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National Briefing | Washington: Discoveries on Mars Suggest Past Presence of Water
data: 01.10.08
The NASA Phoenix spacecraft has discovered two minerals on Mars that suggest that water was there in the past.
 For millions of Americans, the government has morphed from lender of last resort into effectively the only lender.
 Some are preparing to turn the party back toward its Reaganite roots, while others are stepping up efforts for a radical reinvention.
 Mr. Baron made headlines over the summer when he acknowledged sending money to John Edwards’s former mistress, Rielle Hunter.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama has infuriated many of his Democratic colleagues.
 More foundations are spending increasing amounts and raising their voices to influence public policy.
Five states and New York City intend to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it does not act soon to reduce pollution from ships, aircraft and off-road vehicles.
The nation’s largest building code group rebuffed a push to weaken skyscraper code enhancements adopted in response to the World Trade Center attack.
 About 1,000 people in Postville, Iowa, on Sunday demonstrated at the entrance to a kosher meatpacking plant that was raided in May by immigration authorities.
 The Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary have cast aside long-held views about regulation and government intervention.
New regulations issued by the Labor Department will let family members of seriously injured or ill members of the armed services take up to 26 weeks off from work each year to care for them.
Besides stockholders whose portfolios were ravaged, the one person with the most riding on the bailout bill that collapsed in Congress may have been Senator John McCain.
 A House panel voted along party lines to cite Karl Rove over his refusal to testify about the Justice Department.
A U.S. military judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can use a disputed interrogation to support their case against a former driver for Osama bin Laden in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.
 A second supervisor arrested after a big immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville has pleaded guilty to immigration charges.
 A federal prosecutor will determine whether charges should be brought in the firings of U.S. attorneys in 2006.
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1. On Religion: Obama’s Victory Ushers in a New Generation of Black Ministers
data: 15.11.08
The presence of an African-American president, and one from the post-civil rights era, could impart influence and prominence on his contemporaries in the black ministry.
2. National Briefing | West: California: Fire Coastal Enclave
data: 15.11.08
A brush fire destroyed an unknown number of homes in the enclave of Montecito, outside Santa Barbara, forcing residents to evacuate what has long been a hideaway for the rich.
3. National Briefing | Charities: No Change? Swipe Your Card at a Kettle
data: 15.11.08
The Salvation Army is experimenting with a plastic alternative for people who do not have cash to throw in a holiday red kettle.
4. National Briefing | Midwest: Illinois: Suits Charge Violence by Police
data: 15.11.08
A lawsuit asserts that some white Chicago police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama’s victory last week at their home.
5. National Briefing | Science: Group Set to Sue Over Clean Water Act
data: 15.11.08
The Center for Biological Diversity said it was prepared to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to use the Clean Water Act to respond to the threat of ocean acidification.
6. National Briefing | Washington: Debt, but No Layoffs, at Postal Service
data: 15.11.08
The Postal Service ended its fiscal year $2.8 billion in the red, battered by a faltering economy that cut the amount of mail being sent by 9.5 billion items.
7. National Briefing | Washington: FEMA Trailers Sold as ‘Scrap’
data: 15.11.08
The government is selling travel trailers that were banned from use as emergency housing in disasters because many had toxic levels of formaldehyde.
8. National Briefing | Washington: Bridge Collapse Is Laid to Design Flaw
data: 15.11.08
The Minneapolis Interstate bridge that collapsed in 2007, killing 13 people, had cracks in its welds and rust in many places, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
9. Henry Loomis, Who Led Voice of America, Is Dead at 89
data: 15.11.08
Mr. Loomis extended the reach and defended the independence of the Voice of America in the late 1950s and early 1960s before resigning in a clash with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
10. Space Plumbers Ready for Shuttle Launching
data: 15.11.08
If all goes as planned, a team of intrepid space plumbers and lube-job specialists will lift off on Friday for a visit to the International Space Station.
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