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Orange County Register

About 35 people, carrying anti-war signs, walked down the quiet street and knocked on the congressman's door. Surfing gear and a couple of children's strollers were on the porch. A window fan was working. But no one answered.

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AP

'We've been eating these foods for thousands of years, and nobody is getting sick. Why the stringent requirements, then?'" said Assemblyman Van Tran, who proposed the legislation which won overwhelming approval in the state Senate an

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Globe and Mail

[Nuke Canada!] Calling Canada a potential conduit for bioterrorism, pests and disease, the U.S. government is boosting its northern border inspection muscle -- and making Canadian air travellers and commercial shippers foot the bill.

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USA Today

(So much for the booming economy) The nation's poverty rate was essentially unchanged last year, the first year it hasn't increased since before President Bush took office. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 37 million Americans

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Newhouse News

A pipeline shuts down in Alaska. Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles. Electricity runs short at a spy agency in Maryland. None of these recent events resulted from a natural disaster or terrorist attack, but they may as well have

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AP

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cautioned lawmakers on Friday to avoid the temptation to impose protectionist trade policies as the United States grapples with fierce competition from a powerful wave of globalization.

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Time magazine

In his new book, State of Emergency--out this week--the politician and omnipresent pundit confronts what he calls the immigrant "invasion and conquest of America." Buchanan, talked about why conservatives will lose the culture wars and the

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Christian Science Monitor

The arrests and release of five young Arab-American men who bought hundreds of cellphones in the Midwest show broader concerns about wireless technology in an era of global terrorism.

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USA Today

Motaz Elshafi, 28, a software engineer, casually opened an internal e-mail at work last month. The message began, "Dear Terrorist." The e-mail warned that such violent acts wouldn't intimidate people, but only make them stronger.

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Reuters

"For that reason, the United States Government has raised the nation's threat level to Severe, or Red, for commercial flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States," the statement said.

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Washington Post

... a growing number of foreign scholars whose visas have been revoked or whose applications have been denied -- barred, according to civil rights and academic groups, for their ideological or political views.... is reaching near-epidemic proportions

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BusinessWeek

U.S. supporters of the $12 billion-a-year Internet betting industry were defiant in the face of the government's latest act, which specifically targets sports betting and not casino betting. Though the U.S. Justice Deptartment considers most type

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AP

Roads and bridges built by US taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying. An Australian- Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year

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Reuters

In its continuing crackdown on on-air profanity, the FCC has requested numerous tapes from broadcasters that might include vulgar remarks from unruly spectators, coaches and athletes at live sporting events, industry sources said.

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AP

Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and gaining momentum. Fueled by the work of scholars and lawyers, their campaign has morphed in recent years from a fr

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AP

3 people have been arrested and charged with stealing confidential information about drink recipes from The Coca-Cola and trying to sell it to rival PepsiCo, federal prosecutors said. The suspects include an executive administrative assistant at A

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Christian Science Monitor

The National Park Service is returning to its original 1916 mandate "to protect and preserve unimpaired the resources and values of the national park system." When there's a conflict between protection of resources and their use conserv

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Christian Science Monitor

Judith Palya Loether was 7 weeks old in 1948 when her father died in a plane crash while on a secret military research mission. Because of the hush-hush nature of his work, the family was never quite sure what happene. Decades later

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Washington Post

They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than

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AFP

The US is not prepared to cope with a large-scale terrorist attack or a powerful hurricane, the Department of Homeland Security said. "Evacuation, attention to populations with special needs, command structure, and resource management, were area

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Etherzone(Ed Henry)

Most Americans do not realize that the national debt is divided into 2 parts, what the government calls "Public Debt" and "Intragovernmental Holdings"(IH). Without that understanding, they have no chance of realizing that the lat

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