more images more images Resolute Fort Hood soldiers ready for return FORT HOOD, Texas — Pvt. Joseph Foster took a bullet in the leg during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. He pauses when he’s asked about the mayhem, then credits a stout heritage with bringing him through the ordeal and leaving him eager for his scheduled January deployment
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As questions swirl about alleged Fort Hood gunman, resolute soldiers ready to get back to work
more images more images House health bill unacceptable to many in Senate WASHINGTON — Don’t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They’re locked in a battle
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Government option faces uphill fight in Senate version of heath insurance reform
Rain-triggered landslides kill 14 in Indonesia JAKARTA, Indonesia — Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday. The downpours sent a mass of mud slamming into about 20 houses in the outskirts of the town of Palopo, South Sulawesi province,
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Series of rain-triggered landslides bury houses, kill 14 on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
Formal charges expected in Seattle police killing SEATTLE — The man accused in the Halloween-night shooting death of a Seattle policeman remains hospitalized, and authorities were expected to talk more Monday about why they believe the suspect is a domestic terrorist who held a grudge against law enforcement. Prosecutors plan to discuss formal charges against 41-year-old Christopher
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Prosecutors to announce charges in Halloween shooting death of Seattle police officer
LONDON – A scientist has suggested that the Neanderthals might have gone extinct because of a deadly combination of bad luck and climate change. According to a report in New Scientist, the scientist in question is evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson. The Neanderthals, a race of cavemen who ruled Europe and Asia, mysteriously vanished between 28,000 and 24,000
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Deadly combo of bad luck and climate change may have killed Neanderthals
ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) candidates in Gilgit-Baltistan have got images of former president Pervez Musharraf printed on their election posters. Sources said that PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had learnt through TV coverage of the PML-Q candidates’ election campaign that there were huge pictures of the former president on their official posters. They said
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Gilgit-Baltistan PML-Q candidates’ use Musharraf’s face in campaigning
Philadelphia transit system running as strike ends PHILADELPHIA — Representatives of Philadelphia’s transit system and its largest union signed a contract early Monday, bringing an end to a strike that idled the city’s subways, buses and trolleys for six days. “The strike is over,” Pennsylvania Gov
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Philadelphia’s buses, subways and trolleys moving again after union agrees to end 6-day strike
Filipino militants behead captive schoolteacher MANILA, Philippines — Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines beheaded a schoolteacher after kidnapping him last month, officials said Monday. The severed head of Gabriel Canizares, 36, was left in a bag at a gas station on Jolo Island, three weeks after suspected Abu Sayyaf militants stopped a passenger minibus and
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Al-Qaida-linked militants in southern Philippines behead captive schoolteacher
Floods, mudslides kill 91 El Salvador, 60 missing VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 91 people, authorities said. Hundreds of soldiers, police and residents dug through rock and
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Floods, mudslides kill 91 in El Salvador; town partly buried and 60 missing
NM auto dealer tried to save business by gambling ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A former Albuquerque auto dealer, faced with an ailing economy and difficulty getting credit for his dealership, says he turned to gambling last year in a bid to salvage the business. Ken Zangara racked up a $250,000 gambling loss just months before he closed his
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NM auto dealer tried to save business by gambling, instead racked up $250,000 in losses
Late-season hurricane takes aim at US Gulf Coast NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 100 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges. A hurricane watch extended over more than 200 miles of coastline across southeastern Louisiana, Mississippi,
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Hurricane Ida threatens US Gulf Coast near end of season, could make landfall by Tuesday
more images more images Obama will meet Netanyahu at White House WASHINGTON — The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama would be meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister’s trip to Washington to address Jewish groups, ending days of uncertainty. Netanyahu was to arrive in the U.S. capital Sunday night for a speaking engagement at
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White House says Obama will meet Netanyahu on Monday; session was in question
New fair targets France’s 260,000 annual divorces PARIS — The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country’s National Institute of Demographic Studies. More than 130,000 divorces were registered
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more images more images Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate WASHINGTON — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours
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Democrat senators divided on government health insurance, so House’s bill has nowhere to go
Government: 91 dead in El Salvador flooding SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people, the government said Sunday. Dozens are still missing, and about 7,000 are in shelters, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno told a news conference
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Interior minister in El Salvador reports 91 dead in flooding following 3 days of rain
Gunmen ambush, shoot at Honduras AG; no injuries TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran police say gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying the country’s top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards were harmed. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato says Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was riding on a northern highway when assailants opened fire Saturday night. Cerrato says no one was
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Honduras’ attorney general escapes unharmed after gunmen open fire on his convoy
more images more images Chavez to troops: Prepare for war with Colombia CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela’s military on Sunday to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying the country’s soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors. “The best way to avoid war
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Chavez warns Colombia, US against possible aggression against Venezuela
Utah girl’s pierced nose: US-Indian culture clash To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah’s school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension. To other Indians, the incident was emblematic of how it can still be difficult for the American melting pot to absorb
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more images more images more images more images Obama calls new election law a milestone for Iraq WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hailed the Iraqi parliament’s passage Sunday of a much-delayed election law, declaring it a milestone as the Iraqi people take charge of their future. In a Rose Garden statement, Obama said the development would facilitate national elections in January,
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Obama says Iraq election law is a milestone for progress, important for US troop withdrawal
more images more images more images more images Obama says it’s now Senate’s turn on health care WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Sunday it was time for the Senate to “take the baton” on health care reform after the House passed its plan for overhauling the nation’s health care system. “For years we’ve been told that this couldn’t be done,”
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With House vote, Obama says it’s now the Senate’s turn to advance the health care overhaul
Army chaplain seeks prayers for meaning in rampage FORT HOOD, Texas — Mourners were asked to pray for the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, and an Army chaplain exhorted his congregation on Sunday to draw together even if the gunman’s motives may never be fully known. “Lord, all those around us
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Army chaplain: Pray for Fort Hood shooting suspect, but also pray for meaning in massacre
Ida now a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds MIAMI — Hurricane Ida strengthened to a Category 2 storm on Sunday, and a hurricane watch was extended to the Florida Panhandle as Ida made its way across the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane watch now stretches from southeastern Louisiana to Mexico Beach, Fla.
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US National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ida strengthens to Category 2 with 100 mph winds
more images more images GOP officials say Dems put agenda ahead of country WASHINGTON — Democrats just don’t get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party’s peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority’s victory on health care. Voters are “tired of the borrowing,
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Republicans say health care bill shows Democrats didn’t get the message from voters
Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress SAO PAULO — A Brazilian university expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students when she wore a short, pink dress to class, taking out newspaper ads Sunday to publicly accuse her of immorality. The private Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao Paulo, said 20-year-old
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Brazilian student expelled from university after going to class wearing mini-dress
Press group: Latam governments moving in on press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday.
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Press group: Latin American governments increasingly intervening in business of journalism
Turkey: Indicted Sudan leader won’t attend summit ISTANBUL — Turkey said Sunday that Sudan’s internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul. Turkey had faced criticism for its planned welcome of al-Bashir, who is the first government leader to face international war-crimes charges. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had
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AP interview: Pablo Escobar’s son asks forgiveness BOGOTA — The son of the late notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar is back in the public eye 15 years after fleeing Colombia for a life of anonymity as an architect in Argentina. The former Juan Pablo Escobar is appearing in a documentary titled “Sins of My Father,” premiering later
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Beauty and tragedy in global network of war graves It is the British empire of the dead. Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London’s Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and
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Beautiful memorials to carnage, British graveyards are a global reminder of war’s cost
more images more images Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky. The 220-215 vote late Saturday cleared the way for the Senate to
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Iraqi parliament begins voting on key election law BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament is voting on a much-delayed election law needed to carry out the nation-wide vote in January. The evening voting session Sunday, which was televised live on Iraq state TV, comes after intense behind-the-scenes negotiating throughout the day, and marked the first time the issue has
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Iraqi parliament begins voting on much-delayed election law needed for January vote