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(Adds Bernanke comment in second paragraph.) Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve said it will expand its holdings of long-term securities with open-ended purchases of $40 billion of mortgage debt a month in a third round of quantitative easing ... |
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CAIRO - Protests inspired by an anti-Islam film targeted more US facilities in the Muslim world Thursday, raising questions about whether governments had the will or even the ability to protect Americans abroad from angry demonstrators. |
See realtime coverage | Police have identified the suspect in the brutal daylight rape of a 73-year-old woman in New York's Central Park as 42-year-old David Albert Mitchell. |
See realtime coverage | By Mary Wisniewski | CHICAGO (Reuters) - With a Chicago Public School teachers strike in its fourth day on Thursday, some parents are looking into possible alternatives including charter or private schools. |
See realtime coverage | The Wii U's TVii platform is an ambitious bid to offer control of your living room, with more in common with Google TV than the competing Xbox 360 or PS3. |
See realtime coverage | By Alice Park | @aliceparkny | September 13, 2012 | + On Thursday the New York City Health Department became the first in the nation to ban the sale of sugared beverages larger than 16 oz. |
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A long-simmering volcano outside one of the Guatemala's most famous tourist attractions exploded into a series of powerful eruptions Thursday, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles (three kilometers) high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks ... |
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By George Jahn on September 13, 2012 VIENNA (AP) - The 35-nation board of the UN nuclear agency overwhelmingly rebuked Iran on Thursday for refusing to heed demands that it take actions to diminish fears that it might be seeking atomic arms, ... |
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By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, AP - 1 minute ago BEIRUT (AP) - The diplomat tasked with ending Syria's civil war said that the conflict is worsening on Thursday, the same day he travelled to the country for the first time since taking up a job he himself has ... |
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WHITE HOUSE - President Barack Obama is monitoring the situation in the Middle East, North Africa and other areas of the world amid anti-US demonstrations sparked by a film mocking Islam. |
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By NBC News staff and wire services At least four pedestrians are dead after a speeding driver crashed into a Las Vegas bus stop on Thursday. |
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An 1869 ruling used by a Pennsylvania state judge in August to uphold a tough new voter ID law is providing some new and startling historical context to deliberations by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as it mulls whether to block the controversial law ... |
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By JUAN A. LOZANO, AP - 19 minutes ago LIBERTY, Texas (AP) - A man who was a fugitive for nearly two weeks after fleeing his trial a day before being convicted in the repeated group sexual assault of an 11-year-old Southeast Texas girl was told by a ... |
See realtime coverage | By Ellen Freilich | NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks and crude oil prices rose and the dollar weakened on Thursday as investors bet the Federal Reserve's fresh dose of monetary stimulus would improve economic growth. |
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CHICAGO - Illinois had the highest foreclosure rate in the country in August as the number of homes receiving filings jumped 42 percent, compared with a year earlier, according to the latest report from RealtyTrac. |
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is getting a boost from pop stars Beyonce and Jay-Z. The superstar couple will hold a fundraiser with Obama on Tuesday at a swanky New York nightclub that Jay-Z owns. |
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5 hours ago • AP The Kentucky Republican has hired Jesse Benton, who steered the presidential campaign of Texas congressman Ron Paul, to head McConnell's reelection campaign in 2014. |
See realtime coverage | By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Apple didn't include near field communication technology in the iPhone 5, a decision that one NFC backer said the company might come to regret. |
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By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer - 10 minutes ago NEW YORK (AP) - The iPhone 5 is Apple's first mobile handset that uses new "LTE" wireless networks. |
See realtime coverage | | SlashGear - 5 hours ago | | |
Microsoft has kicked off a new initiative to try to stop the spread of the Nitol Botnet, and it has the backing of a US District Court in East Virginia in doing so. |
See realtime coverage | Cops are alarmed by the pics we posted today showing Amanda Bynes behind the wheel and smoking what appears to be pot -- and several patrol officers tell us they're now on alert because they fear her driving habits have turned deadly. |
See realtime coverage | | Hollywood Reporter - 5 hours ago | | |
The music multihyphenate will work alongside Britney Spears during the judges' homes portion of the series. We may not know who's hosting the series, but one more notable name has been added to The X Factor roster. |
See realtime coverage | | New York Daily News - 7 hours ago | | |
Paul Thomas Anderson always makes big movies. Sometimes they're big in scope, as with “There Will Be Blood” or “Boogie Nights. |
See realtime coverage | Calhoun, who coached the Huskies to three national titles, will be replaced by assistant coach Kevin Ollie. Ollie begins his tenure as UConn's coach with a one-year, $625000 contract that runs through April 4, 2013. |
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Mary Altaffer / AP PHT: Confused about the CBA negotiations between the NHL and NHLPA? You're not alone. There's a lot of math being thrown around. |
See realtime coverage | Derrick Rose couldn't hold it in. He had just seen a video clip of himself tearing the ACL in his left knee and then rehabilitating the injury. |
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With the NHL and NHL Players' Association stalemated and a lockout deadline looming Saturday night, players are in danger of losing their paychecks next month. |
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Scientists have identified a new species of African monkey whose coloring “is unlike anything I've ever seen,” as one of the researchers put it. |
See realtime coverage | | USA TODAY - 5 hours ago | | |
An image of astronaut Neil Armstrong is projected onto a screen at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon, died on Aug. 25. |
See realtime coverage | | Telegraph.co.uk - 7 hours ago | | |
During the summer of 1913, 134F heat was recorded in Death Valley, California, but was tipped by world-record temperature extreme of 136.4F, recorded in El Azizia, Libya, on Sept. |
See realtime coverage | | Los Angeles Times - 6 hours ago | | |
If you live in California, chances are you remember the pertussis outbreak of 2010. That year, Los Angeles alone saw nearly 1000 cases of the illness, also known as whooping cough, and the state as a whole saw around 9000. |
See realtime coverage | | San Jose Mercury News - 5 hours ago | | |
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.—The National Park Service says a ninth visitor to Yosemite National Park has been infected with the rodent-borne illness hantavirus. |
See realtime coverage | | U.S. News & World Report - 12 hours ago | | |
By Kathleen Doheny THURSDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- For women between the ages of 50 and 70, the benefits of getting a mammogram every two years outweigh the potential harms, a new European study indicates. |
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