Nation and World
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Ebola puts gorillas at brink of extinction
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - GENEVA -- The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species rele...
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Fallen soldier comes homeSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - The body of a soldier with suburban ties who was killed in Iraq last week received a somber hero's welcome at a Waukegan airport this afternoon. About 30 members of the ...
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Castro claims Cuba alerted Reagan to assassination plot
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Fidel Castro claims Cuba's government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984. The essa...
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Flu suspected as U.S. deaths jump in 2005
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a ...
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Cotton prices poised for an advance, experts saySep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Cotton, the least profitable crop for U.S. farmers, is poised for its biggest advance in four years on demand for T-shirts and blue jeans from China and India...
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Spinach problems failed to affect rules
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - SALINAS, Calif. -- Government regulators never acted on calls for stepped-up inspections of leafy greens after last year's deadly E. coli spinach outbreak, leaving the s...
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Gunmen rob armored car in Baghdad
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - An Iraqi man shops in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan in a market in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Ra...
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Putin taps new prime minister, releases Cabinet
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin chose a little-known government official to become Russia's new prime minister Wednesday, a surprise move that set off fevered specula...
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Thief turns out to be policeman
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - KUALA LUMPUR -- A thief chased and caught by a group of Malaysians after he snatched a woman's handbag turned out to be a policeman, a newspaper said Tuesday. Bystanders...
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Like victory in Iraq, 3rd-party president still distant dreamSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Some political third parties look at the crowded cluster of Republicans and Democrats vying for the White House and say, "Hey, why not throw our noble but unelectable ca...