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Clinton wins Puerto Rico but Obama gains delegates (U.S., 40 articles)
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Hillary Clinton has said her fight for the Democratic presidential nomination will go on after winning a largely symbolic victory in Puerto Rico. The AP tracks the delegate races by calculating the number of national convention delegates won by candidates in each presidential primary or caucus, based on state and national party rules, and by interviewing unpledged delegates to obtain their preferences. The results pushed Obama closer to the magic number of 2,118 delegates needed to become the nominee, and the Illinois senator already has turned his attention to a general election fight with McCain. At a raucous all-day meeting of the party's rules panel, which was frequently interrupted by Clinton's supporters, the panel agreed on Saturday to seat the delegations from both states but cut their voting power in half. Clinton who trails Obama in delegates and would benefit from validated victories in those two states wants all of Florida's and Michigan's delegates to have votes at the party convention. WASHINGTON Hundreds of angry voters many of them Clinton campaign volunteers demonstrated outside the Democratic National Committee meeting today, demanding that the party's rules committee honor all the primary votes and pledged delegates from Florida and Michigan.
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Seattle schools and race: a history (U.S., 5 articles)
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1950s 1954 U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision outlaws segregated schools 1960s 1963 Committee appointed to come up with solution to "gross racial imbalance" in certain schools in the Central Area. At peak in 1969-70, 2,604 students participated, of whom 2,200 were black 1970s 1972-77 Various attempts to promote voluntary integration, including magnet programs in 27 schools, and adding a strong science program and new facilities to Garfield High. The case was a landmark for civil rights, but it sounded a death knell for thousands of black schools across the South.
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Landis Attorneys Question Lab's Methods at Hearing (U.S., 6 articles)
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Attorneys for Floyd Landis began trying to paint a picture yesterday of incompetence at the French laboratory where the cyclist's urine was tested. While Floyd Landis s former manager prepared to enter rehab yesterday, a witness for Landis testified he had grave concerns about the evidence being used to prove the Tour de France champion's positive doping test. Landis contends poor testing methods are responsible for unreliable results that call into question the validity of the positive test from last year's Tour.
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Credit-alert proposals could lead to better deals on loans (U.S., 7 articles)
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P For many borrowers, adjustable-rate mortgages are too risky, even though the interest on such loans is usually fixed for five or seven years at a rate lower than that offered on 30-year fixed mortgages. P Anew study finds that closing costs on home loans vary widely and that African Americans, Latinos and people in neighborhoods with fewer college graduates tend to pay more. Loans can be obtained from mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers, savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, commercial banks, credit unions and insurance companies.
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Equipment Makers Profiting More From Oil Prices Than Producers (U.S., 7 articles)
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That's billion with a "b" - as in a ball-breaking amount for those speculators who are purposely pushing oil higher for their own selfish reasons. Exxon, the world's largest oil company; Chevron, the second-biggest in the United States; and the rest of the industry are struggling to increase production and profits because the most promising new fields are miles beneath the ocean. Services and equipment companies will return 22 percent in the next 12 months, double the gains of the oil companies, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. forecasts.
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News for Dallas, Texas (U.S., 4 articles)
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The dream scenario for someone selling his or her home is a long line of prospective buyers shouting at the top of their lungs in a protracted bidding war for the home. Unlike traditional negotiations, there should not be a "winner" or "loser" in the process. Real estate agents generally have a variety of standard forms, including residential purchase agreements that are kept up to date and made available to those who use the services of an agent.
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Construction crane collapses in New York, killing 2 (U.S., 10 articles)
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It was a crane snapping apart and collapsing onto a 23-story apartment building across the street from his work site. The incident echoed a similar one in Manhattan in March, in which seven people were killed, and after which a city building inspector was arrested on charges of lying about inspecting the crane. Just three weeks before his wedding day , Donald Leo, 30, died in the cab of the doomed Upper East Side crane because the usual morning operator was running late, his stunned colleagues told The Post.
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160 Nations Endorse Pact on Global Warming Compliance (U.S., 6 articles)
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Diplomats, clinching a deal in the final hours of tumultuous, marathon climate talks here, agreed today to put their governments on a fast track for deciding how to meet ambitious goals for slashing emissions from fossil-fuel combustion. The accord, gaveled through at sunrise after nearly two days of non-stop negotiations, represented the first concrete steps toward implementing the global warming treaty approved last December in Kyoto, Japan. Today's agreement was reached after intense bargaining and diplomacy-by-exhaustion that nearly mirrored the December conference, which produced the Kyoto accord.
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Why you shouldn't buy Scott McClellan's book (U.S., 10 articles)
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" There's a higher loyalty - a higher loyalty to the truth the former White House mouthpiece said of his scathing new tell-all book about the Bush administration. P The uproar about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's disloyal memoir about his time in the service of President George W. Bush has been the source of the latest white noise emanating from cable news talk shows. For all the analysis that's been charged with partisan chatter there's been virtually no discussion of the impact McClellan's betrayal of his former boss upon the presidency itself.
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Texas gay couples heading to California for licensed marriages (U.S., 10 articles)
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P (05-15) 12:38 PDT SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court struck a historic but possibly short-lived blow for gay rights Thursday, overturning a state law that allowed only opposite-sex couples to marry. The state Constitution's guarantees of personal privacy and autonomy protect " the right of an individual to establish a legally recognized family with the person of one's choice said Chief Justice Ronald George, who wrote the 121-page majority opinion. P (04-16) 04:00 PDT Providence, R.I. Gay couples had to struggle mightily to win the right to marry or form civil unions.
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New Southwest ad campaign targets other airlines' fees (U.S., 5 articles)
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In the view of airline executives and analysts, the industry is facing its toughest challenge yet, with little prospect that carriers can return to profits anytime soon. United Airlines scrapped its latest attempt to combine with US Airways and create the world's largest carrier, formally backing away Friday from a deal that likely would have meant fewer routes and higher ticket prices for consumers. Now the question for those and other U.S. airlines is how to get by and make money with oil prices near $130 a barrel.
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Ilana DeBare: Health care plan means only 1% tax for small business (U.S., 8 articles)
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Mayor Adrian Fenty seems much more interested in expanding health coverage and improving health care than his predecessor was. Key elements include a mandate that everyone carry insurance and $21 million in new taxes to help subsidize the purchase of insurance by those who need assistance. The report, from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, said that in Massachusetts, 72 percent of employers offer health insurance to their workers, higher than the national rate of 60 percent.
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McCain, Obama tussle over Iraq troop levels (U.S., 7 articles)
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That, however, was merely one of the many bits of health trivia that emerged after the McCain campaign opened hundreds of pages of the candidate's medical records to a few select members of the media. The next morning, bleary-eyed Americans opened their papers and learned about everything from McCain's melanomas to his trouble with cholesterol. The campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama are engaged in a fierce exchange today over a questionable claim McCain made in Wisconsin last night about progress in Iraq.
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Lord Levy in secret talks with Tory frontbencher Michael Gove (U.S., 7 articles)
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Lord Levy - who was Tony Blair's fundraiser for more than a decade - has held talks with a senior Tory, in the Conservative Party's most audacious bid yet to court Labour's supporters. The peer held a private meeting with Michael Gove last month, The Times has learnt. Gordon Brown does not have the ability to win people over that his predecessor had, former Labour fund-raiser Lord Levy has said.
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Judge Stalls Deal Between Texas, Polygamist Sect to Return Children (U.S., 6 articles)
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For nearly two months, Texas child welfare officials had insisted conditions at a polygamist group's ranch were so abusive that none of its members should be allowed to keep their children. However, one of the of the largest custody cases in U.S. history is unraveling, and some are looking for what went wrong when the state raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch and removed more than 400 children. Some of the lawyers vowed to bypass the judge, Barbara Walther of state District Court, and carry the new turn in the case to a state appeals court.
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Gordon Brown warns 42-day terror detention rebels that he won't back down (U.S., 5 articles)
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is urging his backbenchers to support plans to allow the police to detain terror suspects for 42 days without charge. BEGIN: Comment Teaser Module An ally of the Prime Minister said: " This is making clear that on 42 days, this is not a negotiation. Ministers are winning over rebel MPs on the controversial terror vote to extend detention without charge to 42 days, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.
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Blaze ravages Universal Studios (U.S., 5 articles)
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At least 300 firefighters fought the blaze, which injured three people, after it began before dawn on a sound stage featuring New York facades. (Andrew Gombert/Associated Press) A massive fire on Sunday at Universal Studios that destroyed a giant soundstage, a video library and several movie sets is under control, say fire officials in Los Angeles. Daryl Jacobs said that as many as three blocks of movie facades as well as the courthouse square set used in the Michael J. Fox movie Back to the Future have been destroyed.
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New York Post (U.S., 5 articles)
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Jews from Eastern andWestern Europe, Greeks, Italians, West Indians, Japanese, and others continued to stream into the United States, greatly increasing the populations in many cities. Cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Chicago grew rapidly as the number of immigrants increased and as blacks left the South because of racial violence and lack of job opportunities. That United States had grown from a collection of 13 colonies along the Eastern seaboard to an area that stretched beyond the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains.
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Thousands defy Boris Johnson's Tube drink ban (U.S., 5 articles)
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Love is flourishing on the Parisian Metro, according to a study by the Paris Transport Authority - and researchers believe that the same is probably true on other underground systems, including London's. The survey found that the majority of internet messages posted by Parisians seeking a beautiful stranger whose path they had crossed stemmed from a look, a smile or a conversation on the Tube. Six London Underground stations were closed as trouble flared when thousands of people marked the banning of alcohol on London transport with a party.
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Tysons Planners Thinking 'Circulator' (U.S., 4 articles)
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Virginia leaders who are nearing a decision on whether to build a Metrorail line below ground through Tysons Corner face a question that goes well beyond disputes over cost estimates and construction timelines. The extension's top congressional sponsors warn that delays and cost escalations associated with a tunnel could imperil the 23-mile line to Dulles. Virginia officials are considering a proposal from contractors allied with a major Tysons Corner landowner to take over construction of at least half of the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, a prospect that threatens to further delay the project.
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U.S. Wants Polar Bears Listed as Threatened (U.S., 4 articles)
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So says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who announced last week that her state would sue to block Washington from listing the animals as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. Among his inaccuracies: The polar bear is not the first animal species to be recognized as threatened by climate change; the elkhorn and staghorn corals have been federally listed as endangered species because of habitat loss from global climate change. This happened two years ago, so, if even remotely reasonable, some of his paranoid presumptions about the "green left" would have already materialized.
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Lorenzo Odone, subject of film 'Lorenzo's Oil' (U.S., 4 articles)
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As a sufferer of the rare nerve disease adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD, Lorenzo Odone was at the centre of some of the most important and well-publicised research into the illness of recent times. His Italian-born father Augusto was an economist for the World Bank, and Lorenzo's early years were spent in Kenya and on the French-speaking Comoros Islands. Lorenzo Odone, who doctors had predicted would die in childhood, died Friday, one day after his 30th birthday, said his father , Augusto Odone.
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NBC is upsetting politicians on both sides of the aisle - (U.S., 4 articles)
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Capus said viewers are smart enough to understand the difference and that the criticism is a reflection of MSNBC's growing popularity. That culminated in Matthews' apology in January for saying that the reason Clinton is a U.S. senator and candidate for president " is that her husband messed around. When Tim Russert declared Obama the Democratic nominee during MSNBC's coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the words carried extra weight because the Meet the Press host is generally considered the top broadcast journalist in Washington.
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Week 10 - January 5-11: Cheshin pulls the plug on Sharon (U.S., 4 articles)
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In other times this combination of words - Bibi, right-wing Neve Ya'akov, and four days before elections - would have been a sort of chemical brew, a catalyst creating a political explosion of emotions. Rhythmic chants of "Bibi-Bibi" and " Bibi, king of Israel would have filled the air, only to be brushed aside by some dismissive Netanyahu gesture of false modesty. The people who made American-style media spin a key component of Israeli elections were taken by surprise along with the rest of us.
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