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Imam: Islamic center location a national security issue

2 hours 50 min ago
The imam behind plans for an Islamic center near ground zero told "Larry King Live" that moving it to another location would embolden Islamic radicals.
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Mexican mayor shot dead in own office

3 hours 25 min ago
The mayor of El Naranjo, Mexico, in the central state of San Luis Potosi was gunned down and killed inside his office Wednesday, officials said.
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'Rahmbo' Emanuel: Obama's enforcer

5 hours 55 min ago
Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, is known as a force of nature who efficiently navigates the back halls of Congress to get exactly what he wants.
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Castro casts doubt on 'Cuban model'

6 hours 51 min ago
Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the "Cuban model" no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model.
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Public may not see blowout preventer

Wed, 2010-09-08 22:07
The public may have seen the last video images of the failed blowout preventer from the BP oil well disaster, as authorities expressed possible security concerns.
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Trapped miners get soccer treat

Wed, 2010-09-08 20:30
The 33 workers trapped in a Chilean mine got a rare treat Tuesday night: they got to watch their national soccer team compete against Ukraine in the European Cup live via a small projector wired down to their safety chamber on a fiber optic cable.
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Who might replace Rahm?

Wed, 2010-09-08 20:15
The smart money in Washington and Chicago, Illinois, says it's all but a certainty that within weeks Rahm Emanuel will throw his hat into the ring to replace retiring Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. So the parlor game over who will replace Emanuel as White House chief of staff has already kicked into high gear.
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Google starts instant search

Wed, 2010-09-08 20:00
Another day, another animated Google logo -- and with it, a big question: What will Google announce Wednesday to improve the way people use its engine to search the Web?
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Piers Morgan replacing Larry King

Wed, 2010-09-08 18:23
British TV host Piers Morgan will take over Larry King's prime-time hour with "a candid, in-depth newsmaker interview program" starting in January, CNN announced Wednesday.
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Opinion: Obama wrong for '10 campaign

Wed, 2010-09-08 17:12
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel may have gotten his get-out-of-jail card in just the nick of time.
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Deputy alleges coverup in Gibson arrest

Wed, 2010-09-08 16:57
Mel Gibson's infamous drunk-driving incident in July 2006 not only soiled the actor's reputation, it ruined the life of the deputy who arrested him, a lawsuit alleges.
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In one day, two asteroids buzz Earth

Wed, 2010-09-08 15:54
A small asteroid passed within the moon's distance from the Earth on Wednesday morning, and another will do likewise later in the day, space watchers say.
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Iran: Woman's stoning sentence on hold

Wed, 2010-09-08 15:26
Iran has put the stoning sentence of a woman convicted of adultery and murder "on hold,"Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state-run Press TV on Wednesday.
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Clinton condemns Quran-burning plan

Wed, 2010-09-08 13:26
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the planned burning of Qurans on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States as criticism mounts from Muslims around the world.
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Officials: Bodies may be Mexican cops

Wed, 2010-09-08 12:12
Officials in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas have found two bodies that may be those of two men investigating the massacre of 72 migrants in the state.
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Obama slams GOP economic policies

Wed, 2010-09-08 11:58
President Obama opened the post-Labor Day stretch of the midterm campaign by blasting the GOP and pushing a new $350 billion plan to lift the sagging economy.
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4 missing, 140 structures burn in Colo.

Wed, 2010-09-08 10:33
At least 54 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colorado, and eight people are unaccounted for, officials say.
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Food illness survivors demand action

Wed, 2010-09-08 09:29
After the recall of more than 500 million eggs from a salmonella outbreak this summer, food safety advocates and survivors of foodborne illness will call for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that has been in limbo since last year.
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UN says it knew of mass rapes earlier

Wed, 2010-09-08 09:10
The United Nations on Tuesday acknowledged that it first learned of a report of rape in rebel-held territory of the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on July 30, nearly two weeks earlier than it had previously said.
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BP points fingers in rig blast

Wed, 2010-09-08 08:49
An internal investigation puts some responsibility for the Gulf oil disaster on BP but assigns much of the blame to contractors Halliburton and Transocean.
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