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Zeinab Chami planned to save money from her part-time job and get a little more from her family. But the 24-year-old graduate student ultimately couldn’t round up...
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With the economy sinking faster, employers are giving more Americans dreaded pink slips right before the holidays.
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The conductor aboard the Metrolink train that collided with a freight in September says the warning light along the track was green before the crash that killed 25...
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Conservation groups filed formal protests Thursday against what they call a “fire sale” of oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah being conducted by the U.S....
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A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to answering an online advertisement for baby-sitting work and then using the client’s child to make a pornographic video.
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Jennifer Hudson says she’s honored to be a Grammy nominee.
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Authorities say a husband-and-wife burglary team robbed about 60 homes in rural eastern Missouri and deputies discovered 100 guns at the home of the man accused of...
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President-elect Barack Obama thanked his Illinois finance committee on Thursday night for helping him win the election, telling them it was not the end of their work...
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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign raised $104 million in the weeks around Election Day, a grand finale to a successful bid that shattered fundraising records.
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A once-high-flying Silicon Valley financier and former co-owner of the NHL’s Nashville Predators was charged Thursday with fraud for allegedly bilking investors...
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Federal prosecutors say philanthropist Alberto Vilar might flee because he could face the rest of his life in prison.
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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign reports raising $104 million in October and November. It marks a grand finale to a successful bid that shattered fundraising...
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AP, Oshkosh
The leader of a Wisconsin Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.
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Payments from the Wall Street bailout fund and slumping tax revenues will ensure a record federal budget deficit, based on congressional estimates released on...
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AP, Camden
Some of the five men accused of planning to kill soldiers on New Jersey’s Fort Dix told an FBI informant that they lacked the bravery to mount an attack, the...
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For the final time as president, George W. Bush led the countdown Thursday night to the glowing unveiling of the nearly 42-foot Christmas tree that overlooks the White...
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A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign...
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The teenage son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez acted in self-defense in a confrontation that left a college student dead of a stab wound, his lawyer...
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Prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against a woman accused of burning her son in an oven, saying that continuing with the case would harm the boy.
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A 26-year-old man faces criminal charges after being accused of using a pickax to attack a speed enforcement camera recently installed along a Phoenix-area freeway.
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No one believed Bill Richardson was leaving the national stage just because he abandoned his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination last January.
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In late summer 1979 a Marine named James L. Jones arrived on Capitol Hill for a new assignment as advocate for Marine programs in the Senate. His boss was a Navy...
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President-elect Barack Obama and his likely choice for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, should have a lot to talk about. Like Obama, Geithner spent time abroad as...
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“My presence on this stage is pretty unlikely,” Barack Obama began.
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“My presence on this stage is pretty unlikely,” Barack Obama began.
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John McCain knows what hopelessness feels like.
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The lower 48 haven’t seen the last of Sarah Palin, win or lose.
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It was just before midnight last November when Barack Obama stepped on stage in a darkened auditorium in Iowa, trailing in the polls, taking on one of the biggest names...
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If Joe Biden becomes vice president, expect to hear variations of this from his boss every now and then: What Joe meant to say was ...
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AP, Johannesburg
Affable populist Jacob Zuma could teach other politicians a thing or two about resiliency.
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Joe Biden has lived a life of second chances, a cycle that’s been cruel and redemptive by turns. Now he’s starting over once again.
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Barack Obama told everyone he wanted a running mate who will challenge his thinking, and now he’s got one. Joe Biden’s tendency to speak his own mind _ and...
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In John McCain’s thinking, it is one thing to break the rules and quite another to break the faith.
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AP, Chicago
When Barack Obama arrived at the Democratic National Convention eight years ago, he was a politician in need of clout.
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Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who took power in a high-altitude coup and later dragged a reluctant Islamic nation into the U.S.-led war on terror, submitted...
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Ted Stevens is a throwback to the Senate he joined almost 40 years ago and then worked so effectively for his home state of Alaska.
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He was accused of masterminding massacres that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human...
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Experts say, more than 90 percent of people lie in their online dating profiles. Women in their twenties and thirties slyly deduct anywhere from five to twenty pounds...
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He arrived in the city more than two decades ago, a young idealist with an ambition to help the poor _ and maybe, to become a writer.Barack Obama knew nothing of the...
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In this March 7, 2006 file photo, Gen. James Jones, Jr., commander of U.S. European Command and supreme allied commander, Europe, right, Gen. Burwell Bell, III, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, center, and Adm. William Fallon, commander of U.S. Pacific...
