| Afghans protest, Fla. pastor plans to meet NY imam
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 AP - As thousands of Afghans protested a tiny Florida church's plan to burn the Muslim holy book, the church's pastor said he won't follow through with the burning if he's able to meet Saturday with the organizers behind a mosque planned near ground zero in New York.
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| 4 dead, 53 homes destroyed in California fire
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 AP - Fire crews flooded the ruins of burning homes with water early Friday and after a massive explosion apparently triggered by a broken gas line sent flames roaring through a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people and destroying more than 50 houses.
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| Obama to take GOP to task on economy, tax cuts
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 AP - Striving to gain the upper hand on a crucial political issue, President Barack Obama is faulting Republicans for refusing to help him turn around the sluggish economy or support some proposed new tax breaks for businesses that the GOP has backed in the past.
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| Woman held after 2 shot dead at Pa. cookie plant
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 AP - Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.
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| Report: US must deal with domestic radical problem
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AP - The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.
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| Close watch on Colorado wildfire as winds kick up
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 AP - Weary firefighters hoped the worst was over from a wildfire that destroyed nearly 170 homes in the Rocky Mountains foothills, but crews monitored hot spots Friday amid concerns that erratic winds could fan the flames and send them into Boulder.
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| Gas blast near San Francisco kills 1
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Reuters - A fiery natural gas explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in a San Francisco suburb on Thursday, ravaging some 50 homes and killing at least one person, officials said.
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| Obama taps Goolsbee as top White House economist
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 Reuters - President Barack Obama has chosen Austan Goolsbee as the new head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. administration officials said on Thursday, promoting a longtime adviser from his inner policy circle.
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| Japan PM widens lead in party leadership race
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 Reuters - Prime Minister Naoto Kan has widened his lead over powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ahead in a party leadership vote, Kyodo news agency said on Friday, days before the contest that could set Japan's fiscal priorities.
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| US pastor puts Koran-burning on hold
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 AFP - A Florida pastor at the center of an international firestorm insisted Friday he would not carry out a plan to burn the Koran, but failed to stem a global tide of Muslim outrage.
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