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Cool warming, but save economy

Associated Press
Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush's climate meeting opened Thursday with its main problem on full display: The biggest polluters -- industrialized and developing nations alik...
Senate tacks hate crime bill on war spending legislation

Associated Press
Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Democrat-led Senate on Thursday voted to let federal law enforcement help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals, attaching the provision to a massive...
Google ad expansion gains few detractors

Associated Press
Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's poten...
Democrats say Blackwater USA invoked battle by sending team

Associated Press
Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Blackwater USA triggered a major battle in the Iraq war in 2004 by sending an unprepared team of guards into an insurgent stronghold, a move that led to th...
Law aims to make college affordable

Associated Press
Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Thursday signed legislation designed to make college more affordable for students from poor and middle-class families, swallowing objecti...
Complex wines begin with genetically complex grapes

Associated Press
Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - PARIS -- Critics who praise the "complexity" of red Burgundy and Champagne are on target. A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the pinot noi...
New citizenship test questions planned

Sep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Immigrants angling for U.S. citizenship, start studying now. Federal officials Thursday unveiled a new exam designed to quiz immigrants' command of civic history and dem...
Deal lightens GM's payload

Daily Herald Wires Services
Sep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - DETROIT -- General Motors won its struggle to unload $51 billion in retiree health costs and improve competitiveness in the latest round of contract talks with the Unite...
More minorities in prison than college dorms

Associated Press
Sep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released today. The ratio is onl...
Briefs: Franchise owner eyes Wendy's chain

Sep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The owner of 134 Wendy's restaurants wants to make a bid for the nation's No. 3 hamburger chain with two private-equity firms. David Karam, president o...

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