Nation and World
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Court: Patients don't have right to experimental drugs
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is a...
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Britain will take 5 Guantanamo residents
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked the United States on Tuesday to free five British residents from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay -- a pol...
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Lawmakers: Tax can repair infrastructure in bridge collapse wake
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Minneapolis bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure could tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars i...
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Defense rests in Padilla case
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - MIAMI -- The defense rested its case Tuesday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two other men charged with supporting terrorism, with Padilla's lawyers calling no witnesse...
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Flooded areas on verge of health crisis
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - LUCKNOW, India -- Aid workers scrambled to get food, water and medicine to the millions marooned in flood-hit South Asia following an outbreak of diarrhea and other wate...
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Seismic activity stops crews at Utah mine
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - HUNTINGTON, Utah -- Seismic activity has "totally shut down" efforts to reach six miners trapped below ground and has wiped out all the work done in the past day, a mine...
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Pakistan troops attack suspected hideout
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday that talk of U.S. military strikes against al-Qaida in Pakistan only hurts the fight against terroris...
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Army recruiting bouncing back
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- After failing to meet its recruiting goal for two consecutive months, the Army is expected to announce it met its target for July. And officials are offeri...
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Briefs: Coral is disappearingAug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - BANGKOK, Thailand -- Coral reefs in much of the Pacific Ocean are dying faster than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday, with the decline driven ...
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Airlines sue for access to Sept. 11 report
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Airlines and aviation-related companies sued the CIA and the FBI on Tuesday to force terrorism investigators to tell whether the aviation industry was to bla...