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Oil prices retreat after reaching record

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oil prices retreated after jumping to a new record Wednesday on the government's report of a steep drop in crude inventories and surge in refinery activity. ...
Bally's files for bankruptcy

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp, one of the largest U.S. health club operators, has filed for bankruptcy protection after struggling in recent years with me...
Darfur force's lineup forms

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan on Wednesday endorsed a U.N. resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, raising hopes for a force that could for the first time provide r...
Fisher-Price recalls nearly million toys

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains exc...
Khmer Rouge official to talk

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The former chief of a Khmer Rouge prison is willing to testify about the communist regime's atrocities that led to an estimated 1.7 million death...
Today's Birthdays

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Actor Peter O'Toole, 75; country singer Hank Cochran, 72; movie director Wes Craven, 68; actor Max Wright, 64; actress Joanna Cassidy, 62; actress Kathryn Harrold, 57; s...
Senate committee approves FDA regulation of tobacco

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee Wednesday embraced legislation that would for the first time allow federal regulation of cigarettes. The bill, approved 13-8 by th...
Obama would send troops

Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists even without local permission...
Sunni Arab bloc quits Iraqi government, as 142 Iraqis die in attacks nationwide

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- The city streets were already an inferno of Mesopotamian summer heat when the suicide bomber drove up in a gasoline tanker truck. The explosion and flames ...
Gonzales admits vagueness

Associated Press
Aug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales conceded on Wednesday that he used confusing language in describing national security efforts in recent Senate testimony....

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