Nation and World
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Cool warming, but save economy
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...
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Senate tacks hate crime bill on war spending legislation
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...
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Google ad expansion gains few detractors
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...
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Democrats say Blackwater USA invoked battle by sending team
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...
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Law aims to make college affordable
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...
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Complex wines begin with genetically complex grapes
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...
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New citizenship test questions plannedSep 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...
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Deal lightens GM's payloadSep 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...
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More minorities in prison than college dorms
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...
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Briefs: Franchise owner eyes Wendy's chainSep 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...