WASHINGTON (AP) ― President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said Thursday. One week after the former primary rivals met secretly to discuss the idea of Clinton becoming the nation's top diplomat, the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ 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 ...
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Most Asian markets have rebounded after days of sharp declines in stocks around the world as investors scooped up battered financial and technology shares. Major regional benchmarks opened lower Friday after Wall Street touched multiyear lows overnight but climbed into positive territory by midday ...
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About 19,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in China in May have been identified, a Chinese official said Friday. A total of 70,000 people are believed to have been killed in the quake that hit on May 12 in the mountainous southwestern province. About 18,000 of ...
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WASHINGTON -- 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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