Nation and World
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Making (pre)history
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will eve...
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Storm begins spreading ice and snow across Northeast
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- A storm system slid across the Northeast with snow, sleet and freezing rain Sunday, glazing roads and tying up air travel after blacking out thousands of...
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Putin's party wins more than 60 percent in parliamentary voteDec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin's party won a crushing victory in parliamentary elections Sunday, paving the way for the authoritarian leader to remain in control even after he...
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Don Imus back 8 months after firing
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Don Imus returned to the airwaves Monday eight months after he was fired for a racially charged remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team, introducing...
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Sudan's president pardons teddy bear teacher
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A British teacher jailed after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was released Monday hours after Sudan's president pardoned her, ...
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Venezuelan president defeated in bid for indefinite re-election, reform
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - CARACAS, Venezuela -- Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand inde...
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NASA union lashes out at chief
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - A union representing NASA employees accuses the agency's administrator of unfairly tarnishing agency employees by disparaging and misrepresenting a federal air safety pr...
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Every American owes nearly $30,000 as their share of government debt
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day -- or nearly $1 million a minute....
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Freezing rates for risky borrowers won't fix it all
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- If lenders temporarily freeze low introductory interest rates on home loans made to risky borrowers before they soar, it would be a modest fix for the coun...
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Congress returns for crowded holiday season agenda
Dec 02, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A daunting agenda confronts lawmakers as they return Monday for an abbreviated holiday season session. Taxes, spending, paying for the war, energy, farm su...