AP sources: Bill Clinton to speak to Dem senators
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Former President Bill Clinton plans to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss health care legislation with Senate Democrats. Officials says the former president is scheduled to speak during the Democrats' weekly...
US to send envoy to NKorea for nuclear talks
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The Obama administration has decided, after months of deliberation, to accept an offer by North Korea to send a special envoy to Pyongyang for direct talks on nuclear issues, two administration officials said Monday. ...
Radical imam praises alleged Fort Hood shooter
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A radical American imam on Yemen's most wanted militant list who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero on his personal Web site Monday. The posting on...
Radical imam praises alleged Fort Hood shooter
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A radical American imam on Yemen's most wanted militant list who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero on his personal Web site Monday. The posting on...
Obama encourages federal hiring of veterans
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The White House launched an effort Monday that it says will turn the government into a model employer of military veterans and possibly provide encouragement for private employers to do the same. President Barack Obama...
Family sues over boy's gun show death
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The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head. The family of...
NM teen back in jail after failed suicide attempt
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A New Mexico teenager suspected of killing a nun on the Navajo Indian reservation reportedly tried to commit suicide over the weekend. Albuquerque television station KRQE reported Monday that 18-year-old Reehahlio...
NYPD: Suspicious powder sent to 3 NY consulates
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Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the mailings were a hoax, police officials said. A field test done on the powder sent the...
Madoff's personal effects go on the block
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Of all the items set to go on the auction block this week at a midtown Manhattan hotel, there's one that would take some mettle to wear in public: A satin New York Mets baseball jacket emblazoned with the name "Madoff."...
Wash. lt. gov's son wounded in workplace shooting
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A close friend of Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen shot one of Owen's sons in an apparent workplace dispute Monday afternoon and then shot himself in the head, the lieutenant governor said. Mark Owen, 37, was listed in...
Mexico declares flood emergency in 2 south cities
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The Mexican government has declared parts of the Gulf coast state of Tabasco disaster zones due to flooding from days of heavy rains, freeing up federal relief funds for the area. The Interior Department decree issued...
Iran accuses 3 detained Americans of espionage
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Iran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling Tehran intends to put them on trial. It drew a sharp U.S. response that the charges are baseless because the hikers strayed across the border from Iraq. ...
Gunmen kidnap 3 workers in southern Philippines
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Gunmen in camouflage stormed a plywood factory and abducted three workers Tuesday, a day after suspected Muslim militants beheaded a kidnapped schoolteacher on a nearby southern Philippine island, officials said. About...
US State Dept 'deplores assault' on Cuban bloggers
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The U.S. State Department issued a statement late Monday decrying attacks on three Cuban bloggers, including one who has gained international attention for her searing observations about life on the communist island. ...
Thousands cheer 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall
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Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow. "It was like a prison," said Sauff, 73, who lived on...
Different views of slaughterhouse manager offered
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Prosecutors and defense attorneys for the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse offered starkly different portraits of the man accused of defrauding a bank Monday in the closing arguments of his nearly...
Petters associate explains how alleged scam worked
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A key figure in the case of a Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme acknowledged Monday that he was a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record who had entered the federal witness...
LA man gets prison for repackaging plane parts
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A Los Angeles businessman has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for selling uncertified aircraft manufacturing parts that were used to make Boeing 737 airplanes. Prosecutors say 74-year-old Duane Lepire...
Feds seize assets of Fla. lawyer in Ponzi probe
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Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed,...
Judge: Evidence allowed in ex-KB home chief trial
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has rebuffed an effort by the former chief executive of building giant KB Homes to exclude materials related to his marriage settlement and other evidence during his upcoming trial for...
Comedian Katt Williams jailed in Ga. over burglary
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Comedian and rapper Katt Williams was released on bond Monday after police said they arrested the entertainer for breaking into a home and stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and coins. Williams, who police...
Lawyer: Woods' brother did not get proper care
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A hospital did not do enough to care for the brother of James Woods when he went to the emergency room complaining of a sore throat and vomiting in 2006, a lawyer for the actor told jurors Monday at the trial of a...
Mya tops fellow celebs on 'Dancing With the Stars'
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Mya is tops on "Dancing With the Stars." The 30-year-old Grammy winner was the top scorer Monday on the hit ABC show. She finished a point away from perfect, earning 59 points out of 60 for her two dances and beating...
Mutual of Omaha settles 'aha' suit against Winfrey
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Mutual of Omaha may have had its own "aha moment." The insurance company has decided to settle its lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey's production company over rights to the phrase. Jim Nolan, a spokesman for Mutual, and...
Another Disney studio executive exits
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Another executive at The Walt Disney Co.'s movie studio is exiting hurriedly as the company's troubles continue at the box office with a weak opening for "A Christmas Carol." Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney...
BERLIN WALL RETROSPECTIVE: One down. One to go.
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EVANSTON, Ill. (BP)--For my generation, the fall of the Berlin Wall was astonishing, even stupefying. We had lived our lives in the shadow of communism. In the two years before I was born, Winston Churchill had...
Fla. Baptists to brave Ida winds & rain
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (BP)--When Hurricane Ida was downgraded to Tropical Storm Ida on Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center's announcement left residents of coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida a bit...
Gov. urges community to mutual support
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KILLEEN, Texas (BP)--Texas Gov. Rick Perry called for mutual support among soldiers at Fort Hood and residents in Killeen, Texas, in his remarks to a community memorial service Sunday night at First Baptist...
Liberty students swing election, get lesson in democracy
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--If any Liberty University students wondered if their vote could make a difference on Election Day, they now know the answer.With on-campus residents voting in a general election only for the second...
BERLIN WALL RETROSPECTIVE: The wall became a door
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RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--I clearly remember watching the evening news, spellbound as jubilant Berliners danced upon the Berlin Wall the night of Nov. 9, 1989. East Berliners were flowing through Brandenburg Gate, and a news...
Scanning invisible damage of PTSD, brain blasts
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Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries _ signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It's work that...
Medical association backs health system reform
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The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals that threaten doctors' pocketbooks and...
UK starts study on using human DNA in animals
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British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be. Though experts have been swapping...
Lawmaker wants probe of E. coli and school lunches
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The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., is worried about a recent outbreak that killed...
WHO: AIDS leading cause of death, disease in women
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In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. Unsafe sex is...
Google snaps up mobile ad startup for $750 million
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Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the Web on...
Nobel-winning Russian physicist dies at 93
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Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93. Ginzburg died late Sunday of cardiac arrest, the Russian Academy of Sciences...
High court considers what can qualify for a patent
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Should techniques for training horses be eligible for a patent? What about a system for choosing a jury or fail-proof method for speed dating? Supreme Court justices raised the questions Monday as they struggled to...
Cisco Systems sells $5 billion worth of debt
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Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, said Monday it will sell three series of senior unsecured notes worth a total of $5 billion. The offering is expected to close on Nov. 17....
EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun
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European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. The so-called...