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			<title><![CDATA[Lieberman: Senate to investigate Fort Hood shooting]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT HOOD, Texas &mdash; A key U.S. senator said yesterday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[12 dead, 31 wounded in shooting at Army base]]></title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT HOOD, Texas  &mdash; An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post yesterday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Boston Mayor Menino elected to a record 5th term]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON &mdash; Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has won an unprecedented fifth consecutive four-year term.<br>
With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Menino had 57 percent of the vote to City Council President Michael Flaherty's 43 percent. Flaherty has conceded the election.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[FAA grounds wayward Northwest Airlines pilots]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles are grounded indefinitely unless the National Transportation Safety Board grants them a reprieve.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Durable goods orders rise 1 percent in September]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose in September as the biggest jump in demand for machinery in 18 months offset weakness in commercial aircraft and autos.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Energy prices fall ahead of govt supply report]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Energy prices fell Wednesday ahead of a government report that could show whether supplies of crude and gasoline are growing tighter as prices at the pump rise.<br>
An oil industry report released late Tuesday suggested that the amount of crude and gasoline held in storage, which has remained at historically high levels for months, is falling.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Court blocks names in gay partnership referendum]]></title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawyer blasts release of affidavit in balloon case]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) &mdash; A mother's confession that she and her husband faked their 6-year-old son's disappearance in a runaway balloon shouldn't have been made public, an attorney for the father said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama declares swine flu a national emergency]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pilot denies crew was napping]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &mdash; The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says he and the captain were not sleeping or arguing in the cockpit but he wouldn't explain their lapse in response and the detour.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coast Guard suspends search for missing fishermen]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LUBEC, Maine (AP) &mdash; The Coast Guard has suspended its search for two urchin fishermen who remain missing after their boat went down in Cobscook Bay in eastern Maine near the Canadian border.<br>
The 32-foot Bottom Basher was reported missing with three fishermen aboard Tuesday night after it failed to return to its home port of Lubec. The body of one of the men was recovered Wednesday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel is telling the White House.<br>
NASA has picked the wrong destination with the wrong rocket, the panel's chairman said Thursday. A test-flight version of the new rocket, Ares, is on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, awaiting liftoff later this month. NASA should be concentrating on bigger rockets, the panel members said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Semi tanker explodes on Indianapolis highway ramp]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS (AP) &mdash; A liquid propane tanker exploded on an Indianapolis highway ramp on Thursday, shooting a fireball of flames and black smoke into the sky and closing a section of one of the city's major expressways for what could be weeks.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brewer, Monster-maker settle 'Vermonster' dispute]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) &mdash; The fight between Monster and Vermonster has been settled.<br>
A small Vermont brewery that makes a beer called Vermonster and the Nasdaq-traded maker of Monster energy drinks settled a trademark dispute that prompted some stores to pull the larger company's beverages in protest.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Missing fisherman found off Maine]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LUBEC, Maine (AP) &mdash; The body of one of the missing urchin fishermen from eastern Maine has been recovered. Their boat is believed to have sunk in Cobscook Bay.<br>
WCSH-TV says the body was recovered during a search Wednesday, but officials aren't saying whose body it was. The Coast Guard's Chris Berry says a helicopter and three boats were searching for the skipper, Joseph Jones, and crewmembers Darrell Cline and Norman Johnson who failed to return home to Lubec on Tuesday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sheriff: Boy-in-balloon was hoax, charges expected]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT COLLINS, Colo.  &mdash; The story that a little boy had floated away in a giant helium balloon was a hoax concocted to land a reality television show, authorities said yesterday, and the boy's parents will likely face felony charges.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sheriff: Charges will be filed in balloon saga]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) &mdash; Authorities are pursuing criminal charges in the case of a boy who vanished into his parents' garage while the world feared he was trapped aboard a helium balloon &mdash; prompting speculation of a hoax.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Artist admits using key AP photo for 'HOPE' poster]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Shepard Fairey's claim that he had the right to use a news photo to create his famous Barack Obama "HOPE" poster became a widely watched court case about fair use that now appears to have nearly collapsed.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Family in balloon saga faces scrutiny]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.salemnews.com/nationalnews/etpnational_story_290004209.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) &mdash; By all accounts, Richard Heene is an unapologetic self-promoter who would pursue all sorts of off-the-wall stunts to get media attention. Flying saucers, mountaintop helicopter stunts, storm chasing, reality TV shows &mdash; no gag was beyond his limits.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Colorado balloon boy found safe at home]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; The family of a 6-year-old boy who set off a nationally televised scramble when he was thought to be in a balloon over Colorado has been featured twice in the ABC show "Wife Swap."]]></description>
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