Nation and World
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Schools take parents to court over vaccinations
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Two months into the school year, more than 2,000 students in this suburban county outside the nation's capital had yet to get the shots they neede...
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Georgia allowed to keep more lake water for itself
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Federal biologists signed off on a plan Friday to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-...
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Costume incident jeopardizes post for immigration official
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Just when it appeared Julie Myers had cleared every hurdle in her quest to officially become the nation's top immigration official, a dreadlocked wig and a...
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Immigrants don't feel welcome in Waukegan
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Sailboats bob on Lake Michigan just a few blocks from the sales center for a new downtown Waukegan condominium development -- a welcome addition in a town that has strug...
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Japan to return to whaling
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - TOKYO -- Humpback whales are in the cross hairs again. Japan's whaling fleet will leave port shortly for the South Pacific with orders to kill up to 50 humpbacks -- the ...
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Feds raid group that prints its own currency
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Federal agents raided the headquarters of a group that produces illegal currency and puts it in circulation, seizing gold, silver and two tons of cop...
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Court orders more lashes for rape victimNov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - RIYADH -- A Saudi court has increased the sentence given to a gang rape victim to 200 lashes of the whip and six months in prison and ordered disciplinary action again...
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Police wrong, says man who taped Taser death
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - TORONTO -- Videotaping the last moments of a Polish immigrant's life, Paul Pritchard thought the police were 100 percent right to use a Taser stun gun to subdue the man....
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Cyclone Sidr savages Bangladesh; at least 1,000 feared dead
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Aid workers struggled Friday to help hundreds of thousands of survivors of a cyclone that blasted Bangladesh with 150 mph winds, killing a reported ...
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Tip leads to pre-dawn raids
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of American and Iraqi troops backed by helicopters descended Friday on a remote desert area southwest of Baghdad to root out al-Qaida in Iraq and sea...