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Supreme Court to cut costs to fight deficit
By News on Dec 31, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will join Congress and the president next year in cutting costs to reduce the federal deficit, Chief Justice John Roberts said Friday in his year-end report....Miller says he's ending legal fight, conceding
By News on Dec 31, 2010
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski....Karzai keeps minister considered corrupt by US
By News on Dec 31, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. officials pressured Afghan President Hamid Karzai to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry a year ago because of corruption and ineffectiveness, and threatened to end aid unless he went....
Ouattara ally: Ivory Coast now in 'war situation'
By News on Dec 31, 2010
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- A top ally of Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader said Friday that the country is already in a "civil war situation," and urged the incumbent leader who refuses to cede power to step down by a midnight deadline....US Homeland Security chief arrives in Afghanistan
By News on Dec 31, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (neh-pahl-ih-TAN'-oh) has arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, to spend New Year's Eve with U.S. troops and the Homeland Security officers who have been working with the Afghan government to try to secure that country's porous borders from militants, as well as weapons and drug smugglers....