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Democrat Barack Obama is opening the door to altering his Iraq policy. Campaigning in North Dakota, Obama says his upcoming trip to Iraq could alter his plan to bring U.S. troops home within 16 months. The Illinois senator says it all depends on what he hears in consultations with military commanders there.
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With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own...
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The latest crash tests by the insurance industry raise safety questions about small pickups, which are drawing more interest because they get better mileage than larger...
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A veterans group critical of the war in Iraq accuses John McCain of wanting to occupy Iraq indefinitely, against the wishes of the country’s leaders, in an ad...
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Amazon.com Inc. doesn’t seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy.
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The State Department has proposed shifting about two-thirds of its proposed aid to Pakistan’s anti-terrorism programs to help the key U.S. ally upgrade its aging...
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A teenager wielding a knife died after police shot him with a Taser, the latest in a string of deaths linked to the stun guns, officials said Wednesday.
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The Hong Kong-based operator of a container ship that struck a bridge support in the San Francisco Bay last year has been indicted for allegedly doctoring paperwork in...
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More than 30 actors dissatisfied with stalled contract talks said Wednesday they have joined to campaign for seats on the Screen Actors Guild’s board of...
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Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm.
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A doctor charged with molesting eight patients was ordered held on $4 million bail Wednesday as a prosecutor said accusations from seven more patients had surfaced.
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Leaders of a church destroyed on Sept. 11 have surrendered land needed to rebuild the World Trade Center site in a $20 million deal with the government.
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The bubble might have burst for off-Broadway’s “Gazillion Bubbles Show.” Someone has stolen the show’s specialized soapy bubble solution, which...
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The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued...
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Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.
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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company’s failed...
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Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that flooded some low-lying areas but spared...
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Barack Obama is going for the gold.
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Microsoft Corp. says the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations is leaving the company.
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Opponents of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military denounced it as cruel and unpatriotic Wednesday. Supporters insisted it...
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A former police officer and a neighbor said Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who now has five dead spouses tried to hire them to kill her fourth husband more than...
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Police in central Illinois say they fired pepper balls into an angry mob of about 100 people who were fighting during the last night of a city festival.
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An Illinois woman and her son-in-law have discovered thousands of dollars hidden after a 2004 bank robbery in Wisconsin.
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The brother of a man suspected of killing eight people in Illinois and Missouri has been indicted on charges of concealing a homicidal death and obstruction of...
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The Chicago Bulls No. 1 draft choice Derrick Rose pleaded guilty Monday to driving more than 40 mph over the speed limit on an Illinois highway back in April.
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An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep.
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Police have given the all-clear at the headquarters of State Farm insurance in Illinois after a witness reported seeing a man with a gun headed toward the building
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Authorities are checking out reports of an intruder with a gun at the headquarters of State Farm insurance in Illinois.
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Now that the multistate manhunt has ended, legal wrangling has begun over an ex-convict suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in Illinois and...
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A judge has ordered a 60-day jail sentence for an Illinois man accused of stealing a $1,500 Pomeranian puppy and blowing marijuana smoke into its face until it passed...
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An ex-convict who police believe killed eight people in two states and who was the subject of a multistate manhunt was caught Tuesday evening in southwestern Illinois,...
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The deaths of four people found in a western Illinois town may be related to as many as four other deaths in Illinois and Missouri in the past week, police said.
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When then-Gov. George Ryan took the extraordinary step of emptying Illinois’ death row over fears that an innocent person could be executed, he urged lawmakers to...
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Illinois’ attorney general is suing the nation’s biggest mortgage lender.
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The upper Mississippi River has largely reached its high point after rising for weeks and flooding towns in Missouri and Illinois.
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Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northeastern Missouri and Illinois got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose...
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Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northwest Missouri and Illinois got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher...
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AP, Portland
With no buyers in sight, MetroFi Inc.’s free wireless projects in Portland and in cities in California and Illinois appear to be ending.
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Floodwaters that bedeviled Iowans for the past week have flowed out of the state and are now threatening Mississippi Rivers towns in Illinois and Missouri.
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The rising Mississippi River broke through a levee Tuesday, forcing authorities to rescue about a half-dozen people by helicopter, boat and four-wheeler as floodwaters...
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A cornfield is flooded from after days of heavy rainfall near Decatur, Ill., Thursday, June 5, 2008. It’s too early to say in financial terms just how much of this year’s Illinois corn crop has been washed away, but crop experts say that if it’s only...
