WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense ally in President George W. Bush's war on terror, was hospitalized Thursday after he collapsed during a late-night speech and lost consciousness. The 67-year-old Mukasey, wearing a black tie and tuxedo, was 15 to 20 minutes ...
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) _ Most Asian markets rebounded Friday after days of sharp declines in stocks around the world as investors scooped up battered financial and technology shares. Major regional benchmarks opened lower after Wall Street touched multiyear lows overnight but climbed into positive ...
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BEIJING - China has acknowledged for the first time that more than 19,000 students died in the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May. In this Friday May 23, 2008 file photo, a mother holds a picture of her son who was killed in the previous week's earthquake during a memorial ...
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President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for a former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who contested mightily for the presidency. Obama transition aides described a process Thursday that ...
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) -- A bomb attack has killed at least 10 people and wounded 40 at the funeral for a Shi'ite Muslim in the northwest Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan. The attack sparked an outbreak of shooting around the hospital where the dead and wounded were brought, and ...
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>>Chad Ocho Cinco was deactivated by the Cincinnati Bengals before Thursday night's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers . ESPN reported Ocho Cinco violated team rules. The dust up is no surprise. Ocho Cinco has been trying to get out of Cincinnati since the summer but, in perverse desire to punish ...
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The US Congress is unable to approve a new emergency loan to the country’s troubled car sector, Democratic leaders said on Thursday. Industry chiefs’ pleas for aid appeared to backfire after two days of hearings on Capitol Hill. News of the impasse over one of the hardest-hit sectors of the US ...
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