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Kerry has dominating day at the primaries

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As the results of primaries and caucuses held across seven states were tallied up Tuesday evening, Sen. John Kerry came out as the clear winner among the Democratic nominee hopefuls. Kerry received the majority of the votes in five of the seven states. Sen. John Edwards claimed South Carolina and Clark managed a narrow victory in Oklahoma.


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Former nuclear scientist admits leaking top secrets

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claimed responsibility Wednesday for leaks of nuclear secrets he said were made behind the government's back, begging forgiveness in an extraordinary televised address to the nation.


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Local Dean group fighting onward

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Howard Dean supporters gathered at the Monroe County Public Library Wednesday for a voter drive. The group, which calls itself the Bloomington Dean Supporters, will be sending postcards to undecided registered voters in Wisconsin and Virginia and calling voters in Michigan urging them to vote for Gov. Dean in the primaries and caucuses to be held the next week.

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North Korea agrees to resume nuclear talks

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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea agreed Tuesday to resume six-nation talks Feb. 25 -- a breakthrough in American-led efforts to persuade the communist state to abandon its nuclear weapons programs for economic and other concessions from Washington.


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Senate shut after ricin poison scare

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A white powder found in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office tested Tuesday as an "active" form of the deadly poison, ricin, forcing cancellation of most Senate business in the second such scare from a lethal toxin to hit the capital.



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Car bomb blast at southern Russian market kills 2

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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday night in a parking lot near the central market in Vladikavkaz, a southern Russian city near the war-ravaged Chechen Republic. At least two people were killed, and several wounded. Heavy smoke filled the area as firefighters battled flames. The blast shattered glass in buildings near the lot. The central market and others in the city have been hit by a series of bombings over the past five years.


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Death toll in Iraq blasts at 101

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IRBIL, Iraq -- A video camera captured images of a man shaking hands with a Kurdish official seconds before blowing himself up in one of the two suicide bombings during holiday celebrations. The death toll soared to 101, the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday. Meanwhile Tuesday, an American soldier was killed and a second was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during an operation to clear such weapons, the U.S. military said. The explosion occurred near Iskandariyah, 35 miles south Baghdad, the statement said.


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Government says security threat over

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WASHINGTON -- The "specific and credible" terrorist threats that led to the cancellation of seven flights, including ones to the Super Bowl, have passed, and there are no plans to ground any more, government officials said Monday.


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Rivals rally support in key states

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Democratic presidential contenders are targeting key states and swing voters in the closing hours before the biggest campaign test of the season, with front-running John Kerry pledging "a real conversation with America."


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Bush unveils $2.4 trillion budget

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent Congress a $2.4 trillion election-year budget Monday featuring big increases for defense and homeland security and a pledge to cut this year's projected record deficit of $521 billion in half by 2009.


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Gaza strip to be evacuated

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JERUSALEM -- Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his stunned Likud Party Monday he plans to dismantle the Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, participants in the meeting said.




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Columbia memory lingers as NASA evaluates manned missions

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On the first anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, NASA is fraught with questions about what happened one year ago and about the future of its manned space missions. A memorial for the crew of the space shuttle will be dedicated today at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C., by NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. The memorial will be unveiled next to the monument for the crew of the Challenger space shuttle.


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2 more die in Vietnam from bird flu

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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two Vietnamese sisters who died from bird flu may have caught the disease from their brother, which would be the first known case involving human-to-human transmission in the outbreak now sweeping Asia, the World Health Organization said Sunday. The source of the sisters' infection has not been identified, but investigations have failed to find a specific event, such as contact with sick poultry or an environmental source, to explain the cases, WHO spokesman Bob Dietz said in Hanoi.


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Abduction victim found alive

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WHEELING, Ill. -- A woman was found wrapped in duct tape and inside a plastic garbage can in her ex-husband's storage unit Sunday, a day after she called 911 from the back of his truck saying he had abducted her, authorities said. Teri Jendusa-Nickolai, 38, was taken to a hospital. "She does have injuries," said Wheeling Deputy Police Chief John Stone, but he did not know the extent.


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Airline cancels flight amid national security fears

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Continental Airlines canceled a Sunday evening flight from Washington to Houston after security concerns were raised by the Homeland Security Department. Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said Flight 1519 was canceled "due to security concerns and threat reporting about that particular flight." He added that the federal agency and Continental "worked closely on the matter" but did not give any further details of the threat.


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Government opponents march peacefully in Haiti

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Tens of thousands of government opponents marched peacefully Sunday to demand President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's resignation, a day after the embattled leader rescinded restrictions on street protests and vowed to implement measures aimed at ending the country's unrest. The protesters walked nearly 10 miles from a park in suburban Petionville to the capital, protected by a contingent of police.