“Candy maker says it’s buying confectioner in an all-cash deal; Buffett making an investment.

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“Obama’s pastor says criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church.

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Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday
upheld a tough state law requiring voters to show photo
identification before casting a ballot, a decision critics say
could keep some blacks and poor people from voting in the
November 2008 elections.
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Reuters - The former
chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals was
expected to appear as a defense witness on Monday, called in to
testify that the tribunal process was too tainted to provide a
fair trial for Osama bin Laden’s driver.
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AP - A top Iranian judiciary official has warned against the “destructive” cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys.
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AP - Fire crews battling a wildfire had a close call early Monday as winds, which had been fairly tame, unexpectedly kicked up and sent flames within yards of several houses.
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AFP - Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported.
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Reuters - A 73-year-old Austrian
electrical engineer has confessed to holding his daughter
captive in a secret, windowless cellAr for 24 years and
fathering seven children by her, police said on Monday.
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“AP - Snickers and M&Ms candy maker Mars Inc. is buying Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., which makes Juicy Fruit and Doublemint gum and Life Savers, for about $23 billion in cash.”
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AP - Shiite extremists lobbed more rockets or mortar shells at the U.S. protected Green Zone on Monday as American and Iraqi troops engaged militants in the most violent clashes in weeks in Baghdad.
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