Nation and World
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U.S. offers Israel arms deal
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- The United States offered Israel an unprecedented $30 billion of military aid over 10 years on Thursday, bolstering its closest Mideast ally and ensuring th...
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Iraqi leaders forge new alliance
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political leaders emerged Thursday from three days of crisis talks with a new alliance that seeks to save the crumbling U.S.-backed government. But the...
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Iran denounces U.S. plans
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday denounced a U.S. plan to deploy missile defense sites in Eastern Europe, calling it a threat to ...
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Iraq forges new alliance
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political leaders emerged Thursday from three days of crisis talks with a new alliance that seeks to save the crumbling U.S.-backed government. But the...
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1 dead, 8 injured in cave-in during rescue attempt at mine
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - HUNTINGTON, Utah -- A disastrous cave-in Thursday night killed a rescue worker and injured eight others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach six trapped min...
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Briefs: Human error limits access to SchwabAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Clients of Charles Schwab using the discount brokerage's Web site and phone systems to trade Thursday morning had trouble accessing their accounts for about ...
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Sprint banking on WiMax technologyAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - TYSONS CORNER, Va. -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it could spend as much as $5 billion by the end of 2010 on a new network based on the emerging high-speed wireles...
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FBI director's notes back up account of Ashcroft visit
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The White House demanded in 2004 that the Justice Department approve a secret national security program without allowing the ailing attorney general, "feeb...
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Hurricane season gets into gear
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - HOUSTON -- The tropical weather season revved up Thursday as the Atlantic's first hurricane formed and quickly strengthened, and as Tropical Storm Erin's remnants soaked...
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Bridge victims recovered, death toll at 11
Aug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- The discovery of two more sets of human remains amid the wreckage of the interstate bridge that collapsed raised the known death toll to 11 and left only ...