CHICAGO (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush's Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. At a news ...
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India on Monday formally accused "elements" in Pakistan of being behind the Islamic militant attacks in Mumbai and demanded that Islamabad take "strong action", the foreign ministry said. "The High Commissioner of Pakistan was called to the Ministry of External Affairs this evening. He was informed ...
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Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station early this morning, where he was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh. The New York Giants star wide receiver arrived in a black Cadillac Escalade wearing jeans and a black coat. Burress, who was not visibly limping ...
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A local woman is stranded in Bangkok, unable to fly out of Thailand as protesters have taken over airports and other public venues. Twenty-six-year-old Laura Tucker works at Cincinnati's Tender Mercies as a homeless outreach worker. She flew to Bangkok November 16 with a friend with whom she’d ...
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BIRMINGHAM — Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford has been charged with bribery, fraud and other federal charges in connection with multimillion-dollar sewer bond deals when he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. Federal prosectors in Birmingham said Langford, Montgomery investment banker ...
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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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NEW YORK (AP) _ Investors usettled about the holiday shopping season today gave back some of Wall Street's recent gains, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 400 points. While initial reports about the start of holiday shopping this weekend suggested sales were better than some ...
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