CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before settling on a firm timetable to withdraw U.S. combat ...
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MUMBAI, India (AP) _ Soldiers removed the last bodies from the shattered Taj Mahal hotel Monday as India formally demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the 60-hour seige that left at least 172 people dead. The United States, meanwhile, called on Pakistan to fully cooperate with ...
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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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The Super Bowl champion New York Giants have shrugged off the latest publicity surrounding absent receiver Plaxico Burress to defeat Washington 23-7 in a National Football League contest. Eli Manning passed for a season-high 305 yards and a touchdown in the rain, and John Carney kicked three field ...
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The issue at hand is the status of the Asean summit - should it be postponed or continued as planned? When he returned from Lima, Peru on Wednesday, instead of coming to Bangkok, the seat of government, he opted to go to Chiang Mai, which he treated as if it were his fiefdom. At the Cabinet meeting ...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The mayor of Alabama 's largest city, Larry Langford, was arrested Monday on federal bribery and fraud charges connected to a multibillion-dollar sewer bond deal that has driven the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy. Federal prosecutors in Birmingham said Langford ...
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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 freshly ...
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