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WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama's refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin along with a photo of him not putting his hand over his heart during the National Anthem led conservatives on Internet and in the media to question his patriotism.
March 09, 2008
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By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
When things go awry at the voting booth, as they have several times in this hectic primary season, much of the blame often falls on ill-trained poll workers who are paid a pittance.
March 09, 2008
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By DEBORAH HASTINGS
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
LEWISTON, Maine - Safaa Wadi moved to this former mill city after his life was threatened in his native Iraq while serving as an interpreter for the U.S. Army. He expects to soon head back to Iraq - not as a civilian interpreter, but as a U.S. soldier.
March 09, 2008
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By CLARKE CANFIELD
Associated Press Writer
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National
CINCINNATI - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that a pair of mailings sent to voters by rival Barack Obama's campaign criticizing her health care plan and trade views are false, misleading and a betrayal of his pledge to practice a new style of politics.
March 09, 2008
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By BETH FOUHY
Associated Press Writer
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Campaign 2008
SEATTLE - Juan Angulo arrived for work at an eastern Washington apple orchard one day in 1995 and began vomiting. He developed a terrible headache, and his eyes and nose started to run.
March 09, 2008
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By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
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National
HAGATNA, Guam - A B-2 stealth bomber plunged to the ground shortly after taking off from an air base in Guam on Saturday, the first time one crashed, but both pilots ejected safely, Air Force officials said.
March 09, 2008
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The Associated Press
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National
WASHINGTON - Governors pushing alternative energy development are not shying from coal, a major culprit in global warming but also a homegrown energy source and an economic lifeline for many states.
March 09, 2008
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By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - Internet users should be free to surf where they want and download what they please. But shouldn't the owners of the networks that make the Internet possible also have rights?
March 09, 2008
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By JOHN DUNBAR
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - A multibillion-dollar loophole slipped into a proposed crackdown on contract fraud has drawn the ire of a key Republican senator and the government's top watchdog of U.S. spending in Iraq.
March 09, 2008
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By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
DAVIS, Calif. - The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe's lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.
March 09, 2008
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By JULIANA BARBASSA
Associated Press Writer
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National
It hasn't been easy getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, gaunt, bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on to lead his people through a bloody civil war.
March 09, 2008
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By ALLEN G. BREED
AP National Writer
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National
WASHINGTON - For the first time in his seven years in office, President Bush will have a South Korean counterpart with similar views on North Korean nuclear disarmament when Lee Myung-bak is inaugurated Monday.
March 09, 2008
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By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - He overhauled federal forest policy to cut more trees - and became a lightning rod for environmentalists who say he is intent on logging every tree in his reach.
March 09, 2008
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By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - Serbia's government failed to protect U.S. and other Western embassies from nationalist mobs angry over the international embrace of the former Serb province of Kosovo as an independent state, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
March 09, 2008
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By ANNE GEARAN
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
LOS ANGELES - A woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer has been awarded more than $9 million in a case against one of California's largest health insurers.
March 09, 2008
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By THOMAS WATKINS
Associated Press Writer
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National
