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AP - North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is on the road to recovery from a stroke and still in control of his isolated country’s communist regime, South Korea suggested Wednesday, disputing reports that the leader is gravely ill.

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AP - Authorities say part of a building under construction in a Richmond, Va. suburb has collapsed, and as many as 12 workers may be inside.

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Reuters - The U.S. subprime-mortgage crisis has
now spurred more federal lawsuits than the savings and loan
debacle of the late 1980s and early 1990s ever did, data
released on Wednesday shows.

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Reuters - Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Larry
Craig of Idaho asked a Minnesota Court on Wednesday to void the
guilty plea he made following his arrest last year in a men’s
toilet sex-sting operation.

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AP - Police have arrested a man suspected of brutally attacking a dozing subway passenger with a hammer while other riders did nothing to stop the assault, the city’s police commissioner said Wednesday.

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Reuters - The U.S. military conceded it was
not winning the battle against an increasingly deadly
insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise
its strategy for the region to include militant safe havens in
neighboring Pakistan.

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Reuters - The U.S. military conceded it was
not winning the battle against an increasingly deadly
insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise
its strategy for the region to include militant safe havens in
neighboring Pakistan.

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AP - Lehman Brothers, in a desperate bid to survive, announced plans Wednesday to sell a majority stake in its prized investment management business and said a sale of the entire company was possible.

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Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
plans to sell a majority stake in its asset management unit and
spin off commercial real estate holdings, hoping to restore
investor confidence and ensure its survival after reporting a
record quarterly loss of about $4 billion.

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AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is believed to be recovering from an apparent stroke, South Korea’s presidential office said Wednesday, as the communist nation rejected reports questioning Kim’s health as a “conspiracy plot.”

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