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NYT: Anti-terror air defense reviewed
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:27:58 GMT
NYT: The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style attack.
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RV industry no longer running on empty
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:43:17 GMT
There are signs of recovery in the nation's heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven and faces many threats.
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Long-term unemployed face dwindling options
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:04:28 GMT
For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers, life remains a day-to-day struggle. Instead of working on RVs in a factory, she may soon be living in one.
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Goldman Sachs on Thanksgiving trash duty
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:41:24 GMT
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
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Trial begins for Maui man accused of spying
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:17:20 GMT
A former stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from a narcissistic disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court.
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Red Tape: After data loss, ID theft risk soars
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:07:48 GMT
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N.C. girl raped, killed on day she was taken
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:17 GMT
A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, arrest warrant says.
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Were you paying attention? Take our news quiz
MSNBC.com | Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:24:50 GMT
How much do you remember about the week in news? Take msnbc.com's weekly quiz and find out what you can recall.
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Teen pleads guilty in July murder of border agent
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:27:42 GMT
A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July.
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Burglars steal box holding baby’s ashes
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:47:05 GMT
An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.
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Ethics panel: No punishment for Sen. Burris
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:21:15 GMT
The Senate ethics committee admonished Roland Burris for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment, but did not recommend any punishment.
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Model who married doorman sues co-op
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:32 GMT
A foot model in New York City is suing her upscale apartment building, claiming the co-op board is trying to force her out because she married its former doorman.
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Island's bison to get birth control shots
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:37:50 GMT
Descendants of 14 bison shipped to Santa Catalina Island in 1924 to make a Western movie have multiplied so much that a conservation group is about to give females birth control injections.
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FBI investigates use of Taser on girl, 10
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:41:31 GMT
The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.
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Berkeley students take building
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:16 GMT
University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees barricaded themselves Friday inside part of a campus building.
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Lawmakers send few minorities to academies
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:33 GMT
As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
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Wrongfully convicted NYC man freed
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:24:34 GMT
A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder before a judge declared him innocent.
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U.S. to look at own role in Afghan graft
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25:52 GMT
The U.S. will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says.
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Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
MSNBC.com | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:07:33 GMT
Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.
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