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Suspected US missiles kill 7 in Pakistan

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

Suspected U.S. missiles killed seven people in a Pakistani Taliban stronghold Sunday, officials said, while an attack on a military convoy and a cleric’s two-week deadline for the creation of Islamic courts rattled peace talks with militants elsewhere in the country’s northwest.

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Calif. case highlights use of mosque informants

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:19 p.m.

The revelation that the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque was explosive news in a Muslim community that has long suspected the government of even broader surveillance.

President Barack Obama speaks about combat troop levels in Iraq as he addresses military personnel Friday at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. At rear are National Security Adviser James Jones, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, and Lt. Gen. Dennis Hejilik, Commanding General, Second Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune.

Obama: US combat in Iraq to end by Aug. 31, 2010

By Ben Feller · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 1:59 p.m.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Declaring "I have come to speak to you about how the war in Iraq will end," President Barack Obama on Friday moved to fulfill the defining promise of his campaign, saying all U.S. combat troops will be withdrawn by the end of August 2010.

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Obama: US combat in Iraq to end by Aug. 31, 2010

By Ben Feller · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 1:57 p.m.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Declaring "I have come to speak to you about how the war in Iraq will end," President Barack Obama on Friday moved to fulfill the defining promise of his campaign, saying all U.S. combat troops will be withdrawn by the end of August 2010.

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Obama to rescind Bush abortion rule

Friday, Feb. 27,2009 11:55 a.m.

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is moving to rescind a federal rule that reinforced protections for medical providers who refuse to perform abortions or other procedures on moral grounds, an official said Friday.

Brandon Thelen of Omaha, unemployed for three months, right, is helped by a friend, Zach Johnson, as he fills out forms at the Workforce Development office on Thursday in Omaha, Neb. New jobless claims rose more than expected last week and the number of laid-off Americans continuing to receive unemployment benefits topped 5.1 million, fresh evidence the recession is increasingly forcing employers to shed jobs.

Economy shrinks at fastest pace in 26 years

By Jeannine Aversa · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 11:52 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into recession.

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Former Serb president cleared

Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 11:03 p.m.

U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against Kosovo Albanians, saying he had no role in what they ruled was a criminal plot to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo.

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Police: Miami piano teacher kills kids, wife, self

Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 11:02 p.m.

Pablo Amador was a “regular dad” who made music with his children and shared his gift teaching kids to play piano. He was a man known for a friendly wave and lending a hand to jump-start a car. And those who knew him say they can’t understand why he apparently shot and killed his two daughters, his wife and then himself.

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US hostages’ chronicle critical of Betancourt

Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 11:01 p.m.

Three Americans held captive by Colombia’s leftist rebels for more than five years published a memoir Thursday full of wrenching survival stories and unkind words about Ingrid Betancourt, the most famous hostage who shared their jungle prisons.

In this Thursday, June 19, 2008 file photo, a U.S. Marine takes cover behind an Iraqi Army humvee during the beginning of combat operations in Amarah, Iraq, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. The United States will withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama's inauguration day, according to administration officials who expect Obama to make the announcement on Friday.

Officials: Obama to pull troops out of Iraq in 2010

By Anne Flaherty · Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 8:36 p.m.

WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama told lawmakers on Thursday he plans to withdraw most American troops from Iraq by August 2010 but leave tens of thousands behind to advise Iraqi forces and protect U.S. interests, congressional officials said.

President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden is at left, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is at center.

Obama plan foresees record $1.75 trillion deficit

By Martin Crutsinger · Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 4:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON – Pledging "a new era of responsibility," President Barack Obama unveiled a multi-trillion-dollar spending plan Thursday that would boost taxes on the wealthy, curtail Medicare, lay the groundwork for universal health care and leave a string of deficits dwarfing any in the nation's history.

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GM posts $9.6B 4Q loss

By Tom Krisher · Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 9:43 a.m.

General Motors Corp. posted a $9.6 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it burned through $6.2 billion of cash in the last three months of 2008.

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Controversial bishop in Britain

Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 11:51 p.m.

A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust led Argentina to order him out of that country returned to England on Wednesday.

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Cops hit wall in ‘Sleeper’ hunt

Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 11:50 p.m.

 They have a sample of his DNA, a description from a survivor and a $500,000 reward, but detectives investigating the city’s most notorious serial killer have hit a wall.

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Feds still searching for CEO

Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 11:49 p.m.

For months, prosecutors say, technicians in the gloom of a run-down North Carolina plant prepared life-sustaining syringes and shipped them before ensuring they were sterile.

Rescue workers are seen near a Turkish Airlines plane which slammed into a field while attempting to land on Wednesday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. A Turkish Airlines plane with 135 people aboard slammed into a muddy field while attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport Wednesday. Nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured, many in serious condition, officials said.

At least 9 dead in Amsterdam plane crash

By Peter Dejong and Toby Sterling · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 2:52 p.m.

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 135 people slammed into a muddy field while attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport in misty weather today. Nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured, many seriously, officials said.

Obama talks economy to joint session of Congress

By Jennifer Loven · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 12:06 a.m.

President Barack Obama promised a nation shuddering in economic crisis Tuesday night that he would lead it from a dire “day of reckoning” to a brighter future, summoning politicians and public alike to shoulder responsibility for hard choices and shared sacrifice.

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4 U.S. soldiers wounded in attack by Iraqi police

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:40 p.m.

Two policemen opened fire on U.S. troops visiting an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing an interpreter and wounding four American soldiers, officials said.

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Mardi Gras revelry just as fat

Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:39 p.m.

The economic downturn couldn’t overshadow the Mardi Gras revelry Tuesday as partiers jostled for beads on parade routes and the French Quarter swelled with boozy fun and masked crowds.

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