CNN 2011-08-29

Today were taking you to the Bahamas, New Hampshire, Africa and Asia, from the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Im Carl Azuz, and this is CNN Student News. First up, a major hurricane is plowing its way through the Caribbean, and it could be taking ai

NPR 2011-10-22

President Obama is calling all American troops home from Iraq before year's end, closing a long and deeply divisive chapter in US history. After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over. Washington and Baghdad have been unable to reach a

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AP 2012-01-15

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