Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he influenced the prosecution of a former Democratic governor of Alabama.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - John McCain sharply broke from an economic adviser who dubbed the United States "a nation of whiners" in a "mental recession" as the Republican presidential candidate sought to counter criticism that he's weak on the economy.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Her parents are in the middle of a tawdry divorce, her brother is in jail and she's cut off contact with her mom because of her mother's teenage boyfriend. It would seem that with all the drama engulfing Brooke Hogan these days, the last place she'd want to be is in front of the cameras.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on
Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded
Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Going after the women's vote, Democrat Barack Obama chastised Republican John McCain on Thursday over his opposition to an equal-pay Senate bill, his support for conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices and his abortion-rights objections.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not just to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors' ability to communicate.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
Reuters - President George W. Bush signed a
law on Thursday overhauling rules for eavesdropping on
terrorism suspects but immediately faced a civil liberties
challenge calling it a threat to Americans' privacy.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Ethan Hawke has married girlfriend Ryan Shawhughes, the actor's publicist said Thursday.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged former Los Angeles Rams kicker Tony Zendejas with drugging and raping a female customer of his Pomona sports bar in January.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AFP - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Read Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists
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