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Teachers strike expected to go into 2nd day

Chicago Tribune - ‎1 hour ago‎
Contract talks between Chicago's school board and its teachers union were locked in negotiations Monday evening, making it increasingly likely that the city's first teachers strike in a quarter century would go into a second day.
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Romney effort flagging? Aide vows to 'campaign very vigorously'

Los Angeles Times - ‎41 minutes ago‎
MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Is Mitt Romney campaigning hard enough? The question came up Monday during a news conference with senior Romney campaign advisor Kevin Madden, who found himself in the unusual position of defending the Republican presidential ...
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Presidential campaigns will pause to mark Sept. 11

Reuters - ‎35 minutes ago‎
* Romney and Obama both withhold television ads * Campaigns walk political tightrope * Obama visits Pentagon, Biden to Shanksville By Samuel P. Jacobs WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The killing of Osama bin Laden and the war in Afghanistan are ...
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Al-Qaeda affiliate's No. 2 leader reportedly killed in Yemen

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
The deputy leader of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen was killed in an airstrike Monday, according to the Yemeni government, five years after he was released from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay in a failed attempt at rehabilitation.
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Toys R Us introduces a tablet computer for children

Los Angeles Times - ‎17 minutes ago‎
Toys R Us Inc. is stepping into the heated tablet-computer wars with a $150 version for kids - including Wi-Fi connectivity, extensive parental control features and 50 pre-loaded apps that include popular games such as "Angry Birds" and "Fruit Ninja.
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GoDaddy Web outage takes out small-business sites

USA TODAY - ‎58 minutes ago‎
GoDaddy, a Web-hosting and domain-registration company, confirmed that the websites and e-mail addresses it hosts for small businesses were seeing outages Monday, triggering concerns it fell victim to a hacker attack.
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Issues Linger as Afghans Take Control of a Prison

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - It was supposed to be a ceremony to celebrate the full transfer of Afghan detainees and prison operations to Afghan control.
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Somalis celebrate as new president elected

Toronto Star - ‎1 hour ago‎
Somalia has a new president after the country's members of parliament failed to support incumbent Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, whose leadership had been mired in accusations of corruption, but who nevertheless was widely predicted to win Monday's vote.
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UN: Syrian Rebels Accountable for Any Atrocities

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The top United Nations human rights official warned opposition fighters in Syria on Monday that they would not be immune from prosecution for atrocities, as videos from the Syrian city of Aleppo appeared to show a mass execution by ...
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Panetta lauds Flight 93 passengers, crew in Pa.

Seattle Post Intelligencer - ‎24 minutes ago‎
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania on Monday and called it "the final resting place of American patriots.
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Gold stocks regain glitter for fund investors

Globe and Mail - ‎46 minutes ago‎
In what is usually a strong month for these commodities, the price of gold and silver rallied. Speculation about more money printing by central banks helped to spur interest in precious metals, which are regarded by many investors as a buffer against ...
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AIG bailout success a two-sided coin

Washington Post - ‎45 minutes ago‎
The Treasury Department's announcement this week that it plans to sell at least $18 billion worth of its remaining shares in insurance giant American International Group has the makings of an unlikely success story.
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Asian shares ease ahead German ruling, Fed meeting

Reuters - ‎23 minutes ago‎
By Chikako Mogi | TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares eased on Tuesday ahead of a key German ruling on the euro zone's bailout funds and the US Federal Reserve's policy decision, repositioning from last week's rally spurred by heightened speculation for ...
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New iPhone could boost US GDP by up to 0.5 percent, JP Morgan says

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Reuters - ‎35 minutes ago‎
* Significant impact on fourth quarter GDP seen * Eight million iPhone 5s seen selling at $600 each By Tim Reid Sept 10 (Reuters) - The next generation iPhone 5, which Apple Inc. plans to release this week, could not only boost the tech giant's bottom ...
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BP sells some Gulf of Mexico assets for $5.6 billion

Washington Post - ‎37 minutes ago‎
BP sold its stakes in a group of Gulf of Mexico oil fields to Plains Exploration & Production for $5.6 billion, bringing its total asset sales to $32 billion since the massive oil spill from its Macondo well.
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BlueToad Was Source of Leaked Apple Data

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES, JEREMY SINGER-VINE and ASHKAN SOLTANI The little-known app company that lost at least a million Apple Inc. iPhone and iPad identification numbers gathered the data from devices without protecting it and was still sending ...
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HTC One X Cushnie et Ochs available on eBay, mobile-minded fashionistas ready ...

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By Michael Gorman posted Sep 10th 2012 7:26PM Remember that special edition One X for AT&T with the Cushnie et Ochs-approved exterior, and how HTC said it would never go on sale?
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Apple Risks Start of the iPhone Evolution

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Wall Street Journal - ‎2 hours ago‎
By ROLFE WINKLER The new iPhone is sure to shatter previous sales records. It may also prove the moment to dump Apple shares. The Apple logo adorned front facade of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
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Katie Couric's Just Like You, Sort Of

New York Times - ‎58 minutes ago‎
It's on. The battle for Oprah Winfrey's mantle began for real on Monday, when Katie Couric became one of several talk show hosts vying to fill the void left when “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ended last year, and darkness fell on daytime.
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Penn Badgley on Ex-Girlfriend Blake Lively's Marriage: "I'm So Happy for Her"

Seattle Post Intelligencer - ‎1 hour ago‎
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds shocked the world -- including Lively's ex-boyfriend and Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley -- with their secret wedding Sunday.
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TV Column: Couric's case of nerves on her talk show debut

Washington Post - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Katie Couric's return to daytime TV began with Katie in bed, having a nightmare. She woke up with a jolt and said to someone in the next twin bed, who was buried under the covers: “Wow!
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Live Analysis: US Open Men's Final

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New York Times (blog) - ‎22 minutes ago‎
By THOMAS LIN Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesNovak Djokovic mounts a comeback against Andy Murray. When Andy Murray faces the defending champion Novak Djokovic on Monday afternoon for the United States Open title, it will be the first time since 2003 ...
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Brady gets win, and nose job in Tennessee

Seattle Post Intelligencer - ‎15 minutes ago‎
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Tom Brady went to work and left with a win and a nose job. A day later, he's still not sure if it's broken.
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Browns CB Joe Haden suspended 4 games for violating NFL policy on performance ...

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
BEREA, Ohio - The Cleveland Browns had Joe Haden for one game. They'll be without their best cornerback for the next four. Haden was suspended Monday without pay for four games for violating the NFL's policy on performance enhancing substances.
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NASA's Curiosity rover takes sharp self-portraits

New York Daily News - ‎34 minutes ago‎
NASA's Curiosity rover is getting up close and personal - with itself. The 1-ton robot's most recent photos include a series of high-resolution self-portraits that provide a startlingly sharp glimpse at the rover's massive wheels and underbelly.
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Chennai leads in suicides among adolescents

Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
CHENNAI: In the academic year 2011-12, Rohan (name changed) was a Class 12 student at a reputed public school in Chennai. He attempted to commit suicide by drinking disinfectant over a failed love affair.
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Acupuncture Provides Relief For Chronic Pain, Say Researchers

Medical News Today - ‎1 hour ago‎
Acupuncture for the treatment of chronic pain is better than placebo acupuncture (sham acupuncture) or no acupuncture at all, researchers from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, wrote in the JAMA journal Archives of Internal Medicine ...
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58 cancers receive 9/11 fund coverage

CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎
(CNN) -- Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
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Marijuana Use Tied to Testicular Cancer Risk

ABC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Young men who use marijuana have a higher risk of testicular cancer, a new study found. The study of 455 Californian men found those who had smoked pot were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with testicular germ cell tumors, the most common form ...

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