NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- People who deposit their
bottles and cans at Los Angeles County recycling
centers are shortchanged an average of one
out of every five times for a total loss
of $15 million a year, according to the
state Department of Weights and Measures.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born
architect who struggled for years to get
her audacious and unconventional designs
built, was named winner Sunday of the 2004
Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The
Love Below" won two awards, including
R&B/soul or rap album of the year, to
lead the winners at Saturday's 18th annual
Soul Train Music Awards.
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EL CENTRO (AP) -- A small earthquake rattled
Imperial County near the Mexico border early
Sunday, but caused no damage or injuries,
officials said.
National:
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy believes
his niece's husband, California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger, should be allowed to run
for president. Whether he would cross party
lines to endorse the him is another matter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard A. Clarke, the
former White House counterterrorism coordinator,
accuses the Bush administration of failing
to recognize the al-Qaida threat before
the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and then
manipulating America into war with Iraq
with dangerous consequences.
International:
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysians
gave their secular prime minister a huge
election victory on Sunday, smashing a fundamentalist
Muslim party that had wanted to impose an
Islamic state in the Southeast Asian country.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's High Court
ordered all ballot boxes sealed Sunday as
thousands of protesters demanded a recount
of President Chen Shui-bian's re-election,
saying it was marred by voting irregularities
and an apparent assassination attempt that
wounded the incumbent.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Reports that led to
charges against six U.S. soldiers accused
of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib
prison came from within the military, not
from prisoner complaints, a senior U.S.
military official said Sunday.
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