CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary in a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership role in the world. Clinton and Gates, who have been at ...
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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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NEW YORK - Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station early Monday 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 ...
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People's Alliance for Democracy protesters are seen leaving the premises of the occupied Government House in Bangkok today. Thai protesters began leaving the prime minister's offices after a three-month sit-in, moving instead to reinforce a paralyzing anti-government blockade of Bangkok's two ...
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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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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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LONDON - The United States has told Pakistan it expects complete co-operation in the investigations into the terrorist rampage in neighbouring India, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday, saying the civilized world must unite against this global menace. Appearing at a news conference with ...
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