Nation and World
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Astronomers discover largest planet
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - PHOENIX -- Scientists have discovered the universe's largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling a star 1,...
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North, South Korea slate another summit
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - SEOUL, South Korea -- North and South Korea announced Wednesday that their leaders will hold their second-ever summit this month, reprising the historic 2000 meeting tha...
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Officials narrow down cause of N.Y. steam blast
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A patched-up pipe seam that was seen as one of the early suspects in a steam pipe explosion in Manhattan last month was discovered undamaged inside the blast...
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Elite divers join bridge collapse search
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- An elite team of Navy divers joined the search for victims of the interstate bridge collapse Tuesday, bringing to the job lessons learned from such disast...
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Russia wants a more open Iran for fuel
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - VIENNA, Austria -- Russia is increasing pressure on Iran to be more open about its nuclear program, threatening to indefinitely withhold fuel for a Russian-built reactor...
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Coral reefs dying faster than believedAug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Coral reefs in much of the Pacific Ocean are dying faster than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday, with the decline dr...
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Drug trafficking suspect may be extraditedAug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A top leader of Colombia's biggest cocaine cartel was captured Tuesday in South America's largest city after a two-year investigation into traf...
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Court: Patients don't have right to experimental drugs
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is a...
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Britain will take 5 Guantanamo residents
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked the United States on Tuesday to free five British residents from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay -- a pol...
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Lawmakers: Tax can repair infrastructure in bridge collapse wake
Aug 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Minneapolis bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure could tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars i...