CHICAGO (Dec. 1) - Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush — striking choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted ...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— The militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks has roots in the disputed Kashmir region where Pakistan's military has faced off against India for decades. There have long been suspicions that Pakistan's military and intelligence services helped create, arm and train Lashkar ...
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(CBS/AP) The United States can expect a terror attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests that the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ ...
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WALL Street stocks plunged overnight, giving back most of their gains from the past week, amid bleak economic news from around the globe including confirmation of a recession in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 679.95 points (7.70 per cent) to close at 8149.09, in the fourth ...
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DETROIT (AP) — They'll park some corporate jets, cut executive pay and serve up concessions from the United Auto Workers, but Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and perhaps Chrysler LLC also will have to address massive debts to persuade a skeptical Congress to loan them money. As the CEOs of ...
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WASHINGTON -- Most Americans sorely knew it already, but now it's official: The country is in a recession, and it's getting worse. Wall Street convulsed at the news - and a fresh batch of bad economic reports - tanking nearly 680 points. With the economic pain likely to stretch well into 2009 ...
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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 remodeled and ...
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