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Accidents push Army base to raise drinking age to 21
FORT BLISS, Texas – This military base in the far West Texas desert stood as the last Army post in America where if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you were old enough to drink a beer. But the party is over at Fort Bliss.
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Dunkin' Donuts pulls ad
Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
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 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
California Democrats are switching to Obama
Less than four months after Hillary Rodham Clinton trounced Barack Obama in the California primary election, a majority of California Democrats now prefer the Illinois senator to be the party's presidential nominee, according to a new Field Poll.
- Doctor: Obama in great health, but has family history of cancer
WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama's doctor said yesterday that the presidential candidate was in excellent health at the time of his last checkup 16 months ago, but he has a family history of cancer and a big, obvious risk – a smoking habit that he's trying, again, to break.
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'Carol Burnett' comic won 4 Emmys
LOS ANGELES – Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and was seen to hilarious effect on the big screen in “Blazing Saddles,” died yesterday. He was 81.
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Disability activists, state try to settle suit
SACRAMENTO – The deficit-ridden state of California is trying to settle a lawsuit contending that state highway sidewalks and intersections do not comply with federal disability law – an upgrade Caltrans estimates could cost more than $2 billion.
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- Army suicides in 2007 are highest on record
WASHINGTON – U.S. soldiers committed suicide in 2007 at the highest rate on record, and the toll is climbing ever higher this year as long war deployments stretch on.
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McClellan explains early defense of Bush
WASHINGTON – Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration yesterday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt.
- CIA chief cites big gains vs. al-Qaeda
WASHINGTON – Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
- N.M. governor pushes for Mexico aid
MEXICO CITY – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson urged U.S. lawmakers yesterday to resolve their differences over an aid package to help Mexico fight drugs, saying it would be “disastrous” for security on both sides of the border if the Merida Initiative fell through.
- Palestinian students lose grants for study in U.S.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The U.S. State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at U.S. institutions this fall because Israel has not granted them permission to leave.
- Chinese may have copied Cabinet member's laptop
WASHINGTON – U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce Department computers, officials and industry experts told The Associated Press.
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Chemical fire strikes town hit by quake
CHENGDU, China – A stockpile of chemicals being used to disinfect the earthquake-shattered town of Leigu ignited yesterday and injured scores of soldiers doing relief work in Beichuan county, adding to a day of problems for urgent recovery efforts.
- 16 killed in attack at police station
BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber detonated explosives among a group of men seeking police jobs yesterday, killing 16 people crowded around a recruiting station in northwestern Iraq.
- Iraq seeks debt relief, gets little response
UPPLANDS VASBY, Sweden – Iraqi officials appealed yesterday to escape nearly $100 billion in debt and war reparations – owed mostly to Arab nations still reluctant to forgive Iraq's belligerence during Saddam Hussein's regime.
- Gospel coins get Marine reassigned
BAGHDAD – The U.S. military confirmed yesterday that a Marine in Fallujah passed out coins with Gospel verses on them to Sunni Muslims, a military spokesman in Fallujah said. The man was immediately removed from duty and reassigned.
- FIFA lifts ban on Iraq, letting soccer team play
BAGHDAD – Soccer's world governing body abruptly lifted the suspension of Iraq's soccer association yesterday, easing concerns that Iraq's team, a rare symbol of national unity, would be banned from the 2010 World Cup.
- Daily developments
Turkish warplanes attacked several Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq yesterday, Turkey's military said. No casualties were immediately reported. The fighter jets targeted 16 rebel positions in the Hakurk region, just across the border, the military said in a statement posted on its Web site.
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