Barack Obama has officially announced his national-security team: Along with Susan Rice as UN ambassador, there were the previously leaked and much-discussed picks of Robert Gates as Defense secretary, Janet Napolitano as head of Homeland Security, and Eric Holder as attorney general. Also chosen: a ...
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls for "total" cooperation between India and Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks, speaking in London at the start of a trip that will include a "solidarity" visit to New Delhi. LONDON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that the people who waged ...
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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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NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street will look to build on the strongest weekly performance for stocks since 1932 on Monday, with investors focused on how recession-minded shoppers fared at the malls and a raft of government data that could give a clearer picture of the economy. So far, it appears consumers ...
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NEW YORK — Oklahoma, not Texas, is headed to the Big 12 title game with an inside track to the national title game by moving ahead of the Longhorns in the BCS standings released Sunday. Texas' win against the Sooners in October wasn't enough to give the Longhorns the advantage in a three-way tie ...
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(AP) The mayor of Alabama's largest city, a player in a multibillion dollar sewer bond deal that drove the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy, was arrested on Monday on federal criminal charges, an FBI spokesman said. Larry Langford was taken into custody around 7 a.m. Monday, spokesman ...
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida. Endeavour wrapped up a 16-day trip that left the international space station freshly ...
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