Nation and World
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Putin may end up prime minister
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 -- ...
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Government OKs $1.5 billion TV planDec 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...
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AT&T rewards investors as mergers pay offDec 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...
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Many prisoners to be freed with new drug sentencing
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...
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Boeing sticks to 787 schedule
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...
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U.S. balks at backing Bali climate pact
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...
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'The Arctic is screaming,' say climate scientists
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...
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Mukasey says he's studying waterboarding issue
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...
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Debates grow livelier as Iowa voting nears
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...
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Teacher says student's threats caused her to run off with him
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...