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  Bad weather threatens shuttle launch AP - 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA began fueling shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Thursday, even though bad weather threatened to delay the mission to add another science lab to the international space station.

• Consumers can scan bank deposits at home AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  MILWAUKEE - Online banking service provider CheckFree Corp. is rolling out technology that could mean consumers will no longer have to go to a bank branch to deposit checks.

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  Google software makes it easier to share AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. is introducing an online business software package designed to make it easier for people in the same organization to share documents and information.

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  Jolie in Iraq for UN refugee mission AP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD - Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees.

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  McNamee's lawyers: Evidence backs client AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Brian McNamee and Roger Clemens both planned to be on Capitol Hill for a day of separate meetings and vastly different stories.

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  Rice, Miliband in Afghanistan, urge more troops Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband met the Afghan president and NATO commanders in Afghanistan on Thursday, in a joint visit to press reluctant allies to share the combat burden.

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  McCain reaches out to conservatives but only so far Reuters - Thu Feb 7, 1:08 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican front-runner John McCain is trying to gain his party's presidential nomination by convincing conservatives he is one of them, without hurting support from moderate voters who have propelled his candidacy.

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  Tornadoes in South kill at least 55 people Reuters - Wed Feb 6, 11:21 PM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Tornadoes and thunderstorms shattered lives and leveled buildings across the U.S. South on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 55 people and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest such storms in nine years.

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  Pakistan makes "important arrests" in Bhutto slaying Reuters - 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities announced two "important arrests" in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, as her husband issued a rallying call to supporters ahead of an election his wife should have fought.

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  Iraq's Sadr tells militia to keep observing freeze Reuters - 41 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his feared Mehdi Army on Thursday to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.

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  U.S. bans 10 over violence in Kenya Reuters - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago

  NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States has imposed travel bans on 10 Kenyans suspected of being behind ethnic violence that has convulsed the country since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, officials said on Thursday.

• Egypt warns Palestinians not to breach Gaza border Reuters - 2 hours, 12 minutes ago

  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade.

• Iraq's returnees crave a future free of bloodshed Reuters - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Abu Mutaz returned to Baghdad after fleeing Iraq's sectarian violence for Syria, he found it unrecognizable from the battlefield he had left behind.

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  Rice, Miliband push for more troops for Afghanistan AFP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan warned Thursday of catastrophe if NATO abandoned its mission as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart flew into the heart of the Taliban insurgency.

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  European poll watchdog to boycott Russian presidential vote AFP - 32 minutes ago

  WARSAW (AFP) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday cancelled its observer missions to Russia's March 2 presidential election because of restrictions imposed by Moscow.

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  Israel kills seven in new strikes on Gaza AFP - 8 minutes ago

  GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli raids on Gaza killed six Palestinian fighters and a teacher on Thursday as the army pressed on with an assault on the Hamas-run territory following a suicide bombing in Israel this week.

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  Clinton funds tighten as Democrats try to break deadlock AFP - 2 hours, 58 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hillary Clinton's race for the White House showed vulnerability as she admitted tapping her own pocketbook for five million dollars to keep up a grueling fight against rival Barack Obama.

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  China tries to shrug off cold and celebrate Year of the Rat AFP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  BEIJING (AFP) - China welcomed in the Year of the Rat Thursday with a bonanza of fireworks and festivals, but the celebrations for many were subdued due to ferocious cold weather that kept them from their families.

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  Britney Spears' life is at risk: parents AFP - 57 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The distraught parents of Britney Spears said their troubled daughter's life was at risk after she was released from a psychiatric ward against their wishes and her doctor's advice.

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  ECB holds lending rate steady at 4 percent, BoE trims to 5.25 AFP - 30 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - The European Central bank (ECB) left its key lending rate unchanged at 4.0 percent Thursday as high inflation threatened the eurozone while the Bank of England cut to 5.25 percent to support faltering growth in Britain.

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  New tests find deadly new virus that killed three Reuters - Wed Feb 6, 5:15 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.

• Praise a Child Right, and You'll Get Results U.S. News & World Report - Tue Feb 5, 2:32 PM ET

  Alan Kazdin knows where I've gone wrong. He knows that I nag, and threaten, and then try to reason with my child, explaining why what she's doing is a bad idea. And he knows that none of those time-honored parenting techniques work worth a darn. "It's almost as if when you leave the maternity ward, they told you five or six things that you shouldn't do with your child, but we do them anyway," says Kazdin.

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  Republicans block Senate economic stimulus plan Reuters - Wed Feb 6, 9:44 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Wednesday narrowly blocked a Democratic-backed economic stimulus plan that was costlier than a House of Representatives-passed measure by extending cash rebates to retirees and disabled veterans and stretching out unemployment benefits.

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  Tornadoes in South kill at least 55 people Reuters - Wed Feb 6, 11:21 PM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Tornadoes and thunderstorms shattered lives and leveled buildings across the U.S. South on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 55 people and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest such storms in nine years.

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  Ethnic-background French flock to foreigner-friendly London AFP - Thu Feb 7, 1:33 AM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - Hamid Senni says he could not find work in France despite being French and growing up there, because his north African roots met with latent racism.