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Lee Ann Murray of Austin has a daunting list of medical problems, ranging from migraines that can last a week to lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect multiple parts of her body. She sees a cadre of specialists at Austin Diagnostic Clinic, who she says provide good care. But the clinic — one of the largest in Central Texas, with 120,000 patients — told Murray that because of problems collecting payments from her health insurer — the U.S. military’s Tricare plan — it is dropping her coverage. By Oct. 31, she will have to find new doctors, and so will 2,600 to 2,700 other Ce

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AP - President Barack Obama summoned his war council to the White House Situation Room on Wednesday for an intense, three-hour discussion that exposed emerging fault lines over Afghanistan ? with military commanders pressing for more troops and other advisers expressing skepticism.

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Reuters - Thousands may have died in an earthquake that struck the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, a minister said on Thursday, with officials saying many victims remained buried under toppled buildings.

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Reuters - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Thursday morning local time, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, the second large quake to rattle the area in 24 hours.

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AP - A new typhoon gathered strength Thursday off the Philippines while nearly 700,000 people still sought help in badly stretched relief centers from massive flooding caused by Ketsana, one of the region’s most destructive storms in years.

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AFP - A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island Thursday southeast of the site of an earlier powerful quake that left more than 1,000 feared dead, geologists said.

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AP - Magglio Ordonez hit a three-run double and the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 7-2 on Wednesday night to move closer to the AL Central title.

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AP - A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski’s sex case to send the director to prison.

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Reuters - China celebrated its wealth and rising might with a show of goose-stepping troops, gaudy floats and nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing on Thursday, 60 years after Mao Zedong proclaimed its embrace of communism.

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