George Washington University Hospital, where Attorney General Michael Mukasey was taken after collapsing during a speech, is seen in the early morning hours Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael Mukasey was conscious and alert ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leading retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday that Lee Scott will step down after nine years as chief executive and be replaced by Mike Duke, head of the company's international operations. Scott will remain as chairman of the executive committee of the board and will ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. The economic picture was only getting worse ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency. One week after the former primary rivals met ...
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The head of world's largest oil tanker company is calling for a multinational military force to protect ships from pirates off the Somali coast. Martin Jensen, acting chief executive of Frontline Ltd, is warning Friday that the shipper may divert its cargo shipments away from the treacherous Gulf of ...
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Thousands of noisy demonstrators filled Baghdad's renowned Firdous Square to protest a new military pact between Iraq and the United States which is being debated in parliament. Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who called for the protest, is demanding that the Iraqi parliament reject the pact ...
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FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz would not say what charges Turner faces, but said the arrest was connected to indictment of former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, who was arrested Oct. 28 for allegedly taking $23,500 in bribes from undercover agents she thought were businessmen. Turner was scheduled ...
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