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Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou welcomed Saturday a U.S. decision to sell the island up to $6.5 billion in advanced weaponry, ending a months-long freeze on Washington’s arms sales to Taipei.
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The Bush administration is criticizing a federal judge’s decision to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo Bay into the U.S. and says it will seek to...
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The deadpan and depressed characters Bill Murray has specialized in portraying as an actor in recent years have always stood in contrast to the life-of-the-party guy he...
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Dusting off Depression-era emergency powers, the Federal Reserve is extending its reach over the economy as never before, pushing the limits of its authority, if not...
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Nick Nolte has escaped a fire that burned a Malibu home to the ground.
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A man was charged Tuesday in the strangling death of his 11-year-old stepsister who was starved by her parents and slept a locked room inside an upstate NY house filled...
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It can be a fine line between investing and gambling. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds. On Wall Street, that’s not always the case.
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The spokesman for a Connecticut congressional candidate is learning that not everything is private on the Internet.
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Alaska’s top finance officer will review payments made to Gov. Sarah Palin for nights she charged the state for staying in her own home.
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Boston police said a passenger who was angry because his flight was delayed tried to get back at the airline by throwing foot powder around the plane. Arthur Nicolson,...
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Nearly 20 years of John McCain’s contrition over his role in a 1980s banking scandal vanished this week in 17 minutes and 30 seconds.
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Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said an inmate’s bid to escape the county jail on Saturday was foiled by a correctional officer. Hughes said a 19-year-old man...
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Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. says its third-quarter earnings plunged 52 percent due to sharply lower prices, weaker demand and higher costs.
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A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year.
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The Federal budget deficit is ballooning under the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
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Two things rule the financial world: Making money and figuring out ways to make more of it. That’s why some on Wall Street are sure to figure out how to profit...
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The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on the losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more...
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A mother who police said stabbed her daughters before shooting herself had raised the children as a single mother after her husband hanged himself three years ago.
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The office of an Ohio congressman who has fought against pork barrel spending was evacuated over a suspicious package that turned out to be full of bacon.
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Sold to American taxpayers for up to $700 billion: an unprecedented plan to buy distressed banks’ least desirable mortgage assets.
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The four dozen men in loincloths stopped repeatedly to toss the new boat into the air as they carried it through their village to shore.Then they launched it...
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The border along Hungary these days is lined with police sporting night-vision goggles, heat sensors and all-terrain vehicles.That’s because since Hungary became...
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Police say a suspicious package that a man brought to the World Bank headquarters two blocks from the White House was not a threat.District of Columbia police Officer...
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Police in Washington are investigating a suspicious package at the World Bank headquarters in the northwest part of the city.The bank says in a statement that a man...
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In the impoverished Ferghana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground economy.After the huge Soviet mines in the region...
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The Secret Service has determined that a suspicious package found on the northeast grounds of the White House is safe.Agency spokesman Ed Donovan says the package was...
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The Secret Service says a suspicious package has been found on the northeast grounds of the White House.Agency spokesman Ed Donovan says the package was spotted around...
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AP, Orlando
Investigators are looking into a suspicious package delivered to the Orange County, Fla. sheriff’s office.The Orlando building was evacuated Monday morning....
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The teenage son of a Christian pastor was seriously wounded when a package bomb delivered to the family’s West Bank home went off in his hands, Israeli officials...
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A bomb hidden in a package was delivered to the home of a Christian pastor in the West Bank and exploded when a teenage son opened it, wounding the youth.The family and...
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AP, Los Angeles
A “suspicious package” spotted near the Hollywood sign is actually an old T-shirt and a stick.The item was discovered Wednesday afternoon. Los Angeles...
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A Los Angeles police bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package found near the Hollywood sign.Sgt. Lee Sands says the package was discovered early Wednesday...
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AP, St. Louis
The success of the federal $150 billion emergency economic stimulus plan will hinge on whether American consumers do what they do best _ spend, spend, spend.The...
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