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Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror (AP)
AP - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
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Rice: Pakistan must do more at border (AP)
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan should do more to stop the rise in terrorist violence in neighboring Afghanistan.
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Air Force nuclear missile launch crew fell asleep (AP)
AP - Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air Force said Thursday.
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AP Exclusive: Secret Service wants more money (AP)
AP - The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency's campaign security job.
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2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics (AP)
AP - The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged mental harm."
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Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting (AP)
AP - A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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911 calls released in case of missing Orlando girl (AP)
AP - The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recordings of 911 calls released Thursday.
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights (AP)
AP - Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky.
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'Twilight' fans camp out for a peek (and a scream) (AP)
AP - If you haven't heard of "Twilight," ask a teenager. The best-selling young-adult book isn't bound for the big screen until December, but fan frenzy for the film practically took over Comic-Con on Thursday.
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Cubs snap losing streak to Marlins with 6-3 win (AP)
AP - Carlos Zambrano pitched seven solid innings and the Chicago Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Florida Marlins with a 6-3 victory Thursday night.
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Obama presses Europe on Afghanistan in Berlin (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing
Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed
the need for unity in the face of new threats.
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Senate on course to vote Saturday on housing bill (Reuters)
Reuters - The Senate was on course for a
Saturday vote to approve a major housing market rescue bill
with a lifeline for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and bond market
action on Thursday indicated investors in the two mortgage
finance giants were encouraged.
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Election loss deals crushing blow to UK's Brown (Reuters)
Reuters - Britain's ruling Labour Party lost a
parliamentary seat in one of its traditional strongholds, a
stinging electoral setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
results showed on Friday.
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U.S.- Mexico border bracing for Dolly flooding (Reuters)
Reuters - Hurricane Dolly, which
lashed the U.S.-Mexico coastline, weakened to a tropical
depression on Thursday over South Texas, but concern remained
over flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley.
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Pentagon agency faulted for jeopardizing ID data (Reuters)
Reuters - Personal data collected on military,
civilian and contractor employees seeking federal security
clearances between 1997 and 2005 could be at risk due to
inaccurate record-keeping by the Pentagon agency that did the
investigations, an audit showed on Thursday.
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House bid to sell oil from reserve fails (Reuters)
Reuters - The House of Representatives on
Thursday failed to pass legislation intended to cool off
gasoline prices by requiring the government to sell 70 million
barrels of light sweet crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, the national stockpile.
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Bin Laden driver was not read rights, court told (Reuters)
Reuters - A driver
for Osama bin Laden was not told of any rights against
self-incrimination under years of interrogation, FBI agents
told the Guantanamo war crimes court on Thursday.
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Accounting change not meant to shock: SEC's Cox (Reuters)
Reuters - An accounting change that could
force banks to bring trillions of dollars of off-balance sheet
transactions back on their books will be implemented in a way
that will not create unnecessary shocks, the chairman of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday.
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Obama draws crowd of 200,000 in Berlin (AFP)
AFP - Barack Obama told a vast crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin that Americans and Europeans must tear down walls between estranged allies, races and faiths, in a soaring challenge to a new political generation.
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British ruling party loses crucial by-election (AFP)
AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a major blow Friday after his ruling Labour Party lost a crucial by-election in his native Scotland.
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