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Lower Manhattan security updated

By Angus Shaw and Larry Neumeister · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 12:11 a.m.

NEW YORK – The 1993 World Trade Center bombing left a giant crater in the basement of the 110-story twin towers and an even larger hole in the nation’s sense of security.

U.S. to destroy spy satellite with missile

By Associated Press and Angus Shaw · Monday, Feb. 18,2008 12:10 a.m.

BEIJING – China said Sunday it was concerned about U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite that is hurtling toward Earth with 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel.

NIU gunman stopped taking medication

Saturday, Feb. 16,2008 2:38 p.m.

Police say the gunman in the Northern Illinois University shooting rampage had stopped taking his medication recently and had become erratic before he killed five people and

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:54 p.m.

A senior Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday that laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now allowed.

Bush pushes for surveillance law

By Abisalom Omolo and Deb Riechmann · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:53 p.m.

President Bush, at loggerheads with House Democrats over how closely the government can eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, warned Wednesday that terrorists were planning fresh assaults that would make the Sept. 11 attacks “pale by comparison.”

Former student opens fire at Northern Illinois, kills 5, self

By Abisalom Omolo and Caryn Rousseau · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:52 p.m.

A former student dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, killing five students and injuring 16 others before committing suicide, authorities said.

Gunman opens fire in lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, several injured

By Associated Press · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 10:12 p.m.

A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 15 people before he killed himself, authorities and the school said.

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By AP Reports and Angus Shaw · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:38 p.m.

Barack Obama powered past Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for Democratic convention delegates Tuesday on a night of triumph sweetened with outsized primary victories in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Bush insistent on new wiretapping bill

By Angus Shaw · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:37 p.m.

WASHINGTON – President Bush pressured the House of Representatives on Wednesday to pass new rules for monitoring terrorists’ communications, saying “terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison.”

GM posts record automotive losses, offers buyouts to US hourly workers

By Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:52 p.m.

General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:51 p.m.

Armored U.N. vehicles guarded East Timor’s leaders Tuesday under a state of emergency declared after rebel soldiers critically wounded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president and fired at the prime minister’s convoy.

Guard, Reserve troop suicides alarm Congress

By Abisalom Omolo and Kimberly Helfing · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:50 p.m.

More than half of all veterans who took their own lives after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan were members of the National Guard or Reserves, according to new government data that prompted activists on Tuesday to call for a closer examination of the problem.

Speaker threatens to disband Iraq’s parliament

By Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:49 p.m.

The speaker of Iraq’s fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 12 a.m.

East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta was treated for serious chest wounds in an Australian hospital Monday after rebel soldiers shot him and attacked the prime minister during a failed coup attempt.

Bush acknowledges economic uncertainty, asks Congress to do more

By Abisalom Omolo and Jeannine Aversa · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 12 a.m.

President Bush, acknowledging that the country is suffering through a period of economic uncertainty, called on Congress Monday to do more to help people and businesses hurt by the housing slump and credit crunch.

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By Angus Shaw · Sunday, Feb. 10,2008 11:42 p.m.

Iraq’s political leaders are showing promising new signs of progress toward reconciliation,

UN says 12,000 ‘terrified’ refugees flee Darfur region for Chad, more coming

By Angus Shaw and Bradley S. Klapper · Sunday, Feb. 10,2008 11:41 p.m.

GENEVA – Up to 12,000 “terrified” refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region have fled across the border to neighboring Chad after the latest air strikes by the Sudanese military, and thousands more may be on their way, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.

Obama wins convincingly in 3 states

By Angus Shaw and David Espo · Sunday, Feb. 10,2008 11:40 p.m.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Friday, Feb. 8,2008 12:40 a.m.

CIA Director Michael Hayden cast doubt on the legality of waterboarding on Thursday, a day after the White House said the harsh interrogation tactic has saved American lives and could be used in the future.

Senate Democrats drop push to add jobless benefits, subsidies

By Abisalom Omolo and Andrew Taylor · Friday, Feb. 8,2008 12:38 a.m.

Senate Democrats, under pressure from party colleagues in the House of Representatives, agreed Thursday to an economic rescue package that would add checks for Social Security retirees and disabled veterans but leave out extended jobless benefits and additional business subsidies.

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UN says 12,000 ‘terrified’ refugees flee Darfur region for Chad, more coming

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