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Former Republican NC Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

When telling stories about Jesse Helms after his death on the Fourth of July, the politician who took his place in Congress recalled how the iconic North Carolina senator liked to invite pages to sit down and chat over ice cream.

``Can you imagine how exited these young people would be, sitting and having ice cream with the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?'' asked Sen.

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California wildfires strain state's resources

A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes...

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Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment

Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of...

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Challenges abound for Bush at last economic summit

The problems do not get any easier as President Bush attends his final summit with leaders of industrialized democracies.

Disputes over global warming, worries about soaring oil prices and...

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Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown

Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but ...

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