Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
AP - Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau is heading to Beijing with a devastating diagnosis: He has cancer.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
AP - The Agriculture Department plans to tell the public which grocery stores and other retailers have received tainted meat during some recalls.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
AP - Rep. Charles Rangel has four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, including one he uses as a campaign office, at a time when the city is experiencing a chronic shortage of low- and moderate-income housing, The New York Times reported Friday.
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Reuters - The U.S. military has identified the
remains of two soldiers who were kidnapped in Iraq in May 2007
after their patrol came under attack south of Baghdad, the
Pentagon said on Friday.
Read Bodies of missing U.S. soldiers identified in Iraq
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
SPACE.com - Nothing is out of whack with the sun, a NASA researcher said this week, despite some scientists' suggestions that a lull in the weather there lately is unusually long, a phenomenon linked to at least one small ice age.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
Reuters - The European Union voiced concern on
Friday over Iranian missiles tests in the Gulf and stepped up
calls on Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment within its
disputed nuclear program.
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AP - The U.N. chief has agreed to Pakistan's request to establish an independent commission that will investigate the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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AP - Google Inc. backs Yahoo in its effort to stave off an unsolicited takeover by Microsoft Corp. because an independent Yahoo will increase competition in the Internet search and advertising markets, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said here Thursday.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
AP - Sweat rolled down Lisa Mirander's forehead as she hacked a tangle of saplings and brush down to bare dirt to prevent a wildfire from spreading. It was a tough job, but no harder than the 13 months she served in Afghanistan.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
AP - A man suspected of killing his wife and two young children in the family's rural home in western Pennsylvania was arrested Thursday after a daylong manhunt and charged in their deaths.
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