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Turning It Around (10 January 10:30) |
| In a campaign run by conference calls, this one stood out. It was Dec. 2, just a month before the Iowa caucuses, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was furious. She did not yell, but her voice... |
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Repeal Of Driver Penalties Possible (10 January 10:30) |
| RICHMOND, Jan. 9 -- The Virginia General Assembly convened its 2008 legislative session at noon today. |
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Blast Kills 6 as Troops Hunt Iraqi Insurgents (10 January 10:30) |
| FORWARD OPERATING BASE NORMANDY, Iraq, Jan. 10 -- The explosion of a booby-trapped house killed six American soldiers on Wednesday during an offensive against Sunni insurgents in Diyala pro... |
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Bodies Of 4 Girls Found in SE House (10 January 10:30) |
| U.S. marshals serving a routine eviction notice in Southeast Washington yesterday were met at the door by a calm woman who offered no clue about what would be found inside the house: the de... |
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For U.S., The Goal Is Now 'Iraqi Solutions' (10 January 10:30) |
| In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic officials have begun their own quiet policy s... |
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Clinton's Campaign in N.H. Touched Chord With Women (10 January 10:30) |
| To the pollsters and pundits, even the campaigns themselves, Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory Tuesday was a shocker -- "probably the most surprising political event that any of us can remem... |
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Gang Feud Blamed in Drive-By Shooting (10 January 10:30) |
| A simmering rivalry between neighborhood gangs at one of the top high schools in Prince George's County led to the drive-by shooting this week that wounded two female students, one critical... |
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Redskins' Gibbs Resigns As Coach (09 January 10:30) |
| Redskins coach Joe Gibbs is resigning, according to Redskins sources. The team is planning a news conference this afternoon to discuss the Hall of Famer's decision to leave as both coach an... |
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President Calls Action of Iranian Boats 'Provocative' (09 January 10:30) |
| President Bush warned Iran yesterday that its confrontation with three U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf on Sunday was a provocative act, as the Pentagon released audio and video recordings... |
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Bush Signs Bipartisan Gun Legislation (09 January 10:30) |
| President Bush signed legislation yesterday aimed at preventing the severely mentally ill from buying guns, a bill backed by both parties after the bloody Virginia Tech University shooting.... |
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Florida Appears to Be Losing Its Sunny Magnetism (09 January 10:30) |
| PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The vast flow of people into Florida from elsewhere in the United States has been the defining feature of the Sunshine State's 20th-century history, draining swamps ... |
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New York Presses To Deploy More Bioweapons Sensors (09 January 10:30) |
| NEW YORK -- City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation's newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-... |
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A Fond Farewell to 'Gibbs 2.0' (09 January 10:30) |
| Rudy Crutchfield and Steve Hadeed have been close friends since their days at Wheaton High School. One thing they have in common: Both are obsessed Redskins fans. |
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Prospects Are Fickle as Electoral Fortunes Rise and Fall (09 January 10:30) |
| Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top fundraisers said last night they believe her strong showing in New Hampshire will match the crush of donations Sen. Barack Obama began to collect out of Io... |
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Clinton and McCain Rebound to Take N.H. (09 January 10:30) |
| MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the early Republican front-runner whose campaign imploded last summer, handily won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, dealing former... |
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N.Y. Senator Defies Polls, Edges Obama (09 January 10:30) |
| MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton narrowly won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday night, a surprise victory for the onetime front-runner that... |
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With Echoes of Clinton '92, Another 'Comeback Kid' (09 January 10:30) |
| MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 8 -- New Hampshire proved to be the political firewall that the Clinton campaign long had hoped for. Just as New Hampshire voters saved Bill Clinton's candidacy 16 ye... |
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She Lives (09 January 10:30) |
| HOOKSETT, N.H., Jan. 8 "I come here tonight with a very full heart," Hillary Rodham Clinton told a gym full of screaming and chanting supporters here a few minutes after 11 p.m. Tuesday. T... |
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Obama Carries Momentum to N.H. (08 January 10:30) |
| LEBANON, N.H., Jan. 7 -- A buoyant Sen. Barack Obama, anticipating a victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, told voters Monday that he is "riding a wave, and you're the wave," as presi... |
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New Leaders Of Sunnis Make Gains In Influence (08 January 10:30) |
| MADERIYAH, Iraq -- Saad Mahami wanted more firepower. He didn't trust the Iraqi government to give him support, so inside Patrol Base Whiskey, at the edge of this village south of Baghdad, ... |
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Ingrained in Culture of 'Liquor Country' (08 January 10:30) |
| ROCKY MOUNT, Va. -- It was so quiet out in the country, the officers didn't want to make a sound. Lying in the woods, huddled in sleeping bags, they couldn't use their cars or even turn on ... |
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Little New Hampshire Could Hold Big Significance for Both Parties (08 January 10:30) |
| MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 7 -- Only a few months ago, New Hampshire's reputation for delivering spellbinding primary elections was in danger. But if trend lines hold, a pair of contested prima... |
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The Guy With the Bus Is on a Roll (08 January 10:30) |
| ABOARD THE STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS, Jan. 7 The New Hampshire polls open in less than 24 hours, and John McCain is veering dangerously off message. In another one of his anything-goes bus se... |
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Lethal-Injection Ruling May Have to Wait (08 January 10:30) |
| Several Supreme Court justices questioned yesterday whether a challenge to Kentucky's lethal-injection process brought by two death row inmates presents enough evidence to decide whether le... |
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Violent Crime Down In First Half of 2007 (08 January 10:30) |
| The number of violent crimes reported nationwide appears to have fallen modestly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said yester... |
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Bush Urges Congress to Enhance 'No Child' (08 January 10:30) |
| CHICAGO, Jan. 7 -- President Bush urged the Democratic-led Congress on Monday to revive a stalled effort to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law before he leaves office, but he pledged ... |
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Army Major's 'Final Post' Online After Death in Iraq (08 January 10:30) |
| DENVER, Jan. 7 -- Maj. Andrew Olmsted's "Final Post" was published online -- after the Rocky Mountain News blogger was killed in Iraq. |
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National Focus Poses Challenge for Obama (08 January 10:30) |
| CONCORD, N.H., Jan. 7 -- For months, Barack Obama's presidential campaign has focused its organizational abilities on the small, well-defined canvas of Iowa and New Hampshire, where the sen... |
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Stretching the Truth In Saturday's Debates (07 January 10:30) |
| Lots of inaccuracies and exaggerations were tossed around at the Republican and Democratic debates at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Saturday night. A team of Washington Post fac... |
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Huckabee Distorts 'Surge' Support (07 January 10:30) |
| Huckabee was simply wrong on this, as the Romney campaign was quick to point out. In an interview with MSNBC on Jan. 24, 2007, just as President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq was going into ... |
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Romney Says He Didn't See Own Ad (07 January 10:30) |
| This is untrue, as Romney later conceded. The Romney campaign has repeatedly described the McCain-sponsored immigration bill, which provided a path for undocumented residents to legalize th... |
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Edwards on Veterans: It Checks Out (07 January 10:30) |
| Several readers have asked us to check this surprising statistic, often used by Edwards. The language may be overly dramatic, but the figure is an official one, from the Department of Veter... |
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Clinton Insurance Effort Overstated (07 January 10:30) |
| Clinton is exaggerating her role in extending health-care benefits to National Guard members. Most National Guard members, in New Hampshire and elsewhere, already have health insurance. Tho... |
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Clinton, Romney on Offensive As Pivotal Contest Draws Near (07 January 10:30) |
| HAMPTON, N.H., Jan. 6 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, slipping further behind her chief rival in the Democratic primary here, has taken direct control over her strategy and message as she s... |
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Forever Changed by Minutes of Mayhem (07 January 10:30) |
| The church festival was nearly over, so Viante Butler, 15, and her girlfriends danced in the middle of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue as the band played a final go-go song. |
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Strains Intensify in Pakistan's Ethnic Patchwork (07 January 10:30) |
| KARACHI, Pakistan -- To Khaled Chema, an unemployed 32-year-old living in a sprawling slum of this mega-city by the sea, Benazir Bhutto wasn't assassinated because she opposed extremism and... |
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As PTA Groups Move Online, So Does Dissension (07 January 10:30) |
| When Suzanne Weiss left the Parent Teacher Student Association of Cabin John Middle School, the school e-mail list went with her. |
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Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (07 January 10:30) |
| NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 6 If Hillary Clinton borrowed any more from Barack Obama's campaign theme of "change" at her rally here, state troopers guarding the entrances would have been compelled t... |
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GOP Doubts, Fears 'Post-Partisan' Obama (07 January 10:30) |
| Exploiting a deep well of voter revulsion over partisan gridlock in Washington, Sen. Barack Obama is promising to do something that has not been done in modern U.S. politics: unite a coalit... |
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Cheering News for the Cubs? (07 January 10:30) |
| CHICAGO -- Mayor Richard M. Daley has had a tumultuous relationship with the Chicago Cubs, the city's third-largest tourist attraction. |
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Obama's Iowa Victory Fits Democratic Trend (07 January 10:30) |
| According to conventional wisdom, front-runners win presidential nominations. Democrats and Republicans who start the race for a presidential nomination with the largest amount of money and... |
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Parade Stands By Bhutto Cover (07 January 10:30) |
| NEW YORK, Jan. 6 -- An interview with Benazir Bhutto before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated was important enough to keep on the cover of Parade magazine, the magazine's... |
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Romney Puts Focus On Immigration (07 January 10:30) |
| MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 6 -- Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney sought on Sunday to revive his party's contentious debate over illegal immigration, hoping to remind voters in New Hamp... |
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Huckabee Steps Back Into the Pulpit at Evangelical Church in N.H. (07 January 10:30) |
| WINDHAM, N.H., Jan. 6 -- A pastor from Texas was scheduled to deliver the sermon Sunday at a church here called the Crossing. |
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Bearing the Scars of a Rampage (07 January 10:30) |
| On June 2, Tonya Bell, who later told police and a judge that she had used crack cocaine, drove a Volvo station wagon that struck 49 bystanders, including two D.C. police officers, at Unife... |
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C'mon, Get Happy? It's Easier Said Than Done. (07 January 10:30) |
| It's the start of a new year, so think ahead, if you will, to Dec. 31, 2008. What are your hopes for the next 12 months? Maybe you want to be richer or slimmer, get married or get divorced,... |
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Baltimore Sun Considering Buying Small, Nearby Rivals (07 January 10:30) |
| BALTIMORE -- After Landmark Communications announced that it is considering selling its businesses, Baltimore Sun Co. officials are exploring a bid for Landmark papers in nearby Anne Arunde... |
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As Bush Heads to Mideast, Renewed Questions on Iran (07 January 10:30) |
| President Bush intends to use his first extended tour of the Middle East to rally support for international pressure against Iran, even as a recent U.S. intelligence report playing down Teh... |
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Demographic Crisis, Robotic Cure? (07 January 10:30) |
| TOKYO -- With a surfeit of the old and a shortage of the young, Japan is on course for a population collapse unlike any in human history. |
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Vote in Georgia Produces a Thin Margin (07 January 10:30) |
| TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili has apparently won a second term as president by a thin margin, election officials said late Sunday night. |
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