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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The Associated Press reported late Thursday that President-elect Barack Obama is expected to officially offer the post of secretary of state to his former primary rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, just after Thanksgiving, according to “an aide to the transition.” The transition aide told The ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach. Bush signed an extension of jobless benefits into law just before 8 a.m., as he was ...
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, Kenya's foreign affairs minister said Friday, calling on ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked. In the past two weeks Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates have seized eight ...
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Photo: Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converge on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. AP Photo BAGHDAD — Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of ...
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Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner was arrested outside city hall this morning on a federal warrant. FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said Turner’ s arrest is connected to the investigation into former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, D-Roxbury, who resigned Wednesday after being indicted on ...
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