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         <title><![CDATA[No Child Left Behind      Education Department offers more time to reach goals]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    WASHINGTON -- States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told school chiefs on Tuesday.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By PHILIP ELLIOTT / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:36 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats condemned as yet another example of the GOP war on women.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JIM ABRAMS / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:33 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[IRS worker says there was no political bias against tea party]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    WASHINGTON -- An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups&rsquo; tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in Washington, according to a full transcript of his interview by congressional investigators released Tuesday.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By ALAN FRAM / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:31 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[World in Brief]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    
U.S., Taliban agree to hold talks 
on ending war in Afghanistan; Obama says process won&rsquo;t be easy



KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban and the U.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:25 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rural lawmakers push for farm bill votes in House]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    WASHINGTON -- Farm-state lawmakers are scrambling to win bipartisan support for a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill on the House floor this week.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MARY CLARE JALONICK / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:03 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Former &lsquo;Whitey&rsquo; Bulger associate   tells of drive-by killings]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/nation/ci_23488654/former-lsquo-whitey-rsquo-bulger-associate-tells-drive?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    BOSTON -- A former criminal associate of James "Whitey" Bulger told jurors hearing the accused mob boss&rsquo;s murder and racketeering trial on Monday about killing rivals in drive-by shootings as his friend rose to power in Boston organized crime circles.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By SCOTT MALONE</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:30:47 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[World in Brief]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 18, 2013    
Financial world looks to Bernanke to clarify Fed&rsquo;s timetable on economic stimulus



WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is the era of ultra-low interest rates nearing an end?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:27:41 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[White House threatens veto of House farm bill]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/nation/ci_23480681/white-house-threatens-veto-house-farm-bill?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 18, 2013    WASHINGTON -- The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, five-year farm bill, saying food stamp cuts included in the legislation could leave some Americans hungry.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MARY CLARE JALONICK / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:27:04 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[World in Brief]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/news/ci_23474259/world-brief?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 17, 2013    
Officials: NSA surveillance programs broke plots in 20 nations 



WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top U.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:29 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Glasnost on the Potomac under Obama? Not quite]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/nation/ci_23474258/glasnost-potomac-under-obama-not-quite?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 17, 2013    WASHINGTON -- It&rsquo;s as if the United States has two governments, one open and one very much not.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By CALVIN WOODWARD / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:27 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Solar-powered plane lands near Washington, D.C.]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/nation/ci_23474256/solar-powered-plane-lands-near-washington-d-c?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 17, 2013    
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation&rsquo;s capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:07 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Report: Assaults increase on rangers, park police]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/nation/ci_23474254/report-assaults-increase-rangers-park-police?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 17, 2013    WASHINGTON -- Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MATTHEW DALY / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:01 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/nation/ci_23474244/ease-shortage-organs-grow-them-lab?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 17, 2013    NEW YORK -- By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she&rsquo;d been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MALCOLM RITTER</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:40:43 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[India set to overtake China in population]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday June 15, 2013    NEW DELHI -- India&rsquo;s population is set to outstrip China&rsquo;s as much as 15 years earlier than previous estimates, according to a new United Nations report.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JASON OVERDORF</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:32:14 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[World in Brief]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/news/ci_23466299/world-brief?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday June 15, 2013    
Commander in Nazi SS-led unit linked to atrocities living in Minnesota



BERLIN (AP) -- A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; / Associated Press</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:31:51 EDT]]></pubDate>
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