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Tens of thousands of people in central Prince George's County homes, schools and businesses remained under a boiled water advisory yesterday as the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission worked to determine whether nearby construction or aging pipes caused the break in a water main Saturday. Tests...(more)
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Residents who fled a raging wildfire that destroyed more than 100 homes and injured 13 people described a terrifying inferno ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Fierce winds on Saturday fanned a wildfire that has burned about 10 homes and threatened a thousand others in northern Los Angeles, while firefighters to the west in Santa Barbara County battled a blaze that had destroyed more than 100 homes.
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Louise McKenzie was a 14-year-old Girl Scout when she helped prepare dinner for the president of the United States as a way to show the American public that nutritious meals could cost very little during the early years of the Great Depression. In her Rosslyn...(more)
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The raging wildfire that destroyed more than 100 plush homes in the hills above Santa Barbara, Calif., also claimed a hilltop ...
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OMAHA -- When social worker Courtney Anderson got the urgent call, she knew another child was being abandoned to the state. She spotted a boy, 12 years old, sobbing in a chair at the emergency room registration desk. Standing behind him was a woman, also...(more)
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In an impoverished Tehran district, a hairdresser turned activist helps girls and women help themselves through books, health workshops and civic action. In her eyes, they are all daughters and sisters. The waifish 18-year-old, already married and a mother, but with a hunger to learn. The...(more)
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Zimbabwean refugee Brilliant Pongo is putting his PhD into practice, communicating vital news to people in his information-starved homeland."Information is power, and this is what Zimbabweans are being denied. It is really, really restricted in Zimbabwe and people need to know what's going on – without...(more)
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Police and fire officials evacuated part of a Miramar street Thursday night as they investigated a bag that contained what they called suspicious devices.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban, notorious for summary public executions, urged the United Nations on Thursday to press the Afghan government to stop executing prisoners on death row, citing concern about fair trials. Afghanistan resumed executions this week after a break of more than a...(more)
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AP - France's U.S.-friendly president sent a clear message Friday to the next American administration: Plans for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe are misguided, and won't make the continent a safer place.
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Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the California vote that banned gay marriage there.
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