Nation and World
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Income gap among black, white families grows
Nov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300...
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Kanye's mom died after surgery
Nov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- An autopsy was scheduled for the mother of Kanye West after preliminary information suggested she died of surgical complications, a coroner's investigator...
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Bhutto detained again
Nov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - LAHORE, Pakistan -- Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march today to protest emergenc...
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U.S. envisions Pakistan beyond MusharrafNov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush continues to praise Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf as a valued ally in the war on terror. At the same time, U.S. officials are press...
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Are light cigarettes delivering false sense they are healthier?
Nov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest tobacco company knew as early as the 1970s that smokers of light cigarettes took larger puffs that delivered greater amounts of tar, a...
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Bhutto calls on Pakistan's president to resign
Nov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - LAHORE, Pakistan -- Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday urged President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to resign and ruled out serving under him in a future government af...
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Slower brain maturity seen in ADHD kids
Nov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters' brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imag...
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Elder Bush goes skydiving at 83
Nov 11, 2007 10:00 pm - COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- He's 83 and just had hip replacement surgery in January, but that isn't keeping former President George H.W. Bush from skydiving. Bush celebrat...
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Al-Maliki: Baghdad attacks down sharply
Nov 11, 2007 10:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday suicide attacks and other bombings in the Iraqi capital have dropped dramatically since last year's high, cal...
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Obama: I'll push for higher Social Security tax
Nov 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that if elected he will push to increase the amount of income that is taxed to provide monthly Social Security benefits. ...