CHICAGO (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his former chief rival for the Democratic nomination to be his secretary of state. At a news conference Monday in Chicago, Obama announced that he's chosen Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to lead the State Department. He described her as a friend ...
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Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress surrendered to police in Manhattan this morning to face a criminal charge of handgun possession that might send him to jail. Burress turned himself in at the 17th Precinct in midtown, three days after a gun he was allegedly carrying ...
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MUMBAI, India (AP) ― President George W. Bush on Sunday dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi in support of India following the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 200 people, including six Americans. Rice and Bush wanted an opportunity "to express the condolences of the ...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ Concerns over the crisis caused by the terrorist attacks in India may overshadow NATO talks this week on drawing Georgia and Ukraine closer to the alliance, officials said Monday. NATO nations are worried that rising tensions between India and Pakistan, after last week's ...
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Reuters - Investigators said on Monday the militants who attacked Mumbai underwent months of commando training in Pakistan, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours as recriminations mounted in India. The Pakistan based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has denied being behind the Mumbai ...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford reportedly has been arrested on federal charges. Television station WBRC and The Birmingham News report that Langford was taken into custody by the FBI. U.S. Attorney Alice Martin declines to comment but says a news conference will be held at ...
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The space shuttle Endeavour heads to a 1:25:06 p.m. landing on runway 04-left at Edwards Air Force Base. It had been scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida but because of inclement weather was diverted to Edwards. The craft is rerouted from Cape Canaveral, Fla., because of bad ...
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