Nation and World
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Embracing the outdoors
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - ST. MICHAEL'S, Md. -- President Bush spent a crisp fall Saturday gingerly balancing a tiny screeched owl on a gloved hand at a wildlife refuge and casting for rockfish o...
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University confronts racial incidents
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A Southern university is trying to defend its image after the student newspaper published a cartoon of a black man being sold at auction and a racist d...
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China may learn new leaders today
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - BEIJING -- China's Communist Party elite approved a list of candidates for top positions Saturday, setting the stage for final negotiations whose outcome will be a key i...
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Senate wants regular reports on LibyaOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON --Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would have to report twice a year to Congress on Libya's compensation to victims of terrorist attacks under legislation ...
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Lost at sea, woman refuses to die
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - UKUMEHAME, Hawaii -- A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said...
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WWII mail delivered 64 years later
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - TOKYO -- A postcard that a Japanese soldier mailed from a Southeast Asian battlefront during World War II has reached a recipient in Japan 64 years later, a university w...
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Rat Pack's Bishop, ex-joint chief's chairman
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died. He...
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Despite concerns, faith-based prison programs grow
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - RICHMOND, Texas -- Killer-turned-artist Manny Hernandez on the prison where he's finishing an eight-year term: "It's a blessing to be here." Fellow murderer and inmate R...
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It wasn't all Me Tarzan, you Jane for NeanderthalsOct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Neanderthals, often portrayed as grunting, club-carrying brutes, may have been capable of sophisticated speech, researchers said on Thursday. A DNA analysis sh...
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U.S., Iraq detain suspects
Oct 20, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish army helicopters, swept through Shiite militia strongholds south of Baghdad on Saturday, rounding up dozens of militan...