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submitted by Grace for team Iraq news 30 weeks 2 days 19 hours 32 minutes ago
Iraq's first lady escaped unharmed Sunday from a bomb attack in downtown Baghdad that struck her motorcade, injuring four body guards.
President Jalal Talabani's wife, Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, was headed to the city's central National Theater to attend a cultural festival when her motorcade was hit in...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 16 hours 28 minutes ago
As Sen. Barack Obama strode onto the stage in the cavernous ballroom Saturday night, the audience jumped up, shouting, singing and clapping along with his campaign theme song, Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours." That full-throated welcome from the huge, overwhelmingly African American audience...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 31 weeks 6 days 14 hours 35 minutes ago
Daniel Escobedo was driving to school when he stopped for what he thought was a security check at a roadblock in the Mexican city of Juarez , across the border from El Paso, Texas .
Worried about being late for class, he hurriedly handed his driver's license...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 day 6 hours 28 minutes ago
Thousands of passengers stranded in Thailand could start coming home today after protesters called off their occupation of Bangkok's airports and airlines laid on rescue flights.The anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy announced that its airport protests would cease from midnight tonight (5pm GMT), after a court...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 weeks 2 days 15 hours 28 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Oct. 12 -- The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Sunday that American intelligence reports suggest Iran has attempted to bribe Iraqi lawmakers in an effort to derail a bilateral agreement that would allow U.S. troops to remain in Iraq after the end...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 43 weeks 14 hours 22 minutes ago
Tornadoes across four Southern states tore through homes, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses in a rare spasm of violent winter weather that killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more.
The twisters that slammed Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky were...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 weeks 3 days 16 hours 28 minutes ago
Here's an alarming thought: Pakistan is in even scarier shape than most of the so-called experts are willing to admit. This nuclear-armed state of 168 million is no stranger to political upheaval, of course. But this time, things are different. Today's ongoing crisis -- marked...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 4 days 12 hours 17 minutes ago
AFP - Commandos Saturday killed the last remaining gunmen in Mumbai's Taj Hotel to end a devastating attack by Islamic militants on India's financial capital that left 195 dead, including 22 foreigners .
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 19 hours 28 minutes ago
A day after the $700 billion plan to steady the financial markets went down in defeat, congressional offices Tuesday saw a shift in the weeklong angry torrent of calls and e-mails against the proposal.
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submitted by Ari 22 weeks 6 days 4 hours 35 minutes ago
This is a great and fair ruling. And incidentally, I think all liberals should own guns. Seriously. From the story:
"The high court’s ruling was the first since 1939 to deal with the scope of the Second Amendment, and the first ever to directly address the...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 1 day 16 hours 28 minutes ago
BAGHDAD -- First Lt. Justin John, 6-foot-4 and built like a linebacker, plopped down on a sofa in front of Ibrahim Suleiman al-Zoubaidi, one of the leaders of the mainly Sunni armed groups that have helped the U.S. military quell violence in Iraq since last...(more)
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submitted by AB 12 weeks 2 days 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Toward the end of this clip you'll see Palin cluelessly saying that Freddie and Fannie are "too expensive for taxpayers" and then blathers on about how she and McCain will make them smaller.
Meanwhile, Himbo McCain applauds in the background -- just as clueless.
I guess the understanding...(more)
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