Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Clemens revealed HGH use, Pettitte says AP - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens told Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte nearly 10 years ago that he used human growth hormone, Pettitte said in a sworn affidavit to Congress, The Associated Press learned Tuesday.

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  Iraqi hospital chief linked to al-Qaida AP - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD - The acting administrator of a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad has been detained on suspicion that he played a role in supplying patient information to al-Qaida in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

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  Strike's end starts TV production frenzy AP - 2 hours, 17 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Lights, camera, action — but first, here come the writers. Members of the Writers Guild of America were planning a return to work Wednesday after voting to end their strike on its 100th day, thus allowing Hollywood to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas.

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  Sick astronaut prepares to spacewalk AP - 28 minutes ago

  HOUSTON - German astronaut Hans Schlegel geared up for his first spacewalk on Wednesday, two days after an illness forced the shuttle Atlantis crew member to skip an outing to install the international space station's new European lab.

• Retail sales rise by 0.3 percent AP - 7 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Shoppers put aside worries about the slumping economy to go to the malls and auto dealerships in January. That propelled retail sales to a surprising rebound following a dismal December.

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  Banks to pause delinquent mortgage foreclosures Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 5:59 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six top mortgage companies on Tuesday launched a program aimed at staving off foreclosure for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more affordable loan terms can be worked out.

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  Senate passes spy bill and phone immunity Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 5:56 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Phone companies that took part in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program would receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits under a bill approved on Tuesday by the Democratic-led Senate.

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  Obama wins Virginia Democratic vote: media projects Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 7:03 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama won the Virginia primary to choose a Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday, handing rival Hillary Clinton a major defeat in their closely fought race to represent the party in the November election, U.S. media projected.

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  U.S. aims to give wake-up alerts on storms Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 5:07 PM ET

  MIAMI (Reuters) - In the not-too-distant future, the U.S. government would like to be able to wake up residents in the middle of the night when a hurricane or tornado threatens, perhaps by sounding the alarm on a cellphone.

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  Pause means U.S. Iraq force likely larger for longer Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 6:19 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the next U.S. president is chosen, America may have about as many troops in Iraq as it did two years earlier, when voters tired of the war handed President George W. Bush's Republicans an election defeat.

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  GM offers workers buyouts as posts loss Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 3:26 PM ET

  DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it would offer a new round of buyouts to all of its U.S. factory workers as it posted a quarterly loss that underscored the pressure the top U.S. automaker faces in its slumping home market.

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  U.S. families hopeful of Colombia hostages release Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 5:47 PM ET

  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Five years after her son was snatched by Colombian guerrillas, Lynne Stansell hopes this could be the last frustrating anniversary she will have to spend waiting for news he has been freed by his rebel captors.

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  Bush calls nooses and lynch threats deeply offensive Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 4:18 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush condemned as "deeply offensive" on Tuesday a spate of incidents involving the display of hangman's nooses, a potent symbol of racist lynchings and hatred of blacks in the United States.

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  Obama hammers Clinton in primary clean sweep AFP - Wed Feb 13, 5:43 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama routed Hillary Clinton in a trio of Washington DC-area nominating clashes, carving into his faltering White House rival's core power base of white, women and working class voters.

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  Georgian tycoon's London death 'suspicious': British police AFP - 45 minutes ago

  LEATHERHEAD, England (AFP) - British police on Wednesday investigated the death of a billionaire Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet state which they said was "suspicious".

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  Australia says 'sorry' to Aborigines AFP - Wed Feb 13, 2:37 AM ET

  CANBERRA (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an historic apology to Aborigines Wednesday for injustices committed over two centuries of white settlement, saying he wanted "to remove a great stain from the nation's soul."

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  Hezbollah leader killed in Syria, group blames Israel AFP - 41 minutes ago

  BEIRUT (AFP) - A senior Hezbollah commander on America's most wanted list was killed in a car bombing in Syria that the Shiite militant group blamed on Israel on Wednesday, an accusation the Jewish state denied.

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  A 52-million year-old fossil shows bats developed flight before sonar AFP - 30 minutes ago

  PARIS (AFP) - A nearly perfect bat fossil unveiled on Wednesday, has settled a long-simmering evolutionary debate: that the animals could fly before they developed sonar to track and trap their prey.

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  Miner Rio Tinto's annual net profit falls to 7.3 billion US AFP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  SYDNEY (AFP) - The world's third-largest miner Rio Tinto said Wednesday its full-year net profit fell almost two percent in 2007 to 7.312 billion US dollars as it again rejected a takeover bid by rival BHP Billiton.

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  World oil market could slowdown: energy agency AFP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

  PARIS (AFP) - The world oil market could be set for a lengthy slowdown, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, signalling a sharp shift in the climate that pushed the oil price to 100 dollars last month.

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  Whites to be minority in US by 2050: study AFP - Mon Feb 11, 11:39 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Immigration will drive the population of the United States sharply upward between now and 2050, and will push whites into a minority, projections by the Pew Research Center showed Monday.

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  Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture in Vietnam Reuters - Mon Feb 11, 11:41 AM ET

  HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.

• Banks to pause delinquent mortgage foreclosures Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 5:59 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six top mortgage companies on Tuesday launched a program aimed at staving off foreclosure for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more affordable loan terms can be worked out.

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  Too early to know cause of BlackBerry outage Reuters - Tue Feb 12, 10:48 AM ET

  TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion said on Tuesday it is too soon to determine the cause of a massive BlackBerry service outage that left subscribers across the Americas with spotty or non-existent access to wireless e-mail for about three hours on Monday.

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  Whites to become minority in U.S. by 2050 Reuters - Mon Feb 11, 7:13 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States by 2050, with immigrants and their children driving 82 percent of U.S. population growth in coming years, a new study said on Monday.