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Terrorism surged in Afghanistan, Pakistan in 2007 (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - WASHINGTON ? Terror attacks in Pakistan doubled last year, and casualties from terrorism quadrupled, as extremists reasserted their hold in tribal areas and attempted to extend their reach deep into the country, the State Department said in its annual report Wednesday. |
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Health-plan details elude most Americans (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - Fifty-five percent of U.S. health-plan members don't fully understand "critical details" of their insurance coverage, including prescription benefits, how to find the right doctor and appeal-coverage denials, a survey found. |
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Suspected sex abuse of sect boys is probed (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - SAN ANTONIO ? Texas child welfare authorities are looking at the possibility that young boys were sexually abused at a polygamist sect's ranch, a newly revealed angle of a massive investigation triggered by allegations that girls were forced into underage marriages and sex. |
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Budget cutbacks reduce witness-protection help (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - MILWAUKEE ? Maurice Pulley agreed last fall to testify against the thug accused of shooting him in the face in an argument over a parking spot. But before Pulley ever took the stand, two gunmen ran up to him and killed him in his mother's driveway. |
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Q&A on the News (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - Question: It was reported that $7 million was needed to complete the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. Where can I make a donation? |
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HP sees 'memristor' boosting data storage (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - SAN JOSE, Calif. ? For nearly 40 years, scientists have speculated that basic electrical circuits have a natural ability to remember things even when the power is switched off. They just couldn't find it. |
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Ike overruled initial use of nukes in '58 Taiwan crisis (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - WASHINGTON ? President Dwight D. Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in the summer of 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents. |
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Wright has hurt Obama, voters agree (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - SANFORD, N.C. ? Black and white voters in next week's primary states agreed on one thing Wednesday: Barack Obama's former pastor had hurt the Democratic presidential candidate at a crucial time. |
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TMZ identifies 14-year-old alleged sex crime victim (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - NEW YORK ? Breaking with standards widely followed by the mainstream news media, the celebrity Web site TMZ posted a story Wednesday about a 14-year-old who's a movie star's son and an alleged sex crime victim, and it ran the boy's picture. |
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Obama wants pro-Clinton group investigated (May 01 2008 09:51 GMT) - WASHINGTON ? Barack Obama's presidential campaign wants federal regulators to investigate fellow Democrats who are backing Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy, taking intraparty discord to a new level of confrontation. |
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