Nation and World
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Congress battles over how to ax unwanted tax
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...
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Briefs: GM to offer buyouts to 5,200 workersDec 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...
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Hillary Clinton will struggle to sell herself as an agent of changeDec 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...
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Putin to seek Russian premiership after term ends
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 ...
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SWAT team's mistake leads to terror for familyDec 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...
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Saudi king frees gang rape victim
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...
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Skirmishes rising along U.S.-Mexico border
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...
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Hamas unlikely to see much of promised aid
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...
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Obama not getting national union support for presidential bid
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...
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Navy saves Illinois teen whose appendix burst on Mexican cruise
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...