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(AP) Pakistan's government agreed to let judges consider advice from Islamic scholars in court cases in parts of the volatile tribal regions of the northwest, officials said Tuesday.The decision marked a concession in peace talks aimed at ending conflict with Islamic militants along the frontier with Afghanistan, in a new approach ...
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(AP) Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly is snapping up Yahoo stock in preparation for a possible attempt to replace the Internet company's board after the directors turned down Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover offer.Icahn has bought as many as 50 million Yahoo shares, both CNBC and The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. ...
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(AP) Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 is certain to rise as the buried are found.Rescuers worked through a steady rain as they searched wrecked towns across hilly ...
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(AP) A series of bombs exploded across the ancient city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage.All seven blasts were within the old walls of the western city known for its pink-hued palaces, and ...
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(AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton collided with Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary on Tuesday, persisting in the Democratic presidential race despite dwindling chances and a lengthening delegate deficit. Obama campaigned lightly in the state, conceding defeat in advance while looking ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and ...
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(AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic presidential race nearing an end.Obama conceded defeat in advance in the state, looking ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and the fall campaign ...
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(AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic presidential race nearing an end. Obama conceded defeat in advance in the state, looking ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and the fall ...
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(AP) Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 is certain to rise as the buried are found.Rescuers worked through a steady rain as they searched wrecked towns across hilly ...
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(AP) Spending hours in a gas station line. Filing a story by text message, a few words at a time. Arriving in unfamiliar territory to report on a fast-moving story.News organizations have been busy covering major natural disasters over the past several days _ a cyclone in Myanmar, an earthquake in ...
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(AP) IAC/InterActiveCorp and Liberty Media Corp. say they resolved a legal skirmish regarding IAC's plans to break into several parts.Liberty is dropping an appeal it filed disputing a March ruling by a Delaware judge who sided with IAC head Barry Diller on the breakup plans.Liberty owns about 30 percent of IAC's ...
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(AP) The Bush administration put copies of North Korean nuclear logs on triumphant display Tuesday but conceded the documents are far from enough to dispel doubts about the secretive regime's nuclear weapons.Officials say they are still waiting for a full accounting of Pyongyang's atomic past, now nearly five months past due. ...
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(AP) House Democrats and Republicans agreed Tuesday that something went wrong during a vote on the night of Aug. 2 last year. But after a nine-month, half-million dollar investigation, Democrats still see it as an innocent mistake, while Republicans view it as an assault on democracy.The dispute centers around a late-night ...
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(AP) Chelsea Clinton is back in Puerto Rico stumping for her mother, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.Campaign staffers say about 250 people in the coastal town of Luquillo thronged around the former first daughter on Tuesday as the 28-year-old pushed her mother's campaign.Clinton then traveled to her mother's San Juan campaign ...
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(AP) An exit poll finds two in 10 voters in the West Virginia Democratic primary say Barack Obama shares the views of his fiery former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, "a lot." Another three in 10 say Obama shares Wright's views "somewhat."The exit polling Tuesday for The Associated Press and television networks ...
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(AP) Chelsea Clinton is back in Puerto Rico stumping for her mother, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.Campaign staffers say about 250 people in the coastal town of Luquillo thronged around the former first daughter on Tuesday as the 28-year-old pushed her mother's campaign.Clinton then traveled to her mother's San Juan campaign ...
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(AP) Legislation that would require prescription drug makers to disclose payments to doctors got a boost Tuesday when Eli Lilly and Co. broke ranks with the industry and endorsed the bill.Lawmakers gained Eli Lilly's support after they agreed to raise the payment limit requiring disclosure from $25 to $500. The lawmakers ...
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(AP) Riding a hot streak that has doubled its stock price in the past three years, Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling the dice on a $13.2 billion acquisition of technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp.The all-cash deal announced Tuesday represents HP's biggest gamble under the leadership of Mark Hurd, who was ...
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(AP) Let the general election begin.Not officially, of course, because Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has not conceded defeat, and Sen. Barack Obama has not secured enough delegates to make it mathematically impossible for her to catch him.But on Tuesday, Obama gave the clearest sign yet that he considers the Democratic presidential ...
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(AP) 4gt yr meds? Getting kids to remember their medicine may be a text message away. Cincinnati doctors are experimenting with texting to tackle a big problem: Tweens and teens too often do a lousy job of controlling chronic illnesses like asthma, diabetes or kidney disease.It's a problem long recognized in ...
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(AP) Results from a large government experiment are dimming hopes that two common painkillers can prevent Alzheimer's disease or slow mental decline in older people.The arthritis drug Celebrex and the over-the-counter painkiller Aleve showed no benefit on thinking skills, new findings show. Earlier results from the same research showed the two ...
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(AP) Eight months into his tenure as CEO of Electronic Data Systems Corp., Ronald Rittenmeyer is overseeing the sale of the company, something he says he never planned."It just came together," Rittenmeyer said Tuesday during an interview.The sale to Hewlett-Packard Co. is a milestone for a company that was started on ...
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(AP) Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report that lays out a possible plan for wind energy growth.The report, a collaboration between the Energy Department research labs and industry, concludes wind energy could generate 20 percent ...
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(AP) A list by agency of 51 federal health and safety regulations proposed or adopted since 2005 that could make it more difficult for consumers to sue businesses for faulty products:___National Highway Traffic Safety Administration2005_ June 22: proposed, designated seating positions and seat belt anchorage._ Aug. 19: proposed, roof crush strength._ ...
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(AP) Craigslist is countersuing its minority owner, eBay Inc., alleging it is competing illegally, infringing on their trademark and breaching its duty to shareholders.Craigslist filed its complaint in Superior Court in San Francisco on Tuesday. It claims eBay broke laws by taking a series of actions in relation to its own ...
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(AP) Apple Inc. has scooped up Time Warner Inc.'s HBO to feed television shows to its online iTunes store, reeling in one of the last holdouts among major channels and agreeing to a rare pricing concession to land hit shows like "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City" and "The Wire."The Cupertino, ...
