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News of interest to Columbia from around the Nation and the World
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Yesterday at 5:10 PM
BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of efforts to repair the company's badly damaged reputation.
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Yesterday at 5:05 PM
Heat advisories were posted from the Carolinas to the Great Plains as the South continued to roast Friday under temperatures and humidity that made beaches feel more like bakeries.
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Yesterday at 5:02 PM
In the wake of two polls showing seniors skeptical of health reform, the Obama administration has made a $700,000 national cable ad buy, featuring Andy Griffith talking about the Medicare benefits within the law, aimed at selling a key voting block on new provisions.
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Yesterday at 4:58 PM
Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued.
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Yesterday at 10:56 AM
Workers at the private Circle D Wildlife Refuge in Kalamazoo County say Friday they've received 15 geese and other birds this week. The birds have come from Calhoun County, where the oil spill is concentrated.
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Yesterday at 10:37 AM
Nowhere in the U.S. is local enforcement more present than in metropolitan Phoenix, where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely carries out sweeps, some in Hispanic neighborhoods, to arrest illegal immigrants.
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Yesterday at 10:14 AM
Firefighters plan an aggressive air attack at first light Friday against a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in northern Los Angeles County, chewing through more than 7 square miles of dry brush. There is zero containment, authorities said.
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Yesterday at 6:18 AM
New York Rep. Charles Rangel can expect a September trial before the House ethics committee, the same month he has a primary.
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Yesterday at 6:13 AM
UPDATED 8:35 a.m. CDT. Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.
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Yesterday at 6:02 AM
An out-of-control wildfire has burned through more than 7 square miles and forced hundreds of evacuations in the hills around Palmdale in northern Los Angeles County.
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Yesterday at 5:59 AM
The House has passed far-reaching aviation safety legislation developed in response to a deadly commuter airline crash in western New York last year.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Efforts to provide relief to the nation's struggling small businesses stalled in the Senate Thursday, prompting a bitter round of finger-pointing on a measure that once had broad bipartisan support.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
A procedure intended to ease the job of plugging the blownout Gulf well for good could start as early as the weekend, the government's point man for the spill response said Thursday.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests Thursday despite a judge's ruling that delayed enforcement of most of the law, and about 50 people in Phoenix were arrested after peacefully confronting officers in riot gear.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
By late Wednesday, the oil had traveled at least 35 miles downstream from where it leaked in Calhoun County's Marshall Township, killing fish, coating other wildlife and emitting a strong, unpleasant odor.
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