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            Intelligence policy to stay largely intact
          
          
        
 
      
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            'Godless' ad drove donors, voters to Hagan
          
          
        
 
      
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            New federal mortgage plan offers relief to only a few
          
          
        
 
      
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            Bush quietly gave banks $140 billion windfall
          
          
        
 
      
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            Secret Service blamed Palin for Obama death threats
          
          
        
 
      
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            Interest groups spend $98 million on White House race
          
          
        
 
      
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            On concerns over gun control, gun sales are up
          
          
        
 
      
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            ACLU: Police staged confrontation amid convention
          
          
        
 
      
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            McCain aides: 'Palin didn't know Africa was a continent'
          
          
        
 
      
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            Fannie Mae spent $6,000 on golf after seizure
          
          
        
 
      
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            Top Obama adviser has long ties to neocons
          
          
        
 
      
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            One in five homeowners with mortgages under water
          
          
        
 
      
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            Bush admin. denies funding for FBI probe of mortgage mess
          
          
        
 
      
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            Motives of Justice lawyers questioned in detainee's case
          
          
        
 
      
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            Economy shrank in third quarter as consumers retreat
          
          
        
 
      
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            New spin on Cuba embargo resolution
          
          
        
 
      
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            76 US Nobel Laureates in science endorse Obama for president
          
          
        
 
      
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            Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber
          
          
        
 
      
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            Graffiti targeting legislators
          
          
        
 
      
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            Texas officials: FEMA 'insensitive' after Ike
          
          
        
 
      
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            Congress grew 13 percent richer in 2007
          
          
        
 
      
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            Maryland state troopers' spy effort was wider
          
          
        
 
      
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            US foreclosures soar by 71%
          
          
        
 
      
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            Renewed crackdown on illegal immigrants
          
          
        
 
      
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            Report: Kids less likely to graduate than parents
          
          
        
 
      
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            Palin stylist draws higher pay than foreign policy adviser
          
          
        
 
      
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            Greenspan concedes error on regulation
          
          
        
 
      
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            Wealth gap creating a social time bomb
          
          
        
 
      
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            ACLU assails 100-mile border zone as 'constitution-free'
          
          
        
 
      
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            Homeless numbers 'alarming'
          
          
        
 
      
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            Police prepare for post-election unrest
          
          
        
 
      
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            Rich-poor divide worst among rich countries
          
          
        
 
      
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            Two justices clash over race and death penalty
          
          
        
 
      
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            Study finds LA police stop more blacks than whites
          
          
        
 
      
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            McCain employing GOP operative accused of voter registration fraud
          
          
        
 
      
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            Thousands face mix-ups in voter registrations
          
          
        
 
      
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            Wall Street banks in $70 billion staff payout
          
          
        
 
      
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            Activists mislisted as terrorists balk at rules for seeing files
          
          
        
 
      
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            Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after accusations
          
          
        
 
      
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            Student to plead not guilty to terrorism charges