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			<title><![CDATA[AOL offers buyouts to 2,500, a third of work force]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed more than a third of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Byrd becomes longest-serving Congress member]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd has become the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, a milestone to be marked Wednesday with a Senate resolution.<br>
"I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days," Byrd said in a statement marking the occasion. His only regret, Byrd said, was that his late wife, Erma, was not there with him.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ex-Kiss drummer: Breast cancer not just for women]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) &mdash; Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.<br>
"I thought, 'It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't think it's anything more than that,"' he said. "The more I messed with it, the bigger it got and the more it hurt, and that started really scaring me."]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted, as Attorney General Eric Holder defended putting him through the U.S. civilian legal system.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[AP Poll: Gov't health plan divides public]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Tell Americans that letting the government sell insurance in competition with private industry would be cheaper for them, and a majority is in favor.<br>
Tell them the government would be making decisions about what medical care they could get, and support sinks.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:37:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) &mdash; An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New advice: Skip mammograms in 40s, start at 50]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NC searchers find body of missing 5-year-old girl]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SANFORD, N.C. (AP) &mdash; A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Astronauts board space shuttle Atlantis for launch]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &mdash; Astronauts climbed aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, as the sky over the launching site gradually cleared.<br>
Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at an improved 80 percent. Low clouds were the sole concern for the 2:28 p.m. liftoff.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police find body of missing 5-year-old NC girl]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SANFORD, N.C. (AP) &mdash; Authorities in North Carolina say they have found the body of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago.<br>
Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance told The Associated Press on Monday that searchers found the body of Shaniya Davis off a road southeast of Sanford in the central part of the state.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report: OSHA should improve safety checks]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The agency in charge of workplace safety needs to do a better job of making sure employers keep accurate records on worker injuries and illnesses, congressional investigators said in a report released Monday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[AP Poll: Americans fret over health overhaul costs]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; It's the cost, Mr. President.<br>
Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says. That's creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the Senate.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[LA pushes to get repaid for $3M Jackson memorial]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (AP) &mdash; The Los Angeles city attorney still plans to seek reimbursement of the $3 million the city spent for the Michael Jackson memorial, a spokesman said Monday, despite an audit concluding the event pumped even more dollars into the local economy.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &mdash; NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, despite increasingly cloudy skies.<br>
Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at 70 percent, not nearly as good as previous days. Low clouds were the main concern for the 2:28 p.m. liftoff.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police now searching for body of missing NC girl]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SANFORD, N.C. (AP) &mdash; Authorities searched along a highway Monday for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl but said they still hoped they might find her alive.<br>
Shaniya Davis has been missing since last Tuesday. Her mother, who reported her gone, is accused of offering her for prostitution, according to court documents and police.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mass. senator driven home by cops]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (AP) &mdash; Police in Cambridge gave state Sen. Anthony Galluccio a ride home because acquaintances told them he was too drunk to drive about 13 hours before he was involved in a hit-and-run accident.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pro-Cuba embargo money flows to US lawmakers]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[MIAMI (AP) &mdash; Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[KIEL, Wis. (AP) &mdash; The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Woman widowed by cop husband's suicide sues NYPD]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Michael Pigott was an experienced NYPD lieutenant with an elite team trained to deal with the most hostile scenarios. He was calm under pressure. A good leader.<br>
Last fall, Pigott responded to a call of a naked man teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at officers below with a long fluorescent light bulb. Among New York police work, not an extraordinary case. Pigott made a split decision to order an officer to fire a stun gun, but the order backfired, leading to the man's death &mdash; and Pigott's eventual suicide.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[2012 already? GOP wannabes jockeying early]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the recession.<br>
They're all jockeying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination &mdash; even if they won't say so.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bernard Madoff's jacket, watch auctioned in NYC]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; It was about fascination with big money &mdash; and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in U.S. history.<br>
Bernard and Ruth Madoff's belongings fetched as much as 20 times their estimated value at auction Saturday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ohio: 1 lethal injection drug should end lawsuit]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) &mdash; The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lieberman: Senate to investigate Fort Hood shooting]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT HOOD, Texas &mdash; A key U.S. senator said yesterday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[12 dead, 31 wounded in shooting at Army base]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT HOOD, Texas  &mdash; An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post yesterday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Boston Mayor Menino elected to a record 5th term]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON &mdash; Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has won an unprecedented fifth consecutive four-year term.<br>
With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Menino had 57 percent of the vote to City Council President Michael Flaherty's 43 percent. Flaherty has conceded the election.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[FAA grounds wayward Northwest Airlines pilots]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles are grounded indefinitely unless the National Transportation Safety Board grants them a reprieve.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Durable goods orders rise 1 percent in September]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose in September as the biggest jump in demand for machinery in 18 months offset weakness in commercial aircraft and autos.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Energy prices fall ahead of govt supply report]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Energy prices fell Wednesday ahead of a government report that could show whether supplies of crude and gasoline are growing tighter as prices at the pump rise.<br>
An oil industry report released late Tuesday suggested that the amount of crude and gasoline held in storage, which has remained at historically high levels for months, is falling.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawyer blasts release of affidavit in balloon case]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) &mdash; A mother's confession that she and her husband faked their 6-year-old son's disappearance in a runaway balloon shouldn't have been made public, an attorney for the father said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama declares swine flu a national emergency]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.]]></description>
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