WASHINGTON — The roster shaping up for the Barack Obama administration is starting to look a little familiar, with an ironic pattern emerging as one name after another is added to the list. A striking number of new and potential team members can trace their professional history to the same ...
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WASHINGTON - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush is about to ensure that millions of laid-off workers won't see their unemployment checks disappear as the year-end holidays approach. Bush is expected to sign into law an extension of jobless benefits as early as Friday ...
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MORE than 19,000 school children died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China acknowledged today for the first time. The earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing, but the government has never before said how many of the casualties were students. Most of them ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Attorney General Michael Mukasey was hospitalized but conscious and alert early Friday after collapsing during a late-night speech to a conservative legal group. It was not clear when the nation's 67-year-old chief law enforcer would be released from George Washington University ...
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Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Russians are back to playing their favorite parlor game: speculating on whether or when Vladimir Putin will reclaim the presidency. Some opposition politicians, analysts and investors are guessing that the credit crunch and Russia's faltering economy may persuade the former ...
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MURRIETA, Calif. -- Four Camp Pendleton-based Marines, including one known as "Psycho," have pleaded not guilty in the execution-style slayings of a fellow Marine and his wife. Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24, and his wife, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, were found gagged, tied and shot in the head in the ...
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