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| Pakistan offers 'joint investigation' into Mumbai attacks
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 AFP - Pakistan offered Tuesday to work hand-in-hand with India to track down those responsible for the Mumbai attacks but declined to respond immediately to a demand that it hand over 20 terrorist suspects.
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| Charity guilty of funding terror |
| A Muslim charity and five of its former leaders are convicted in the largest terrorism financing trial since the 9/11 attacks. |
| House Democrats' campaign chief will stay on |
| The architect of the 20-seat gain by House Democrats last week is staying on as their campaign chief for the 2010 midterm elections. |
| Family history can trump breast cancer gene test |
| If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. |
| CIA withheld data in Peru plane crash inquiry |
| An internal inquiry by the Central Intelligence Agency has found that the agency withheld crucial information from federal investigators. |
| Clinton "On Track" For Secretary Of State Nomination - CNN |
| (RTTNews) - New York State Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is "on track" to be nominated by President-elect Barack Obama for the critical post of Secretary of State, CNN reported on Thursday evening -... |
| French couple among the Mumbai dead - Summary |
| Paris - A French couple that had been staying in the Oberoi Trident Hotel when terrorists struck the Indian city of Mumbai were killed in the attack, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday, confirming a news report. After expressing his condol... |
| Muslim's suit over scarves in Calif. jail settled
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| AP - A Southern California county will allow jailed Muslim women to wear headscarves after settling a lawsuit with a woman who claims that deputies violated her religious freedom by making her remove her head covering. |
| Bush Imagines Cuba After Castro's Death |
| NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 -- President Bush on Thursday openly anticipated the death of ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, picturing it as an opportunity to bring freedom to the Caribbean island after nearly half a century of iron-fisted rule by the fiery communist leader.
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| Man Drops 140 Pounds In 11 Months To Join Marines |
| LEWISTON, Maine (AP) ― Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining. "'You've got to lose weight,"' Milana remembers them saying. But ... |
| Governor of Nevada is cleared in an inquiry on gifts, his lawyer says |
| Governor Jim Gibbons has been cleared by the Justice Department of any wrongdoing in connection with an inquiry into whether he helped a friend win military contracts in exchange for gifts. |
| Lawmakers fault Treasury, Fed on bailout
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| Reuters - Exasperated U.S. lawmakers criticized Federal Reserve and Treasury Department efforts to shore up the faltering economy on Thursday, telling officials that their financial rescue efforts have not reached small businesses or homeowners. |
| Pakistani defendant found mentally unfit for trial |
| A psychology exam has determined that a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill a U.S. soldier and FBI agents is mentally unfit for trial. |
| Fla. man convicted of murder 27 years ago gets out |
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIERA, Fla. -- A Florida man who spent 27 years behind bars for murder left prison for the first time on Tuesday to await a new trial granted after DNA evidence called his conv... |
| Iraqi cabinet approves US military pact
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 AFP - Iraq's cabinet approved a wide-ranging military pact on Sunday that will govern the presence of more than 150,000 US troops stationed in the country, a source in parliament said.
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| American Economy Jolts Into Reverse |
| WASHINGTON | The economy shrank during the third quarter as consumers cut back on their spending by the biggest amount in 28 years, the strongest signal yet the country has hurtled into recession. |
| Astronauts share freeze-dried Thanksgiving feast |
| The smoked turkey is ready to be heated up. All the freeze-dried green beans and cornbread dressing need are water injections before they're served. |
| Goodwill finds man who mistakenly donated $7,500 |
| It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 in cash mistakenly donated with old shoes. |
| Sears restores layaway program amid retail gloom sweeping North America |
| CHICAGO - Sears Holdings is bringing layaway back to its namesake stores next week, nearly two decades after it was scrapped. It's making that move after seeing a strong response to the pay-as-yo... |
| More Chinese Americans Than Other American Asians |
| Will the administration of the first African-American president look as diverse as the Americans who elected him? Some advocacy organizations are pushing to make it so. |
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