Gary Goy

An Army lieutenant general has become the first woman in U.S. military history to get four stars.

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U.S.-led coalition forces killed 10 Taliban militants and foreign fighters in eastern Afghanistan during an operation on Friday, a U.S. military statement said.

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President-elect Barack Obama has spoken with two former rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination about the secretary of state position in his administration, sources told CNN on Friday.

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A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

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Tonight, our “cutting through the bull” is a Friday first, one we are thrilled to celebrate.

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Watching Army Chief of Staff George Casey swear in his newest fellow four star — the first woman to achieve the Army’s highest rank — it was hard not to feel something truly historic was happening before your eyes.

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Riding a brilliant tower of flame into the night sky, the space shuttle Endeavour left Earth on Friday, carrying seven astronauts on a 15-day mission to the international space station.

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Anti-Vietnam War activist William Ayers spoke out for the first time Friday, calling the Republican effort to tie him to President-elect Barack Obama during the election campaign a “dishonest narrative” with the intent of “demonizing” Ayers.

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It’s probably good that I’m not rich. Money, it seems to me, sends people in one of three directions:

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Federal regulators said support plates that were about half as thick as they should have been were the likely cause of a 2007 bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people and injured 145.

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