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Oprah Winfrey will end show in 2011
Talk show queen to announce final date on today’s broadcast
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Caleb Raehl, 3, of Manassas, Va., waits in line with his parents Matthew Raehl, left, and Rebecca Raehl, to be re-booked after their AirTran flight was canceled due to an FAA computer glitch at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., on Thursday. FAA glitch snarls air traffic
ATLANTA — For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation’s air travel system set off delays and cancella...
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EU picks unknowns for top positions
BRUSSELS — After years of effort the European Union named its first full-time president and powerful foreign policy chief on Thursday — but handed the jobs to two little-known compro...
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32% fee hike OK’d for Calif. schools
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Fred Massoomi, pharmacy operations coordinator at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Neb., examines a box containing five doses of swine flu vaccine. Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
When the nation’s swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be “messy.” They were right
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Abdulmanam Almushawah, the head of a Saudi government program called Assakeena, checks radical web sites in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday. Assakeena works to combat Islamic militant Web sites. Net spreads al-Qaida's message in English
More and more English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida’s message to Muslims in the West
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) takes the presidential oath beside Afghanistan s Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi during his inauguration as president of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Karzai makes big promises in inaugural
For his critics, President Hamid Karzai’s inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes — sober pledges to get tough on corruption and strengthen his own security forces so fore...
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Dr. Jeffrey M. Kenkel gives patient Amy Andrade a Botox treatment at his office in Dallas. The Botax? Nip/tuck levy would help health plan
They call it the “Botax.” The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they ...
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U.N. urges help for children
Appeal comes 20 years after rights treaty
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Reid sets markers for health care debate
$849B bill would extend coverage to 94% of Americans
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