Nation and World
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Oprah hits the campaign trail
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Oprah Winfrey said worry about the direction of her country and a personal belief in Barack Obama's ability to lead it pushed her to make her first e...
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Pig brains might be making workers ill
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors Inc. is an area known as the "head table," but not because it is the place of honor. It is wher...
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Searchers find body, some wreckage from missing medical helicopter
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Searchers have found a body and wreckage from a medical helicopter missing since Monday, a spokesman for the rescue effort said. The body of John St...
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Stuff a stocking with rhino poop
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - YULEE, Fla. -- Stumped about what to give that special someone this Christmas? How about some rhino poop. The International Rhino Foundation is auctioning on eBay four p...
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Tiny humanoid i-Sobot delivers big laughs
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - TOKYO -- Relatively affordable at $300, i-Sobot has 17 motors, can recognize spoken words and be controlled remotely, making the walking, somersaulting, karate-chopping ...
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Suicide truck bomber attacks police station in northern Iraq oil hub
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck filled with sand struck a police station north of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a week of bombings tha...
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Is 'good' bacteria in food really beneficial?
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - Bugs in baby food? Microbes in your milkshake? Relax, this is not the latest tainted food scare -- it's a growing trend in foods designed to boost health, not make you s...
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Iraqi judicial system struggles
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi judges and their families live behind 12-foot blast walls. Hundreds of lawyers have fled the country. Critics complain about rapid-fire trials in an ove...
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Space shuttle launch scrubbed after fuel gauge fails a second time
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA called off Sunday's planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after a gauge in the fuel tank failed for the second time in four days. It ...
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Bill to fund cases stalled
Dec 08, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Legislation to beef up investigations into unsolved murders from the civil rights era looked like it would breeze through Congress. The House passed it 422...