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07/04/2008 08:13 PM
Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
 Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 years in Congress, died Friday. He was 86.
07/04/2008 08:30 PM
Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser
 "Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.
07/05/2008 01:31 PM
Both left and right pile on Obama
 Democrat Barack Obama's appeal to centrist voters has further opened the door to Republican claims his message of change only applies to the positions he has taken in the past.
07/04/2008 11:11 AM
Bush heckled at new citizen ceremony
 President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."
07/03/2008 06:58 PM
Obama opens door to altering his Iraq policy
 Democrat Barack Obama struggled Thursday to explain how his upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his promise to quickly remove U.S. combat troops from the war.
07/03/2008 04:03 PM
Brownstein: Candidates try to cross the great divide
 Efforts to expand the campaign battlefield this year could, paradoxically, be the first step toward taming partisan gridlock in Washington.
07/04/2008 12:11 AM
NYT: McCain camp struggles to find strategy
 John McCain has struggled to solidify lines of attack against Mr. Obama, Republican operatives say and some of his own advisers acknowledge.
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07/03/2008 02:40 PM
Nontraditional tenants filling up vacant malls
 Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks. Maybe a local library between the Victoria's Secret and the Gap.
07/05/2008 05:55 AM
Bank fined over rogue trader scandal
 France's central bank announced Friday that it has fined Societe Generale $6.3 million for "serious shortcomings" that led to nearly $7.8 billion in trading losses announced earlier this year.
07/03/2008 01:54 PM
Jobs that earn a surprising six-figures
 To marketing majors everywhere: There's a six-figure job waiting for you at the casino.
07/03/2008 11:08 AM
U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June
Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy’s fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.
07/03/2008 09:44 AM
GM bankruptcy described as unlikely
 Times are certainly tough for GM, which saw its stock fall to a 54-year low. But while one analyst said bankruptcy is a possibility, others said that outcome is unlikely.
07/03/2008 06:48 PM
Bourbon producers see amber-colored future
 To Wild Turkey master distiller Jimmy Russell, the piercing sounds of a warehouse rising in the Kentucky countryside are the sounds of prosperity.
07/03/2008 11:05 AM
Job losses add to consumer worries
As they cope with rising food and energy costs and declining home values, more Americans took another financial hit in June: the loss of their paycheck.
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07/02/2008 12:00 AM
The Nation's Symbol
An adult bald eagle rests near a pond at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
07/03/2008 12:00 AM
NASA Reveals New Discoveries From Mercury
Scientists have argued about the origins of Mercury's smooth plains and the source of its magnetic field for more than 30 years. Now, data from the January 2008 flyby of the planet by MESSENGER spacecraft have shown that volcanoes were involved in plains formation.
07/03/2008 12:00 AM
NASA Debuts Web Site for First Ares Test Flight
NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule, to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station and send them on their way to the moon.
07/02/2008 12:00 AM
STEREO Creates First Images of the Solar System's Invisible Frontier
NASA's sun-focused Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, twin spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year.
07/02/2008 12:00 AM
NASA Considers Development of Student-Led Satellite Initiative
NASA is considering the development of a university-based, student-led satellite development initiative to begin passing the space exploration torch to a new generation.
07/02/2008 12:00 AM
Space Station Spacewalks, Briefing on Tap for NASA TV
Two International Space Station residents will conduct a pair of spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the complex July 10 and 15, with coverage of both planned for NASA Television.
07/01/2008 12:00 AM
NASA to Reveal New Discoveries from Mercury
NASA will host a media teleconference Thursday, July 3, at 2 p.m. EDT, to discuss analysis of data from the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging spacecraft's flyby of Mercury earlier this year.
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07/04/2008 07:52 AM
Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
07/04/2008 06:44 PM
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
DOVER, N.Y. (AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said....
07/03/2008 04:57 PM
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....
07/02/2008 02:35 PM
Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs - to identify criminals using text messages....
07/03/2008 01:34 AM
Study says many dial-up users don't want broadband
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access....
07/03/2008 11:22 AM
EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write....
07/03/2008 03:47 PM
Adobe to make searching easier on Flash sites
NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on the popular Flash video format....
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07/05/2008 11:49 AM
Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says....
07/04/2008 06:47 PM
UN chief to G8: climate change, food crisis linked
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years....
07/04/2008 04:49 AM
Syria returns stolen marble artifact to Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites....
07/03/2008 05:04 PM
Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet....
07/03/2008 05:05 PM
Mars lander's next bake test could be its last
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last....
07/04/2008 12:57 AM
July 4th boaters: Steer clear of NJ dolphin family
SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities protecting a dolphin family in a New Jersey river are stepping up enforcement over the July Fourth holiday....
07/03/2008 06:24 AM
G-8 climate scorecard shows US in last
BERLIN (AP) -- The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found....
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07/05/2008 02:04 PM
2 fires still raging along Calif.'s Central Coast
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) -- Cool, damp weather early Saturday helped crews gain ground on the huge wildfire that wiped out this coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade, allowing some personnel and gear to be shifted to a growing blaze farther south...
07/05/2008 12:04 PM
Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week....
07/05/2008 11:04 AM
Employers use federal law to deny benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer....
07/05/2008 10:07 AM
Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats. McCain also doesn't seem to have a coherent message let alone much of a strategy despite securing the nomination three months earlier than Obama....
07/05/2008 11:07 AM
Democrats hit GOP on support for Medicare cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, accused Republicans of putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts....
07/05/2008 02:11 PM
Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment....
07/05/2008 01:57 PM
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'
Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book-drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood....
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