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    • Democrats push for GI Bill expansion

      - 05/12/2008 10:14 PM CDT

      WASHINGTON | Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II.

    • McCain pledges U.S. leadership on global warming

      - 05/12/2008 11:34 PM CDT

      PORTLAND, Ore. | John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday by declaring global warming a reality.

    • 300 arrested in raid at Iowa meatpacking plant

      - 05/12/2008 10:39 PM CDT

      CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa | Federal immigration agents raided a northeastern Iowa meat-processing plant Monday, arresting more than 300 people.

    • U.S. influence in Middle East wanes

      - 05/12/2008 10:14 PM CDT

      JERUSALEM | President Bush sets off this week to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday, but the festivities are likely to be muted by the dimming prospects for peace during his administration’s waning months.

    • The Buzz: Trade you a junta for a terror group

      - 05/12/2008 10:39 PM CDT

      Liberal bloggers were taking shots at John McCain for naming Doug Goodyear to manage the ’08 GOP convention. His lobbying firm once represented Myanmar’s military junta. Goodyear’s quit.

    • Business brisk for Marine recruiters in April

      - 05/12/2008 10:14 PM CDT

      WASHINGTON | The Marine Corps far surpassed its recruiting goal last month and could eventually be more than a year ahead of schedule in its plan to increase to 202,000 members.

    • Clinton plays up presumptive win in W. Va. as Obama hits two states

      - 05/12/2008 10:39 PM CDT

      LOGAN, W.Va. | Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made closing arguments Monday in West Virginia on the eve of the state’s Democratic presidential primary, which Clinton is expected to win handily.

    • Report says strong growth in wind energy possible

      - 05/12/2008 10:39 PM CDT

      WASHINGTON | Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report.

    • Talkers: Michigan student raises 1 million pennies

      - 05/11/2008 09:43 PM CDT

      CARLETON, Mich. | A Michigan school owes a million thanks to a fourth-grader. Ten-year-old Andrew Niemi had been collecting pennies since the day after Christmas in 2006. To reach his goal of 1 million, he held fundraisers. He finally picked up his last cent in March.

    • Munday on Monday

      - 05/11/2008 10:53 PM CDT

      IN THE NEWS: Scientists decode the genome of the duckbill platypus. Tiny genes aligned and sequenced

    • Bone marrow transplants to be available for dogs

      - 05/11/2008 10:53 PM CDT

      SEATTLE | The bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant appears poised to come full circle and finally become more widely available to those who first made it all possible.

    • First daughter Jenna Bush weds longtime beau

      - 05/11/2008 11:48 PM CDT

      WACO, Texas | President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but on Sunday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.

    • Families claiming autism-vaccine link go to court today

      - 05/11/2008 09:43 PM CDT

      WASHINGTON | Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine today as they take their case to a federal court.

    • Study documents chemicals in U.S. coastal waters

      - 05/11/2008 10:53 PM CDT

      WASHINGTON | There’s good news from the government scientists who study pollution in U.S. coastal waters.

    • Most diabetics also have arthritis, study finds

      - 05/10/2008 08:38 PM CDT

      ATLANTA | More than half of U.S. adults with diabetes also have arthritis, raising a serious obstacle for diabetics who are urged to exercise, according to a government study.

    • The buzz: ‘Obamalocks and the Three Bearings’

      - 05/10/2008 09:13 PM CDT

      Columnist Fred Barnes calls the Obama-Clinton face-off “the most exciting, interesting and informative race for a party’s presidential nomination in more than two decades.”

    • Reaction mixed to McCain’s flirtation with a one-term presidency

      - 05/10/2008 10:03 PM CDT

      John McCain has been known to say he is “older than dirt” and has “more scars than Frankenstein.”

    • Guests on today’s TV news shows

      - 05/10/2008 08:08 PM CDT

      Guests on today’s TV news shows: •NBC’s “Meet the Press,” 8 a.m. on Channel 27; 9 a.m. on Channel 41 — Guests: Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat; Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton.

    • Lawsuit allowed in alleged rape of Iraq contractor

      - 05/10/2008 08:13 PM CDT

      HOUSTON | A woman who said she was raped by co-workers while employed by a contractor in Iraq can take her claims to trial, a federal judge has ruled.

    • Jenna Bush weds in a low-key ceremony

      - 05/10/2008 09:13 PM CDT

      CRAWFORD, Texas | Jenna Bush couldn’t see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents.

    • New voters are registering in record numbers

      - 05/11/2008 12:53 AM CDT

      DURHAM, N.C. | Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof this year.

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    • Another twister reported in tornado-damaged Mo.

      - 05/13/2008 11:46 AM CDT

      Another round of storms moved Tuesday into tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states where residents are still picking up from the weekend's killer twisters.

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    • Dozens of homes lost as Florida battles wildfires

      - 05/13/2008 11:25 AM CDT

      Relentless wildfires burned Tuesday morning across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses.

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    • Efforts to remove Detroit mayor to go to vote

      - 05/13/2008 08:38 AM CDT

      The Detroit City Council has spent weeks debating what to do with scandal-plagued Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: force his ouster or slap him on the wrist.

    • Deputies kill 2 in shootout near SoCal casino

      - 05/13/2008 11:25 AM CDT

      Deputies shot and killed two people who had opened fire near an Indian casino in Southern California and had fired at a sheriff's helicopter as officers chased them into the hills of the reservation.

    • Second sect baby born into Texas state custody

      - 05/13/2008 08:38 AM CDT

      A mother taken from a polygamist sect and being held as a minor in state custody gave birth Monday to a baby boy who was immediately taken into child-protective custody.

    • Lawyer: 2 will admit fraud fueled luxury lifestyle

      - 05/13/2008 09:58 AM CDT

      Presumably, she didn't fleece Prince Charles. But a couple of young jet-setters plan to admit in court that other people who crossed their paths unwittingly financed their luxury lifestyle.

    • Exxon seeks $800M from Alaska over gas, oil leases

      - 05/12/2008 11:38 PM CDT

      Exxon Mobil Corp. asked Monday that Alaska pay $800 million in damages, claiming the state breached a deal when it revoked gas and oil leases on a North Slope oil field.

    • Shipping containers could become condos in Detroit

      - 05/13/2008 05:38 AM CDT

      A Detroit-based group hopes to use empty shipping containers to build a $1.8 million, 17-unit condominium project.

    • Victims say Swiss bank funded Iran terror

      - 05/13/2008 09:18 AM CDT

      American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $500 million from UBS AG, saying the Swiss bank made it possible for Iran to fund the terrorists.

    • Man jailed when daughter fails to get diploma

      - 05/13/2008 06:19 AM CDT

      A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.

    • Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dies in Fla. at 82

      - 05/13/2008 11:35 AM CDT

      Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.

    • Fashion students at Va. university design abayas

      - 05/13/2008 05:33 AM CDT

      The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries.

    • Survivors remain linked by drunken driving tragedy

      - 05/13/2008 09:58 AM CDT

      One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other alcohol-fueled crashes and became president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A third began speaking publicly about the tragedy only after two decades of staring at scars in the mirror.

    • Military cracks down on scrap-metal scavengers

      - 05/13/2008 08:03 AM CDT

      Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape.

    • Judge dismisses case of woman who says veil cost her claim

      - 05/13/2008 11:25 AM CDT

      A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed the case of a Muslim woman who sued a judge for demanding she remove her veil in court.

    • Pat Tillman's mother recalls journey for facts in new book

      - 05/13/2008 10:48 AM CDT

      The mother of former NFL player Pat Tillman suspects the military's account of how fellow Army Ranger comrades shot and killed her son in Afghanistan is still not the true story, four years later, according to her new book.

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    • Gay rights groups launch hospital rating system

      - 05/12/2008 11:13 PM CDT

      Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients.

    • N.Y. farmers fear a shortage of skilled workers

      - 05/13/2008 01:48 AM CDT

      New York farmers say a shift in state policy is making it harder for them to hire experienced seasonal workers through federal guest-worker contracts.

    • Arizona police hunting for a serial predator

      - 05/13/2008 05:33 AM CDT

      Police are hunting for a serial predator who has been linked to four unsolved attacks on women in Phoenix and nearby Mesa, including two unsolved killings.

    • Obituaries in the news

      - 05/13/2008 08:38 AM CDT

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    • No injuries reported in collapsed N.C. parking deck

      - 05/13/2008 09:03 AM CDT

      Authorities say it appears no one was injured when a small section of a four-story parking deck in Charlotte, N.C., collapsed.

    • EPA testing air after twister in toxic Okla. town

      - 05/12/2008 04:44 PM CDT

      The Environmental Protection Agency planned to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through a heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled waste is piled into giant mounds.

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    • Chicago's new top cop shaking things up

      - 05/12/2008 02:33 AM CDT

      Everyone expected Jody Weis to make changes in the Chicago Police Department when he left the FBI to become the first outsider in decades to head the city force.

    • Networks, AP sue in South Dakota over exit polling

      - 05/12/2008 09:13 PM CDT

      The three major networks, CNN, Fox News and The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal judge to strike down a South Dakota law that prevents exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.

    • Evacuations in progress in coastal Delaware

      - 05/12/2008 04:58 PM CDT

      Delaware officials say evacuations are in progress in flooded coastal communities.

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