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President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled three new ads Friday in the upcoming primary states of Oregon and Kentucky, including one that pokes fun at Washington pundits...
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The southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville has been shaken by a small earthquake.
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An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried...
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In President Bush’s hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans portrayed John Kerry as...
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A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted the former head of UCLA’s cadaver program on eight felony counts for allegedly trafficking in parts of bodies donated...
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Beyond the confines of the Barack Obama and John McCain presidential campaigns, independent groups are planting the seeds of the left- and right-wing attack ads that...
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American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen announced Friday that she will step down from her post in October after leading the group for nearly two...
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Two congressional committee chairmen said Friday they plan to investigate whether there were broader motives behind a Veterans Affairs Department employee’s...
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AP, Watertown
Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called “naive and irresponsible,” serving notice that...
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The United States said Friday it has reached a deal with North Korea to provide more than 500,000 tons of food aid over the coming year to the closed-off communist...
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President Bush’s contentious nominee for the Federal Election Commission has yanked his name from consideration, potentially ending a broader confirmation...
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AP, Louisville
Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor...
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AP, Jonesboro
Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect.
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AP, Mcallen
South Texas emergency managers working to ensure the area is prepared for a hurricane are worried that federal officials will cause disastrous delays by insisting on...
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AP, Berkeley
A winery spokeswoman says California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi has died. He was 94.
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AP, San Francisco
Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company’s board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.’s $47.5...
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Stocks have ended the week narrowly mixed following another spike in oil prices and a surprise jump in home construction.
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Treasury prices fell Friday after rising oil caused investors to worry about rising inflation’s erosion of fixed-income valuations.
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An anti-war Democratic congressman is demanding to know why there were uniformed Defense Department personnel watching House proceedings from a public gallery Thursday,...
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Stocks gave up early gains to trade mixed Friday as investors balanced concerns about rising oil prices with a surprise jump in home construction.
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It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants...
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AP, Washington
Texas mayors and business leaders have filed a class-action lawsuit to stop construction of the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
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AP, New York
Maverick oilman T. Boone Pickens has placed a $2 billion bet on wind power in just the first of a four-phase project to build the world’s largest wind farm in...
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AP, Trenton
A Texas appeals court on Wednesday overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against Merck & Co. in one of the few trials it lost over its withdrawn painkiller...
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AP, Trenton
A Texas appeals court on Wednesday overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against Merck & Co. in a case involving its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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AP, Muskogee
A Texas man claimed he had a 25-gallon drum of cyanide and tried to sell it to an FBI informant, touting the poison’s usefulness in mass killings, according to a...
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AP, Trenton
Merck & Co. says a Texas appeals court has overturned a verdict against the drugmaker in a case involving its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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AP, Athens
A man convicted of killing a Texas sheriff’s deputy in a shootout at his house was sentenced to death Tuesday, just days after he was found guilty of capital...
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AP, San Angelo
Texas child welfare officials say the member of a polygamist sect who gave birth last month is not a minor as they had said previously.
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AP, Washington
John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics Tuesday for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for...
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AP, Arlington
The only real fireworks between Texas and Seattle this time were the pyrotechnic displays after back-to-back home runs by Josh Hamilton and Milton Bradley, and then the...
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AP, Ciudad Juarez
Thousands of white-clad people marched silently Sunday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer...
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AP, Arlington
Emil Brown hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs to help the Oakland Athletics beat Texas 12-6, ending the Rangers’ season-best five-game winning streak...
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AP, Nashville
Jenna Bush picked “You Are So Beautiful,” the ballad made famous by Joe Cocker, for the father-daughter dance with President Bush at her wedding reception...
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AP, Ciudad Juarez
A senior Mexican police officer whose name appeared at the top of a hit list has been shot dead in a border city across from Texas.
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AP, Crawford
Jenna Bush couldn’t see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager opted to...
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Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a...
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AP, New York
Seattle slugger Richie Sexson was suspended for six games and fined Friday by Major League Baseball after charging the mound and throwing his helmet at a Texas pitcher...
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Yes, even amid the housing crisis, parts of the U.S. are still expected to post price gains in the coming year, according to Money Magazine. Here’s where to...
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Tom Rasberry, , an exterminator, lets “crazy rasberry ants”, named after him, crawl on his arm, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, in Deer Park, Texas. The ants are throwing off the balance of nature as they feast on beneficial insects, researchers say, noting...
