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Obama picks up heavyweight support, leaves Clinton further behind
WASHINGTON - It's the gift that keeps on giving. Barack Obama picked up more heavyweight support Thursday after a key endorsement this week delivered another blow to Hillary Clinton's longshot camp...
Bin Laden to release new message about Israel and Palestinians, website says
NEW YORK - A terrorism monitoring group says Osama bin Laden will be releasing a new Internet message dealing with Israel and the Palestinians. The site Intelligence Group says the announcement of ...
Landlord charged with trying to kill Brooklyn tenant
NEW YORK - A landlord has been indicted after prosecutors say he planted a homemade bomb to try to kill a tenant he wanted to evict from a commercial building in Brooklyn. The tenant lost a leg in ...
Obama attacks Bush for linking him to Nazi appeasers; White House denies it
WASHINGTON - Democratic front-runner Barack Obama accused President George W. Bush of launching a "sad" and "false" political attack on him Thursday by saying those in favour of negotiating with terro...
McCain predicts victory in Iraq, bin Laden removed by 2013 if he's president
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, but he rejected suggestions his talk of a timetable put him on the same side a...
China quake toll could reach 50,000; daunting recovery for millions affected
LUOSHUI TOWN, China - Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere as priorities began shifting Thursday in China from the hunt for su...
Feuding Lebanese factions reach deal to elect army chief as president
BEIRUT - The Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government reached a deal Thursday to end Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war, now that the cabinet has reversed measures aimed a...
Man appears in Florida court, concedes he may have accidentally sparked fire
PALM BAY, Fla. - A man accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail into one small part of a large area of woods that burned along Florida's Atlantic coast conceded Thursday that he may have accidentally spa...
Storms kill 1 in southern United States, damage Texas state capitol
NEW ORLEANS - Severe storms with damaging winds and possible tornadoes pounded the South, killing at least one person in Louisiana and shattering windows at the Texas state capitol. In the southern...
Bush leaves it to Israeli prime minister to push Mideast peace
JERUSALEM - U.S. President George W. Bush gently urged Mideast leaders to "make the hard choices necessary for peace," leaving it to embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a divi...
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