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Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit
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2010-09-09T01:51:34Z
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons....
Obama firm, won't yield on tax hike for wealthiest
By News on Sep 8, 2010
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2010-09-08T22:58:23Z
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans - and some fellow Democrats - just two months before bruising midterm elections....
US embassies brace for Quran burning protests
By News on Sep 8, 2010
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2010-09-08T23:19:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to assess their security ahead of a Florida church group's planned weekend burning of the Muslim holy book amid fears it could spark anti-American violence....
GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending
By News on Sep 8, 2010
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2010-09-08T11:32:49Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy....
BP Investigator: 8 failures led to disaster
By News on Sep 8, 2010
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2010-09-08T13:40:41Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lead BP PLC investigator is saying that eight separate failures had to occur for the company's deepwater well to unleash the largest offshore oil spill in history....
