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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Yangon, Myanmar (AP) - Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the ...
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 Myanmar Mulls U.S. Aid Offer 5/13/2008 |
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Administration uses rules to limit consumer lawsuits
Washington - Faced with an unfriendly Congress, the Bush administration has found another, quieter way to make it more difficult for consumers to sue businesses ...
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Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide
Elkton, Md. - Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an emergency-room forensic ...
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Clinton Wins West Virginia Primary
Charleston, W.Va. - Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of ...
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Colombia extradites warlords to the U.S.
Bogota, Colombia - Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States on Tuesday to stand trial on drug trafficking charges in a surprise move ...
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Few Survivors Found In Earthquake's Rubble
Mianyang, China - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. ...
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Israel Puts Dead Sea Scroll On Rare Display
Jerusalem -- One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem this week - more than four decades after it ...
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Prescription-takers Are Now A Majority
Trenton, N.J. - For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health ...
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Sect mother of newborn not a minor, Texas concedes
San Antonio (AP) - Texas child welfare officials conceded Tuesday that a newborn's mother, held in foster care as a minor after being removed from ...
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Charges Against Sept. 11 Suspect Dropped
San Juan, Puerto Rico - The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called"20th hijacker" in ...
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In Lebanon, A Call For U.S. Action
Beirut, Lebanon - Politicians in Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition criticized the United States on Monday for not doing enough to counter the opposition Hezbollah movement's ...
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McCain Urges Free-market Principles To Reduce Global Warming
Portland, Ore. - John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached ...
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Older Gas Pumps Are Unable To Handle Ever-Rising Prices
Reardan, Wash. - Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more ...
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Reinstate Helmit Law
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Supreme Court Blocked From Taking Case: Justices Have Too Many Investments
Washington - The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday.
The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest ...
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Twisters Turn Cars Into Death Traps
Seneca, Mo. - More than a third of the 22 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend ...
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