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States differ on votes of those who die before election
If you vote by mail, but die before Election Day, does your vote count? It depends on where you lived. Oregon counts ballots no matter what happens to the voter. So does Florida. And so does California.
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Bale requests privacy
“Batman” star Christian Bale asked for privacy yesterday in his first comments since allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister at a London hotel, saying the incident was personal.
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 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
200,000 in Berlin hear Obama's message of unity
BERLIN – Cheered by an enormous international crowd yesterday, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
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Iran won't cooperate with U.N. on inquiry into nuclear program
VIENNA, Austria – Iran signaled yesterday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began.
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Major cleanup, but relief as Dolly weakens
HARLINGEN, Texas – Residents across South Texas slogged through knee-deep muddy waters, tiptoed around downed power lines and dug through debris yesterday, but they were thankful that Hurricane Dolly didn't pack the wallop they had feared.
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- Revenge spurred computer plot, prosecutors say
SAN FRANCISCO – Terry Childs envisioned the ultimate revenge on his bosses, prosecutors claim – the meltdown of the city's computer network at the flick of a switch.
- 3 shot at Phoenix community college
PHOENIX – A man shot three people yesterday afternoon in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, wounding two of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled, but a suspect was arrested nearby.
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Clinic, outbreak of hepatitis C linked
LAS VEGAS – A hepatitis C outbreak that prompted the largest public health notification operation in U.S. history has been traced to two patients treated at a Las Vegas endoscopy clinic in 2007, and officials said yesterday clinic workers knew at least one carried the virus before treatment.
- Justice Dept. approved CIA's harsh interrogation methods
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed “in good faith” that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause “prolonged mental harm.”
- House OKs big boost in global AIDS fight
WASHINGTON – The House voted yesterday to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, giving new life and new punch to a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives in Africa alone.
- Regulators fault mine operator in Utah collapse
PRICE, Utah – The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins, federal regulators said yesterday.
- Boxer: White House withheld EPA findings on global warming
WASHINGTON – The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told the White House in December that high levels of man-made, heat-trapping gases are causing global warming and endanger the American people, Sen. Barbara Boxer said yesterday after she reviewed the EPA finding, which has not been made public.
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Grizzly bear attacks woman in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A grizzly bear attacked a woman, wrapping its jaws around her head before a guest scared it away.
- Missile crew that held launch codes was asleep
WASHINGTON – Three members of a ballistic missile crew in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air Force said yesterday.
- Ex-Argentine military leader sentenced in torture deaths
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison yesterday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists.
- Israel seeks to build homes in West Bank
JERUSALEM – An Israeli defense committee has approved the construction of 22 homes in a barely populated West Bank settlement, Defense Ministry officials said yesterday. The move appeared to catch some Israeli officials off guard, angered the Palestinians and was likely to prompt criticism from the international community as it tried to push forward a long-faltering peace process.
- Report: Russians checked sites in Cuba
MOSCOW – The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported yesterday that crews from Russian strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons have surveyed sites in Cuba for possible refueling stopovers.
- South Africa jurist tapped for U.N. human rights post
UNITED NATIONS – One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated yesterday to serve as the next U.N. Nations high commissioner for human rights.
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Militants kill nine in 2 attacks in India
SRINAGAR, India – A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Srinigar in Indian Kashmir, killing a Bihar state woman and her four children yesterday.
- Political control keeps Iraqi team out of Olympics
Iraqi athletes have been banned from participating in the Beijing Summer Games by the International Olympic Committee because the government seized control of the country's Olympic committee.
- Suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 24
BAGHDAD – A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baquba, killing at least eight of them and wounding 24 other people yesterday evening, police said.
- U.S. ambassador says insurgency 'trying to hang on'
BAGHDAD – The insurgency that bedeviled U.S. forces for years and killed thousands of Iraqis and Americans has withered to the point where it is “not even much of a challenge anymore” to Iraq's future, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said yesterday in an interview.
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The 18-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper was shot to death Wednesday as a U.S. patrol passed nearby in Kirkuk, police said. Police Brig.
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