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US government scraps virtual border fence

By Arthur H. Rotstein · Thursday, April 24,2008 12:09 a.m.

TUCSON, Ariz. – The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said.

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By Arthur H. Rotstein · Tuesday, April 22,2008 11:20 p.m.

Authorities say a 69-year-old central Florida woman found an 8-foot-long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Monday, April 21,2008 11:01 p.m.

Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to “live as a neighbor next door in peace.”

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Pakistan frees pro-Taliban leader

By Abisalom Omolo and Riaz Khan · Monday, April 21,2008 10:59 p.m.

pro-Taliban leader who sent thousands of fighters against the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan was freed by Pakistan on Monday, and an official said his militant group signed a peace deal with the provincial government in the restive northwest.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Monday, April 21,2008 12 a.m.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, April 17,2008 11:22 p.m.

Authorities in India sealed off the center of their normally frenetic capital Thursday with 15,000 police to protect the Olympic torch relay from anti-China protesters who held their pro-Tibet demonstrations elsewhere in the country.

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By Arthur H. Rotstein · Thursday, April 17,2008 12:42 a.m.

Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein embraced sobbing relatives and thanked colleagues after being released Wednesday after more than two years in U.S. military custody.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Wednesday, April 16,2008 12:15 a.m.

Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday he was “deeply ashamed” of the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and will work to keep pedophiles out of the priesthood, addressing the toughest issue facing the American church as he began his first papal trip to the United States.

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By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Monday, April 14,2008 10:58 p.m.

Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he hoped to help open talks between Hamas and U.S. leaders, saying Washington’s policy of not meeting with people it labeled terrorists was counterproductive.

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