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By Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, March 8,2007 12 a.m.

Illinois would see the largest tax increase in its history under Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s plan to provide health care for the uninsured and ramp up state support for education.

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By Abisalom Omolo · Wednesday, March 7,2007 12 a.m.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, killing 93 people in one of several attacks targeting the faithful ahead of a weekend holiday.

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Daylight saving dates change; energy conservation remains

By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Benjamin Franklin, while a minister to France, first suggested the idea of daylight saving time in an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” That was in an essay published in the Journal de Paris in April 1784. But it was more than a century before an Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again, in 1907.

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By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family during a clash between Western troops and militants, Afghan officials and relatives said Monday. It was the second report in two days of civilian deaths at the hands of Western forces. On Sunday, U.S. Marines fired on cars and pedestrians as they fled a suicide attack. Up to 10 Afghans died in that violence, and President Hamid Karzai condemned the killings.

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White supremacist gang’s clout grows as another’s diminishes

By Gillian Flaccus · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

BUENA PARK, Calif. – The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California. Now, the violent gang that deals in drugs, guns and identity theft is gaining clout across the West after forging an alliance with the notorious Aryan Brotherhood, authorities say.

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By Abdullah AlShihri · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

A man suspected of killing and dismembering his wife was captured Sunday as he fled from searchers through the snow in a wooded area of northern Michigan, police said.

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By Abdullah AlShihri · Friday, March 2,2007 12 a.m.

North Korea’s No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, reiterated Thursday his country’s pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.

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Iraq: Iran, Syria agree to Baghdad summit

Thursday, March 1,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran and Syria, have agreed to join U.S. and British representatives at a regional conference here March 10 on the Iraqi security crisis, government officials said Wednesday.

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Thursday, March 1,2007 12 a.m.

The economy grew at a sluggish 2.2 percent pace in the final quarter of last year, the government reported Wednesday in one of the steepest downward revisions in years. In another report, new-home sales plunged in January by the largest amount in 13 years. The pair of reports released Wednesday by the Commerce Department came a day after stocks on Wall Street and around the globe took a nosedive.

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North Korea hurt by financial restrictions

Thursday, March 1,2007 12 a.m.

WASHINGTON – The lead U.S. envoy in nuclear talks with North Korea told lawmakers Wednesday that U.S. financial restrictions connected with North Korean money laundering and counterfeiting had forced banks around the world to question their business dealings with Kim Jong Il’s government.

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Wall Street, Chinese stocks take a tumble

Wednesday, Feb. 28,2007 12 a.m.

NEW YORK – Stocks plunged Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 220 points as Wall Street joined a global market decline sparked by growing concerns that the U.S. and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities prices have become overinflated.

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