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      <title>Key panel recommends impeaching Ill. governor  </title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:38:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Blagojevich should lose his job for abusing power, mismanaging government and committing possible criminal acts, including federal ...
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      <title>Illinois, 41 other states in salmonella outbreak  </title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:49:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A nationwide salmonella outbreak that has struck 42 states has put about one in five of its victims in the hospital, the U.S. ...
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      <title>Missing Kan. boy was briefly in state custody  </title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:31:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A boy whose disappearance went unreported for 10 years was once taken away from his adoptive parents, then returned days later, ...
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      <title>Amtrak prepares for crowds along Obama train route</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:19:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Throngs of well-wishers are expected to line the tracks as President-elect Barack Obama travels by train from Philadelphia to ...
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      <title>U.S. Navy to lead anti-piracy force</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:44:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An international force under American command will soon begin patrols to confront attacks by Somali pirates, the U.S. Navy said.
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      <title>L.A. judge hears bid to dismiss MySpace conviction</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:01:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An attorney for a woman convicted in a MySpace hoax directed at a teen who ended up committing suicide asked a judge to dismiss ...
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      <title>Mass. wants calorie counts at fast-food outlets</title>
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      <description>Massachusetts health officials plan to follow the lead of New York City and California in requiring fast-food chains to post ...
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      <title>U.S. mine deaths fall to 51, the lowest on record</title>
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      <description>The number of miners killed on the job in the United States fell to 51 in 2008, the fewest number of deaths in nearly a century, ...
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      <title>Influential Catholic conservative Neuhaus dies at 72</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:48:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a leading intellectual of the Christian right who helped build an influential coalition of conservative ...
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      <title>Judge releases Alabama sheriff jailed over skimping food  </title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:36:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A federal judge has ordered the release of an Alabama sheriff he locked up after ruling that the sheriff purposely fed jail inmates ...
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      <title>School bus liquor-store run gets cops' attention</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:22:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A school bus driver made an unscheduled stop at a liquor store, then allegedly asked a student to help hide her purchases when ...
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      <title>Heart stops, but Minn. woman survives after hours in cold  </title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:02:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 64-year-old woman whose heart stopped beating and body temperature dropped to a dangerous 60 degrees after she was stuck in ...
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      <title>Former Sen. Larry Craig dropping further appeals </title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:18:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reached the end of the road in his effort to reverse his conviction in an airport bathroom ...
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      <title>Teen charged with 4 N.Y. killings </title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:45:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 17-year-old high school dropout shot, bludgeoned or stabbed to death four people over the Christmas holidays, three of them ...
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      <title>Evacuees return home as Colo. wildfire partially contained</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Thousands of evacuated residents were allowed to return to their homes Thursday after firefighters took advantage of slowing ...
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