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The Pentagon insists it has enough C-17 Globemaster jets, which are partly manufactured in Texas and used by the Air Force to ferry troops and weapons to hot spots around the globe.
Nevertheless, lawmakers from the Lone Star State and elsewhere recentl..
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A middle school in the Cypress-Fairbanks district was placed under lockdown Friday when a student brought a loaded handgun to school and pointed the weapon at two coaches, authorities said. No one was injured.
When the 12-year-old girl first arrived Fr..
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President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying "Mexico does not end at its borders."
The criticism earned Calderon a standing ovation during his f..
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A 73-year-old man who failed his 10th grade high school exams for the 39th time vowed today to try again next year in the hopes that an education will improve his job and marriage prospects.
Shivcharan Jatav, a farmer from the desert state of Rajasthan..
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A man charged with injuring his daughter by putting her in a microwave oven also placed her in a refrigerator and in a hotel room safe, a police detective testified Tuesday.
Joshua Mauldin, 19, of Warren, Ark., tossed his daughter on one hotel room bed..
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A father who tried to break up a fight between three of his children and two other teens Friday night was shot to death when he stepped between his 19-year-old son and the shooter, police said.
Police identified the father as Reginald Isaac Johnson, 41..
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A special school board meeting called to hear the appeal of a student disciplined for playing a violent computer game involving his high school was canceled when four board members stayed away.
The Fort Bend Independent School District trustees who did..
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Most of a group of 20 endangered rabbits that were reintroduced to the wild with great fanfare last month have been killed by predators, state officials said.
Only four of the rabbits released on March 13 remained at the Sagebrush Flat Wildlife Area as..
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A British resident released from Guantanamo Bay after nearly five years in captivity said Sunday his detention at the U.S. prison camp was "profoundly difficult" to endure, his first comments since his release.
Bisher al-Rawi, a 37-year-old Iraqi natio..
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An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen Sunday. As many as 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape, and injured Afghans said the Ame..
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The missing clock didn't stop postal customer Al Cunningham from noticing the amount of time spent waiting for service.
"It's always long here," said Cunningham, 49, an insurance adjuster and former postal employee who was standing in line at the Watso..
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The worst-case scenario for a large tornado striking Houston makes a hurricane look like high surf. Spinning at 225 mph, the tornado touches down in southwest Houston, skirting the Astrodome and barreling through parts of River Oaks, Montrose and the H..
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Rescuers located three climbers who fell from a ledge on snowy Mount Hood on Sunday, but rescue efforts were being hampered by blinding snow and wind, officials said. Rescuers were trying to rappel 150 feet to reach the climbers, but were caught in whi..
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A U.N. envoy on Friday unveiled his long-awaited plan for Kosovo, a proposal recommending internationally supervised statehood for the contested province where separatists fought a bloody war with Serbia in the late 1990s...
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It may be time to "redefine the goals" for Iraq, the admiral President Bush picked to lead U.S. forces in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday as lawmakers of both parties maneuvered for leverage against Bush's proposed troop buildup...
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One out of three Texas students don't graduate, and more students drop out than finish high school in the state's largest cities, according to education experts...
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Blues legend B.B. King was "back to his old self" today after being discharged from a Galveston hospital where he was treated for a fever, a spokeswoman for his management agency said...
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Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio's most populous county...
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A judge on Monday rejected the city's effort to keep secret most of the files and videotapes documenting the arrests of hundreds of protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention...
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A six-month extension of emergency housing assistance will stave off an immediate catastrophe but will not solve the underlying problems preventing hurricane victims from rebuilding their lives, evacuees and their advocates said Monday...
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