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    <title><![CDATA[   A glance at the California Voting Rights Act ]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[   Chinese-Americans see Obama's trip in unique light ]]></title>
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        As President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   In first visit to China, Obama walks a tightrope ]]></title>
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        President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how - or if - he should raise traditional human rights concerns.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Lost war bonds not easy to find ]]></title>
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        Holders of lost savings bonds dating back to World War II say its not nearly as easy to track down the lost money as the U.S. Treasury Department claims in an ongoing lawsuit.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   DNA evidence in 1998 Yale killing was contaminated ]]></title>
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        The family of a Yale student found stabbed to death off campus in 1998 has learned that DNA evidence in the unsolved murder was contaminated by a former forensic lab worker.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Palin's way of talkin' dissected, you betcha ]]></title>
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        When Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage there was a lot of talk about her distinctive way of talkin&#39;, you betcha.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote ]]></title>
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        Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices - and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far - can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who worked together writing the statute, The Associated Press has found.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Geeky 'tweeters' to report on space shuttle launch ]]></title>
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        Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off Monday: About 100 of NASA&#39;s geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops and other Twittering gadgets.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Mass. immigrant tuition bill to get new push ]]></title>
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        It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Obama arrives in China for first-ever visit ]]></title>
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        President Barack Obama is in Shanghai, launching a three-day visit to an important global U.S. partner and his first travels ever in China.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Milwaukee mayor hailed as hero to run for governor ]]></title>
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        Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who was hailed as a hero this summer for confronting a metal-bar wielding man, is running for governor.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Apology for kids shipped from Britain to colonies ]]></title>
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        As many as 150,000 poor British children were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, often taken from struggling families under programs intended to provide them with a new start - and the Empire with a supply of sturdy white workers.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood ]]></title>
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        Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Jet hits birds, forced to turn back to KCI ]]></title>
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        Airport officials in Kansas City say a passenger jet struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff and returned to land safely.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Obama: Hawaii to host Asian-Pacific summit in 2011 ]]></title>
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        President Barack Obama is steering some tourism trade and international attention to his native Hawaii in a couple of years.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Obituaries in the news ]]></title>
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        Henry Mayor &quot;Hank&quot; Bourgeois      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Authorities acting on tip search for missing girl ]]></title>
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        Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and scoured a portion of south-central North Carolina in hopes of finding a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man is zapped with stun gun at mom's NY home, dies ]]></title>
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        Police say a man who had locked himself and his mother in her Long Island home died after he tussled with officers and was zapped twice with a stun gun.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   1 killed as plane crashes in suburb east of LA ]]></title>
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        One person was killed when a small plane crashed in the heavily populated suburb of San Gabriel northeast of Los Angeles.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 839 ]]></title>
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        As of Saturday, Nov. 13, 2009, at least 839 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST.      
    
  

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