Nation and World
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New Jersey becomes first state in 42 years to ban death penalty
Dec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to re...
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, pepper spray into Mexico
Dec 16, 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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Lieberman decides to support McCainDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Sen. John McCain, trying to build momentum toward a reprise of his 2000 New Hampshire primary victory, is piling up high-profile endorsements, includ...
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Astronauts to inspect stationDec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - Two astronauts on the International Space Station will make a spacewalk next week to find out if a micrometeoroid strike damaged a critical part of the outpost's power...
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Congress advised to back off
Dec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation tapes is shaping up as a turf battle involving the courts, Congress and the White House, with the Bush adm...
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Made in China, but …
Dec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - SHANGHAI, China -- When freelance writer Wang Jian shops for toys for her 5-year-old son, she's happy to pay extra for Legos blocks and Japanese-brand train sets. The re...
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Hollywood writers offer to negotiate with producers
Dec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal dir...
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Former bodyguard for Tonya Harding who admitted role in attack dies at 40
Dec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. -- Brian Sean Griffith, a former bodyguard to figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tr...
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Russia opts out of Cold War treatyDec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Russia has no plans to mass armed forces near its Western borders after freezing compliance with a landmark arms treaty signed at the end of the Cold War, seni...
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Transistor at 60 beginning to show its age
Dec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dub...