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Putin may end up prime minister

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- The man tapped by President Vladimir Putin as his successor called Tuesday for the popular president to return as prime minister after the March 2 election -- ...
Government OKs $1.5 billion TV plan

Daily Herald News Services
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Best Buy, Wal-Mart and six other retailers will sell equipment enabling owners of analog television sets to continue to view programming after the 2009 nat...
AT&T rewards investors as mergers pay off

Daily Herald Wire Services
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - It seems like old times at AT&T Inc. The largest U.S. phone company announced a $15.2 billion stock buyback Tuesday and raised its dividend 13 percent, the biggest incre...
Many prisoners to be freed with new drug sentencing

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack...
Boeing sticks to 787 schedule

By Dave Carpenter Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Boeing Co. said Tuesday that its schedule for the 787 Dreamliner remains on track and it does not currently envision further delays in the much-ballyhooed air...
U.S. balks at backing Bali climate pact

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - BALI, Indonesia -- Delegates at the U.N. climate conference struggled to agree Tuesday on whether they will call on rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by speci...
'The Arctic is screaming,' say climate scientists

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed...
Mukasey says he's studying waterboarding issue

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Tuesday to be rushed into deciding whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, saying simply he understa...
Debates grow livelier as Iowa voting nears

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- It's crunch time. Nine Republican and six Democratic candidates will meet this week in their final debates before the leadoff Iowa caucuses, and live...
Teacher says student's threats caused her to run off with him

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - OMAHA, Neb. -- A former teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student said Monday it was the boy's idea to flee to Mexico and that he told her he would kill h...

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