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Not since Roosevelt in 1933 has an incoming US president had a tougher economic challenge to face than Barack Obama. He is still piecing together his Treasury team but he doesn't need a pointy-headed academic to tell him the economy has hit the wall. The housing...(more)
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, an official close to the incoming chief...(more)
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIF., Nov. 21 -- The windows of the moss-covered wood cabins are dark now, the white canvas tents still. Rows of benches sit like ghosts before the amphitheater, its summer music now hushed by windy gusts and swirling leaves. Such emptiness is...(more)
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AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he would like to add significant U.S. forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year, and that grim depictions of backsliding in the seven-year-old war are "far too pessimistic."
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Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who led an elite investigations unit, is the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be arrested. He allegedly tipped off the Beltran Leyva drug gang for $450,000. In a widening probe of corruption at top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said today that...(more)
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GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Park rangers returned to a reserve that is home to nearly a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas Friday, more than a year after fighting forced them to abandon the area, a park chief said.
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Michael Jackson's nanny testified Friday that a Bahrainian prince wired her $1 million - because the singer didn't have a bank account.
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The answer to a Martian riddle -- where did all the water go? -- may lie in debris-covered glaciers found by ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists...(more)
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 21 -- Thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated Friday against an agreement that would extend the U.S. military presence in Iraq, shouting "America out!" and burning an effigy of President Bush. The rally was held in Firdaus Square, where...(more)
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Reuters - Children born "small for gestational age" -- that is, significantly smaller than most babies born after the same number of weeks of pregnancy -- appear to be at increased risk for rapid gains in weight and body fat during adulthood, researchers from Paris, France...(more)
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BAGHDAD - Tens of thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr packed a central Baghdad square Friday, where they protested a U.S.-Iraq security agreement and likened Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to fallen dictator Saddam Hussein.
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AP - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's plane made an emergency landing in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, airport police said.
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