Nation and World
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Fewer teens smoking pot or abusing uppers
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Illicit drug use by teens continued to gradually decline overall this year, but the use of prescription painkillers remains popular among young people, acc...
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CIA boss queried on destroyed recordings of interrogations
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about the ...
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Poll finds many see progress in Iraq security
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Growing numbers of people think the U.S. is making progress in Iraq and will eventually be able to claim some success there, a poll showed Tuesday in a sig...
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Key Republican endorses budget compromise
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The top Republican in the House made a modest but important break with President Bush over the budget Tuesday, endorsing more than $6 billion in new spendi...
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Large Sun-Times investor calls for change
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The second-largest shareholder of Sun-Times Media Group Inc. criticized the company's performance in a letter Tuesday and called for operational changes at...
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Family of AIDS victim seeks talk with Huckabee
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Rya...
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Federal Reserve works with central banks to deal with credit crunch
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve announced today it was coordinating with other central banks to deal with the global credit crunch. Wall Street rallied after the surpr...
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Heeere's Johnny, Johnny, Barry and someone called … Bird Legs?
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Meet the presidential candidates by another name -- Barry, Bird Legs, Coyote Bill. Such are their childhood nicknames. Several of the candidates go around ...
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Briefs: Truckers can stay 11 hours on roadDec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. long-haul truck drivers can continue to spend as much as 11 hours a day behind the wheel, after a federal agency refused to return to lower limits sou...
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3 teens arrested in Vegas bus stop shooting
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- Assailants shot six young people Tuesday at a school bus stop, wounding two critically, in a midday attack that followed a fight over a high school girl, au...