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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama.
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GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) -- Most of this southwest Kansas town was destroyed by a tornado, part of a violent storm system blamed for at least seven deaths, officials said Saturday amid warnings of more severe weather....
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AP - A human rights group sued Yahoo Inc. Wednesday on grounds the U.S. search company assisted China's communist government with torture by revealing information that led to the arrest of dissidents.
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At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly hitting Jewish classmates during what they called "Hit a Jew Day."
The incident happened last week at Parkway West Middle School in Chesterfield.
District officials said Thursday they believe that fewer than 10...(more)
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President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nation’s first Hispanic justice.
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A 300-million-year-old fish fossil contains a preserved brain.
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Reminiscent of the Great Depression, encampments of homeless people are growing in such cities as Fresno, Calif.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned this morning, long after he had become a persistent embarrassment to President Bush.
The acting attorney general will be Solicitor General Paul Clement, who can stay in the job for months, administration officials said.
In a brief statement before cameras at the Justice...(more)
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US treasury secretary says he was powerless to stop multi-million dollar bonus payouts by the struggling insurerThe US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, has insisted to Congress that he only learned details of controversial multi-million dollar bonus payouts by the struggling insurer AIG at the eleventh hour...(more)
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The bonuses at A.I.G. were paid to 418 employees and included $33.6 million for 52 people who have left the failed insurance company.
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An aide to US presidential hopeful John McCain regrets saying that a terror attack on the US would be an advantage for his campaign.
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President Bush is scaling back next week’s fundraising swings for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the request of the campaign, which wants the events closed to the press, POLITICO has learned.
The change — in both Arizona and Utah — is part of McCain’s delicate effort to...(more)
