Nation and World
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Winfrey showers Macon, Ga., audience with gifts
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - MACON, Ga. -- Oprah Winfrey, kicking off a series of shows highlighting towns across the United States, concluded a taping in Macon, Georgia, on Saturday by doling out g...
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UN: Bodyguard's gunfire hit most of 180 bombing victims
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHLANI-JADID, Afghanistan -- Up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded in a suicide bombing last week were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panic...
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He wants to die, but judge won't let him
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - LIVINGSTON, Texas -- The first letter, neatly handwritten on lined paper, arrived at the federal courthouse in Dallas nearly a year and a half ago with a simple address:...
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Another presidential debate that wasn't very helpful to votersNov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - During Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was given a chance to answer the question about offering driver's li...
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Dolly scientist pursing new cloning avenue
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON-- The Scottish scientist who created Dolly the sheep more than a decade ago said he is abandoning the cloning technique that he pioneered, according to an intervi...
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Millions paid for rare coins
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. -- An anonymous buyer has paid more than $30 million for a collection of rare U.S. prototype coins, some from the 1700s, that never went into circulation, ...
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Sculptor says aloha, shirts
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Anyone can donate money to their favorite college. John McIntire turned over something of greater personal value: his collection of 700 Hawaiian shirts...
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Abuse risk higher where children live without 2 biological parents
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an A...
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Huge tax hit looms
Nov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush demanded Saturday that Congress send him legislation that keeps middle-class Americans from being hit at tax time next year by the dreaded a...
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Column stirs up Democrat rivalsNov 17, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Top Democratic rivals for president tore into each other Saturday after a conservative columnist asserted front-runner Hillary Clinton claimed to have dama...