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On the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama said his administration would help small family farms, end childhood hunger and upgrade roads and bridges in rural areas. His commitment to the rural and impoverished parts of America helped secure critical victories for him in Midwestern Corn...(more)
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Property taxes are rising across the USA despite the steepest drop in home values since the Great Depression.
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NYABIONDO, Congo -- The couple had spent three hard years in a militia camp deep in the forests around this eastern Congolese village when they finally decided to escape. Droselle Uwonkunda's husband, a militiaman, left first, and a few weeks ago she followed him --...(more)
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Senior U.S. officials converged on South Asia yesterday, hoping to persuade India and Pakistan to lower the tensions between them after the Mumbai attacks, and to avoid an escalation that could jeopardize U.S. war efforts in neighboring Afghanistan. Their most urgent message is directed toward...(more)
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BAGHDAD -- A couple of months after Capt. Jonathan Heavey, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center physician, arrived in Baghdad, an Iraqi doctor handed him the medical file of a 2-year-old boy with a life-threatening heart ailment. The doctor said the boy couldn't get the...(more)
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The sole Mumbai gunman captured alive has told police he was trained in Pakistan and ordered to “kill until the last breath”, according to a leaked account of his interrogation.
Azam Amir Kasab, 21, a Pakistani national, claimed the terror strikes, which left nearly 200 dead, were...(more)
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State legislators brought bleak budget projections to officials in Northern Virginia yesterday, increasing the anxiety of local governments scurrying to find spending cuts. Senate revenue projections show the state's fiscal picture darkening since October, when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine projected a $2.5 billion drop-off in...(more)
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China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday.
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The $326bn rescue of Citigroup was, some investors hoped, a turning point. It prompted a concerted rally on Wall Street last week as shareholders were reassured that the US authorities would not allow another major bank to collapse.The Dow Jones gained more than five straight days...(more)
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President-elect tells a gathering of 48 state chief executives that he wants their input on a national economic recovery plan. The nation's governors came to tell tales of financial woe, but President-elect Barack Obama was already sold on them playing a role in the national economic...(more)
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submitted by Jazz 37 weeks 7 hours 32 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush brought up al-Qaida 14 times Wednesday in a 26-minute speech marking the anniversary of the Iraq war. He wasn't coy about his point: If America stops fighting in Iraq, there could well be new attacks at home by Osama bin Laden's...(more)
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A driver was arrested after his car jumped a curb today in San Francisco's Mission District and seriously injured a pedestrian, police said.
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