Nation and World
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Exxon Mobil profit dips 10 percent in quarter
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - HOUSTON -- Even Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest publicly traded oil company and king of record corporate profits, couldn't overcome the negative effect higher cru...
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Should schools supply contraceptives?
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational,...
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Parent-teacher talks increasingly including students
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It's that time of year when moms and dads across the country are squeezing into uncomfortable kid-sized chairs to discuss with teachers whether their child...
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Bush assails Democrats for inaction
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the wo...
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Attacks kill three soldiers, 21 Iraqis
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Bombs and drive-by shootings killed at least 21 people across Baghdad and its northern belts Thursday, and the U.S. military announced the deaths of three mor...
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Online sellers ship more items overseas
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Unlike those crinkled bucks in your wallet, the Morgan silver dollars for sale on Mike Lavanga's Web site have surged in value since they stopped being minte...
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Nuclear plant locked down after explosive device found on worker
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - PHOENIX -- Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small explosive device in the back of his pickup truck Friday...
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Opium 'tsunami' to hit Afghanistan's neighbors
Oct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - KABUL, Afghanistan -- A "tsunami" of opium will hit Afghanistan's neighbors if border security remains weak and officials fail to intercept the drug, whose profits fund ...
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Death toll from floods, mudslides rising as Noel heads to Bahamas
Oct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - PIEDRA BLANCA, Dominican Republic -- Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 66 on Wednesday an...
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U.S. supplying information of Kurdish rebels to Turkey
Oct 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. acknowledged Wednesday it has undertaken military moves against Kurdish rebels in Iraq after asserting for weeks that their strikes in Turkey were...