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Burris cites money issues for decision - Boston Globe
Boston Globe
CHICAGO - Embattled Illinois Senator Roland Burris said yesterday that he won't run for a full term in 2010, making official the end of a short Senate career clouded by questions about his appointment by disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich. …
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The Interrogation of Sonia Sotomayor - Washington Post
Washington Post
US Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor will soon undergo the Senate Judiciary Committee's ritual interrogation, joining the pantheon of great legal minds to have their entire personal and professional lives critiqued and questioned in public. …
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Helmand's long and difficult road - BBC News
BBC News
The military campaign in Afghanistan has now led to more British deaths than the war in Iraq. BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt looks at the campaign so far. British forces have been in Afghanistan since 2001, first in alliance with US forces on …
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Death Toll Debated In China's Rioting - Washington Post
Washington Post
URUMQI, China — The Yu siblings could hardly bear to look at the police snapshots of the dead — the images so full of anger and cruelty. So they took turns sifting through them in search of their brother, who had been missing …
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Kennedy's voice missed in health debate - Boston Globe
Boston Globe
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his wife, Vicki (center), headed out of the Hyannis Port Yacht Club for an afternoon of sailing Thursday. The ailing Kennedy has stayed involved in Congress's healthcare debate via telephone conference calls. …
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Talks resume but budget woes spread - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
California's fiscal crisis continued unabated Friday with most major banks refusing to cash the state's ious starting today, the state controller delaying $4 billion in payments to public schools, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders …
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Obama Wins More Food Aid but Presses African Nations on Corruption - New York Times
New York Times
President Obama and the first lady greeted President John Atta Mills of Ghana and his wife, Ernestina Naadu Mills, left, in the capital, Accra, on Friday. By PETER BAKER and RACHEL DONADIO ACCRA, Ghana — President Obama told African countries on Friday …
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A Day of Searching, Anger and Renewed Grief in a Desecrated … - New York Times
New York Times
ALSIP, Ill. — They arrived in tears, showing outrage and confusion, generations of a family together, or lonely, widowed spouses and old friends wandering by themselves. One of the hundreds of people who went to Burr Oak Cemetery on …
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Poor Nations Get G8 Promise of $20 Billion Toward Food Security - Voice of America
Voice of America
Leaders of the world's wealthiest nations have promised twenty billion dollars to increase food security in poor countries. The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila, Italy. …
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Who's More Catholic: President Obama or Pope Benedict XVI? - FOXNews
FOXNews
Newsweek guest columnist Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is suggesting President Obama is more Catholic than the pope. In a column on Newsweek's Web site, the former Maryland lieutenant governor and member of the Kennedy clan says Obama's …
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