Nation and World
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Terror insurance for insurance firms
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Friday to extend for seven years a post-Sept. 11 law guaranteeing federal help for the insurance industry in the event of a catastrophic t...
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Military desertion rates low, but increasing
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 p...
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Doomsday cult won't leave cave
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Doctors and rescuers were trying Friday to coax more than two dozen doomsday cult members into leaving their forest hideout near the Volga River, where they we...
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Kerry accepts swift boat dare
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - BOSTON -- Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman's o...
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This dinosaur had a vacuum cleaner for a mouth
Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A dinosaur with a strange jaw designed to hoover-up food grazed in what is now the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago. Remains of the creature that "flabb...
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CBS asks judge to dismiss Rather's lawsuit against network
Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- CBS asked a judge Thursday to dismiss a $70 million defamation lawsuit that veteran television newsman Dan Rather filed against the network and its parent co...
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'Too sexy for Southwest,' woman told to alter outfit to fly poses for Playboy
Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - DALLAS -- A 23-year-old college student who was told by a Southwest Airlines employee that her outfit was too revealing to fly is wearing even less on Playboy's Web site...
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Pakistan lifts arrest against Bhutto
Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - LAHORE, Pakistan -- Police said they lifted the house arrest of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today, hours before the arrival of a senior U.S. envoy who was expected ...
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Clinton hits back at her rivals
Nov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- Under pressure in a feisty debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused her closest rivals Thursday night of slinging mud "right out of the Republican playbo...
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Troubling prospect of dual Hillary/Bill Clinton presidencyNov 15, 2007 10:00 pm - As the Democratic presidential race finally gets down to brass tacks, two issues are becoming paramount. But only one of them is clearly on the table. That is the issue...