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Bush addresses high labor losses

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RICHFIELD, Ohio -- President Bush announced Monday he is creating a high-level government post to nurture the manufacturing sector, which is bleeding jobs in states crucial to his re-election.



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Jesse Jackson arrested during protest

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson and 13 people were arrested Monday after they blocked traffic on the Yale University campus in support of striking university service and clerical workers.


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NEW YORK -- A vial of blood is all that will be buried at firefighter Michael Ragusa's funeral next week, nearly two years after he was killed in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001.




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North Korea plans nuclear test

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WASHINGTON -- North Korea startled a six-nation conference on East Asian security by announcing its intentions to formally declare its possession of nuclear weapons and to carry out a nuclear test, a Bush administration official said Thursday.


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Remembering the dream

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For thousands of students who filled the IU Auditorium Thursday during CultureFest, the world 40 years ago was a lifetime away. But for those who lived during Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s era, it wasn't such a distant memory.



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JERUSALEM -- Yasser Arafat asked militant groups to halt attacks on Israelis Wednesday in the Palestinian leader's first public attempt to restore calm following the collapse of the armed groups' unilateral truce.


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Candidate turning into a politician

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SAN FRANCISCO -- From the start, Arnold Schwarzenegger has pledged to be the anti-politician: an independent outsider who would run an upbeat campaign while rejecting money from special interests.


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Ex-employee kills 6 in Chicago auto warehouse

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CHICAGO -- A man who had been fired from an auto parts warehouse six months ago came back with a gun Wednesday and killed six employees in a rampage through a maze of engine blocks and 55-gallon drums before being shot to death by police.


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Ten Commandments monument removed

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A 2 1/2-ton granite monument of the Ten Commandments that became a lightning rod in a legal storm over church and state was wheeled from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building Wednesday as protesters knelt, prayed and chanted, "Put it back!"



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WASHINGTON -- The government says its training program to arm commercial airline pilots is now at full capacity and it expects to train all qualified pilots who volunteer to carry guns within a year.


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Envoys meet to reduce tension in Korean peninsula

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BEIJING -- Hoping for a breakthrough, diplomats from six nations converged on the Chinese capital for talks today to resolve East Asia's most urgent security concern -- North Korea's nuclear program and demands by the United States that it stand down immediately.


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Cosmonaut marries while in space

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HOUSTON -- The bride blew the groom a kiss. He blew one back -- from about 240 miles above terra firma. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko didn't let the fact that he's living aboard the international space station stop him from marrying his earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, in the first wedding ever conducted from space.


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Traffic stop leads to shooting death

LEWISBURG, W.Va. -- A sheriff's deputy pulled over a double-homicide suspect during a traffic stop and was shot in the chest -- but still managed to chase the gunman while relaying information to police. John Richard Mayhew Jr., 35, was captured Saturday night, but not before he fatally shot his 18-year-old daughter, Christina McKibben, and turned the gun on himself, police said. Mayhew had been on the run since late Thursday.


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Asteroids memorialize lost Columbia astronauts

WASHINGTON -- Seven asteroids circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are being named for the astronauts who died in the space shuttle Columbia accident, officials announced Wednesday.