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Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.            ]]></description>
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Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.           ]]></description>
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Authorities in North Carolina say they have found the body of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago.           ]]></description>
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The White House&#8217;s top lawyer is announcing his resignation today, senior administration officials told The Associated Press this morning.           ]]></description>
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A chagrined GOP Chairman Michael Steele has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective abortions - an option that Republicans strongly oppose as Democrats try to pass a health care overhaul bill.
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Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.           ]]></description>
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NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
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Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist and Virginia Tech graduate trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.
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A Fort Hood spokeswoman says one shooter is in custody after a mass shooting on the Texas Army base. Army officials say at least seven people are dead and 20 wounded.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama&#8217;s political clout was on the line Tuesday as Virginia and New Jersey chose governors in contests that could serve as warning signs for Democrats about the public&#8217;s mood heading into an important midterm election year.           ]]></description>
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The Washington Post Co. is reporting a 69 percent jump in third-quarter profit as revenue from its cable TV and education divisions continue to bolster results and its namesake newspaper trimmed its losses.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pelosi calls new health care bill &#8216;historic moment&#8217;</title>
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After months of struggle, House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan patterned closely on President Barack Obama&#8217;s own.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Gunmen storm UN guest house in Kabul in fatal attack</title>
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Taliban militants wearing suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early today, killing 12 people&#8212;including six U.N. staff&#8212;in the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month&#8217;s presidential runoff election.           ]]></description>
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NATO&#8217;s top official says the alliance welcomes President Barack Obama&#8217;s revamped plans for a missile defense system in Europe and hopes to bring it fully into NATO.
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A major U.S. Marine base set for relocation must stay on the southern Japan island of Okinawa, the country&#8217;s foreign minister said Friday as he tried to ease a deepening rift with Washington.
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Top U.S. safety officials are meeting with their Chinese counterparts to seek help for American homeowners complaining of damage from suspect drywall imported from China.
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If Marion Lewis had his way, he&#8217;d take Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad into the Idaho desert near his home and kill him slowly, over three days.           ]]></description>
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The director of a circus arena says an ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another.
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The U.S. military says an American solider has been killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle in northern Iraq.           ]]></description>
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Federal drug agents won&#8217;t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.
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          <title>Toy maker Hasbro says sales, income rise</title>
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Hasbro says its profit grew 8.8 percent in the third quarter, helped by lower costs and slightly higher sales of Transformers and G.I. Joe toys.           ]]></description>
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for her.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Billionaire among 6 arrested in inside trade case</title>
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One of America&#8217;s wealthiest men was among six hedge fund managers and corporate executives arrested Friday in a hedge fund insider trading case that prosecutors say reaped more than $20 million in illegal profits and should be a wake-up call for Wall Street.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Northeast fall snowstorm breaks records in N.Y., Pa.</title>
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An autumn storm brought snow to parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, the earliest snow on record in some towns used to harsh winters.           ]]></description>
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A U.S. House of Representatives&#8217; panel voted Thursday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman Brothers and nearly toppled American International Group.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tivo Tallies Viewing Habits Based On Political Affiliation</title>
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When it comes to recording television programs for later viewing, Democrats like &#8220;Saving Grace&#8221; while Republicans prefer &#8220;Deadliest Catch.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is &#8220;ultimately responsible&#8221; for regulators failing to rein in massive bonus payments at American International Group because he led the agencies that provided AIG&#8217;s lifelines, according to a bailout watchdog.
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          <title>Russian official backs pre&#45;emptive nuclear strikes</title>
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A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stressed to Russian university students Wednesday that their country&#8217;s prosperity was dependent on its willingness to cultivate core freedoms, including the freedom to participate in the political process.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Delaware 1st grader has 45&#45;day suspension lifted</title>
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A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Senate committee approves health care plan</title>
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With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama&#8217;s goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant step closer to becoming law.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Court rules against Stalin grandson in libel suit</title>
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A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin&#8217;s grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent thousands of people to their deaths.           ]]></description>
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          <title>President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.           ]]></description>
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A mother of three who gained national notoriety after she openly carried a loaded handgun to her daughter&#8217;s soccer game was shot dead along with her husband in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.           ]]></description>
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Two hundred years after he died mysteriously, explorer Meriwether Lewis is being honored with a service memorializing him as a gung-ho hero.           ]]></description>
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Supreme Court justices on Tuesday indicated that a federal law aimed at graphic videos of dog fights and other acts of animal cruelty goes too far in limiting U.S. free speech rights.           ]]></description>
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National leaders of the Pagans Motorcycle Club and more than 50 members and associates of the outlaw biker gang are accused of plotting to kill and extort rivals to consolidate the club&#8217;s power, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, he&#8217;s about to get the grand funeral that a writer of his stature should have received when he died.           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s good news for people worried about winter heating bills.           ]]></description>
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A reunion between a Tennessee mother and her kidnapped newborn was brief when state officials placed him and his three siblings in foster care, they said for their safety.           ]]></description>
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A former Yale University lab technician charged with murdering a graduate student last month is set to face a Connecticut judge.           ]]></description>
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Gourmet, the nation&#8217;s oldest food magazine, is being closed by Conde Nast Publications as the high-end magazine publisher tries to weather a devastating advertising slump.           ]]></description>
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Finally, South America gets an Olympics. The 2016 Games are going to Rio de Janeiro.           ]]></description>
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The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, the highest since June 1983, as employers cut far more jobs than expected.           ]]></description>
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The race for the 2016 Olympics has came down to just Rio de Janeiro and Madrid, with the International Olympic Committee eliminating Chicago in a stunning first round of voting.
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For those who expected General Motors&#8217; once-funky Saturn brand to live on with a new owner, there has been a sad twist. Saturn, once billed as a different kind of car company, appears as dead as Pontiac and Oldsmobile.           ]]></description>
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Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 531 people. The death toll was expected to rise.           ]]></description>
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Housing construction rose in August and the number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment aid fell unexpectedly last week, adding to signs the recession has ended.           ]]></description>
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A Yale lab technician was arrested Thursday at a hotel and charged with murdering a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of a research building on what would have been her wedding day.           ]]></description>
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The Obama administration is shelving an Eastern European missile defense plan that has been a major irritant in relations with Russia, a U.S. ally said Thursday. The Pentagon confirmed a &#8220;major adjustment&#8221; of the system designed to guard against Iranian missiles.           ]]></description>
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Somali pirates tried but failed to hijack a North Korean cargo ship when crew members fought back with improvised fire bombs and sped away, a maritime official said Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University medical student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama heads to Wall Street today to make a major speech on the U.S. economy.           ]]></description>
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The Dalai Lama met today with two senior U.S. officials ahead of his scheduled visit to the United States next month, his spokesman said.           ]]></description>
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Vowing to never falter in the pursuit of al-Qaida and its allies, President Barack Obama placed a wreath under rainy skies at the Pentagon in memory of the victims of 9/11 on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.           ]]></description>
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The nation marked the eight anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by honoring the spirit of those who rushed forward to help, from sifting through the fiery rubble at ground zero to sending supplies from thousands of miles away.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama will lead the country in pausing to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.           ]]></description>
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The number of Americans without health insurance rose to 46.3 million last year as people began losing jobs and coverage in the current recession. The poverty rate hit 13.2 percent, an 11-year high.           ]]></description>
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First-time claims for jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, evidence that companies are laying off fewer workers as the economy improves.           ]]></description>
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Turkish military police say they raided an Istanbul villa and rescued nine women who were tricked into thinking they were reality show contestants.           ]]></description>
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Trying to shake off a summer of setbacks, President Barack Obama summoned Congress to enact sweeping health-care legislation last night, declaring the &#8220;time for bickering is over.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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Hurricane Fred has quickly strengthened to a Category 2 storm but remains far out in the eastern Atlantic with no signs it will threaten land.           ]]></description>
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Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report to be released Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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British commandos freed a New York Times reporter early today from Taliban captors who kidnapped him over the weekend in northern Afghanistan, but one of the troops and a Times translator were killed in the rescue.           ]]></description>
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The United States says it has &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; that Iran is deliberately trying&#8212;at a minimum&#8212;to preserve a nuclear weapons option.           ]]></description>
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Four U.S. soldiers were killed by roadside bombs Tuesday, the deadliest day for American forces in Iraq since combat troops pulled back from urban areas more than two months ago.           ]]></description>
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When gambling debuts at the historic Greenbrier resort, it will come with more than just dice and chips. New owner Jim Justice envisions stylish touches that will include patrons toasting each other with champagne at 8 p.m. every night.           ]]></description>
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A piece of orbiting junk was expected to pass near the international space station today, but NASA said it would stay a safe distance away from the station and docked shuttle.
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A NATO jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, setting off a huge fireball today that killed up to 90 people, Afghan officials said.           ]]></description>
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A white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to appear in federal court today.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama and his family are trying again for a little rest and relaxation.           ]]></description>
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A relentless Southern California wildfire raged Tuesday with 53 homes up in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as towering flames crackled close to neighborhoods on the northern and southern flanks.           ]]></description>
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Federal safety officials are weighing recommendations aimed at preventing emergency medical helicopters from taking lives instead of saving them.           ]]></description>
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When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.           ]]></description>
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A senior Scottish politician says the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber was based on justice rather than commercial considerations.           ]]></description>
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Firefighters tried to hold back a massive wildfire from consuming thousands of homes and a communications center in Los Angeles County today as they mourned two firefighters killed when their vehicle rolled down a mountain side.           ]]></description>
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A northern New Jersey mayor said he&#8217;s going to court Friday to stop renovation work at the mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi wants to stay next month when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly.           ]]></description>
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Consumer spending edged up in July with help from the popular Cash for Clunkers program, but household incomes, the fuel for future spending increases, were flat.           ]]></description>
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A girl snatched on her way to school was hidden for nearly two decades behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspected abductor&#8217;s children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles (322 kilometers) from her childhood home.           ]]></description>
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NATO says a U.S. service member has been killed in a militant attack involving a roadside bomb and gunfire.           ]]></description>
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The family of one of the youngest prisoners ever held at Guantanamo plans to sue the U.S. government to compensate him for mistreatment and an adolescence lost to nearly seven years in a cell, his lawyers said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.           ]]></description>
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The jury that convicted a man of murder in the brutal carjacking, rape and murder of a young Tennessee couple will be asked to decide if he should live or die.           ]]></description>
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The majority of transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners, state media reported Wednesday in a rare disclosure about an industry often criticized for being opaque and unethical.           ]]></description>
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in U.S. history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.           ]]></description>
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South Korea&#8217;s first rocket launch Tuesday failed to push a satellite into its orbit but the flawed mission may still anger rival North Korea, coming just months the communist nation&#8217;s own launch drew international condemnation.           ]]></description>
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Thunderstorms have forced NASA to call off space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s launch.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is taking a break from his Martha&#8217;s Vineyard vacation today to offer Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke another four-year-stint at running the central bank.           ]]></description>
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It was a race to the finish for dealers and customers alike as the government&#8217;s Cash for Clunkers program headed into its final lap on Monday.
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President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House, a top aide said Monday, further distancing his administration from President George W. Bush&#8217;s detainee policies.           ]]></description>
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Scottish legislators gathered Monday for an emergency meeting on the government&#8217;s decision to release the Lockerbie bomber as critics claimed the act could severely damage relations with the United States.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama has moved more forcefully than ever to abandon Bush administration interrogation policies, approving creation of a special White House unit for questioning terrorism suspects, as Attorney General Eric Holder weighs a Justice Department recommendation to reopen and pursue prisoner abuse cases.           ]]></description>
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A sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition.           ]]></description>
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The remnants of Hurricane Bill lost the characteristics of a tropical cyclone as it moved farther north in the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said Monday, a day after the storm&#8217;s powerful winds churned up waves that were blamed in the deaths of at least two people on the East Coast.           ]]></description>
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The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting that there won&#8217;t be a cost-of-living adjustment for the next two years, which could squeeze retirees already facing higher medical costs.           ]]></description>
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared Friday that the U.S. economy is on the verge of a long-awaited recovery after enduring a brutal recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.           ]]></description>
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Leaders of the country&#8217;s largest Lutheran denomination are set to decide whether gay and lesbian pastors in committed relationships should be allowed to lead individual congregations.           ]]></description>
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