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ABC News: McCain Camp: Obama 'Wrong' on Iraq (U.S., 32 articles)
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BAGHDAD - Senator Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi politicians, as an Iraqi spokesman said that the government was hopeful that foreign combat troops would withdraw in 2010. BAGHDAD - On the eve of Senator Barack Obama s visit to Iraq, its prime minister tried to step back Sunday from comments in an interview in which he appeared to support Mr. Obama's plan for troop withdrawal. The department said the State Department issued similar orders ahead of presumed Republican nominee John McCain s overseas tours to Iraq, Mexico and elsewhere this year, but limited the communication to embassies in countries the Republican planned to visit. Al-Dabbagh said the government did not endorse a fixed date, but hoped American combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. The Pentagon's top military commander, Adm. Mike Mullen, said today that a fixed timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal could jeopardize the progress that has been made in Iraq. Obama said the troop surge in Iraq would fail to cut violence or improve political reconciliation, calling Iraq "an impediment" to success in the war on terror, which he said should be focused on Afghanistan.
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ABC News: How Oil Prices Translate to the Pump (U.S., 11 articles)
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Drivers received a brief reprieve from soaring gas prices when the price of oil dropped $16 a barrel last week, but consumers should pump the brakes on the idea of a large, instant price reduction at their local stations. The Interior Department is scheduled to unveil proposed regulations Tuesday for a program to sell oil shale leases on federal lands, similar to the leases sold now for oil and natural gas both on and offshore. NEW YORK - Oil prices rose Monday on a threat of new sanctions against Iran and as Tropical Storm Dolly headed into the Gulf of Mexico, prompting a hurricane watch for parts of Texas and Mexico.
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Video: Robert Murat accepts £600,000 after Madeleine McCann allegations (U.S., 13 articles)
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The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been completed by Portuguese police amid reports that no evidence has been found against her parents. The Portuguese Attorney-General confirmed yesterday that prosecutors had received the final police report and would now consider if the investigation should be closed. In the 14 months since the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, who vanished aged three from a Portuguese holiday apartment, the story has remained front page news.
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Fannie and Freddie run home to Mom (U.S., 11 articles)
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The federal bailout plan pulled together over the weekend to bolster Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and shore up the country's mortgage market still needs congressional approval. This is good news for Democrats trying to pass a housing rescue bill that would help thousands of struggling homeowners get into more affordable mortgages, with fixed-rates. The chiefs of the nation's two largest mortgage lenders reaped roughly $30 million in salary, incentives and other perks last year, despite setting their banks on courses which now may require government bailouts.
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All work and no play slows China's Olympians (U.S., 7 articles)
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China has gone to extraordinary lengths to spruce up its image before next month's Olympics: shuttering factories to reduce air pollution, mopping up algae in sailing waters, harassing critics and threatening journalists. I. To win the right to host the Games, Beijing promised to expand press freedoms for foreign reporters and implied that opening China to the world would help expand human rights more generally. For many advertisers this year, their Olympic spots in the U.S. are more about humanity and athletes and less about national pride.
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Post Politics Hour (U.S., 10 articles)
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Read Michelle's latest columns, check out her Color of Money Book Club selection archive or sign up for her weekly e-mail newsletter DeYoung, author of " Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell is senior diplomatic correspondent and an associate editor of The Washington Post Get the latest campaign news live on s The Trail, or subscribe to the daily Post Politics Podcast.
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Walter Reed Hearing to Put Spotlight on Kiley's Leadership (U.S., 16 articles)
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A Pentagon review board investigating conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center heard testimony yesterday from injured soldiers and their families describing continued bureaucratic missteps and problems with patient treatment more than three weeks after such problems were disclosed in the news media. For the past three years, Michael J. Wagner directed the Army's largest effort to help the most vulnerable soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A one-star general who has not yet been identified will work with Maj. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, a physician who was named on Friday to head Walter Reed, according to two defense officials.
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Jerry Brewer sports columns (U.S., 11 articles)
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Her book, "Plant Life: Growing a Garden in the Pacific Northwest" (Sasquatch Books, 2002) is a selection of her columns in Pacific Northwest magazine. U.S. Outlook Is Worst Since 92, Poll Finds Burdened by the Weight of Inflation Data (Post, May 13-14) The transcript follows She served as the TV editor for the entertainment industry trade publication the "Hollywood Reporter" for almost a decade
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Amy Winehouse's husband sentenced to 27 months :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: People (U.S., 4 articles)
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Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil has been ordered to serve a further 18 months in prison after a judge handed him a 27-month sentence in relation to a June 2006 attack on a pub landlord. Fielder-Civil was sentenced on Monday at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to James King. Amy Winehouse, who told fans at Glastonbury last month that her husband would be out of jail in two weeks, was not present in court.
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ABC News: Jalapeģ±°os Linked to Salmonella Outbreak (U.S., 8 articles)
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Federal food officials have matched a bacterial strain found on fresh jalapenos in a Texas distribution plant with the strain responsible for what has become the nation's largest food-borne outbreak in the past decade. A fresh jalape챰o pepper grown in Mexico and processed in Texas has tested positive for the strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 1,200 people in recent months, food safety and health officials said today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's associate commissioner for foods, David Acheson, said there has been a " significant break in the salmonella investigation stressing, however, that the probe is ongoing.
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Cops: Teen Mom Alive When Baby Cut From Uterus - (U.S., 6 articles)
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Andrea Curry-Demus of Wilkinsburg, Penn, is charged in the death of Kia Johnson, 18, of McKeesport. Dayton aviation director Iftikhar Ahmad said the Northwest Airlines Boeing 757 was en route from Tampa to Detroit when a computer failure prompted the crew to shut down one engine and make the landing as a precaution. (AP) JUNCTION CITY - Scattered showers forecast for California's northern mountains yesterday were not expected to have enough rain to extinguish wildfires that still threaten homes.
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The Plight of Debt-Ridden Americans (U.S., 5 articles)
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Our elected representatives have the power to rein in usurious interest rates and unconscionable fees charged by credit card and home equity lenders. They can step in and force mortgage lenders into appropriate workouts, most probably by taking over defaulting loans and mortgage-backed securities, not just by bailing out the Wall Street offenders themselves. And our elected officials can take steps to make college affordable again, giving middle-class people some prospect of a future in this rapidly changing economy.
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ABC News: Pool Co. Prez Charged in Boy's Drowning (U.S., 4 articles)
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A swimming pool company president was charged Monday with second-degree manslaughter in connection with an incident last year in which a 6-year-old boy drowned in Greenwich after his arm was trapped in a powerful suction drain. Greenwich Police said Shoreline Pools President David Lionetti "recklessly caused the death" of Zachary Cohn by failing to have his company install mandated safety devices in the pool the company built for the boy's family. " To my knowledge this is the first time an executive from a pool company has been prosecuted for homicide for claimed code violations in the installation of a pool said Richard Meehan Jr.
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ABC News: Church Shelters Illegal Immigrants (U.S., 4 articles)
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REDMOND, Wash. - This summer, is presenting a weekly series assessing issues and controversies that the next president will confront. From New Bedford, Mass. to Postville, Iowa, the federal government has been conducting raids on factories in an attempt to deport illegal immigrants. The public is divided on the issue, with some supporting amnesty, others calling for deportation, and many of the businesses that employ illegal immigrants stuck in the middle.
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Bird Flu Fears Ignite Debate on Scientists' Sharing of Data (U.S., 9 articles)
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 24 The World Health Organization might soon convene an expert panel to decide whether an unprecedented human outbreak of bird flu in Indonesia should trigger a higher global alert for a possible pandemic, health officials said Wednesday. Federal officials announced plans yesterday to sharply increase testing of wild birds to try to detect the arrival of the deadly avian flu in the United States as early as possible and stanch any outbreaks of disease. Laboratory tests conducted for the World Health Organization confirmed this week that five members of one extended family in Kubu Sembilang village had died of bird flu during the first two weeks of May and a sixth had been infected but was recovering.
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Lawyers for a Tournament Promoter Accuse the ATP of Manipulating Top Players (U.S., 4 articles)
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WILMINGTON, Del. - Under the yellowing light fixtures of a boxy fourth-floor courtroom, jurors heard accusations of manipulation on the men's tennis tour Monday in a case that could reorder the control of some international sports. Agents for top players attended the opening arguments in pursuit of newly exposed details of tournament revenue to report to their clients, many of whom were in Toronto for the Rogers Cup. As the governing body of men's tennis continues to crack down on gambling in the sport, the two Eastern European doubles specialists became the first non-Italians to be sanctioned under the ATP's anti-corruption program.
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Make doctors agents of health cost controls (U.S., 4 articles)
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Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. Nationally, Medicare and commercial insurers pay an average of only about $60 a visit to the office of a primary-care doctor and rarely if ever pay for telephone or e-mail consultations. Many health policy experts say the payments are not enough to let the doctors spend more than a few minutes with each patient.
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Indecency Penalty Against CBS Is Rejected (U.S., 8 articles)
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The decision marked a sharp rebuke of the Federal Communications Commission, the media regulator, which has under the administration of George W. Bush taken a hard line against TV indecency, issuing record fines against broadcasters. The Jackson incident occurred on one of television's biggest stages, the Superbowl broadcast, and triggered a flood of public complaints while galvanising indecency opponents such as the Parents Television Council, which on Monday condemned the ruling. While the two cases are not related, network executives said that Monday's ruling could bolster their arguments in the Supreme Court case, which involved profanities uttered by Cher and Nicole Richie on Fox.
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Seattle Times Newspaper (U.S., 7 articles)
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Lets be fair here regarding the recent picture of Sen. Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on the cover of The New Yorker magazine Cartoon might be satire, but outcry no joke Times, page one, July 15. For eight years now, there have been countless disgusting, degrading, disrespectful caricatures of President George W. Bush. Watching Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers spin is certainly more entertaining now that I am not one of her constituents An all-of-the-above energy plan Times, guest commentary, July 17.
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Olmert's lawyer: Police pressure shaped Talansky testimony (U.S., 7 articles)
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New York businessman Morris Talansky did major political, if not legal, damage to Ehud Olmert during his testimony in May by alleging that the Israeli leader accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash over the years. The outrage provoked by Talansky's testimony seriously damaged Olmert's credibility and prompted his Kadima party to set new leadership elections, to be held by Sept. 25 Talansky entered a third day of cross-examination by Olmert's defense team on Sunday in the corruption investigation against the prime minister dubbed the "cash envelopes" affair.
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Savage Stands by Autism Remarks (U.S., 6 articles)
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The leading US government funder of autism research is drawing fire over its proposal to run a randomized clinical trial of a treatment widely viewed by experts to be useless and potentially harmful, but that is broadly used for autism. Parents are using such therapy on children with autism because of their belief - which has been scientifically discredited - that mercury from vaccinations caused their children's condition. " My main point remains true Mr. Savage, whose radio audience ranks in size behind only those of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, said in the interview.
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Beyond the water bond (U.S., 6 articles)
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As California contemplates its water future, one simple principle should guide its choices: Any 30-year investment in water infrastructure must take into account what California's water supply situation will be 30 years from now. If population and warming forecasts are correct, by mid-century our state will be more crowded and precipitation patterns will have changed. Recent tests done by the federal and Nunavut governments show that the drinking water in Baker Lake is safe, following concerns raised by a resident who alleged the water was making people ill.
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Edward Gunts (U.S., 6 articles)
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Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie hasn't designed a project for Baltimore since he designed Coldspring Newtown in the 1970s, but he's apparently interested in working on the $107 million law school planned by the University of Baltimore. As a precursor to the city's annual Artscape festival later this month, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation is presenting four exhibits on Sunday to display the range of work architects produce when they are sitting in front of a computer terminal. That issue consisted of four tabloid-size pages, sold for a penny, and was in marked contrast to the six-cent "literary" dailies then in fashion all along the East Coast.
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News for Dallas, Texas (U.S., 5 articles)
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It is published by the oldest business institution in Texas, Belo Corp., now A.H. Belo, which has chronicled Texas history for more than 160 years. The Dallas Morning News traces its origins to The Daily News in Galveston, which was born on April 11, 1842, in a one-room unpainted shack, three years before the Republic of Texas was admitted to the Union. On that date, George H. French and his brother-in-law , Samuel Bangs, an itinerant printer from Boston, Mass., began publishing a four-page, 8 1/2 x 12-inch newspaper.
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Knowing your insurance limits on bank accounts is key (U.S., 5 articles)
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Where is the safest place to put money? THE SAVAGE TRUTH It's hard to beat U.S. Treasury bills, but there's also a way to insure CDs beyond the $100,000 limit. The bank safety scare of the past two weeks has sent depositors scrambling to check the rules for FDIC insurance (see previous columns and the link to the FDIC Web site at www.TerryS). IF you open a checking account at a bank, you can use checks to buy things instead of carrying cash everywhere.
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More ways than ever to find that dream house (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. A 2007 survey by the National Association of Realtors found 84 percent of buyers now use the Web to search for homes - the same share that use a real estate agent. Many buyers simply search directories created by the traditional real estate industry, the so-called multiple listing services where companies list properties available for sale.
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Ford to Make a Broader Bet on Small Cars (U.S., 4 articles)
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DEARBORN, Mich. - The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, is about to drastically alter its focus to building more small cars. Drivers created Model T traffic jams as they picked their way among barns, giving a friendly "AH-OO-GAH" honk of their horns. WHEN Henry Ford started to manufacture his groundbreaking Model T on Sept. 27, 1908, he probably never imagined that the spindly little car would remain in production for 19 years.
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Jolie and Pitt Bring the Twins Home (U.S., 4 articles)
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After a brief stay, the Hollywood actress and her partner Brad Pitt left the medical center early on Saturday morning, slipping out the back entrance to avoid the crowds of photographers awaiting the couple's departure. It reads, " Mrs. (sic) Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Fondation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19. Before dawn Saturday, the Hollywood superstar and her newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a week ago, the hospital said in a statement.
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NDP calls for Fantino 'to resign or be fired' over Brant wiretaps (U.S., 4 articles)
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That information has emerged in the case against Shawn Brant, a Mohawk leader facing a possible 12 years in prison for a protest that shut down Highway 401 and CN rail lines in Eastern Ontario. In a now famous call recorded by his own force, OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino told Shawn Brant, "your whole world's going to come crashing down" if Brant did not order aboriginal protesters to withdraw from blockade sites. The controversial remarks - contained in transcripts of recorded phone calls and in Fantino's own sworn court testimony - became public last week when an on-again, off-again publication ban in protester Shawn Brant's preliminary hearing was finally lifted.
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