Obama said a newly completed agreement between Iraq and the Bush administration covering U.S. troop presence signals “a transition period in which our mission is changing” after a long war. The president-elect campaigned on a call to pull out most combat troops within 16 months of taking office ...
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The NBER—a private, nonprofit research organization—said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began ...
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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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Chicago - The holiday shopping season got off to a surprisingly solid start, according to data released Saturday by a research firm. But the sales boost during the post-Thanksgiving shopathon came at the expense of profits as the nation's retailers had to slash prices to attract the crowds in a ...
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's leader attended a Buddhist ritual Monday, seemingly indifferent to a deepening political crisis that has paralyzed his government, shut down two main airports and stranded 300,000 foreigners in the country. The crisis is draining millions of dollars from the country's ...
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After almost 16 days in space, four spacewalks, and a successful space station "home improvement" mission, the STS-126 crew aboard Endeavour is safely back home at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) in California. The landing was switched to Edwards from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) because of bad weather ...
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NORMAN, Oklahoma : The screams of joy could be heard across the campus at the University of Oklahoma, from dormitory balconies to the white Cadillac Escalade of the Sooners sophomore Gerald McCoy. "We in there!" McCoy said. "We in there, baby!" The Oklahoma football program's most significant ...
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