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			<title><![CDATA[AOL offers buyouts to 2,500, a third of work force]]></title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed more than a third of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Byrd becomes longest-serving Congress member]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd has become the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, a milestone to be marked Wednesday with a Senate resolution.<br>
"I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days," Byrd said in a statement marking the occasion. His only regret, Byrd said, was that his late wife, Erma, was not there with him.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ex-Kiss drummer: Breast cancer not just for women]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.salemnews.com/nationalnews/etpnational_story_322093019.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) &mdash; Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.<br>
"I thought, 'It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't think it's anything more than that,"' he said. "The more I messed with it, the bigger it got and the more it hurt, and that started really scaring me."]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted, as Attorney General Eric Holder defended putting him through the U.S. civilian legal system.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[AP Poll: Gov't health plan divides public]]></title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Tell Americans that letting the government sell insurance in competition with private industry would be cheaper for them, and a majority is in favor.<br>
Tell them the government would be making decisions about what medical care they could get, and support sinks.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:37:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) &mdash; An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New advice: Skip mammograms in 40s, start at 50]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NC searchers find body of missing 5-year-old girl]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SANFORD, N.C. (AP) &mdash; A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Astronauts board space shuttle Atlantis for launch]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &mdash; Astronauts climbed aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, as the sky over the launching site gradually cleared.<br>
Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at an improved 80 percent. Low clouds were the sole concern for the 2:28 p.m. liftoff.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police find body of missing 5-year-old NC girl]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[SANFORD, N.C. (AP) &mdash; Authorities in North Carolina say they have found the body of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago.<br>
Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance told The Associated Press on Monday that searchers found the body of Shaniya Davis off a road southeast of Sanford in the central part of the state.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report: OSHA should improve safety checks]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The agency in charge of workplace safety needs to do a better job of making sure employers keep accurate records on worker injuries and illnesses, congressional investigators said in a report released Monday.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[AP Poll: Americans fret over health overhaul costs]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; It's the cost, Mr. President.<br>
Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says. That's creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the Senate.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[LA pushes to get repaid for $3M Jackson memorial]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (AP) &mdash; The Los Angeles city attorney still plans to seek reimbursement of the $3 million the city spent for the Michael Jackson memorial, a spokesman said Monday, despite an audit concluding the event pumped even more dollars into the local economy.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &mdash; NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, despite increasingly cloudy skies.<br>
Forecasters put the odds of acceptable weather at 70 percent, not nearly as good as previous days. Low clouds were the main concern for the 2:28 p.m. liftoff.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police now searching for body of missing NC girl]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:16:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.salemnews.com/nationalnews/etpnational_story_320131607.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[SANFORD, N.C. (AP) &mdash; Authorities searched along a highway Monday for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl but said they still hoped they might find her alive.<br>
Shaniya Davis has been missing since last Tuesday. Her mother, who reported her gone, is accused of offering her for prostitution, according to court documents and police.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mass. senator driven home by cops]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (AP) &mdash; Police in Cambridge gave state Sen. Anthony Galluccio a ride home because acquaintances told them he was too drunk to drive about 13 hours before he was involved in a hit-and-run accident.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pro-Cuba embargo money flows to US lawmakers]]></title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[MIAMI (AP) &mdash; Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:05:00 EST</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.salemnews.com/nationalnews/etpnational_story_318220502.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[KIEL, Wis. (AP) &mdash; The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Woman widowed by cop husband's suicide sues NYPD]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Michael Pigott was an experienced NYPD lieutenant with an elite team trained to deal with the most hostile scenarios. He was calm under pressure. A good leader.<br>
Last fall, Pigott responded to a call of a naked man teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at officers below with a long fluorescent light bulb. Among New York police work, not an extraordinary case. Pigott made a split decision to order an officer to fire a stun gun, but the order backfired, leading to the man's death &mdash; and Pigott's eventual suicide.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[2012 already? GOP wannabes jockeying early]]></title>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the recession.<br>
They're all jockeying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination &mdash; even if they won't say so.]]></description>
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