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Suspect in custody in school hostage standoff, police say

A suspect was in custody and no one was hurt after a gunman held a principal hostage Tuesday at a school in Pine Plains, New York, a spokeswoman for the Dutchess County sheriff's office said. Earlier, ...
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Car bomb kills nine in Baghdad market

Two Iraqi soldiers killed by sniper fire in Mansour neighborhood, official says Armed men kill two Sons of Iraq members in Dora neighborhood BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- A parked car bomb detonated Sunday in ...
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Prosecutors seek 40 years for Khmer Rouge jail chief

Prosecutors in the trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief asked a U.N.-backed Cambodian court Wednesday to sentence the man to 40 years in prison for his role in the torture and deaths of ...
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Protesters demand open presidential debates

Chanting and waving signs, a group of about 100 demonstrators marched in front of CNN Center Sunday, calling on the network to host open debates among several third-party presidential candidates. "You ...
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Gore returns to politics with PAC for 2002 races

Emerging from a self-imposed political exile, former Vice President Al Gore announced Thursday the creation of a political action committee designed to help elect Democratic candidates nationwide in ...
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U.S. to hold detainees at Guantanamo Bay

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday the United States plans to transfer the al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners it now holds to the U.S. naval base at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo ...
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Slave soldiers honored, called 'national treasures'

It marked the first time in history the U.S. Army recognized 350 soldiers held as slaves inside Nazi Germany. The men were beaten, starved and forced to work in tunnels at Berga an der Elster where ...
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Why is panic disorder a psychiatric condition?

Why is panic disorder classified as just a psychiatric condition when there are so many physical symptoms (some painful) that arise during the attack? They would occur whether in good/bad mood, or ...
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Which sectors are the biggest polluters?

Story Highlights IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report reveals the latest figures for GHG emissions Emissions from human activities have increased 70% between 1970 and 2004 Rate of CO2 emissions was much ...
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Prison employees have been terminated after Ghislaine Maxwell’s email messages were shared, her lawyer says

Employees of a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where convicted child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is serving time have been terminated, one of Maxwell’s lawyers said Friday, after a ...
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Arrest made in shooting of John Beam, beloved former football coach featured in Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U’

An arrest has been made in the shooting of former football coach John Beam, Oakland Police said in a statement Friday.
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Administration cranks up sales pitch for stimulus bill

In a move meant to put pressure on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the White House and House Republican leaders are trying to write a new economic stimulus bill that would pass the House and would ...