The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Myanmar to focus on saving lives, not on politics, after the military government on Wednesday shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone survivors.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits in a family room at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Tuesday. He has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. (AP)
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff clarified that federal border agents would not impede a hurricane evacuation from south Texas by checking fleeing residents' documents, diverting from plans confirmed by Border Patrol officials in the state only days earlier.
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An exit poll said President Mikhail Saakashvili's ruling party held a strong majority in Georgia's parliamentary elections Wednesday, a result his opponents immediately challenged.
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President Bush announced Wednesday that people living in the United States soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cubans on the island nation _ a move that he hopes will push the communist regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens.
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On a day oil prices leaped to unheard-of highs, senators lined up Big Oil's biggest executives and pummeled them with complaints that they're pretending to be "hapless victims" while raking in record profits.
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Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2008. There are 224 days left in the year.
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DeSean Jackson, the Eagles' marquee draft pick, wants to be that playmaking wideout Eagles fans covet, but he said yesterday he does not want to be T.O. - at least not in the sense of "talking about your teammates.''
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