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Rush starts as holiday shopping season revs up
5 hrs ago
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The nation's retailers are ushering in the traditional start of the holiday shopping season with expanded hours and deep discounts on everything from toys to TVs to lure crowds of shoppers.
Asian stocks tumble amid Dubai fears, dollar slump
26 mins ago
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Asian stock markets tumbled Friday, with Hong Kong and South Korea down nearly 5 percent, as fears mounted over the fallout from Dubai's massive debt problems. European stocks extended their slide.
Was president in danger from dinner crashers?
2 hrs 2 mins ago
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The Secret Service maintains that President Barack Obama was never in danger at a state dinner after an uninvited Virginia couple got through security, but it wouldn't comment on whether anyone is screened for radiological or biological weapons.
Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry
1 hr 37 mins ago
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Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.
Pirates pitcher digs spikes into farming policy
1 hr 24 mins ago
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An e-mail requesting an internship arrived at the Agriculture Department this summer with an impressive resume: Princeton University degree in operations research and financial engineering, 3.8 college GPA, 1520 SATs.
In tobacco-loving Va., bars to quit cold-turkey
2 hrs 7 mins ago
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The bluish haze that has hung over the Third Street Diner's bar and booths for decades finally lifts next month as a new anti-smoking law takes hold in Virginia, a huge shift for a state whose tobacco habit dates to the Jamestown settlement some 400 years ago.
2 rescued earlier at site of Utah cave tragedy
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The medical student who died in a Utah cave was the third spelunker in recent years to get stuck in the same tiny crevice but the only one die - an outcome that devastated the dozens of rescuers who worked for more than a day to save him.
Filipino who lost wife in massacre files candidacy
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A politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in the southern Philippines in an apparent bid to stop him from running for governor filed his candidacy Friday for the election.