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War to bitter end
MODERATOR'S NOTE: This story is now closed to commenting. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel on Monday, demonstrating Hamas still has firepower three days into Israel’s punishing air offensive in Gaza. Four Israelis, including a soldier, were killed and eight wounded. Palestinian health officials put the three-day death toll in Gaza at 364; the UN said the total included at least 62 civilians.
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Indonesian province plans microchips for AIDS patients
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Legislators in Indonesia's remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips — part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease. Health workers and rights activists sharply criticized the plan Monday.
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Confronting the crisis
A stern and steady Barack Obama addressed the nation Friday for the first time since the night of his historic election win earlier this week, pledging his commitment to cure America’s profoundly ailing economy. "Immediately after I become president, I will confront this economic crisis head-on," Obama told a packed Chicago news conference, his top economic advisers flanking him following their hours-long meeting earlier Friday about the economic crisis.
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Palin abused power, state panel finds
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor of Alaska by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of a state legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperils her reputation as a reformer on John McCain’s Republican ticket.
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Congress scrambles to salvage bailout bill
WASHINGTON — U.S. congressional leaders scrambled Tuesday to find enough changes to sell the multibillion-dollar financial rescue to their rank-and-file, with long-distance prodding from John McCain and Barack Obama on the presidential campaign trail.
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U.S. bails on bailout
TORONTO — The defeat of the U.S. financial bailout bill sent shivers of fear through the heart of Canada’s financial community Monday, prompting already anxious Bay Street traders into a selling frenzy as global economic fears multiplied. At one point in afternoon trading, Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index plunged more than 900 points and wound up suffering its biggest point drop in history.
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Wall Streets big fix goes to Congress
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Sunday to a $700-billion rescue of the ailing financial industry after legislators insisted on sharing spending controls with the administration. The biggest U.S. bailout in history won the tentative support of both presidential candidates and goes to the House of Representatives for a vote Monday.
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Forget the Internets, McCain helped create BlackBerry, aide says
MIAMI — Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry. At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
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