Nation and World
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Ex-press secretary points finger at Bush, Cheney in CIA leak scandal
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of...
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Weather forces flight delays
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - Things didn't run all that smoothly for the nation's air carriers Monday, and weather forecasts make delays likely as the holiday week progresses. Traffic to O'Hare Inte...
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Scientists report stem cell breakthrough; no embryos needed
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver...
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CBS News writers may join picket line
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse. About 500 CB...
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'Mr. Whipple' dead at 91
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Dick Wilson, the actor and pitchman who played the uptight grocer begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday. He was 91. The man f...
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Court upholds Musharraf's election
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Judges hand-picked by Gen. Pervez Musharraf took just two hours Monday to quash legal challenges to his disputed re-election as president, paving ...
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Bangladesh cyclone survivors tell of horror
Nov 19, 2007 10:00 pm - BARGUNA, Bangladesh -- Azahar Ali huddled with his family, reading from the Quran, as the cyclone roared in. First the power went out, then screaming winds blew out the ...
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Settling on settlements
Nov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- The U.S. is pressuring Israel to meet a long-standing obligation to freeze all West Bank settlement construction ahead of a high-profile Mideast conference,...
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Huckabee on abortion
Nov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee rejects letting states decide whether to allow abortions, claiming the right to life is a moral issue not s...
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Fostering donation with 'political mutual funds'
Nov 18, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The term of choice in political giving these days is straight out of the world of finance -- donors have become "investors." Now, liberal California ventur...