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LOS ANGELES  –  How does a person tell someone they have slept with that they may have exposed that person to a sexually transmitted disease? It’s likely not an easy thing to tell someone, but a Web site is changing that for some.
A San Francisco group says more than 50,000 people have sent [...]

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By JEANNINE AVERSA
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON  –  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Monday a fresh round of government stimulus is a good idea because there’s a risk the country’s economic weakness could last for some time.
Bernanke’s remarks before the House Budget Committee marked his first endorsement of another round of energizing stimulus, something that [...]

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This undated photo released by Obama for America shows Barack Obama with his grandparents, Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham in New York City, during a visit with Obama, who was a student at Columbia University. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday, Oct. [...]

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Retired General and former U.S Secretary of State, Colin Powell, arrives at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. The evening of music and fashion festival celebrates Africa’s culture and social, political and economic progress. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
WASHINGTON  –  Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bush’s first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat [...]

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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., walks to a motorcade after arriving with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush via the Marine One helicopter at the Naval Observatory, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, in Washington. Paulson was returning from a weekend at Camp David. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
By JEANNINE AVERSA
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON  –  Many say [...]

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Shaquita Bell
WASHINGTON (AP) — A convicted felon has pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend, who went missing 12 years ago.
  
Thirty-nine-year-old Michael Dickerson pleaded guilty Thursday in Superior Court to second-degree murder in the 1996 death of 23-year-old Shaquita Bell.
  
Bell went missing days before she planned to testify against him in a June 1996 trial for [...]

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Barack Obama/John McCain (AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to the public’s image of John McCain, it’s as if somebody dialed the electricity down in the past month. For Barack Obama, the juice is still flowing.
People’s regard for the Republican presidential nominee has deteriorated across the board since September, an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll showed Friday, [...]

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Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, left, shakes hands with his rival, Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, right, as New York Cardinal Edward Egan watches from the center-rear, at the 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner in New York, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Andrew Theodorakis, Pool)
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
NEW YORK — [...]

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, answers a question from plumber Joe Wurzelbacher in Holland, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
COLUMBUS, Ohio  –  Who is Joe the Plumber?
He is Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business who came to symbolize the notion of “spreading the wealth” [...]

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shake hands after a presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

The D.C. school system was front and center in questions about fixing the nation’s education issues during Wednesday’s third presidential [...]

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