| Rice delivered OK to waterboard as Bush's adviser (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:29 pm
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|  AP - Then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice verbally OK'd the CIA's request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, a decision memorialized a few days later in a secret memo that the Obama administration declassified last week.
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| Police investigating death of Freddie Mac official (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  AP - The chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, one of the mortgage giants at the heart of the nation's financial meltdown, was found dead in his basement early Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide. David Kellermann, 41, apparently hanged himself in his suburban Washington home, said a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. He asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing.
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| Obama calls for new era of energy exploration (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama, standing Wednesday in the shell of a once-giant Maytag appliance factory that now houses a wind energy company, declared that a "new era of energy exploration in America" would be a crucial to leading the nation out of an economic crisis.
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| Police: NY man beat, asphyxiated family in hotel (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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|  AP - A New York tax attorney's investment dealings are being investigated by the FBI after he beat and asphyxiated his wife and daughters in a Maryland hotel room, then answered a call from his daughter's college roommate before killing himself, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Sources: GM to shut most US plants up to 9 weeks (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. is planning to temporarily close most of its U.S. factories for up to nine weeks this summer because of slumping sales and growing inventories of unsold vehicles, three people briefed on the plan said Wednesday. Analysts say the company could be seeing sales decline because of talk about a potential bankruptcy.
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| AP source: Craigslist suspect had victims' items (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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|  AP - A Boston University medical student accused of robbing women who advertised erotic services on Craigslist, killing one of them, had items belonging to both victims in his apartment, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
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| Fidel Castro: Obama 'misinterpreted' Raul's words (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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|  AP - Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to the island.
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| Taliban extend hold, advance near Pakistan capital (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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|  AP - Taliban militants have extended their grip in northwestern Pakistan, pushing out from a valley where the government has agreed to impose Islamic law and patrolling villages as close as 60 miles from the capital. Police and officials appear to have fled as armed militants also broadcast radio sermons and spread fear in Buner district, just 60 miles from Islamabad, officials and witnesses said Wednesday.
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| Polo player links supplement to horse deaths (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 6:45 pm
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|  AP - Twenty-one prized polo horses that mysteriously died before one of the sport's top championships were given a supplement that likely caused their deaths, the leader of the Venezuelan-owned team told an Argentine newspaper.
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| Global recession worst since Depression, IMF says (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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|  AP - The global economy is expected to lurch into reverse this year for the first time since World War II with appalling consequences for nations large and small — trillions of dollars in lost business, millions of people thrust into hunger and homelessness and crime on the rise.
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| 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' shot at in Colo. Springs (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 4:10 pm
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|  AP - Police in Colorado say shots were fired at TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and a bail bondsman when they tried to apprehend a man whose bail was revoked on an attempted murder charge.
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| Discrimination claim appears to divide high court (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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|  AP - A divided Supreme Court took up its first examination of race in the Obama era Wednesday, wrestling with claims of job discrimination by white firefighters in a case that could force changes in employment practices nationwide.
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| Obama talks up wind power, green jobs on Earth Day (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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| AP - Marking Earth Day with a pitch for his energy plan, President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a "new era of energy exploration in America" and argued that his proposal would help both the economy and the environment.
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| Report: Bush policies led to prisoner abuses (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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|  AP - The brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA's early use of harsh interrogation tactics, according to a Senate report.
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| Geithner urges global effort to tamp crisis (Reuters)
April 22, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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|  Reuters - The United States bears "substantial" blame for the woes besetting the world economy but it will take a global effort to ease those strains, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday.
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| Taliban extend hold, advance near Pakistan capital (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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| AP - Taliban militants have extended their grip in northwestern Pakistan, pushing out from a valley where the government has agreed to impose Islamic law and patrolling villages as close as 60 miles from the capital.
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| Pelosi Said She Knew Harman Was Wiretapped (CQPolitics.com)
April 22, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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|  CQPolitics.com - Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she was first informed in a confidential briefing a few years ago that Rep. Jane Harman had been recorded by spy agencies, but that she couldn't tell Harman or anyone else about it.
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| Ivy Leaguer `infiltrates' Falwell's university (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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|  AP - Kevin Roose managed to blend in during his single semester at Liberty University, attending lectures on the myth of evolution and the sin of homosexuality, and joining fellow students on a mission trip to evangelize partyers on spring break.
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| Fidel Castro: Obama 'misinterpreted' Raul's words (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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| AP - Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to the island.
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| Govt to launch old-for-new vehicle scrap scheme (AFP)
April 22, 2009 at 10:28 am
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|  AFP - The government will pay drivers to swap old cars for new in a scheme to boost its stricken auto sector, Chancellor Alistair Darling said in Wednesday's budget, mirroring moves in Germany and other European nations.
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| Reports: Freddie Mac official found dead (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 8:09 am
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| | AP - David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home Wednesday morning in what broadcast reports said was an apparent suicide. |
| Worst foreclosure rates found in 4 states (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 6:45 am
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|  AP - The 26 U.S. cities with the worst foreclosure problems are concentrated in four states — California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada, a report released Wednesday shows.
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| Prosecutors say pirate was brazen ringleader (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 6:17 am
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|  AP - Prosecutors say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was not shy about making his presence known on the Maersk Alabama, brazenly tearing through the ship in a way that belied his young age and skinny, 5-foot-2 frame.
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