| NKorea warns South against provoking warfare (AP) | Top |
| AP - North Korea warned South Korea against provoking war on Thursday as it reportedly deployed an arsenal of missiles near their sea border and told U.N. inspectors it plans to restart its nuclear facility. |
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| Demand destruction: Oil prices drop to 1-year low (AP) | Top |
| AP - Oil prices closed at their lowest level in a year Thursday, falling below $85 a barrel even after OPEC signaled it may try to slow crude's downward spiral by cutting production. |
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| Crisis forcing debt-saddled Americans to budget (Reuters) | Top |
| Reuters - The bleak outlook for the U.S. economy and the worst credit crunch in decades are pushing many stressed-out consumers to learn some new skills -- budgeting and saving. |
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| OPEC to hold emergency meeting on oil prices (AP) | Top |
| AP - OPEC said Thursday it will hold an extraordinary meeting Nov. 18 to discuss how the widening global financial crisis is affecting oil prices, a move that could lead to a coordinated production cut in a bid to halt crude's steep losses. |
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| Senate demands answers from Fed on AIG's spending (Reuters) | Top |
| Reuters - The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee demanded answers on Thursday from the Federal Reserve about reported lavish spending by insurer American International Group Inc after it received an $85 billion rescue loan. |
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| UN food program finds hunger in rural Zimbabwe (AP) | Top |
| AP - Some rural Zimbabweans facing one of the hungriest years they could remember have been forced to live on a meal a day and in some cases only on wild fruits, the U.N. food aid agency said Thursday. |
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| Critics call McCain housing plan 'half-baked' (Politico) | Top |
| Politico - John McCain’s surprise policy offering Tuesday night to have the government buy bad mortgages is bold, sweeping and, well, a bit perplexing to nearly everyone. |
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| Man indicted in slaying of Broncos' Williams (AP) | Top |
| AP - A 25-year-old man was indicted Wednesday on first-degree murder charges in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams on New Year's Day 2007. |
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| GM shares drop to 58-year low, global risks eyed (Reuters) | Top |
| Reuters - General Motors Corp shares fell to their lowest level since 1950 on Thursday as concerns mounted that an industry decline that started in the United States was spreading and a leading forecaster warned global auto demand could "collapse" in 2009. |
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| Iowa teen left at Neb. hospital back with family (AP) | Top |
| AP - An Iowa teenager who was abandoned at an Omaha hospital under Nebraska's safe-haven law is back home, in part because the grandparents who dropped her off soon changed their minds, a county official said Thursday. |
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| Norbert becomes Category 4 hurricane in Pacific (AP) | Top |
| AP - Hurricane Norbert strengthened Wednesday into an extremely powerful Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast and was on track to hit the southern Baja California peninsula over the weekend. |
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| Strong-arm robber in Mich. ends up $30 in the hole (AP) | Top |
| AP - Police said a strong-arm robber got locked in a chokehold by his intended victim and ended up $30 in the hole. Police in the Detroit suburb of Warren said the robber approached a 36-year-old man and demanded money on Tuesday night. |
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| AP IMPACT: GPS could save airlines time and fuel (AP) | Top |
| AP - A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages for more than a decade. |
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| Christian drama `Fireproof' has unexpected success (AP) | Top |
| AP - When brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick were looking for inspiration for their third feature-length film, they turned to God for help. |
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| Ice chunk falls through roof, hits woman in bed (AP) | Top |
| AP - A woman was slightly injured on Wednesday after a six-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky through her roof as she slept. The source of the ice wasn't immediately known, but experts said it might have fallen from an airplane or rocket. |
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| Intel report: Afghanistan facing 'downward spiral' (AP) | Top |
| AP - The situation in Afghanistan now is the worst since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001 and the country is in danger of a "downward spiral" into violence and chaos, according to an intelligence report draft. |
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| Shiite politician assassinated in Baghdad (AP) | Top |
| AP - A roadside bomb killed a prominent member of Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement Thursday, raising fears of new internal Shiite bloodshed ahead of regional elections expected in January. |
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| Judge sentences rap music fan to Bach, Beethoven (AP) | Top |
| AP - A defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. |
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| Voter registration boom favors Obama (AP) | Top |
| AP - The surge in new voters that helped propel Barack Obama to his party's presidential nomination is carrying over to the general election 9 million newly registered voters who are overwhelmingly Democratic and could add up to a big victory on Election Day. |
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| Mexico unveils emergency spending to combat crisis (AP) | Top |
| AP - President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday unveiled plans for 53 billion pesos ($4.4 billion) in emergency spending on roads, schools, hospitals and an oil refinery next year to help Mexico combat the world financial crisis. |
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| Red wine may ward off lung cancer: study (Reuters) | Top |
| Reuters - Drinking red wine, but not white wine, may reduce lung cancer risk, especially among current and ex-smokers, new research indicates. |
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| Phoenix Lander Scoops Dirt from Under Martian Rock (SPACE.com) | Top |
| SPACE.com - As fall creeps up on the arctic plains of Mars, NASA's Phoenix Lander is using the few weeks it has left to gather as many samples of Martian dirt for analysis as it can. |
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| Drunken man finds his way home just not his home (AP) | Top |
| AP - Unlike Goldilocks, a man who stumbled into the wrong suburban Washington, D.C., home after drinking too much found the bed there just right. |
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| Don't mess with scientists (The Yahoo! Newsroom) | Top |
| The Yahoo! Newsroom - If there's one rule in election-year politics, it's this: Don't mess with the science crowd. OK, labor unions and the NRA matter too, but John McCain may want to brush up on his stars and planets after Tuesday night's debate. |
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