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 | REUTERS SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan valley on Thursday, marking the start of a major new effort by the Obama administration to regain the initiative in the war. | | | | | MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON The Senate health committee's top two Democrats on Thursday rolled out a revamped plan to overhaul health care that would cost $611 billion over 10 years far less than their previous version but would impose a tax on many... Read more | | |
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| MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU KABUL, Afghanistan A U.S. soldier who inexplicably walked off his barren military base earlier this week was captured by Taliban militants hours later, U.S. military officials said Thursday. It's... Read more | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal judge on Thursday tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she may be able to forgive her husband's much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman, but true reconciliation will take more time. | |
| THE MIAMI HERALD WIMBLEDON, England It will be an all-Williams Wimbledon final on July 4. Only Hollywood comes up with story lines so perfect.Defending champion Venus Williams will go for her sixth Wimbledon... Read more | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS The future of Michael Jackson's children was thrown into question Thursday when his ex-wife emerged and won a delay in a custody hearing while she decides whether she wants to raise her two... Read more | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns. | |
| REUTERS NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled on Thursday, driving the S&P 500 down to its third-straight weekly loss, as a steeper-than-expected slide in June non-farm payrolls revived caution about... Read more | |
| MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota has been an unofficial testing ground for using ethanol to fuel vehicles, but after years of steady increases, interest appears to be waning. | |
| MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON In a worse-than-expected showing, employers shed 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate ticked up another tenth of a percentage point to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, the... Read more | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today... Read more | |
| STATELINE.ORG States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system. | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS A man distraught that his wife wanted a divorce is suspected in the shooting at a Southern California dental office that killed her and wounded four other employees, police said Thursday. | |
| REUTERS WASHINGTON - U.S. employers cut far more jobs than expected last month and the unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, the highest in nearly 26 years, underscoring the likelihood of a long,... Read more | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday. | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the... Read more | |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS The Washington Post asked lobbyists and business leaders to pay $25,000 to attend a dinner discussion with government officials and journalists at the home of its publisher, and then canceled the... Read more | |
