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Posted: 07 Nov 2010 05:50 PM PST The United States may remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as next July, U.S. officials said Sunday, provided the government in Khartoum meets an assortment of benchmarks.     |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2010 04:10 PM PST President Barack Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.   |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Resurgent Republicans rallied Sunday behind an agenda based on unwavering opposition to the Obama White House and federal spending, laying the groundwork for gridlock until their 2012 goal: a new president, a "better Senate" and ridding the country of that demonized health care law.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year's end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It's a position shared by his boss, the president.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 01:50 PM PST Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year's end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It's a position shared by his boss, the president.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 12:20 PM PST Authorities say they have found what looks like a hand grenade inside a knapsack dropped by a gunman at a Las Vegas-area Walmart.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 11:30 AM PST Resurgent Republicans rallied Sunday behind an agenda based on unwavering opposition to the Obama White House and federal spending, laying the groundwork for gridlock until their 2012 goal: a new president, a "better Senate" and ridding the country of that demonized health care law.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 11:20 AM PST A lottery ticket purchased at a Detroit-area store is the sole winner of the nearly $129 million Powerball jackpot. |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 11:00 AM PST Muggs Bass doesn't own a computer. She's pretty much dead set against e-mail. Anyone who calls her home on Michigan's remote Beaver Island should be prepared for a busy signal, if she's on her land-line phone. She has no cell.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:50 AM PST Muggs Bass doesn't own a computer. She's pretty much dead set against e-mail. Anyone who calls her home on Michigan's remote Beaver Island should be prepared for a busy signal, if she's on her land-line phone. She has no cell.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:44 AM PST Republicans don't just control much of the electoral map. In some cases, they now have the power to redraw it.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:20 AM PST A 2 1/2-year-old probate battle involving the heirs of children's book author and illustrator Tasha Tudor goes to trial Monday, with her adult children fighting over the legitimacy of the will controlling her $2 million estate.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:10 AM PST Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia say bomb grade nuclear material they seized in March was smuggled across the border from Armenia in a cigarette pack.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:09 AM PST He's best-known for opening San Francisco's City Hall to same-sex weddings and was once thought to be too liberal even for the bulk of California. But Gavin Newsom's decisive Nov. 2 win as the state's next second-in-command has rekindled prospects that he may one day be a viable candidate for governor or U.S. Senate.   |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2010 08:20 AM PST President Barack Obama tried hard to avoid it, but he couldn't escape being pulled into a dance by schoolchildren celebrating the Indian holiday of Diwali, or the festival of lights.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 08:20 AM PST He's the most famous son of a quiet mountain hamlet in western Massachusetts. But until recently, people looking for signs of W.E.B. Du Bois' life and legacy in Great Barrington would have had a hard time finding them.   |
Posted: 07 Nov 2010 08:20 AM PST Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a place in the Democratic leadership after Republicans take control next year.   |
