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Benazir Bhutto assassinatedBenazir Bhutto assassinated (News)
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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday outside a large gathering of her supporters where a suicide bomber also killed at least 14, doctors and a spokesman for her pa..
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Author Arthur C. Clarke diesAuthor Arthur C. Clarke dies (News)
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Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90..
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Church ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protestChurch ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest (News)
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A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's t..
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Brain-damaged woman at center of Wal-Mart suitBrain-damaged woman at center of Wal-Mart suit (News)
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Debbie Shank breaks down in tears every time she's told that her 18-year-old son, Jeremy, was killed in Iraq.
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Times Square bombing caught on tapeTimes Square bombing caught on tape (News)
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Security camera footage shows a person approach a Times Square military recruiting office and ride away on a bicycle shortly before a bomb damaged the building Thursday morning.
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Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about TillmanSoldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillman (News)
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The last soldier to see Army Ranger Pat Tillman alive, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, told lawmakers that he was warned by superiors not to divulge -- especially to the Tillman family -- that a fellow soldier kil..
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Artist defiantly draws Prophet MohammedArtist defiantly draws Prophet Mohammed (News)
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Swedish artist Lars Vilks says all he's doing is taking a stand in the name of artistic expression. But because of that stand, on this afternoon he's lying low -- on the ground, in fact -- looking for..
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Report: U.S. 'preparing the battlefield' in IranReport: U.S. 'preparing the battlefield' in Iran (News)
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The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic repu..
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Iraq war czar: Consider a draftIraq war czar: Consider a draft (News)
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Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.
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Democrats begin push to override veto of kids health insurance billDemocrats begin push to override veto of kids health insurance bill (News)
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Congressional Democrats vowed Wednesday to pressure Republican lawmakers to join them in an effort to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would expand a popular children's health insurance p..
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Church ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protestChurch ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest (News)
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A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers' deaths ..
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Suicide attack kills 8 in Iraqi parliament cafeteriaSuicide attack kills 8 in Iraqi parliament cafeteria (News)
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A suicide attack in Iraq's parliament building on Thursday killed eight people, including two Iraqi lawmakers, and wounded 20, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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Hamas seizes second Fatah baseHamas seizes second Fatah base (News)
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Hamas fighters continue to seize control of key Fatah security installations across Gaza as the Palestinian government teeters on the brink of collapse.
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U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracyU.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy (News)
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Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that ..
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Iraq battle was self-defense, security firm saysIraq battle was self-defense, security firm says (News)
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Iraqi officials Monday condemned the weekend killings of eight civilians during a Baghdad street battle involving American security contractors and said they would shut down Blackwater, the company in..
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Crew wins deadly pirate battle off SomaliaCrew wins deadly pirate battle off Somalia (News)
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The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight, the U.S. Navy reported Tuesday.
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Bush vetoes bill banning waterboardingBush vetoes bill banning waterboarding (News)
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President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that..
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Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other presidentPoll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president (News)
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A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
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McCain predicts Iraq war over by 2013McCain predicts Iraq war over by 2013 (News)
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Sen. John McCain envisions that by 2013, the Iraq war will be won, but the threat from the Taliban in Afghanistan won't be eliminated, even though Osama bin Laden will have been captured or killed.
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Atheist soldier sues Army for 'unconstitutional' discriminationAtheist soldier sues Army for 'unconstitutional' discrimination (News)
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Army Spc. Jeremy Hall was raised Baptist.
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Stolen kids turned into terrifying killersStolen kids turned into terrifying killers (News)
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Warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines -- nothing more than what one child advocate calls "cannon fodder."
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Desert Conflict Promotional VideoDesert Conflict Promotional Video (Video)
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Promo vid for DCon. High Definition versions available on our website. www.desert-conflict.org
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Ahmadinejad speaks; outrage and controversy followAhmadinejad speaks; outrage and controversy follow (News)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday challenged a university audience to look into "who was truly involved" in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, defended his right to ques..
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Official: Bride, groom stopped in Iraq actually terror suspectsOfficial: Bride, groom stopped in Iraq actually terror suspects (News)
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Soldiers manning a checkpoint near Baghdad stopped a wedding convoy to find that the purported bride and groom were wanted terror suspects, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official said Monday.
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UK's Prince Harry fighting in AfghanistanUK's Prince Harry fighting in Afghanistan (News)
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The UK's Prince Harry has been serving on the frontline in Afghanistan and seen combat, the UK Ministry of Defense confirmed Thursday.
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