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Acne vulgaris, or acne, is a skin trouble too starts when oil and dead skin cells clog up your pores. Some folks employ it blackheads, blemishes, whiteheads, pimples, or zits. When you experience recently a few red spots, or pimples, you experience a mild order of acne. Severe acne can make for over a hundred […]

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WASHINGTON - In an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their “very limited” understanding of violent anti-government protests in Tibet.
of the banned-in-China Falun Gong spiritual movement kneel in the hot sun near the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers and activists rail against what they say are Chinese atrocities.
The […]

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LONDON - Barack Obama’s campaign has received roughly 10 times more money from declared U.S. donors living in Germany, France and Britain than his Republican rival, reflecting his popularity in Europe as he makes his first tour of the continent as the presumed Democratic nominee.

Federal Election Commission reports show Obama has raised at least […]

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WASHINGTON - The State Department urgently needs to overhaul the way it handles passport applications to avoid a repeat of the massive backlogs last summer that frustrated countless travelers, congressional investigators concluded.

They said the department must develop a “comprehensive, long-term strategy” to meet rising demand for the identity documents. The Associated Press obtained a draft […]

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HARLINGEN, Texas - Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.
But thousands were still without power Thursday and cleanup was ongoing following the […]

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WASHINGTON - One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, “Be careful what you wish for because you might get it.”

The industry pressured the Bush administration years ago to limit the paperwork companies would have to keep to help U.S. health […]

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HOUSTON - As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?

The companies insist they’re trying to find new oil that might help bring down gas prices, but the money they spend on exploration is […]

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McALLEN, Texas - Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday, stocking up on plywood, generators and flashlights as forecasters predicted the storm would strengthen into a hurricane later this week and make landfall.

The storm was expected to bring high winds and dump 10 to 20 inches of […]

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BELGRADE, Serbia - Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres and the politician considered most responsible for the deadly siege of Sarajevo, was arrested Monday evening in a Serbian police raid ending his 13 years as the world’s most-wanted war crimes fugitive.

His alleged partner in the persecution and “cleansing” of tens of […]

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The CDC and USDA import restrictions request to birds and packages derived according to birds (such as eggs) on Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Cameroon, Cambodia, Djibouti, Egypt, Gaza and the West Bank, India, Indonesia, Israel, Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire), Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, […]

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