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Elves ready to get Santa letters
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Fired therapist: Stressed Marines ill served
Gun fire, bomb blasts were audible in Lejeune trailers
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Saipan_S.JPG Resort island reels after gunman's deadly attack
The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Saturday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself, in a rampa...
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GOP: Cancer test advice may taint care
Republicans are seizing on this week’s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by w...
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Orphans forced to provide DNA
Argentina seeks to ID ‘dirty war’ inmates’ children
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Burris_E.JPG Ethics panel: No punishment for Sen. Burris
The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama’s old Senate seat from the governor who ...
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Afghanis.JPG Under-equipped Afghan police are weak link in security force
Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan’s 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so Ame...
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Britain_2.JPG Floods devastate U.K. Lake District, much of Ireland
Raging floods engulfed northern England’s picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their ...
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New EU leaders 'able, boring'
Foreign policy post just may be the bigger job
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Liberace, Cruise, Palin among highlights
Oprah Winfrey has racked up memorable moments during her long television reign
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