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Huge chest of drawers hoisted aboard space station (AP)
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AP - Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the international space station on Monday that contained a brand new freezer, sleeping compartment and treadmill bearing a TV comedian’s name.
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Deadly wildfire surges closer to Los Angeles (AP)
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AP - A deadly wildfire destroyed more than four dozen homes as it blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry Southern California forest, forced thousands of residents to flee and burned dangerously close Monday to a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex.
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Sen. Grassley: No public option in health reform (AP)
“AP - Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said Monday he remains hopeful a limited health care reform measure can be negotiated, but that a small bipartisan group of senators working on the issue agrees a government-run public option won’t be part of the package.”
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Hurricane stronger, heads for Mexico’s Los Cabos (AP)
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AP - Extremely dangerous Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico’s resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Monday, prompting emergency workers to set up makeshift shelters and chasing away an international finance conference.
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Police find bone fragment near CA suspect’s home (AP)
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AP - Police say they have found one small bone fragment on the property next door to the home of a Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.
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Cocaine laced with dangerous medicine blamed for deaths (AP)
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AP - Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine
Gates: Report details highs, lows of Afghan fight (AP)
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AP - The United States and NATO need a new strategy to defeat the Taliban, the top commander in Afghanistan said Monday as he delivered a classified assessment that is widely seen as the groundwork for a fresh request to add more American forces next year.
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Gears move on possibly naming Kennedy replacement (AP)
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AP - The push to name a successor to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gained momentum Monday, with state lawmakers scheduling a hearing on whether to allow an appointee to serve until a special election in January.
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AP IMPACT: Tainted cocaine kills 3, sickens dozens (AP)
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AP - Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine - a livestock de-worming drug that might enhance cocaine’s effects but has been blamed in at least three deaths and scores of serious illnesses.
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Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angeles (AP)
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AP - A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles made another menacing advance Monday, surging toward thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex.
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