According to a September New York Times/CBS News poll, only 6 percent of voters said most members of Congress deserved re-election, and only a third thought their own member should be re-elected.

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Voter Rage Has Congress Worried About Job Security: Its Own

The Cardinals, who led the National League in runs scored, won the fifth game of their division series on Friday because their own ace, Chris Carpenter, beat the Phillies at their own game.

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Cardinals 1, Phillies 0: Cardinals’ Carpenter Outdoes Halladay to Oust Phillies

Rosylyn M. Brock is chairman of the board for the NAACP and no fan of the Tea Party. But at a town hall meeting at Howard University this week, she gave them some props. “They took our playbook,” she said, “went door to door and educated their constituents.” The Tea Partiers didn’t get caught up in hope and change advanced by President Obama that they didn’t believe in. Wrongheaded as they may be, they worked on their own game. Read full article > >

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NAACP Chairman: Tea Party ‘took our playbook’

Most of looting took place in their own London neighborhoods.

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U.K. Rioters Poor, Jobless Youth

Astronomers reported that for each of the Milky Way’s 200 billion stars, there are at least two Jupiter-size planets, many on their own or only distantly bound to a star.

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Billions of Lonely Planets, Adrift in Space

Parents at a Borders primary school consider paying for a teacher out of their own pockets in the face of anticipated cuts.

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Parents ponder paying for teacher

Goats are able to recognise the voices of their own kids, differentiating them from other animals’ offspring, according to researchers.

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Goats recognise their kids’ voices

French authorities temporarily blocked trains carrying loads of North African refugees who have flooded into Italy to escape the violence in their own countries. French authorities are angry with Italy for giving out temporary resident permits to…

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France Blocks Trains Carrying African Migrants

Will players stage their own ceremony for players taken in first round of NFL draft?

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NFL players meet today to plan their draft night

David Cameron is due to launch the StartUp Britain initiative, to encouraging would-be entrepreneurs to set up their own businesses.

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Cameron to launch business scheme

Translated and reviewed by Henry Crapo. Workers at the Nuclear power plant in Fukushima attempt, surely at the peril of their own lives, to prevent the situation from getting worse. Some quantities of water have been successfully dropped on the reactors and fuel rod storage basins. read more

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A Terrible Race Against the Clock

The future ownership of Wrexham FC takes more twists, with one bidder pulling out, another emerging and Stephanie Booth and a fans’ group joinining forces for their own consortium.

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Booth rejoins Wrexham FC battle

Hundreds of thousands of protesters hit the streets Friday in a show of solidarity with the uprising in Libya and in opposition against their own leaders. Demonstrations in Iraq turned violent as security forces fired on crowds demanding better…

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Protests All Over the Mideast

Some Britons trapped in Libya have criticised the government for failing to get them out sooner – while some countries have already evacuated their own nationals

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VIDEO: Britons criticise Libya evacuation plan

Some Britons trapped in Libya have criticised the government for failing to get them out sooner – while some countries have already evacuated their own nationals

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VIDEO: Britons criticise Libya evacuation plan