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Tornadoes swept through the Midwest on Sunday, killing seven people in Iowa and a toddler in Minnesota.

A tornado touched down in the north-central Iowa town of Parkersburg at about 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET), killing five before moving 10 miles east to New Hartford, where two others died in the storm, said Troy Price, a spokesman for Gov. Chet Culver.

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FBI agents who assisted with overseas interrogations of suspected terrorists after Sept.

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Memorial Day is the most complex holiday on the American calendar - the unofficial beginning of a long summer of vacations in the sunshine, and a solemn day to remember the men and women who died in the service ...

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WASHINGTON -- Former presidential advisor Karl Rove brushed off suggestions today that he attempted to influence a Justice Department investigation and prosecution of a popular former Democratic governor of ...

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Senator John McCain 's presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has ...

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NASA's Phoenix Mars spacecraft appears to have made a safe landing on Mars. Just before 8 p.m. Eastern time, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here received a radio signal from the Phoenix on the ground in the icy plains north of Mars' Arctic circle.

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Oakland economist John Williams doesn't seem like the kind of guy to pick fights with the government. But don't be fooled. The New Jersey native is leading a one-man crusade to expose official economic data as grossly misleading at best and, at worst, a pack of lies.

His Shadow Government Statistics Web site (shadowstats.com) has become a magnet for those convinced that official data put a happy-talk gloss on the nation's economy. The growing popularity of the site is testimony to the deep suspicion many Americans harbor about government information as the economy falls into a swoon.

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Karl Rove says he didn't interfere with the Justice Department's prosecution of a former Alabama governor.

President Bush's former chief political adviser told ABC's "This Week" program today that he only learned about the investigation and indictment of Don Siegelman "by reading about it in the newspaper."

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A majority of Americans (62%) believe that wounded Iraq war veterans do not receive high quality care in military and Veteran's Administration (VA) hospitals once they return to the U.S.

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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level in more than four years, figures released by the U.S. military showed on Saturday, but officials said progress was still fragile and reversible.

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