Iraq, originally penciled in for a month or two, is in its fifth year and will not end soon. The war in Afghanistan, once seemingly wo...
Putin to seek Russian premiership after term ends

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin says he is ready to accept a political demotion, but many here believe he will stoop to conquer. The Russian president on Monday ended years of ...
SWAT team's mistake leads to terror for family

Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- With her six kids and husband tucked into bed, Yee Moua was watching TV in her living room just after midnight when she heard voices -- faint at first, th...
Saudi king frees gang rape victim

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A woman sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang-raped has been pardoned by the Saudi monarch in a case that sparked an internat...
Skirmishes rising along U.S.-Mexico border

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing num...
Hamas unlikely to see much of promised aid

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - PARIS -- Hamas-ruled Gaza will likely see little of the unprecedented $7.4 billion in aid pledged to the Palestinians by the international community on Monday. While don...
Obama not getting national union support for presidential bid

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's appeal among Democrats is undeniable. He's near the top of every poll and he packs rooms wherever he goes. But a vital piece of the Democrat...
Navy saves Illinois teen whose appendix burst on Mexican cruise

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- A teenager who suffered a ruptured appendix at sea, hundreds of miles from help, got an unusual rescue when the Navy airlifted her to an aircraft carrier fo...

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