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Cargo ship crew fends off pirates
The sea is in the blood of Captain Paul Rochford, a great-grandson of a New Bedford whaling skipper, who leaves home for months at a time and travels some of the most dangerous shipping lanes...
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Palin angered by 'sexist' Newsweek cover
For the second time since Sarah Palin stepped into the national political spotlight, a photo of the former Republican vice-presidential...
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You Tube - Obama bows to Japanese Emperor
Obama's bow to Japan's emperor has raised eyebrows in Washington D.C. Was it appropriate? Watch and decide.
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Five Things the U.S. and China Actually Agree On
As U.S. President Barack Obama touched down in China on Sunday, his visit marked a pivotal moment in the two countries' relationship...
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Lawyer says suspect yet to be questioned
The lawyer hired to represent Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the alleged gunman in the rampage at Fort Hood, said that his client has not yet been questioned by military...
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Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing
The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment...
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Aerosmith 'seeking new frontman'
Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler has left the band, but they hope to continue with a new frontman, guitarist Joe Perry is reported as saying...
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Fort Hood shooting suspect's ties to mosque investigated
The FBI and Army are looking into whether Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had an association with militants at the Virginia mosque where two 9/11 hijackers prayed, a source says...
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27th Heaven (Yankees Win!)
New York won a 27th World Series title behind four true Yankees...
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Disneyland approved for Shanghai
The Chinese government has approved plans for the Walt Disney Company to build a theme park in Shanghai, its first in mainland China...
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Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro
The ice and snow that cap majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are vanishing before our eyes...
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For U.S.S. New York, a Journey Home
With a barely noticeable tug, the U.S.S. New York pulled out of its berth here Thursday morning, beginning a five-day journey to New York City, where it will be formally welcomed into the Navy fleet...
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Iran: Path "Paved" for Nuclear Cooperation
Iran's president said Thursday that his country and the West are now cooperating on the nuclear issue on the international scene...
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Off-Course Pilots Cite Computer Distraction
Any employee at a company that has gone through a merger knows how distracting it can be when the new owner imposes new rules. That distraction, not a nap, was what...
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Obama Administration Announces New Plan to Help State & Local Housing Agencies
The Obama administration today announced a new effort to help battered state and local housing agencies provide mortgage help to hundreds of thousands of homeowners...
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NASA Tweetup
Check out the NASA Twitter page and learn more about the Tweetup scheduled for November.
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First BCS poll comes with surprises, gripes
The first BCS standings are out and that can mean only one thing: let the sweet symphony of complaining begin. Four surprises from Week 1's standings...
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Headlines: Obama seeks to give payments of $250 to seniors
President Barack Obama is urging Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million senior citizens to make up for not having an increase in Social Security next year. The White House put the cost at $13 billion...
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Nobel jury speaks out in defense of Obama prize
One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing...
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White House: Fox News 'a wing of the Republican Party'
It's war. The Obama administration declared Fox News - and its owner, reporters and commentators - shills for the President's Republican opponents Sunday...
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Protesters demand US gay rights
Thousands of people have marched through Washington to demand greater civil rights for gay men and lesbians...
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Chaos reigns at Detroit aid event
Thousands of people swarmed Cobo Hall in chaos this morning trying to get applications for housing and utility payment assistance from the city of Detroit...
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Scientist reproduces Turin shroud
The Shroud of Turin has been reproduced by an Italian scientist in another attempt to prove that the cloth bearing an image of Christ's face is a fake...
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Pakistan kept billions in US aid from military
The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic economy and other causes, such as fighting India...
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Aftershock As Samoa Buries Tsunami Dead
As Samoans set about the gruesome task of recovering bodies from villages destroyed by four tsunamis, the region has been hit by a strong aftershock...
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Congress Votes to Boost Own Budget
With local governments around the country tightening their belts, Congress is loosening theirs. The House last week approved a 5.8% bump in the legislative...
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S. African mine discovers 507-carat white diamond
Mining group Petra Diamonds has discovered a 507.55 carat white diamond at South Africa's Cullinan mine, one of the largest high-quality rough diamonds ever found, the firm said on Tuesday...
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Four teens charged in fatal beating of Chicago student
Darnell Myles didn't have to see the video airing on TV of Derrion Albert's slaying to find out that the neighborhood around Christian Fenger Academy High School...
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Vanity Fair and ‘60 Minutes’ Are Polling the People
Coming together to poll average Americans, Vanity Fair and "60 Minutes" have concluded it's a Wal-Mart Nation...
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Iran 'has second enrichment site'
Iran has revealed to the UN nuclear watchdog the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant, reports say...
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House votes to deny all federal funds for ACORN
The House voted Thursday to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a GOP-led...
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ACORN Grapples With Fallout Of Damaging Videos
In the video that's been splashed all over cable TV and the Internet, a young man dressed as a pimp and a young woman posing as a prostitute are talking with an employee from the community organization known as ACORN...
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West calls Taylor Swift after 'View' appearance
It looks like Kanye West has finally given a personal apology to Taylor Swift. Representatives from "The View" say West called the country sensation...
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Taylor Swift Responds to Kanye West MTV VMAs Incident
People are fired up about this one. A 19-year-old girl has just won her first VMA award, and stands in front of millions of people around the world on live television. Then, an egomaniac known for disrupting...
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'Bin Laden' tape: Obama can't stop war
An audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has accused President Barack Obama of being unable to fulfil his election pledge to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq...
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From the Fact Check Desk: Illegal Immigrants and Health Care Reform
Defending his reasoning, if not his outburst, today Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC, declared that "the Congressional Research Service has indicated that indeed...
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Lawmakers denounce 'You lie' outburst at Obama
Democrats and Republicans alike are denouncing Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie" at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress, an extraordinary breach of decorum for which the South Carolina Republican swiftly apologized...
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Why 09/09/09 Is So Special
Have special plans this 09/09/09? Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way...
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Cougar caught in Seattle being released in wild
A cougar that apparently had lived in Seattle for more than two weeks and forced the city's largest park to close was captured early Sunday and returned to the wild, state wildlife officials said...
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Conservatives Revolt Over Obama Speech to Students
Next Tuesday at noon, President Obama will be delivering what the White House is billing as "a national address to the students of America...
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Pfizer whistleblower's ordeal reaps big rewards
Taking on corporate giants can feel like tilting at windmills, but John Kopchinski's six-year legal battle against Pfizer Inc just made him a rich man...
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For Sale: Madoff's $8.75 Mil Oceanfront Hamptons Mansion
The luxury beachfront home of now-imprisoned Bernie Madoff, purchased with money stolen from his victims of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, is up for grabs to the first buyer who offers $8.75 million for the oceanfront estate in the Hamptons, Long Island...
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Scotland quick to deny Lockerbie 'oil deal'
The first minister of Scotland says the release of the Lockerbie bomber was not in line with UK trade interests with Libya, as the plot thickens with the publication of leaked papers...
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Facebook to Tighten Privacy After Canadian Investigation
Facebook will enhance its social-networking site's privacy features over the next 12 months as a result of a set of recommendations from the Canadian government...
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Black mark for Microsoft's Photoshop skills
Microsoft has issued a humbling apology after the company used crude photo editing to change the race of a person on...
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Venezuela Ready to Sever Colombia Ties
President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that Venezuela is preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia over the neighboring country's plan to give American troops greater access to its military bases...
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Tropical storm Bill soaks Newfoundland
Environment Canada has lifted its tropical storm and storm surge warnings for Newfoundland after tropical storm Bill swept through, bringing lots of wind and rain but causing no major damage...
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Afghanistan election: President Hamid Karzai claims victory
Hamid Karzai's campaign team has claimed outright victory in the Afghan presidential election, while his chief rival's campaign said early indications put their candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, ahead...
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Voting begins in Afghanistan as Taliban threatens violence
Brave Afghans started voting for president Thursday amid sporadic attack as the Taliban threatened to kill voters and the government banned reporters from covering any violence during the balloting...
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Ga. couple killed by pack of wild dogs
Sherry Schweder worried about the group of mixed-breed dogs she saw wandering near her home that authorities say mauled her and her husband to death along a rural stretch of road in northeast Georgia...
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TJX Hacker Charged With Heartland, Hannaford Breaches
The constellation of hacks connected to the TJX hacker is growing. Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey - along with two...
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For Winter Games in Vancouver, Ice Isn’t So Easy
Ice appears such a simple concoction - water turned really cold. This time of year, its favored role is usually the one it plays at the bottom of a glass...
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Massive campaign for Obama hits air
A new coalition on Thursday launched $12 million in television ads to support President Barack Obama's health reform plan, in the opening wave of a planned tens of millions of dollars...
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Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true
Few if any of the deals retailers have offered online during the recession have been as good as Best Buy Inc.'s sale price of $9.99 on a 52-inch TV Wednesday. But it quickly turned out the offer was too good to be true...
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2 Credit Card Companies Nix Overlimit Fees
Two major credit card companies - American Express and Discover - are eliminating overlimit fees on consumer accounts, a move seen as a response to...
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Michael Jackson Concert Film Due Out in October
Michael Jackson's "This Is It" concert never made it to the stage in London, but it will be making its way to the silver screen in a little less than two months...
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Typhoon Morakot hits China coast
Nearly one million people have been moved away from the coastal regions of China which are being battered by Typhoon Morakot...
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Abdul says she's receiving 'many wonderful' offers
Since announcing her exit from "American Idol," Paula Abdul has been in high demand...
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Senate to vote on 'cash for clunkers' deal
U.S. Senate leaders said Wednesday night they reached a deal to pump another $2 billion into the "cash for clunkers" program...
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Iran Questions Detained U.S. Hikers
Iran confirmed for the first time Tuesday that it had arrested three young Americans last week while they were hiking near the country's border with Iraq and said they were being questioned, Iranian state television said...
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Iran leader approves Ahmadinejad presidency
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed the second term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday after a disputed election that plunged Iran into its...
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Businesswoman Sues California for Paying With I.O.U.’s
The owner of an embroidery and printing business sued California's controller and treasurer on Wednesday, saying they had violated state and federal...
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Lobbyists battle over drug sales
As Congress struggles with a massive health care overhaul, several lobbying powerhouses - including the pharmaceutical...
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Rising Obesity Rates Increase Nation's Healthcare Tab
Obesity-related illnesses now cost $147 billion each year, according to research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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One of Bin Laden's Sons May Have Died in Missile Strike
A CIA missile strike early this year is thought to have killed one of Osama bin Laden's oldest sons, a 27-year-old who had followed his father's...
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Obama Sticks to Health-Care Deadline, But Congress Seems Sure to Miss It
In his news conference Wednesday night, President Obama stuck to and defended a looming deadline for the House and Senate to pass their own versions of health care reform legislation - even though it is becoming increasingly apparent that the two chambers...
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Tyler Perry sends kids who were snubbed by swim club to Disney World
They're going to Disney World - and it's all thanks to Tyler Perry...
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Gates bolsters Army with 22,000 troops
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates increased the size of the Army by 22,000 troops Monday, as coalition troop deaths this month in Afghanistan reached levels not seen since the worst fighting in Iraq began tapering off in late 2007...
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'Hurt' and 'angry' Paula Abdul may not return to 'American Idol' next season
On the heels of Ryan Seacrest inking an outrageous $45 million, three-year contract to continue hosting "American Idol...
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Call for Iran protesters' release
Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani has called for the release of people who protested against the result of the recent election...
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2 black boxes from Iranian plane crash recovered
Investigators have recovered two of the three black boxes belonging to a Russian-made jetliner that crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, Iran's state radio reported Thursday...
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LA Mayor: City Will Pay Costs From Jackson Event
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is trying to quell the escalating debate over who should pick up the estimated $1.4 million tab for police, traffic control and other services related to Michael Jackson's memorial service...
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Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds
If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat...
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Kim Jong-il 'Has Pancreatic Cancer'
North Korea's "dear leader", Kim Jong-il, has life-threatening cancer, South Korean media claimed today, prompting fears for the country's long-term stability...
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Bounced! Critics Call Overdraft Fees 'The Mother Lode' Of Bank Penalties
With Americans cutting back on credit, more and more people are using their debit cards to purchase that cup of coffee, tank of gas or bag of groceries...
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Remembering Robert McNamara
Modern American politics has produced few figures more tragic than Robert Strange McNamara...
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Shift By Influential Clerics Bolsters Iran Opposition
Some members of Iran's powerful clerical class are stepping up their antigovernment protests over Iran's election in defiance of the country's supreme leader, bringing potential aid to opposition figures as the regime is increasingly labeling them foreign-sponsored traitors...
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California's Budget Crisis: Is There A Way Out?
With budget negotiations stalled, a cash crisis looming and its fiscal crisis deepening, California today will begin issuing IOUs - formally called registered warrants...
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11th-Hour Votes On State Budget Fail
With a day to go until a cash crisis would force the state to stop paying its bills, lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked into the night Tuesday but failed to reach a budget agreement...
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Firms Bid For Iraq Oil Contracts
International companies have begun bidding for the rights to develop Iraq's oil and gas reserves...
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Argentine Woman Admits Relationship With SC Gov
A 41-year-old Argentine woman acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, saying Sunday that widely published e-mail correspondence between the two was obtained from her...
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Top Iranian Legislative Body Declares Election Fair
Iran's top legislative body said on Friday it had found no major violations in the June 12 presidential election and called it the "healthiest...
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North Korea Threatens To 'Wipe Out' U.S.
North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days...
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'View' Co-Host Hasselbeck Is Accused Of Plagiarism
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host of ABC's "The View," has been accused of plagiarism...
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Sorry Mama, It’s All Over — They’re Taking Away Your Kodachrome
It is 36 years since Paul Simon sang "Mama don't take my Kodachrome away". Now Kodak has finally done it...
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The North Korean Showdown Ratchets Up
North Korea would like to test missiles and advance its nuclear program, while smuggling arms to some potentially bad actors for extra cash. The United States would like North Korea to stop doing all...
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Ayatollah Backs Election Result
Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a stern warning that protests against the country's disputed presidential election results must end...
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Gas Prices Rise For 50th Straight Day
Retail gas prices climbed for the 50th straight day Wednesday, and crude prices that had slumped all week bounced back...
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N. Korea: U.S. Journalists Were Creating 'Smear Campaign'
North Korea's state media released a "detailed report" Tuesday claiming that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee entered the country illegally in order to record material for a "smear campaign" against the reclusive communist state...
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WHO Declaration of Swine Flu Pandemic Looks Imminent
A surge in cases of H1N1 swine flu in Australia may tip the balance and cause the World Health Organization to soon declare the first flu pandemic since 1968, agency officials said...
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Court Opens Way For Chrysler Sale
The US Supreme Court has rejected a plea to block the sale of assets of the bankrupt carmaker Chrysler to the Italian firm Fiat...
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Chrysler Merger With Fiat Grinds A To Halt Pending SCOTUS Review
In a stunning Supreme Court order by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chrysler's merger with Fiat - encouraged and engineered by the Obama administration - is now on hold until the Supreme Court...
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Obama's Health-Care Plan Would Include A Government Option
President Obama stepped off a plane from Paris Sunday and into his next domestic crisis: health-care reform...
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Kim Jong-Il Chooses Third Son As His Successor
Kim Jong-il, 67, who is known as North Korea's "Dear Leader", suffered a stroke at the end of last year and has been incapacitated ever since...
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Susan Boyle Reportedly Hospitalized, Needs R&R
Looks like dreaming the dream has proved a tough a task for Susan Boyle...
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Borrowers With Good Credit Fuel Foreclosures In 1Q
The mortgage crisis is spreading and hitting new heights: Borrowers with good credit now make up the largest share of foreclosures as job losses and pay cuts exact their toll...
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US Car Owners Happier With Imports
US drivers who own a car made overseas are more likely to be satisfied with their purchase than domestic car owners, a poll showed on Tuesday...
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Military On Alert For NK Provocations
South Korean troops near the western sea border with North Korea have been placed on top alert Wednesday to brace for any possible North Korean provocative actions...
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Yelp is a review database where you can get the dirt on restaurants, hotels and other attractions.
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Barack Obama: Supreme Court Pick Coming Soon
President Barack Obama told C-SPAN on Friday that he's "going to have an announcement soon" on his pick for the Supreme Court, and said he is looking for "not just ivory tower learning...
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Compare And Contrast: Obama And Cheney's Divergent Views On National Security
President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney each delivered major speeches Thursday outlining America's national security challenges...
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Voters Unlikely To Help California Avert Budget Crisis
Another moment of truth has arrived for California. Back in February, the budget deal crafted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state legislature temporarily kept the Golden State financially solvent. In Tuesday's special election, the electorate must choose among a range of propositions...
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These Cars Have Got To Go: Dealer Cuts Mean Deals
At 789 Chrysler lots across America sit 44,000 potential bargains, cars and trucks that are stuck between shellshocked dealers and a troubled company that no longer wants their services...
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Pelosi Says CIA Lied On 'Torture'
The speaker of the US House of Representatives says she was misled by the CIA about the use of harsh methods during...
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Russia To Charge NASA $51 Million Per Space Flight
Russia will charge U.S. astronauts $51 million per return trip to the International Space Station (ISS) from 2012 and will resume selling seats to space tourists, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday...
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Tillman's Parents Want General's Record Reviewed
The parents of slain Army Ranger and NFL star Pat Tillman voiced concerns Tuesday that the general who played a role in mischaracterizing his death could be put in charge of military operations in Afghanistan...
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Obama To Unveil Groups' Pledge To Cut Health Care Costs
Leading health care groups will make a pledge Monday to President Barack Obama to reduce their costs by as much as $2 trillion over 10 years - a move the White House hopes will build momentum behind a comprehensive overhaul this year...
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Obama Touts $17 Billion 'Lot Of Money' Budget Cuts
President Barack Obama sent Congress a detailed budget Thursday boasting of cutting or killing 121 federal programs in a belt-tightening he likened to that of most Americans in difficult times...
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Gay Marriage Law Signed In Maine, Advances In N.H.
Maine and New Hampshire took steps toward the approval of gay marriage today, bringing to five the number of New England states that have moved to legalize marriage between same-sex couples in the past five years...
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First American Face-Transplant Patient
This is a photo of Connie Culp, after an injury to her face, left, and then as she appears today. Culp is underwent the first face transplant surgery the United States at the Cleveland Clinic in December 2008...
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Dr Pepper Artifact May Reveal Soft Drink's Origin
Poking through antiques stores while traveling through the Texas Panhandle, Bill Waters stumbled across a tattered old ledger book filled with formulas...
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Senators To Obama: Look Beyond The Federal Bench
Wanted: Supreme Court justice. Judicial experience not required. Not only is experience as a judge not a requirement under the Constitution, some of the senators who will conduct confirmation hearings for Justice David Souter's...
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Airlines React To Swine Flu Cautions
The Air Transport Association expressed dismay over U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's suggestion...
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NH Senate Votes To Allow Gay Marriage
The state Senate voted Wednesday to move New Hampshire a step closer to becoming the fifth state to allow gay marriage, but made a distinction between religious and civil ceremonies, bringing back an idea the House rejected in March...
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Pakistani Aircraft Strike Taliban Positions
Pakistani jets and attack helicopters struck Taliban positions in mountains close to the capital Tuesday as part of a widening offensive against militants spreading out from the lawless region along the border with Afghanistan...
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Taxpayers On Hook For Philip Markoff
State-appointed defense attorneys earn a mandatory $100 an hour to defend broke murder defendants. For big cases, you can bet two attorneys will be assigned to the case...
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Sizing Up Obama's First 100 Days
The President almost seemed apologetic. "This may be a slightly longer speech than I usually give," he told his audience at Georgetown University on April 14. "This is going to be prose and not poetry." What...
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Police Investigating Death Of Freddie Mac Official
The chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his basement early Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent...
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Hilton, Miss California Take Sides On `Today'
Miss California says she stands by her anti-gay-marriage comments, even if they may have cost her the Miss USA crown...
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Is $100M Much Of A Budget Cut? Ask Obama
Imagine you were shopping for a $50,000 car, and the dealer offered to slash the price by a dollar? Would you be bowled over? Scramble for your checkbook? Leap to sign the sales agreement?
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NATO Ships, Helicopters Hunt Down 7 Pirates
NATO warships and helicopters pursued Somali pirates for seven hours after they attacked a Norwegian tanker, NATO spokesmen said Sunday, and the high-speed chase only ended when warning shots were fired at the pirates' skiff...
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Paterson Introduces A Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Gov. David A. Paterson introduced a bill on Thursday to legalize...
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Sacramento's Tent City Folds Up, But Displaced Homeless Don't Move Very Far
The last residents of Sacramento's tent city moved from SMUD property Wednesday, freeing the utility to begin a planned construction project...
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Nazi War Crimes Suspect Granted Emergency Stay
Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk was granted an emergency stay late Tuesday to block what appeared to be his imminent deportation to Germany...
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Boeing "Hit Harder" Than Rivals By Defense Budget Cuts
Big defense cuts proposed Monday by the Pentagon delivered a budgetary airstrike to Boeing's defense division, which employs almost 9,000 people in the Puget Sound region...
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Powerful Italian Quake Kills Many
At least 27 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck central Italy, Italian officials say...
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Madonna Loses Malawi Adoption Bid
A Malawian court has ruled that US pop star Madonna has failed in her bid to adopt a second child from the country...
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HHS Nominee Sebelius Amends Tax Returns
Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius amended three years' worth of tax returns to correct "unintentional errors," paying back taxes and interest totaling just under $8,000...
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Mysterious East Coast Boom Was Falling Russian Rocket
The mysterious boom and flash of light seen over parts of Virginia Sunday night was not a meteor, but actually exploding space junk from the second stage of a Russian...
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Red River Receding; North Dakota Braces For Snow Storm
Residents braced for an early spring snow storm Monday, even as they held their breath while record flood waters receded...
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Mortgage Rates Drop To Record Low
Rates on 30-year mortgages fell this week to the lowest level on record after the Federal Reserve launched a new effort to assist the staggering U.S. housing market...
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Gibson's Moon Rover Test-Drive
Check out Charlie Gibson's moon rover test drive at NASA.
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Facebook Listens To Complaints And Tweaks Home Page
Facebook has been deluged by complaints about its redesigned home page. More than a million have voted against the changes in a Facebook poll. While that is a pretty small percentage of the numbers who use...
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Mexico Offers $2-Million Rewards For Top Drug Suspects
Reporting from Mexico City -- Nab a drug lord, earn $2 million...
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Trade Barriers Rise As The Recession’s Grip Tightens
After repeated pledges by world leaders to avoid erecting trade barriers, protectionism is on the march, provoking nasty trade disputes and undermining efforts to plot a coordinated response to the deepest global economic downturn since World War II...
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13 Companies Getting Bailout Money Owe Back Taxes
At least 13 companies receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker said Thursday...
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North Korea Detains Two U.S. Journalists
Two American journalists and their guide were detained by North Korean soldiers while on a reporting trip near the country's border with China, according to the State...
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Pope Addresses Africa's AIDS Problem
Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against HIV, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent. It was the pope's first...
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Mexico To Raise Tariffs On U.S. Exports
Mexico has announced plans to raise tariffs on almost 90 U.S. exports, Mexican and U.S. officials confirmed Monday...
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Discovery Shuttle Launch
Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construction mission cut short by launch delays that dragged on for more than a month...
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Cuse Beats UConn In 6-OT
Highlights from the Big East Tourney game that almost didn't end.
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Iraqi Jailed For Bush Shoe Attack
An Iraqi journalist hailed as a hero in the Arab world for throwing his shoes at former US President George W Bush has been jailed for three years...
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As Jobs Vanish, Motel Rooms Become Home For Some
Greg Hayworth, 44, graduated from Syracuse University and made a good living in his home state, California, from real estate and mortgage finance. Then that business crashed, and...
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UBS Will Disclose Names, Pay $780 Million To U.S.
UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, will pay $780 million and disclose the names of some secret account holders to avoid U.S. prosecution on a charge that it helped thousands of...
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Illinois GOP Leader Demands Burris Resignation
Just as Illinois was moving past the agony and embarrassment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's ousting, the fellow Democrat whom Blagojevich appointed to the...
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