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President-elect promised change, picking insiders
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.
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Fed sees economic woes persisting into next year
WASHINGTON -- Pounded by a fierce financial crisis, the country is sinking deeper into economic despair and is likely to be in the hole well into next year, forcing more Americans into the ranks of the unemployed.
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Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate
WASHINGTON -- A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance.
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Dems look to stop endangered species rule changes
WASHINGTON -- With the Bush administration on the verge of relaxing regulations protecting endangered species, Democratic leaders are looking at ways to overturn any last-minute rule changes.
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Piracy watchdog hails Indian attack on pirate ship
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- An anti-piracy watchdog group on Thursday welcomed an Indian warship's destruction of a suspected pirate vessel in waters off Somalia, where hijackings have become increasingly violent and the hijackers increasingly bold.
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Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away
HOUSTON -- Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week.
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Gay advocates upset at shelving of Chicago school
CHICAGO -- As far as Miguel Garcia is concerned, Chicago already has a gay high school. Jones College Prep, where the 16-year-old is a junior, has the city's largest Gay Straight Alliance, an organization of more than 100 students that he and other members say wields considerable influence at their downtown campus.
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Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize
NEW YORK -- The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining.
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Ind. inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex
BLOOMFIELD, Ind. -- Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.
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Terry leads Mavericks to 96-86 win over Rockets
HOUSTON -- The Dallas Mavericks didn't need Josh Howard as much as the Houston Rockets missed Yao Ming on Wednesday night.
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