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		<title>Agents search Las Vegas home, office of Michael Jackson&#8217;s doctor in manslaughter investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oskar Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — Federal agents searched the home and office of Michael Jackson&#8217;s personal physician Tuesday in a widening investigation of whether administering a powerful anesthetic as a sleep aid was so reckless that it constitutes manslaughter.

Such charges against a doctor for the death of a patient are extremely rare. Authorities would have to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NJ blogger accused of threatening to kill Chicago-based federal judges called FBI informant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Robinson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — A New Jersey blogger accused of threatening to kill three federal judges has been an FBI informant and even told authorities about a potential plot to assassinate President Barack Obama, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Extremist blogger Hal Turner pleaded not guilty earlier in the day to charges that he threatened to kill three Chicago-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal agents search Las Vegas home, office of Michael Jackson&#8217;s doctor in manslaughter probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oskar Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — Authorities searched the sprawling Las Vegas home and medical office of Michael Jackson&#8217;s personal doctor Tuesday, seeking documents as part of a manslaughter investigation into the singer&#8217;s death.

Los Angeles police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents entered Dr. Conrad Murray&#8217;s home in a gated community while others across town searched Murray&#8217;s medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP source: Jackson&#8217;s doc administered anesthetic that authorities believe killed the pop star</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Watkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson had been using a powerful anesthetic to help him sleep, and authorities are working under the theory that a dose of it administered by his personal physician killed him, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A room for Mr. Vajpayee (Parliament Diary)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has retired from active politics and did not even contest the April-May general elections but if he ever decides to visit parliament house, he will find a cosy room waiting for him.

It&#8217;s room number 4 on the ground floor, with the board outside reading: Atal Bihari [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton stutters, coughs and chokes on China, 9/11 and Pak queries (re-Issue)</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/clinton-stutters-coughs-and-chokes-on-china-911-and-pak-queries-re-issue-115569/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - That U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at times appears and feels so politically unsure of herself in the corridors of power in Washington, was visible at Monday evening&#8217;s press conference at Hyderabad House after delegation level talks between the United States and India.

While for the most part, the interaction with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to keep your e-mail and other Web accounts safe while traveling</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/how-to-keep-your-e-mail-and-other-web-accounts-safe-while-traveling-115270/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fritz Faerber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Daniel Carter logged on to a shared computer at a hostel in Rome to check e-mail, he had no idea he was in a hacker&#8217;s sights. After his trip was over, he discovered someone had hijacked his e-mail account and sent a message to hundreds of his contacts asking for money.

&#8220;Sorry i did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama  has  made  Hillary Clinton  nearly  invisible:  New  York tabloid</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-has-made-hillary-clinton-nearly-invisible-new-york-tabloid-114659/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - Is U.S. Secretary  of  State  Hillary Clinton being politically marginalised by President Barack  Among Barack  Obama?  An article in the New York Daily  News  certainly thinks so

According  to the tabloid, Obama has made Hillary Clinton  nearly invisible,  something his predecessor George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA teacher admits killing wife with &#8216;bare hands&#8217; during Mexican cruise: FBI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gillian Flaccus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO — A school teacher accused of killing his wife while on a luxurious Mexican cruise allegedly told investigators that he killed his wife &#8220;with his bare hands,&#8221; according to court documents filed late Friday.

Robert John McGill, 55, of Los Angeles, &#8220;stated he killed his wife in the bathroom of their cabin with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama thanks NAACP for its accomplishments, calls for a second century of civil rights work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Elliott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Saying that civil rights leaders from decades past paved the way for his election as the nation&#8217;s first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama paid homage to the NAACP and advised members that their work remains unfinished.

Obama traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Sotomayor hearing, lawmakers find an intent listener for their praise and criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor was a mostly wordless figure in the opening act of her Senate confirmation hearing Monday, but no less striking for her silence.

The Supreme Court nominee looked intently at each speaker, no matter how much they criticized her. Her head barely moved. Her lips were closed. Her expressions were familiar to anyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion protesters, including Roe v. Wade plaintiff, arrested at Sotomayor hearing</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/abortion-protesters-including-roe-v-wade-plaintiff-arrested-at-sotomayor-hearing-108427/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The plaintiff in the landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade, who became an abortion protester in recent years, was among four demonstrators arrested Monday for disrupting Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s Supreme Court nomination hearing.

Norma McCorvey, 61, of Texas, better known as &#8220;Jane Roe,&#8221; began screaming that Sotomayor was &#8220;wrong&#8221; about abortion during the opening statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion protesters whisked out of Sotomayor&#8217;s Senate hearing after outbursts</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/abortion-protesters-whisked-out-of-sotomayors-senate-hearing-after-outbursts-108233/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion protesters briefly disrupted Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s Supreme Court nomination hearing on several occasions Monday.

The first outburst came during Sen. Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s opening statement. A man in the back of the room interrupted her remarks by shouting: &#8220;Senator. What about the unborn!&#8221; He called abortion &#8220;genocide.
Capitol Police identified the first protester as Robert James, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Sotomayor hearing, grace notes begin to fray as &#8216;wise Latina&#8217; enters the debate</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/at-the-sotomayor-hearing-grace-notes-begin-to-fray-as-wise-latina-enters-the-debate-108210/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — It only took 19 minutes for &#8220;wise Latina&#8221; to enter the conversation.

For a blink in time, the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearing on Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s historic Supreme Court nomination Monday was all about grace notes and niceties. The committee&#8217;s top Democrat and Republican escorted her to her seat facing the white marble wall and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Senator Graham predicts Sotomayor Supreme Court confirmation &#8216;barring meltdown&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a Hispanic pioneer well qualified for the Supreme Court on Monday, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama&#8217;s views as well at the start of confirmation hearings.

Despite Republican misgivings, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Sotomayor, &#8220;Unless you have a complete meltdown, you&#8217;re going to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scorecard needed to tell the players as senators consider Sotomayor&#8217;s high court nomination</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/scorecard-needed-to-tell-the-players-as-senators-consider-sotomayors-high-court-nomination-106861/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Live from the Capitol, Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s confirmation hearings promise high political theater this week, beamed to the world in dramatic, historic, perhaps comedic glory.

When the curtain rises Monday on Sotomayor&#8217;s nomination to become the Supreme Court&#8217;s first Hispanic justice, a large cast of ambitious players will be ready to explore themes from racial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four held for robbing, shooting German tourist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUCKNOW - Four men who had allegedly robbed and shot a German tourist two days ago in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Lakhimpur district were arrested after a shoot out, the police said Saturday.

&#8220;Acting on a tip-off, we intercepted the four motorcycle-borne men near a culvert in the Sisaiya locality in Lakhimpur. The men started firing at us. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama discusses abortion, stem cell research with the pope at the Vatican, then heads to Ghana</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY — President Barack Obama sat down with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday for frank but constructive talks between two men who agree on helping the poor but disagree on abortion and stem cell research.

&#8220;It&#8217;s a great honor,&#8221; Obama said as he greeted the pope, thanking him for this first meeting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big polluters discuss financing help for poorer countries to deal with climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;AQUILA, Italy — The world&#8217;s major polluters say they want to give poor countries more help in combatting global warming.

Leaders discussed the issue at the Group of Eight summit in L&#8217;Aquila, Italy.
President Barack Obama told reporters Wednesday that a meeting of finance ministers meeting in Pittsburgh in September will take up &#8220;creative proposals&#8221; on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN chief rebukes G8 over failing to curb emissions soon, provide funds for poor for warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Winfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;AQUILA, Italy — The U.N. chief sharply rebuked the Group of Eight leaders on Thursday for failing to make more commitments to reducing climate change in the near term, saying they must do so if the heavily polluting developing world is to follow suit.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also said the industrialized nations must come forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German tourist shot in Uttar Pradesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LUCKNOW - Unidentified men shot a German tourist in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Lakhimpur district before escaping with his bag containing some cash, passport and other documents, the police said Wednesday.

&#8220;Unknown assailants early Wednesday fired at George Galose, 45, after which he was rushed to the district hospital, where his condition is critical,&#8221; Additional Superintendent of Police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen survivor of Yemeni jet crash clung to wreckage for 13 hours; Heading back to Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Maliti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MORONI, Comoros — Despite a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl clung to the wreckage of a plane for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her floating in the Indian Ocean, authorities said. The only known survivor of the crash, she was being flown back to Paris on Wednesday night.

The Yemenia Airbus 310 jet was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen survivor of Yemeni jet crash bruised but conscious; plane went down with 153 on board</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Maliti</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MORONI, Comoros — Despite a fractured collarbone, a teenage girl who is the only known survivor of the Yemeni jet crash clung to wreckage for more than 13 hours before rescuers found her in the Indian Ocean, a French official and a relative said Wednesday.

There was no word on any other survivors from the Yemenia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krzyzewski still mulling over US job, Colangelo mum. Four more years together?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Litke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be wanted. And then there&#8217;s Mike Krzyzewski.

The man already has a job for life at Duke, and barely three weeks to decide whether he wants to coach the U.S. Olympic men&#8217;s basketball team again. But just for the record, Krzyzewski made it clear Tuesday the one job he definitely isn&#8217;t interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilarious campaign makes &#8216;world&#8217;s worst hotel&#8217; a hit with travellers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE - Owing to a rather &#8216;ironical&#8217; ad campaign, an Amsterdam hotel, which claimed to be &#8216;the worst hotel in the world&#8217;, has become a huge hit with travellers in the city.

The campaign, by advertising agency KesselsKramer, paints the Hans Brinker budget hotel in Amsterdam as dirty, uncomfortable and lacking basic necessities such as beds.
Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Careful planning, rope helped NYT reporter escape Taliban captivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - An Afghan journalist who was held captive by the Taliban for more than seven months along with a New York Times reporter has revealed details of their night time escape.

Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin said that the escape plan included weeks of careful plotting, taking advantage of weary guards and dropping down a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W.Va. couple get souvenir from bridge demolition, blast sends piece into their spare bedroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MASON, W.Va. — A West Virginia couple got an unexpected souvenir from the demolition of the Pomeroy Mason Bridge when a piece of it landed in their spare bedroom. When workers imploded the top half of a pier Wednesday, the blast sent a football-sized piece through the siding of Steve and Kelly Stewart&#8217;s house in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani media prominently features Zardari-Manmohan meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani media Wednesday prominently featured on their front pages the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg but refrained from commenting editorially.

The lack of editorials was not surprising given that Pakistani papers normally comment on an event two days after it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats seek to scale back health care bill after some cost estimates reach as high as $1.6T</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Jolted by cost estimates as high as $1.6 trillion, Senate Democrats agreed to scale back planned subsidies for the uninsured and sought concessions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars from private industry Tuesday to defray the cost of sweeping health care legislation. At the same time, key Democrats disagreed openly among themselves over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP INTERVIEW: HHS Sec. Sebelius says insurers won&#8217;t prevail in blocking public health plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The insurance lobby won&#8217;t be able to block a public health plan because most Americans realize they would be better off if the industry had competition, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday as congressional committees worked to shape legislation.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sebelius said that President Barack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials: 88-year-old white supremacist charged with murder in Holocaust museum shooting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old white supremacist has been charged with murder for killing the security guard who had opened the door to let him into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, officials said Thursday.

Security Guard Stephen T. Johns was shot to death Wednesday by Holocaust denier James von Brunn, who had left his car in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For US officer in north Baghdad district, pullout from the city brings loss of leverage</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/for-us-officer-in-north-baghdad-district-pullout-from-the-city-brings-loss-of-leverage-78944/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamza Hendawi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD — The American captain was visibly irritated as local officials pressed him to move his vehicles away from the meeting place to allow traffic to pass. Finally, he walked out of the meeting — and none of the Iraqis asked why.

Months before, Capt. Nathan Williams was treated with respect bordering on reverence. Iraqi officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya&#8217;s Gadhafi attacks US in speech, urges world to look at reasons behind terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi urged the world Thursday to understand what motivates terrorists, and likened the 1986 U.S. strikes on Libya to Osama bin Laden&#8217;s terror attacks.

Gadhafi, who was long accused of sponsoring terrorism, struck a provocative tone as he addressed Italian lawmakers on the second day of a trip to Italy, Libya&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delhi student commits suicide over low class 12 marks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/delhi-student-commits-suicide-over-low-class-12-marks-77779/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - A student of Modern Public School in Noida allegedly committed suicide after scoring poorly in class 12 board exams, police said Wednesday.

Akshay Rana hanged himself to death in his Mayur Vihar residence in east Delhi Tuesday evening, a police officer said.	 	
&#8220;Rana&#8217;s parent were not at home when the incident took place. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brit engineer&#8217;s daughter imprisoned in UAE for allegedly sleeping with boss</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/brit-engineers-daughter-imprisoned-in-uae-for-allegedly-sleeping-with-boss-77159/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - In yet another example of the hard-line approach towards sex in United Arab Emirates (UAE), the daughter of a British engineer has been jailed for allegedly sleeping with her boss.

Roxanne Hillier, a diving instructor, was asleep in a room above the dive shop where she worked in the emirate of Sharjah, when police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US journalists won&#8217;t see harsh side of North Korean gulag, experts say</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Foreman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — Prisoners spend long days toiling in rice paddies and factories. Survivors say beatings are frequent, hunger is constant and clothing scarce in the freezing winter.

But experts said that based on past experiences the two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor prison probably won&#8217;t see this side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLB, NHL, NBA say adverse ruling in Coyotes case would set dangerous precedent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Baum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX — The other three major professional sports leagues warned in a court document Friday that a ruling against the NHL in its attempt to block the sale and move of the Phoenix Coyotes would set a dangerous precedent.

The NFL, Major League Baseball and the NBA said in a joint brief that such a ruling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That was t-o-u-g-h: After difficult round, 16 advance in National Spelling Bee semifinals</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/that-was-t-o-u-g-h-after-difficult-round-16-advance-in-national-spelling-bee-semifinals-66756/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph White</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — That was tough. As in t-o-u-g-h.

After a difficult round Thursday that saw the chairs on stage empty one by one, 16 youngsters have advanced in the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The 16 were all that were left from a round that began with 36 spellers during the semifinals Thursday. Among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oz woman helps launch an environment friendly campaign</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/oz-woman-helps-launch-an-environment-friendly-campaign-64680/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE - AN Australian  businesswoman  Natalie Isaacs was dazed to realize that how her own measures to conserve energy  and  our planet helped launch a campaign to  protect  our environment.

Natalie  made  her  family adopt few measures at  home  to  avoid wasting energy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy activists condemn &#8216;virtual strip search&#8217; security system at airport</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/privacy-activists-condemn-virtual-strip-search-security-system-at-airport-64411/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/privacy-activists-condemn-virtual-strip-search-security-system-at-airport-64411/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Privacy activists are planning to call for a ban on the use of whole-body imaging, the airport  security technology  that they say performs &#8216;a virtual strip  search&#8217;  and produces &#8216;naked&#8217; pictures of passengers.

Lillie  Coney,  associate  director  of  the  Electronic  Privacy Information  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holes in police version: Elena&#8217;s passport found in room, not near rail track</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/holes-in-police-version-elenas-passport-found-in-room-not-near-rail-track-63898/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PANAJI - Fresh inconsistencies have surfaced in the police version regarding the death of Russian teenager Elena Sukhonova whose body was found along a railway track near here almost a fortnight ago.



Contrary to earlier statements made by the police to the media that the 19-year-old&#8217;s passport was found in her purse near her body, IANS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire at Ram Vilas Paswan&#8217;s home in Delhi</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/fire-at-ram-vilas-paswans-home-in-delhi-61458/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) President Ram Vilas Paswan Wednesday escaped a fire that broke out in one of the rooms of his official residence here.



Paswan was watching television with his wife in a room at 12 Janpath when he was informed of the fire that broke out in the adjacent drawing room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Ortiz says he was &#8217;shocked&#8217; to learn about ex-teammate Manny Ramirez&#8217;s 50-game suspension</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 09:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Resnick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANAHEIM, Calif. — David Ortiz was &#8220;shocked&#8221; when he learned about former teammate Manny Ramirez&#8217;s 50-game suspension after he failed a drug test. &#8220;This situation has shocked me. That&#8217;s not the guy that I know,&#8221; the Boston Red Sox designated hitter said before Tuesday night&#8217;s game against the Los Angeles Angels. &#8220;The only thing I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Alabama quarterback Wilson tries to impress Falcons as undrafted rookie free agent</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/former-alabama-quarterback-wilson-tries-to-impress-falcons-as-undrafted-rookie-free-agent-58972/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Henry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — John Parker Wilson waited all weekend to throw a pass to Tony Gonzalez.

Finally, after Falcons coach Mike Smith dismissed the team on the last day of Wilson&#8217;s first NFL mini-camp, the former Alabama starting quarterback worked one-on-one with Gonzalez, the league&#8217;s career-leading tight end.
The drill Sunday afternoon was nearly over before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabindranath Tagore&#8217;s birth anniversary celebrated</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/rabindranath-tagores-birth-anniversary-celebrated-57736/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 22:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOLKATA - The 149th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated Saturday amid great enthusiasm across West Bengal with renderings of songs and poems composed by him.



Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel prize for literature, in 1913, for his collection of poems &#8216;Gitanjali&#8217;, was born at Jorasanko in the northern part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry Lalu may opt to skip cabinet meet</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/angry-lalu-may-opt-to-skip-cabinet-meet-55020/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/angry-lalu-may-opt-to-skip-cabinet-meet-55020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 13:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - An angry Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is expected to skip today&#8217;s cabinet meeting in the capital in the wake of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi suggesting a possible political arrangement with Lalu&#8217;s rival in Bihar &#8212; Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The otherwise media-friendly and gregarious Lalu shunned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Exclusive: Survivor of NY mass shooting says police first suspected him as Asian gunman</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-exclusive-survivor-of-ny-mass-shooting-says-police-first-suspected-him-as-asian-gunman-51642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SYRACUSE, N.Y. — For an hour, the Asian man cowered amid the chaos of what had been his adult English class. Blood soaked through his jeans where a bullet had fractured the bones of his lower right leg. More blood flowed into his eye from a bullet wound on his temple; a hole in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;American Idol&#8217; singer Matt Giraud says thanks but no thanks to Timberlake comparison</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/american-idol-singer-matt-giraud-says-thanks-but-no-thanks-to-timberlake-comparison-46561/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 04:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Elber</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — &#8220;American Idol&#8221; finalist Matt Giraud said he appreciates being compared to Justin Timberlake but intends to follow his own musical path.

&#8220;A white guy with soul, that&#8217;s just how it works. &#8230; But I think I&#8217;m a lot different,&#8221; Giraud said Thursday, one day after being voted off the Fox TV singing contest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden says he believes Specter will have &#8216;an open mind&#8217; if compromise offered on card check</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hananel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he believes Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter would have &#8220;an open mind&#8221; on voting for a bill that makes it easier to form unions if a compromise emerges.

Specter&#8217;s party switch puts Democrats within reach of a 60-seat majority, which could overcome an expected Republican filibuster of the controversial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyo. police arrest woman after finding her in hotel room with barrel of cinnamon bear candies</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/wyo-police-arrest-woman-after-finding-her-in-hotel-room-with-barrel-of-cinnamon-bear-candies-42742/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CASPER, Wyo. — Police arrested a 28-year-old woman after finding a barrel of cinnamon bear candies in her hotel room that police believe had been stolen from a local restaurant. Officers responded to a 911 call at a hotel room where the woman was staying on Saturday evening. Officers determined that the call had been [...]]]></description>
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