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Big cheese carving celebrates U.S. Independence Day

News – A sculpture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence made from a one-tonne block of cheddar cheese glistened on the sidewalk of Times Square in New York on Thursday as an artist's tribute to the Fourth…

Inmate released after 22 years on death row
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Inmate released after 22 years on death row

News – A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail. Paul House, 46, is set to be retried in October in the 1985…

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Britain doubles aid to Pakistan

News – Britain is substantially increasing its aid to Pakistan and outlining a new strategy for how it is spent.

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5 famous myths about the birth of our nation

News – According to Peter Drummey, a librarian at the Massachusetts Historical Society, much of what we believe is false: 231 years later, our commonly accepted versions of revolutionary events are often more myth than…

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SA mourns victims of xenophobia

News – South Africa is holding a day of national mourning to remember those killed during May's xenophobic attacks.

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Washington diary: Oil addiction

News – America's famed love affair with the car is spending more and more time at marriage counselling.

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Anti-war Protestors Block Traffic Outside Bullet Maker

News – Anti-war people have discovered that people who make bullets for the army actually receive paychecks. BAD, BAD workers.

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Big Sur evacuates

News – Flames ominously licked the ridge overlooking this scenic coastal community, which appeared nearly abandoned Thursday after an explosive wildfire caused authorities to order more residents out of the area.

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AP IMPACT: 'Go-arounds' are possible safety hazard

News – A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway.

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Results of US Invasion of Iraq

News – In an interview with the BBC, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan criticised the US-led war in Iraq was illegal, saying that "the level of violence in Iraq was 'much worse' than that of a civil war."

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Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps - NYTimes.com

News – A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the "exclusive" means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government's claim that the…

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US admiral urges caution on Iran

News – America's top military officer has said opening up a third front in the Middle East through a strike on Iran would be "extremely stressful" for US forces.

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3 hostages rescued in Colombia return to US

News – Three American hostages rescued from leftist guerrillas in Colombia were back in the United States Thursday, more than five years after their plane went down in rebel-held jungle.

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Kenya 'fraud' minister told to go

News – Kenya's Finance Minister Amos Kimunya and other officials should be suspended over alleged fraud, says a government enquiry led by the attorney general.

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Iran willing to talk

News – This week, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is in New York to attend a meeting of the United Nations' Economic and Social Council, as well as to shore up support for Iran's embattled diplomacy.

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Streets calm in riot-hit Mongolia

News – The streets of the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, are reported to be calm, two days after rioting that left five people dead.

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Zimbabweans seek refuge at US embassy in capital

News – The U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe says about 200 people are seeking refuge at the American embassy in the capital.

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Man shot 4 times at Atlanta Starbucks

News – A man was shot repeatedly by an apparent would-be assassin Wednesday night inside a southwest Atlanta Starbucks. Witnesses say a gunman walked into the Cascade Road coffee shop and shot a man sitting at a table…

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U.S. comes bottom of G8 green league

News – The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight biggest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found.

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Philippine blast kills 3, injures 11

News – Suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks Thursday in the southern Philippines, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company, officials said.…

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Bush To Decide Soon Whether To Close Gitmo

News – President Bush will soon decide whether to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for al-Qaeda suspects, sources tell ABC News. High-level discussions among top advisers have escalated in the past week, with the most…

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The Case Against Google-Yahoo

News – Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) say there are plenty of reasons why their recently announced plan to work together on Internet-search advertising should pass muster with regulators. For starters, it's not a merger…

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Sex For Gasoline

News – A Kentucky woman is facing prostitution charges for allegedly trading sex for gasoline. Angela Eversole, 34, was nabbed last weekend during a police stakeout at a Days Inn, where she allegedly trysted with customer…

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Iran hails 'new process' in N-crisis

News – Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said a "new process" was underway in the five-year-old nuclear crisis with the West after the delivery of a proposal by world powers to Tehran, media reported

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Justice Dept. Admits Error in Supreme Court Case

News – In a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military…

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