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US condemns ‘terrorist attack’ in Morocco
Terrorist attack on popular tourist cafe killed 14 people. -AFP

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Officials: US missile attack on Libya prepared
The U.S. prepared to launch a missile attack on Libyan air defenses, but American ships and aircraft stationed in and around the Mediterranean Sea did not participate in initial French air missions Saturday, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the unfolding intervention.

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US Chamber begins attack ads against Boxer
The business group’s TV ad campaign could help Fiorina dull the huge financial edge that Boxer had going into the general election. Fiorina lagged Boxer 12-to-1 in fundraising earlier this summer.

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Meg Whitman launches searing attack in Republican convention speech
She says Jerry Brown would bring higher taxes and more government spending, and shows a video mocking his previous election bids and casting him as old-fashioned. Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman launched a searing attack against Democratic rival Jerry Brown in hopes of rallying the party faithful as California Republicans opened their convention Friday night.

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Trial of Serb for attack on NY student postponed
Serb judges on Monday postponed until September the trial of a former college basketball player charged with beating an American student into a coma and then fleeing to his native Serbia after

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Monday link dump: Snake attack
J.D. Hayworth’s long T-shirt slogan, Michele Bachmann’s opponent, the Bilderbergs, and snakes

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Clinton: NKorea must face consequences for attack
SHANGHAI (AP) — Citing “overwhelming” evidence that North Korea sank a South Korean warship, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned the communist state Friday of international consequences.

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Author’s panic attack inspiration for story published in ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul”?
For Dr. Sharon Dunski Vermont, panic led to publication.

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Dems attack Rossi ahead of possible Senate bid
Democrats stepped up their pre-emptive campaign against potential Republican Senate candidate Dino Rossi on Thursday, alleging that $20,000 in delinquent property taxes owed by his business partners show poor ethical standards on his part.

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