Nation and World
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Say goodbye to the coasts
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, man...
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GM, UAW resume talks, said to be close to agreements
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - DETROIT -- More progress was reported Saturday as negotiators for General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers worked on a historic new contract that would shift ret...
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California ticket wins Mega Millions
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- A single player has won the grand prize from the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing. Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Friday night's drawing -- ...
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Wiretaps might be out in lawmaker corruption cases
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is worried that a recent appeals court ruling could make it impossible to use wiretaps to investigate members of Congress in corrupt...
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Hyphen dashes from dictionarySep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-be...
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The common cold? Not any moreSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - It used to be called the common cold. Now scientists are starting to put some not-so-common names to the hundreds of viruses that make people cough, sneeze, wheeze and w...
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One shot, one kill
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - LANDER, Wyo. -- If hunting has a Super Bowl, this is it. At dawn on a September day, as the sky in the east was turning from slate gray to pale orange, 27 invited hunter...
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Close to 10,000 from terror states now have residency
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Nearly 10,000 foreigners from states sponsoring terrorism have obtained permanent residency in the United States in the past seven years, congressional inv...
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Judge rules against pilot in civil suit over bombing
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A federal judge has ruled against an Illinois pilot who sued the Air Force for allegedly ruining his reputation in a friendly fire bombing in Afghanistan ...
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Investigators say shots unprovoked
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 p...