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Oprah’s emotional goodbye

Updated: 11/21/09 7:07 AM
CHICAGO—For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

Senate edges closer to debate on health care

Updated: 11/21/09 7:07 AM
WASHINGTON — After negotiating critical last-minute commitments, Senate Democratic leaders Friday stood on the verge of achieving the necessary 60 votes to begin consideration of the most expansive health care legislation to go before the Senate in nearly half a century.

Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote

Updated: 11/20/09 5:21 PM
Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.

6 world powers meet about Iran nuclear issue

Updated: 11/20/09 8:41 AM
Representatives of six world powers on Friday were considering measures against Iran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.

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SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor

South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman

The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops during World War II.

Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.

Pentagon looking for Fort Hood management lapses

The Pentagon said Thursday it will scour its procedures for identifying volatile soldiers hidden in the ranks following the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.

Suicide bomber kills 16 in western Afghanistan

Updated: 11/20/09 8:46 AM
A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.

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Davis departs

Brian C. Davis, the former Ellicott District member of Buffalo's Common Council, took a long time leaving. Even after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors regarding misuse of campaign funds, he clung to his seat, leaving only after his colleagues shoved him.

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