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		<title>Military doctor facing deployment opens fire at the Fort Hood base, killing 11, wounding 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devlin Barrett</dc:creator>
		
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Military doctor kills 11 at Fort Hood Army base
FORT HOOD, Texas — A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and the violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleveland police identify remains of third person recovered from inside suspect&#8217;s house</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Smith</dc:creator>
		
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Remains identified of 3rd person found in house

CLEVELAND — Cleveland police have identified a third person whose remains were found in the home of a murder suspect.
Police say the family of 31-year-old Tishana Culver was notified Thursday. Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said the Cleveland woman had not been reported as a missing person.
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		<title>US Sen Hutchison: Army major accused of shooting at Ford Hood was about to deploy overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devlin Barrett</dc:creator>
		
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US Sen: Suspected Fort Hood shooter set to deploy
FORT HOOD, Texas — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says the Army major accused of the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, was about to deploy overseas.
Hutchison says she was told about the upcoming deployment by generals based at Fort Hood. But it was unclear if he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, House leaders press to secure votes for sweeping health care bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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Obama, House Dems press for health care votes
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and House Democrats scrambled on Thursday to secure the votes to pass a historic health care overhaul initiative, working to ease disagreements with rank-and-file lawmakers over abortion and illegal immigrants.
Obama met at the White House with several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army officer opens fire with two handguns at Fort Hood, killing 12 and wounding 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Devlin Barrett</dc:creator>
		
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Army officer opens fire at Fort Hood, killing 12
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army officer opened fire Thursday with two handguns at the Fort Hood military base in an attack that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman and apprehended two other soldiers in what appears to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chanting &#8216;Kill the bill,&#8217; thousands rally at Capitol to protest health care overhaul bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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&#8216;Kill the bill,&#8217; protesters target health care
WASHINGTON — Chanting &#8220;Kill the bill,&#8221; thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats&#8217; health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation&#8217;s medical system.
The crowd, invited on national television by Rep. Michele Bachmann, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Army: 12 killed, 31 wounded in shooting rampage on Fort Hood Army base</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>April Castro</dc:creator>
		
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Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in attacks at Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas — A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embattled UN relocates half its international staff in Afghanistan because of deadly attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastian Abbot</dc:creator>
		
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Embattled UN rethinking Afghan-Pakistan role

KABUL — The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on U.N. workers, warning the Afghan government Thursday that international support will wane unless it cracks down on corruption fueling the insurgency.
The decision follows a drawdown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama confident, House leaders predicting victory on health bill as vote nears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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Obama, House Dems confident on health care vote
WASHINGTON — Buoyed by two major endorsements, House Democratic leaders on Thursday predicted swift passage of President Barack Obama&#8217;s historic health overhaul initiative. The president himself declared, &#8220;We are closer to passing this reform than ever before.&#8221;
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		<title>Scientists: Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral bleaching damage this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcfadden</dc:creator>
		
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Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.
Unusually warm water in recent years has caused the animals that make up coral to expel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relief as Fla. infant missing for 5 days is found alive, hidden in box under baby sitter&#8217;s bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Nelson</dc:creator>
		
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Fla. baby found alive in box under sitter&#8217;s bed

CHIPLEY, Fla. — Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter&#8217;s bed. Clothing was packed around it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleveland woman says she regrets silence after violent run-in with killing suspect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Smith</dc:creator>
		
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Ohio woman: I got away from serial killing suspect

CLEVELAND — Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a &#8220;civilized person&#8221; on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer — until, she said, he leapt up and began choking her and threatening to kill her.
The 43-year-old woman told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia&#8217;s Uribe changes tack on release of police and military hostages held by rebels</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/colombias-uribe-changes-tack-on-release-of-police-and-military-hostages-held-by-rebels-173393/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivian Sequera</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA, Colombia — President Alvaro Uribe&#8217;s government said Saturday it is dropping a demand that Colombia&#8217;s main rebel group release all its police and military hostages at once, possibly opening the way for negotiations.

Colombia&#8217;s peace commissioner, Frank Pearl, said relatives of the hostages had met with Uribe and asked him to help secure their loved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal leader: 87 killed in Yemen airstrike on camp for those fleeing government-rebel war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ahmad Al-haj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN&#8217;A, Yemen — Nearly 87 civilians were killed in a strike by government warplanes that hit a camp of people fleeing fighting in northern Yemen, a tribal leader said Thursday. It was a sign of increasing bloodiness in a remote war against Shiite rebels in this turmoil-ridden Arab nation.

The Yemeni government has said it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SKorea cautions any US-NKorea talks must focus on ridding North of nuclear weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae-soon Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Wednesday any dialogue with North Korea should be firmly based on the goal of ridding the communist regime of nuclear weapons, as the United States considers Pyongyang&#8217;s long-held desire for direct talks.

Unification Minister Hyun In-taek, in charge of ties with Pyongyang, also told the North not to think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: 4 people killed in suspected US missile strike, while 18 women die in stampede</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pakistan-4-people-killed-in-suspected-us-missile-strike-while-18-women-die-in-stampede-167906/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rasool Dawar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIR ALI, Pakistan — A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. drone slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border Monday, killing four people, intelligence officials and residents said.

The apparent American missile strike was the latest of more than 50 in the northwest region since last year aimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction: Kevin Harrington profile</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/correction-kevin-harrington-profile-165285/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEARWATER, Fla. — In a Sept. 9 story about infomercial mogul Kevin Harrington, The Associated Press misidentified a haircutting product being used in an upcoming Kevin Spacey movie. The name of the product is the Air Cutter, not the Flowbee.
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		<title>Analysis: Options await Congress on health care, but more delay could spell doom for overhaul</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/analysis-options-await-congress-on-health-care-but-more-delay-could-spell-doom-for-overhaul-161582/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The patient isn&#8217;t dead yet.

A few more months of wrangling and indecision, and health care legislation to remedy America&#8217;s coverage and costs problem could be drawing its last gasps.
As Congress returns to work this week, President Barack Obama and lawmakers have three broad options — competing treatment plans for a patient whose vital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official: Organizer of attempt on regional leader among 5 rebels shot dead in Russian south</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NAZRAN, Russia — Authorities in Russia&#8217;s North Caucasus region have shot dead five insurgents — one of whom was wanted for organizing a failed assassination attempt on Ingushetia&#8217;s leader, and two of whom may have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow, officials said Saturday.

Security officers in Ingushetia stopped a car near the capital late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official: Organizer of attempt on regional leader among 3 rebels shot dead in Russian south</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/official-organizer-of-attempt-on-regional-leader-among-3-rebels-shot-dead-in-russian-south-160542/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAZRAN, Russia — A security official in Russia&#8217;s southern republic of Ingushetia says authorities have shot dead three insurgents — one of whom was wanted for organizing a failed assassination attempt on Ingushetia&#8217;s leader.

Domir Rossin told The Associated Press on Saturday that security officials in the republic stopped a car near the capital late Friday.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World trade body ruling on Boeing and Airbus harkens back to time before government bailouts</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/world-trade-body-ruling-on-boeing-and-airbus-harkens-back-to-time-before-government-bailouts-160457/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The World Trade Organization&#8217;s ruling that European loans for Airbus were illegal subsidies is being cheered by U.S. lawmakers loyal to the Boeing Co., even though the preliminary decision may seem quaint in a world where government subsidies, bailouts and takeovers are now commonplace.

Friday&#8217;s ruling reflects the world as it existed five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine&#8217;s longtime GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe seen as key player in bipartisan health care reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/maines-longtime-gop-sen-olympia-snowe-seen-as-key-player-in-bipartisan-health-care-reform-160434/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Adams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AUGUSTA, Maine — While working for a marketing firm, Michael Townsend coined the signature phrase that appears on highway signs, T-shirts and tourism promos in these parts: &#8220;Maine — the Way Life Should Be.&#8221;

&#8220;Well, things aren&#8217;t the way life should be,&#8221; Townsend said.
The 55-year-old Portland resident, who has multiple sclerosis, said his employer-paid health insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US, South Korean nuclear envoys discuss ways to bring North Korea back to disarmament talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae-soon Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — Top nuclear envoys from South Korea and the United States held talks Saturday on a strategy to bring North Korea back to disarmament talks, a day after the North claimed it is in the final stages of enriching uranium.

U.S. special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, and South Korean envoy Wi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motown vignettes: Bill Clinton, Ted Nugent, Patti LaBelle and others riff on the label&#8217;s 50th</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Householder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the 50th anniversary of the founding of Motown Records, The Associated Press over a period of months invited stars from the fields of music, politics and film to visit Studio A to talk about how the Detroit musical movement has affected them and the larger world.

Some were able to make it to the Motown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture probe announcement behind him, Panetta said to have no intention of leaving CIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency&#8217;s past missteps, stoking questions about the ultimate bureaucratic insider&#8217;s future at a time when his agency is under intense public scrutiny.

A Washington veteran with a reputation as a hard-nosed infighter, Panetta lost battles with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House spokesman dismisses squabble over Obama&#8217;s school speech as &#8217;silly season&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation&#8217;s students.

&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can&#8217;t tell kids in school to study hard and stay in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What goes up: Ind. firefighter skydives 100 times in one day to fight smoke deaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEBANON, Ohio — An Indianapolis firefighter had a real up-and-down day on Friday by skydiving 100 times in southwest Ohio. Joe Frolick made the jumps Friday at the Warren County Airport near Lebanon. He said he wanted to raise awareness and money to fight fire deaths from smoke inhalation.

The 34-year-old firefighter from Wayne Township, Ind., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police arrest family member who called 911 on murder charges in Ga. mobile home slayings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The 911 call was chilling: A frantic 22-year-old told a dispatcher he had returned home from a night out to find his entire family dead in his father&#8217;s mobile home.

After a week working a case so murky they could not say whether a killer was on the loose, police said Guy Heinze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Attorney general&#8217;s office not in talks over foreign nuclear waste deal, official says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brock Vergakis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[dSALT LAKE CITY — A spokesman for Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says the office is not in any negotiations with EnergySolutions Inc. to drop the state&#8217;s objections to importing foreign nuclear waste for disposal here.

EnergySolutions said in a statement earlier Friday it was in settlement discussions.
The state is appealing a federal judge&#8217;s ruling that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture probe announcement behind him, Panetta appears securely ensconced at CIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency&#8217;s past missteps, stoking questions about the ultimate bureaucratic insider&#8217;s future at a time when his agency is under intense public scrutiny.

A Washington veteran with a reputation as a hard-nosed infighter, Panetta lost battles with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World body says Boeing rival Airbus got illegal aid _ a trade victory for US aviation giant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In a victory for Boeing Co., the World Trade Organization sided with the American aviation giant Friday in finding that European countries had provided billions in illegal subsidies to chief competitor Airbus.

The preliminary ruling by the Geneva-based WTO, although expected to be challenged by the European Union, could begin to shake up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authorities build murder case in wildfire as crews report progress in firefight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Adelman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Investigators worked around-the-clock Friday as they sought to build a murder case stemming from a huge wildfire that claimed the lives of two firefighters. California&#8217;s governor offered a $100,000 reward in the arson case.

Authorities blocked access to the crime scene, a scorched area of scrub and trees off the side of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Democrats signal resistance to sending more US troops to Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lolita C. Baldor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are signaling that any push by the White House for more troops in Afghanistan probably will run into resistance.

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the U.S. must focus more on building Afghan security forces. That view was endorsed by Sen. Jack Reed, who is also on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing wins big trade victory _ world body rules that European rival Airbus got illegal aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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The preliminary ruling by the Geneva-based WTO, although expected to be challenged by the European Union, could begin to shake up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critics denounce Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez in protests from Buenos Aires to New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susana Londono</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA — Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling.

The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP picture of mortally wounded soldier sparks debate over duty and taste</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bauder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed disappointment Friday at news outlets that used a picture taken and distributed by The Associated Press depicting a U.S. Marine mortally wounded in combat in Afghanistan.

The AP distributed the picture despite personal pleas from Gates and the dead Marine&#8217;s family in a case that illustrated the difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critics denounce Venezuela&#8217;s Chavez in multi-city protests from Argentina to Honduras</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susana Londono</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA — Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez held protests Friday against the leftist leader in cities across Latin America, in an effort coordinated through Twitter, Facebook and a Web site titled &#8220;No More Chavez!&#8221;

They grasped banners and signs with images of Chavez in a straitjacket and wearing a red clown nose. &#8220;Chavez, the shame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators look into whether Texas death row inmate threatened lawmaker from prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelley Shannon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas — Prison officials are investigating whether a Texas death row inmate accused of threatening a state lawmaker using a smuggled cell phone is behind an Internet posting that threatens the lawmaker and his family.

State Sen. John Whitmire said he&#8217;s convinced Richard Lee Tabler is behind a rambling May 29 posting on a site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ag industry defends itself over grisly video of chicks, says farming isn&#8217;t a pretty business</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ag-industry-defends-itself-over-grisly-video-of-chicks-says-farming-isnt-a-pretty-business-160103/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Duara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[IOWA CITY, Iowa — Paul Lasley cringed when he heard about an undercover video showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa hatchery.

The images were upsetting, to be sure, but as someone who grew up on a farm, Lasley knows that bringing meat and poultry to America&#8217;s dinner table is often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T. rex for sale: Fossilized dinosaur that&#8217;s 66 million-years-old up for auction in Las Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oskar Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — Museums and high-rolling natural history buffs will get a crack at buying a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex next month at a Las Vegas Strip auction.

Experts say the 170 bones discovered about 17 years ago in South Dakota represent more than half the skeleton of a 40-foot-long, 7.5 ton dinosaur that lived 66 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals court says Ashcroft may be liable for witnesses wrongly detained after Sept. 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOISE, Idaho — A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11, and called the government practice &#8220;repugnant to the Constitution.&#8221;

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals ruled Friday that the claims of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early estimates show direct cost of Palin resignation at least $40,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Doro</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Early estimates put the cost of Sarah Palin&#8217;s midterm resignation as Alaska governor at a minimum of $40,000, not including a special legislative session partly linked to her departure.

The preliminary figures obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request show it cost the state almost $14,100 for the July 26 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gibbs dismisses &#8216;pointless furor&#8217; over Obama&#8217;s school speech &#8217;silly season&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation&#8217;s students.

&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can&#8217;t tell kids in school to study hard and stay in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Dicks: WTO rules Airbus received illegal subsidies in trade dispute with US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The World Trade Organization has ruled that the European Union provided illegal subsidies to Airbus for its aircraft, a House Democrat said Friday.

Washington state&#8217;s Norm Dicks, who was briefed by U.S. trade officials of the confidential decision, said the WTO ruling confirms a complaint by the U.S. in 2004 that shows &#8220;all Airbus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitors cry foul as Hartford Courant &#8216;aggregates&#8217; surrounding newspapers&#8217; content</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Sanders</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HARTFORD, Conn. — After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news — its competition — and found itself in a plagiarism scandal.

The episode began this summer when The Tribune Co.-owned newspaper began summarizing or rewriting other newspapers&#8217; stories and putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company says it&#8217;s in settlement talks with Utah to allow foreign nuclear waste disposal</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/company-says-its-in-settlement-talks-with-utah-to-allow-foreign-nuclear-waste-disposal-160004/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brock Vergakis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — EnergySolutions Inc. said Friday it is in settlement talks with Utah aimed at getting the state to drop its objections to importing foreign nuclear waste for disposal in the state.

The company wants to import as much as 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy through the ports of Charleston, S.C., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Many tasks, 1 speech: Obama facing heat to get specific and tough on health care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In one fell swoop, President Barack Obama must regain the public&#8217;s attention on health care, explain in detail exactly what he wants in a final deal, unify a restless Democratic Party, prod Congress to get him a bill and bring clarity to a bewildering debate.

Vacation is over.
Obama&#8217;s decision to give a prime-time speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lance cpl. Joshua m. Bernard picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soumya Sinha</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard was a great inclusion to US Marine as sources say, and most importantly will be remembered thus in future. AP published some of his photos which were sensitive enough as demanded by his father. So considering you know about the unfortunate incident already, (Lance Corporal Joshua M. Bernard: the real story)

Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil prices rise as monthly job losses slow and dollar grows weaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil prices edged slightly higher Friday after the government reported the fewest monthly job losses in a year.

Benchmark crude for October delivery rose 6 cents to settle at $68.02 a barrel in on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract Thursday slipped 9 cents to settle at $67.96.
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of Ky. player who died testifies ex-football coach told her he pushed team hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Graves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Michelle Crockett dabbed her eyes. Her voice cracked with emotion.

A year after her 15-year-old son Max Gilpin died from complications of heat stroke suffered at football practice, it&#8217;s still a struggle to recall the way her son looked when she arrived at Pleasure Ridge Park High on that muggy August evening.
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