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          <title>Car plows into Christmas parade crowd in Texas; several hurt</title>
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An elderly driver hurtled through barricades into a crowd lined up for a Christmas parade Monday and injured several people, some of them members of a Cub Scout troop, a city official and witnesses said.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Official: India received intel before Mumbai attacks</title>
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India picked up intelligence in recent months that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets, an official said Tuesday, as the government demanded that Pakistan take &#8220;strong action&#8221; against those behind the deadly rampage.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bush loosening up on his legacy</title>
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President George W. Bush says history will
judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his
final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a
lasting impression of overshadowed progress.           ]]></description>
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          <title>30&#45;mile debris pile becomes symbol of FEMA delays</title>
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A 30-mile scar of debris along the
Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local
officials say is FEMA&#8217;s sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane
season.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Barbara Bush continues to recover from surgery</title>
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A Houston hospital says former first lady Barbara Bush is in good condition and recovering from ulcer surgery as expected.           ]]></description>
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          <title>It&#8217;s official: U.S. is in recession</title>
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The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Parents: Slain anchorwoman was sexually assaulted</title>
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The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.           ]]></description>
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          <title>India clears last Mumbai siege site</title>
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As authorities finished removing bodies Monday from the bullet- and grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel, a Muslim graveyard refused to bury nine gunmen who terrorized this city over three days last week, leaving at least 172 people dead and wreaking havoc at some of its most famous landmarks.           ]]></description>
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          <title>New sex offender rules take effect</title>
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Stricter new rules governing sex offenders are taking effect in North Carolina.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Holiday season off to a modest start</title>
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Deep discounts on everything from sweaters to TVs drove shoppers out of hibernation for the Thanksgiving weekend, but the buying was tempered and sales for the traditional start of the holiday season appear at best in line with stores&#8217; low expectations.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Space shuttle Endeavour finishes 16&#45;day mission</title>
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Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.           ]]></description>
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          <title>US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,206</title>
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As of Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, at least 4,206 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bush sends Rice to India in aftermath of attacks</title>
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be heading to New Delhi this week after meetings in London and Brussels.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Is gay the new black?&amp;nbsp; Marriage ban spurs debate.</title>
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Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama to name four more cabinet posts</title>
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President-elect Barack Obama is set to name four more of his cabinet posts Monday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>President Bush sending help to India in aftermath of attacks</title>
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President Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Mumbia in the wake of the terrorist attacks.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Space shuttle Endeavor lands in California</title>
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The space shuttle Endeavor landed in California safely Sunday afternoon.           ]]></description>
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          <title>New York Giants player Plaxico Burress accidentally shot in leg</title>
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Reports say New York Giants&#8217; wide receiver Plaxico Burress was accidentally in the leg a nightclub.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:27:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bush says U.S. is behind India in wake of Mumbai attacks</title>
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President Bush says the United States will send support to India in the wake of Wednesday&#8217;s deadly terrorist attacks.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Death toll rises to 195 in Mumbai attacks</title>
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Indian commandos continue to assess the damage from Wednesday&#8217;s attacks in Mumbai.&nbsp; The death toll has risen to at least 195 people.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:14:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jewish group confirms rabbi, wife killed in India</title>
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The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has confirmed that a New York rabbi and his wife are among the dead in the India terrorist attack.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:55:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Wal&#45;Mart worker dies after shoppers knock him down</title>
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Police say a Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers shortly after the Long Island store opened Friday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:16:18 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Space shuttle Endeavour departs space station</title>
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 The space shuttle undocked from the space station Friday morning, ending a 12-day visit that left the orbiting complex with more modern and deluxe living quarters.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Arraignment today for suspect in woman&#8217;s beating death</title>
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A suspect is to be arraigned today in the beating death of a TV anchorwoman in Little Rock, Arkansas.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:12:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Chaos continues in Mumbai: death toll now 143</title>
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A massive explosion has shaken the besieged Mumbai Jewish center, blowing out windows in neighboring buildings. The new figure brings the death toll to at least 143.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:47:28 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Shoppers jam stores for Black Friday deals</title>
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Shoppers, who had snapped their wallets shut since September, flocked to stores and malls before dawn Friday to grab deals on everything from TVs to toys for the official start of the holiday shopping season, feared to be the weakest in decades.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:29:46 EST</pubDate>
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Arkansas Police have arrested a suspect in the deady attack of Arkansas anchorwoman Anne Pressly.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:08:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Thousands gather for the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade</title>
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Thousands of people crowded the streets of New York City Thursday morning for the 82nd annual Macy&#8217;s Day Thanksgiving Parade.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bush praises approval of Iraq&#45;U.S. security pact</title>
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President Bush says the agreement between the Iraqi parliament and the U.S. government is a major step.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:02:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Navy boarding suspicious ship off Mumbai</title>
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The Indian navy says its forces are boarding a cargo vessel suspected of ties to the Mumbai attacks that killed 101 people.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:01:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Meltdown 101: Why Fed can easily offer money help</title>
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What gives Ben Bernanke and his colleagues such power - and what are the consequences of the Fed&#8217;s actions           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:00:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>World&#8217;s oldest person dies at age 115</title>
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The world&#8217;s oldest-known person has died.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:45:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Obama girls will help out with dog, do chores in White House</title>
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Don&#8217;t be surprised to see the new first daughters on doggie cleanup duty on the White House lawn once President-elect Barack Obama takes office.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Bush, Obama reflect on Thanksgiving</title>
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President George W. Bush is spending Thanksgiving at his Camp David retreat, thankful for his almost-expired &#8220;privilege of serving as the president.&#8220; President-elect Barack Obama is staying in Chicago to &#8220;have a whole bunch of people over to the house&#8221; and squeeze in some Christmas shopping.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Astronauts share freeze&#45;dried Thanksgiving feast</title>
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The fixings are freeze dried and the concept of a &#8220;sit-down&#8221; meal is unfeasible as the crew aboard the international space station gets ready for its Thanksgiving meal.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Giant balloons ready for Thanksgiving Day Parade</title>
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Besides watching the parade, millions of Americans prepared for a day featuring football and family dinners with too much food on the table.           ]]></description>
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The Bush administration is continuing to monitor a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai but said it was not aware of any American casualties, despite reports that Westerners were targeted.           ]]></description>
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Indian commandos apparently are beginning an assault on gunmen holding hostages at Mumbai&#8217;s luxurious Taj Mahal hotel.           ]]></description>
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A fired hospital worker has been shot dead by police in Alaska after returning to the facility with a gun and killing an ex-supervisor.           ]]></description>
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Police on Wednesday arrested a man on a capital murder charge in the beating death of a popular television anchorwoman but offered neither a motive behind the attack nor details about why they suspected him.           ]]></description>
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Authorities have recovered a stolen 18-carat gold bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by his longtime mistress, Eva Braun.           ]]></description>
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A worker who returned a day after being fired from an Alaska hospital and shot his ex-supervisors, killing one and critically injuring another, has been fatally shot by police           ]]></description>
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Former First Lady Barbara Bush is expected to be released later today after tests all came back negative.           ]]></description>
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The White House and State Department both denounced the           ]]></description>
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Someone performed Internet searches for &#8220;neck breaking&#8221; and &#8220;household weapons&#8221; on the home computer Casey Anthony           ]]></description>
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A Saginaw man was charged Wednesday with fatally beating his wife in an incident that sparked a brief nationwide search for the couple&#8217;s missing children           ]]></description>
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AES Laurel Mountain plans to build up to 65 wind turbines along 8 miles of the ridgeline            ]]></description>
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The U.S. mining industry is waiting warily to see whether the federal government adopts unpopular drug-testing regulations in the waning days of the Bush administration           ]]></description>
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The comments come a day after President Hamid Karzai told a U.N. Security Council delegation that foreign forces have undermined him by creating a &#8220;parallel government&#8221; in the countryside           ]]></description>
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A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of three minor offenses instead of the main conspiracy charge in a cruel Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.           ]]></description>
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Iraq delayed until Thursday a crucial vote in parliament on a pact that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq through 2011 after lawmakers, many of them Sunni Arabs, demanded concessions from the Shiite-led government in return for supporting the deal.           ]]></description>
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China announced its biggest interest rate cut in 11 years on Wednesday to spur private borrowing and support a multibillion-dollar stimulus package           ]]></description>
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says a decision on whether to send U.S. diplomats to Iran for the first time in three decades will be left to President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s administration.
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Using images from NASA&#8217;s Cassini probe, astronomers had already figured that the mysterious plumes shooting from Enceladus&#8217; icy terrain contain water vapor           ]]></description>
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The giant cartoon characters will take their place among dozens of other balloons, 28 floats, 10 marching bands and hundreds of clowns and cheerleaders wending their way down Broadway            ]]></description>
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The mall is asking the charity to replace the insides of bells with paper clips to keep the clanging down           ]]></description>
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An initial 100,000 barrels per day of crude oil from two northern Iraqi fields would be sent through a pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan           ]]></description>
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The Labor Department reported that initial requests for unemployment benefits fell to a seasonally adjusted 529,000 from the previous week&#8217;s upwardly revised figure of 543,000. That is lower than analysts&#8217; expectations.           ]]></description>
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Travelers breezed through airport terminals Wednesday and drivers cruised open roads, the effects of a sour economy blamed for keeping people closer to home at the start of the annual Thanksgiving rush.           ]]></description>
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Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said the warning was issued as a routine matter, but added that there may be an increased police presence in New York and other large metropolitan areas.           ]]></description>
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Triple-A says this could be the first Thanksgiving in six years that holiday travel declines.           ]]></description>
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The decision is one of many broader moves made by the troubled New York-based insurer           ]]></description>
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The government has introduced a pair of new programs that will provide $800 billion to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt .           ]]></description>
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A list of job cuts, shuttered factories, canceled bonuses and commitments to fuel-efficient cars won&#8217;t be enough next week when U.S. automakers get another shot to persuade Congress to give them $25 billion in loans.           ]]></description>
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Amtrak has selected Joseph Boardman, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, to lead the national passenger railroad for one year           ]]></description>
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It is disaster planning on a galactic scale: Space experts want to come up with a contingency plan on what to do in case a killer asteroid collides with Earth           ]]></description>
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A decade ago, tobacco seemed destined to wither as cigarette companies shelled out tens of billions to settle lawsuits with states           ]]></description>
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Both sides said it was clear there was no interest in continuing to work together           ]]></description>
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says its list of problem banks, those considered to be in trouble, shot up to 171 during the third quarter. That&#8217;s up nearly 50 percent from 117 in the second quarter, and the highest number since late 1995.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Her husband took the three daughters and fled the state,&#8220; said Saginaw police Chief Gerald Cliff           ]]></description>
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A woman accused of helping arrange trysts between pricey escorts and their customers has been sentenced to one year of probation for her role in the prostitution scandal that forced Eliot Spitzer to step down as New York&#8217;s governor.
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The updated reading on the economy&#8217;s performance, released Tuesday by the Commerce Department, showed the gross domestic product shrank at a 0.5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter.           ]]></description>
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 &#8220;Job well done,&#8220; Bush told about 7,500 military personnel and others packed in a hangar on a chilly morning two days before Thanksgiving           ]]></description>
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Watch it live at NOON.           ]]></description>
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In high-poverty schools, two in five math classes have teachers without a college major or certification in math.           ]]></description>
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An Amber Alert has been issued for three Michigan girls who are missing after their mother was found dead.           ]]></description>
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The government is working on a new loan facility to help companies that issue credit cards, make student loans and finance car purchases.           ]]></description>
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Joseph M. Pallipurath went halfway around the world to India to find a wife last year. Now the California man is accused of going across the country to New Jersey to kill her.           ]]></description>
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Syracuse University locked down its campus for about an hour Monday after a man was wounded in a drive-by shooting several blocks from campus           ]]></description>
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He said he also spoke with President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday night, part of what he has promised will be &#8220;close cooperation&#8221; between his administration and the Obama camp.           ]]></description>
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Americans who had let many presidents pass them by are clamoring for a chance to be a part of Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration. There are lengthy waiting lists for tickets to the inauguration and balls.           ]]></description>
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Police say a man who was shot and killed after waving a pair of Samurai swords at a Hollywood Scientology building had a &#8220;previous relationship&#8221; to the church.           ]]></description>
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Police are still searching for a young gunman who killed one teenager at a Seattle-area mall Saturday and wounded another.           ]]></description>
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A pair of astronauts are getting ready for the fourth and final spacewalk of Endeavor&#8217;s mission to the international space station.           ]]></description>
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World leaders who attended the APEC conference this weekend in Peru predict the world&#8217;s economic crisis to be over by the summer of 2010.           ]]></description>
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President-elect Barack Obama has named Robert Gibbs as his White House Press Secretary.           ]]></description>
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Leaders from over 20 nations are pledging not to implement any protectionist measures over the next year, no matter how bad the global downturn is.           ]]></description>
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New York police say a van carrying nearly 1,000 pairs of counterfeit jeans - complete with fake Saks and Bloomingdale&#8217;s price tags - has been intercepted because of a broken taillight.           ]]></description>
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense ally in President Bush&#8217;s war on terror, was hospitalized Thursday after he collapsed during a late-night speech and lost consciousness.           ]]></description>
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New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 16-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, providing more evidence of a rapidly weakening job market expected to get even worse next year.           ]]></description>
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Even if an agreement can be reached, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signaled Thursday that the Senate would likely not be able to consider the bill until after Thanksgiving.
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The blaze broke out before dawn Thursday at Riverside Downs, a former race track not far from the Kentucky-Indiana border.           ]]></description>
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State officials have taken into protective custody 20 more children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, alleging they had been abused and neglected.           ]]></description>
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An anonymous tipster told police 10 students gathered a week ago near an abandoned home in the hills of Montecito, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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The travel club says 41 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home. That&#8217;s down from 41.6 million last year.           ]]></description>
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President George Bush will talk today about how to make air travel easier during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.           ]]></description>
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about a fraudulent scheme to extort money from consumers by callers who falsely identify themselves as &#8220;FDA special agents&#8221; or other FDA officials           ]]></description>
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&nbsp;  &nbsp;  WASHINGTON (AP) - It&#8217;s not easy finding a room in D.C. for
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