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Reuters - Standard & Poor’s on Thursday cut
ratings on all three major U.S. automakers deeper into junk
status, citing expected losses due to higher gas prices and a
weakening U.S. economy.

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The Christian Science Monitor - What to do with millions of illegal aliens in the US? The issue is still a sleeper in the presidential campaign. But maybe not for long. Americans who want strict law enforcement before a “total” immigration solution now have proof that stronger enforcement can bring results.
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LiveScience.com - It’s bad enough when a parasite latches on to your body to suck you dry. But when it
starts eavesdropping on your communications, enough already.
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Reuters - A federal judge ruled on Thursday
that Congress in its fight with the Bush administration can
subpoena current and former top White House aides in its
investigation over the firing of U.S. attorneys.

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AP - A southwest Ohio teen has pleaded guilty to seven felonies in the torture beating of a mentally disabled woman.
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AP - For 14 months, Ana Escobar studied the tiny fingers of every passing baby, searching for a girl with pinkies that curved gracefully outward, just like those of her missing daughter.

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AP - Police divers checking a report of human remains off a Puerto Rican beach may have made an archaeological discovery: bones and possible artifacts from a colonial-era ship, officials in the U.S. island territory said Wednesday.
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Reuters - A man sleeping on a
Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was
killed and decapitated by his seatmate as horrified passengers
fled to safety in the night, witnesses and police said on
Thursday.

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AP - At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.

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AP - A former Interior Department employee who worked in a division handling billions of dollars in oil and gas revenues acknowledged Wednesday to helping create a lucrative consulting position that he himself was hired for after retiring from government.
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