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More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving

The Associated Press Nov 21, 2009 - 4:25PM

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. The group, which surveyed 1,350 households, said there will be about 33.2 million people traveling by car this year - a 2.1 percent increase from last year.

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Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

GENEVA — Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting...

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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

LONDON — Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted...

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Pope and Anglican leader agree on closer relations

VATICAN CITY — After offering a home in his church to disaffected Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI assured the archbishop of...

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Moderate Dems pivotal in health care vote

The Associated Press

Nov 21, 2009 - 12:21AM

WASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.

Moderate Dems pivotal in health care vote

The Associated Press Nov 21, 2009 - 12:21AM

The Oprah countdown to her exit begins

Americans save more but earn less as rates fall

Flake: Obama to take more centrist course

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD

Diocese: Pedophile priests should get benefits

Man cleared of wife's death during nightmare

White House at odds with bishops over abortion

Lawmakers send few minorities to academies

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A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US

The Associated Press

Nov 21, 2009 - 12:03PM

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war....

A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US

The Associated Press Nov 21, 2009 - 12:03PM

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war....

EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

The Associated Press Nov 21, 2009 - 12:53PM

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) -- Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time....

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