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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota to open trade office in Germany]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The office – which will be Minnesota’s second international trade office -- will be in Dusseldorf-Cologne, in Germany’s industrial heartland in the Rhine River Valley. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Recipes: cold flavorful drinks]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[TRADITIONAL CHOCOLATE EGG CREAM ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:54</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[The List of Lists 2013]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Vita.mn readers: Vote on our seventh annual compendium of the Twin Cities' best food, drink, music, fashion and everything else. Deadline is Monday! ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:51</pubDate>
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                    <author><![CDATA[Jay Boller]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Woods to rest elbow, skip AT&T National]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Tiger Woods' sore left elbow will keep him out of competition until the British Open. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:50</pubDate>
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                    <author><![CDATA[DOUG FERGUSON]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Top Charles Taylor ally found in Sierra Leone]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone's capital city, according to United Nations experts. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Astros sign No. 1 overall pick RHP Mark Appel]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The Houston Astros have signed right-handed pitcher Mark Appel of Stanford, the No. 1 overall draft pick in the draft earlier this month. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[KRISTIE RIEKEN]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Father, son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A judge who heard prostitutes testify that a father-and-son pimp team made them feel like family cleared the two men of sex-trafficking charges Wednesday. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[TOM HAYS]]></author>

                    <st:printPubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 2:0</st:printPubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota cities breathing easier boost in state aid]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[More state aid should go to preparation for the inevitable next fiscal storm.  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:48</pubDate>
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                    <author><![CDATA[Lori Sturdevant]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Fed says it will maintain pace of bond purchases]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve offered a hint Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[MARTIN CRUTSINGER]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Fed foresees lower US unemployment rate]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve expects the U.S. unemployment rate to fall faster this year and next than it did in March. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Highlights of state budget passed by Assembly]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The two-year state budget passed by the Republican-controlled Assembly on a 55-42 vote now heads to the state Senate for an expected vote on Thursday. If it passes there in identical form, it then heads to Gov. Scott Walker who can sign it, veto all of it, or veto any individual items he opposes. The Legislature has the option to override Walker's vetoes. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Fed sticks with bond purchases but offers slightly brighter outlook for the economy...]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Fed sticks with bond purchases but offers slightly brighter outlook for the economy... ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Correction: Dish-Sprint story]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In a story June 18 about Dish Network Corp.'s announcement that it will not submit a revised bid to purchase Sprint Nextel Corp., The Associated Press reported erroneously that Softbank's competing bid for Sprint falls short of Dish's. In fact, the two offers are not directly comparable. Softbank is offering $21.6 billion for a 78 percent stake in Sprint. Dish is proposing to buy all of Sprint for $25.5 billion. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[FedEx 4Q profit drops as priority services lag]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[FedEx Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 45 percent as international customers traded down to less-expensive delivery options and the company spent heavily on restructuring. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[DAVID KOENIG]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Stock market falls as traders fear stimulus cuts]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Stocks are falling after the Federal Reserve gave a slightly more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy, which investors took as a hint that the bank was nearer to a decision to reduce its economic stimulus program. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[STEVE ROTHWELL]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Neighbors: Couple killed waited for order to leave]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[NICHOLAS RICCARDI]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Dragonflies and ants]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Things you run across while looking for birds ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:44</pubDate>
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                    <author><![CDATA[Jim Williams]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[House Republicans on Wednesday finished their rewrite of GOP President George W. Bush's prized No Child Left Behind Act, sending to their colleagues a bill that would strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors of power and give more authority to the states. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:55</pubDate>
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                    <author><![CDATA[PHILIP ELLIOTT]]></author>

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                    <title><![CDATA[US and Cuba to resume migration talks]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the Cold War enemies. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 13:40</pubDate>
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                    <author><![CDATA[MATTHEW LEE]]></author>

                    <st:printPubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 2:0</st:printPubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[CSX sues truck driver in Baltimore-area derailment]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A trash truck driver caused the explosive derailment of a CSX freight train near Baltimore last month by failing to stop at a railroad crossing, the company contends in a federal lawsuit. ]]></description>
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                    <author><![CDATA[DAVID DISHNEAU]]></author>

                    <st:printPubDate>Wed, 19, Jun 2013 2:0</st:printPubDate>
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