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Congo train crash kills 100

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - KINSHASA, Congo -- A passenger train derailed in central Congo and eight cars tumbled off the tracks, killing about 100 people and trapping some passengers in the wrecka...
Congress embraces ethics bill, but White House complains

Daily Herald Staff
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- "McCain-Feingold" was so common a term on Capitol Hill a few years ago that some joked it was one person. No longer. Republican Sen. John McCain and...
Marine convicted of murder

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A Marine Corps squad leader was convicted Thursday of murdering an Iraqi man during a frustrated search for an insurgent. Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutc...
Parents, toy companies stressed over recall of toys made in China that contain too much lead

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wendy Schneider-Fisher is nervous about what toys to buy her children. "I'm less inclined to buy anything from China," said Schneider-Fisher, of New A...
Heavy monsoon flooding devastates northern India, Bangladesh killing at least 166

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - GAUHATI, India -- Teeming monsoon rains have inundated wide swaths of northern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 166 people and washing away village...
Russia claims polar seabed

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Two small Russian submarines completed a risky voyage deep below the North Pole Thursday, planting their country's flag in a titanium capsule on the Arctic Oce...
Esmark to buy East Coast mill from Mittal Steel

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Mittal Steel Co. NV said Thursday it will sell its Sparrows Point mill near Baltimore to a group led by privately held steel distributor Esmark Inc., ...
Business briefs

Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Hybrid sales on record pace DETROIT -- Hybrid vehicles are on track to achieve record U.S. sales this year. An estimated 187,000 hybrids were sold in the first six month...
Animal group yields funds

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Sacramento-area animal rescue group investigated for how it spent millions of dollars raised after Hurricane Katrina has agreed to give up contro...
Penn connects with Chavez

Associated Press
Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - CARACAS, Venezuela -- Hollywood star Sean Penn applauded President Hugo Chavez as the Venezuelan leader lambasted the Bush administration and demanded an end to war in I...

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