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Pledge plaintiff explains why he sued

He's known as the man who took on the Pledge of Allegiance. Atheist Michael Newdow, a Sacramento, California, physician with a law degree, objected to his second-grade daughter being required to ...
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Iraq veteran gets powerful new knees

Greg Gadson is not a bionic man, but he does have a new set of powerful knees. Gadson, an /topics/Iraq_War" class="cnnInlineTopic">Iraq War veteran, was wounded in 2007 by a roadside bomb and lost ...
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Machete-wielding woman outside White House

A 32-year-old woman wielding a machete was arrested Sunday outside the White House, the Secret Service said. Spokeswoman Kim Bruce said Ashwak Saleh was taken into custody and charged with possession ...
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Pelosi takes questions from online crowd

That was a common refrain in a handful of questions posed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the first Digg Dialogg interview Wednesday night. iReport contributor ReallyRick, whose real name is Rick ...
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Violence sparks conversation on decriminalizing drugs

While Congress is considering major spending requests for security along the Mexican border to help curb drug violence, others are proposing a less-expensive but, some say, dangerous solution: ...
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Rising affordability pressures put extra weight on the September jobs report

One of the most hotly anticipated economic reports is finally set to be released Thursday: the long-delayed jobs report for September, originally due on October 3.
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US economy saw stronger-than-expected job growth in September, but the unemployment rate rose

The jobs report for September, delayed for weeks due to the government shutdown, was expected to show the economy added around 50,000 jobs that month.
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Activist: Attack on whalers 'nonviolent chemical warfare'

Watch protesters toss objects at the ship » The conservation group said it also threw packets of a slippery chemical on to the deck of the ship, making it difficult to cut up whales. The unnamed ...
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McCain: New administration marks 'perfect time' to push for campaign finance reform

McCain: New administration marks 'perfect time' to push for campaign finance reform. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rejecting suggestions that he was trying to upstage his former primary riv ...
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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board as scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein emails intensifies

Larry Summers is resigning from the OpenAI board as he steps away from public commitments, after more emails between the Harvard economist and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released last ...
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Trump suggests he’ll fire Bessent if Fed doesn’t cut interest rates

President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested he would fire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Federal Reserve doesn’t decrease interest rates.
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'Virtual currencies' power social networks, online games

They appear digitally on his friends' online profiles on a site called hi5, which is a social network like Facebook or MySpace. "They can't eat the cake. It is an image -- the thing that it represents ...