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South Korean envoy and Taliban hostage takers aim for direct talks

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- Officials searched Thursday for a neutral meeting place that would be safe for both South Korean negotiators and Taliban captors to hold face-t...
'Structurally deficient'

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied o...
Obama: Nuclear weapons to fight terrorism 'not on the table'

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday he would not use nuclear weapons "in any circumstance" to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakist...
National briefs

Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Bridge problems known: MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient,"...
The nation's poet

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - CONCORD, N.H. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress annou...
Report: Libya inks contracts

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - TRIPOLI, Libya -- A Libyan official said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi's long-isolated country has signed contracts worth $405 million with French companies for missiles...
A rush-hour routine turns into nightmare

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- Four minutes after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed, police Sgt. Ed Nelson was among those rushing into the dust-filled scene of twisted metal, crushed...
White House OKs interviews

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The White House has offered to let congressional investigators interview three former officials in an inquiry into what the administration knew about the f...
After feud, Clinton gets Pentagon briefing on Iraq

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday finally got the Pentagon briefing on how the military is planning to withdraw troops from Iraq -- and said much...
4 Lebanese soldiers killed

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric issued a religious edict Thursday banning honor killings, calling the custom of murdering a female relative...

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