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San Diego Union-Tribune News
12/15/2008
Progress in wars extolled by Bush
KABUL, Afghanistan – On a whirlwind trip to Iraq and Afghanistan shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President Bush yesterday hailed progress in the wars that define his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference in Iraq.
12/15/2008
Line forming for slice of stimulus pie
WASHINGTON – Since President-elect Barack Obama laid out plans for the largest injection of federal spending into the economy since the New Deal, just about everyone has started angling for a piece of the action.
12/15/2008
Executive pay gets loophole in bailout
WASHINGTON – Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the rules.
12/15/2008
Doctor says activism led to firing
TIJUANA – Dr. José Manuel Ortiz Ampudia says it was fear that first drove him to speak against crime – fear of the kidnappers and extortionists who began threatening members of Tijuana's medical community this year.
12/15/2008
Photo: Chargers still alive and kicking
12/15/2008
Writer pleads not guilty
Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary pleaded not guilty Friday to vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol in a fatal January crash.
12/15/2008
Keepers of seed bank worry that funding will dry up
ARDINGLY, England – The underground bunker can block nuclear fallout, withstand a direct hit by a jetliner, and is cooled to a deathly chill.
12/15/2008
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12/15/2008
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12/15/2008
Ousting Blagojevich high on lawmakers' list
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Officially, Illinois lawmakers will gather soon to consider a special election to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate – but it was already clear yesterday that ousting disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich was at the top of many to-do lists.
12/15/2008
Hamas hinting it might extend truce with Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Hamas leaders in Gaza yesterday left open the possibility of renewing a tenuous truce with Israel that is scheduled to expire Friday, putting themselves at odds with a statement by the exiled political leader of the group in Damascus, Syria.
12/15/2008
Brown vows anti-terror aid to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged more counterterrorism help to Pakistan yesterday, revealing that three-quarters of terror plots investigated in Britain had links to al-Qaeda supporters in Pakistan.
12/15/2008
Racial gap grows in colon cancer death rates; health care access blamed
ATLANTA – The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care.
12/15/2008
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12/15/2008
Private eye faces sentencing in wiretapping case
LOS ANGELES – Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano isn't the only person imprisoned as a result of his wiretaps of the rich and famous. His victims say they have never been able to free themselves from the emotional and financial fallout caused by his crimes.
12/15/2008
Floating relic of Cold War rhetoric dumped in Delta without a home
SAN FRANCISCO – Half a century ago, six men with no sailing experience climbed aboard an aging Chinese junk in Taiwan and survived a typhoon that nearly wrecked the little ship. But after sailing nearly 7,000 miles across the Pacific, they were greeted by cheering crowds as they sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge.
12/15/2008
Arrest reported in Oregon bank blast
PORTLAND, Ore. – An arrest has been made in the Oregon bank bombing that killed two officers and critically injured the Woodburn, Ore., police chief.
12/15/2008
White House still working on auto industry loans
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration tossed out no lifeline for the teetering auto industry yesterday, and a Republican who blocked $14 billion in loans said it appeared the White House hadn't decided what to do.
12/15/2008
Tipster: Spying program didn't smell right
WASHINGTON – A former Justice Department lawyer says he tipped off the news media about the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program because it “didn't smell right,” Newsweek magazine reported yesterday.
12/15/2008
Avalanche in Utah kills skier at resort
SALT LAKE CITY – A skier is dead after an avalanche at Snowbird resort. A spokeswoman for University Hospital in Salt Lake City said the woman died yesterday after being pulled off Mount Baldy. She was in her 20s.
12/15/2008
Anti-Kremlin protesters detained while trying to march in Moscow
MOSCOW – Police thwarted a banned anti-Kremlin protest in central Moscow yesterday, seizing dozens of demonstrators and shoving them into trucks.
12/15/2008
Opposition chief to lead Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand – Parliament chose opposition party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as Thailand's prime minister today, as supporters of the former government tried to blockade lawmakers in the building to halt the result.
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