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Poll: 50% oppose US surge in Afghanistan
USA Today - - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON - Half of all Americans, and six in 10 Democrats, oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows, underscoring the pressures on President Obama as he re-evaluates his approach to what ...
US weighs Afghan war-strategy shift Aljazeera.net
Commit to Afghanistan or Get Out Wall Street Journal
Time running out for Zelaya, experts say
MiamiHerald.com - - 40 minutes ago
Political experts say ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is running out of time and options. BY FRANCES ROBLES TEGUCIGALPA -- If history is any indicator, Honduras' ousted president Manuel ``Mel'' Zelaya should get a change of clothes and a ...
Battle for Honduras Echoes Loudly in Media New York Times
Honduras holds 'informal' talks BBC News
US rethinks plans to give Libya $2.5 million in aid
Reuters - - 45 minutes ago
NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The US State Department said it is rethinking a decision to give $2.5 million in aid to Libya, including to foundations run by the Libyan leader's sons, after lawmakers on Thursday asked it to cancel the ...
After Fireworks, Qaddafi Shows His Milder Side New York Times
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Kennedy ally wins appointment and plunges in
Boston Globe - - 42 minutes ago
Kennedy confidant Paul G. Kirk Jr. was named yesterday as the state's new interim senator, throwing himself immediately into the job by asking former staff members of Edward M. Kennedy to stay on, delivering his first speech in the role ...
Justice Ginsburg Is Hospitalized As Precaution
Washington Post - - 2 hours ago
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Washington Hospital Center on Thursday when she fell ill at the court after being treated for an iron deficiency.
Video: Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized
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Justice Ginsburg hospitalized after feeling faint Los Angeles Times
White House Regroups on Guantanamo
Washington Post - - 2 hours ago
With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind ...
Obama to Use Current Law to Support Detentions New York Times
Ford to build new assembly plant in China
Forbes - - 41 minutes ago
SHANGHAI -- Ford Motor Co. said Friday it plans to spend $490 million on building a third assembly plant in China, ramping up production to meet surging demand in this fast-growing market as it expands in ...
Asian Stocks Decline on Nomura's Share Sale, US Home Report
Bloomberg - - 39 minutes ago
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks dropped, dragging the MSCI Asia Pacific Index to its biggest weekly decline in a month, after Nomura Holdings Inc. announced a record $5.6 billion share offering and sales of existing US homes ...
Nomura Investors Are Cool to Plan to Raise Capital New York Times
H-P Set To Outpace, CEO Says
Wall Street Journal - - 1 hour ago
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd said his company was poised to grow faster than the overall technology market amid signs spending on several critical HP products was beginning to pick up.
Sales Forecast Weighs Down HP's Shares New York Times
HP sees tech rebound Washington Post
Nintendo's Kaigler talks Wii price cut
GameSpot - - 6 hours ago
Q&A: NOA VP explains what took so long, addresses speculation of an HD Wii, talks first-party support for Balance Board and MotionPlus.
Nintendo prez on Wii price cuts USA Today
Google Outages Raise Questions About Online Services
ChannelWeb - - 5 hours ago
Two recent disruptions in Google's Gmail service and a disruption in the Google News site, as well as outages in other online-based services could either mean a bust in the nascent cloud computing industry or a boom for ...
Gmail battles through another outage V3.co.uk
Book Hearing For Google Is Delayed
Wall Street Journal - - 2 hours ago
A federal judge Thursday granted a request to delay an Oct. 7 hearing on the proposed settlement of copyright suits brought against Google Inc. Last week, the Justice Department filed objections to ...
Actor Randy Quaid, wife arrested over unpaid hotel bill
Reuters - - 2 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were arrested on Thursday following a complaint that they had not paid a hotel bill of more than $10000, according to US authorities.
Quaid free on bail after arrest on Calif. warrant The Associated Press
Randy Quaid And Evi Quaid Bizarre Mug Shots Radar Online
Despite claims of incest, Phillips defends father
The Wichita Eagle - - 11 minutes ago
AP Television Writer NEW YORK - Mackenzie Phillips is defending her father John Phillips as "a good man" despite her claims that they had an incestuous affair.
Phillips: I was high on TODAY msnbc.com
Movie Review: ??Surrogates' May Bore Even Die-Hard Bruce Willis Fans
Washington Post - - 1 hour ago
In the glorious future of "Surrogates," Bruce Willis's new science-fiction adventure, the dirty work of living has been turned over to humanoid robots.
Review: 'Surrogates' Los Angeles Times
South Carolina
USA Today - 1 hour ago
Columbia, SC (Sports Network) - Stephen Garcia completed 16-of-34 passes for 220 yards and a score, as South Carolina upended fourth-ranked Ole Miss, 16-10, at Williams-Brice Stadium.
'New Carolina' hands Ole Miss a reality check SportingNews.com
Doubts Persist as Ole Miss Climbs National Rankings New York Times
Baker's blast in ninth propels Cubs to win
MLB.com - - 19 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- The St. Louis Cardinals will have to win the National League Central on their own. Jeff Baker smacked a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth Thursday night to lift the Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the San ...
Bochy says Giants haven't given up hope San Jose Mercury News
Brad Penny: Giants lose in ninth, remain four games back Rotoworld.com
Sources: Red Sox go with lefty in ALDS opener
Boston Herald - - 31 minutes ago
By Sean mcadam / Red Sox Beat KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In 2003, he won Game 5 for the Florida Marlins in Yankee Stadium on three days' rest and was named World Series MVP.
For the Red Sox' Francona, a Modest Milestone New York Times
Vaccine adds new hope to AIDS fight
Houston Chronicle - - 6 minutes ago
AP Scientists and government leaders have already started mapping out how to try to improve the world's first successful AIDS vaccine, which protected one in three people from getting HIV in a large study in Thailand.
Video: First Person: Aids Vaccine Breakthrough Reaction
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Another Benchmark in AIDS Fight, but Not Yet a Landmark Wall Street Journal
Swine Flu Doses Will Be Double the Number Expected
New York Times - - 1 hour ago
More than six million doses of swine flu vaccine will be available by the first week in October, more that twice as many as had been recently expected, federal health officials said.
Swine-flu false alarms crowd area ERs Houston Chronicle
Senate Panel Rejects Bid to Add Drug Discount
New York Times - - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON - President Obama scored a big victory on Thursday as the Senate Finance Committee rejected a proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to give bigger discounts to Medicare on drugs dispensed to older ...
Health costs for seniors in spotlight Boston Globe
Op-Ed Columnist Blue Is the New Black
New York Times - - Sep 19, 2009
In the early '70s, breaking out of the domestic cocoon, leaving their mothers' circumscribed lives behind, young women felt exhilarated and bold.
The making of Glenn Beck
Salon - - Sep 20, 2009
His roots, from the alleged suicide of his mom to Top 40 radio to the birth of the morning zoo. Part 1 of 3 By Alexander Zaitchik AP Photo/Mike Mergen Glenn Beck, in 2003, recording promotional announcements for an upcoming "Rally for America" in Bala ...
Afterthoughts in December, Miami and Cal now poised for great things
SI.com - - Sep 20, 2009
When the 2009 season began, we "experts" generally placed four teams -- Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and USC -- in a class by themselves.
Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors
New York Times - - Sep 20, 2009
The world can be a rough place for independent inventors. They can often find themselves in court, battling big corporations, spending piles of money on lawyers and leaving it up to judges and juries to determine the value of their ...
Tucson schools create race-based system of discipline
Arizona Republic - - Sep 19, 2009
It has been a busy summer for our friends running the Tucson Unified School District. As always, the annual Institute for Transformative Education summer seminar, hosted by TUSD's amply funded ...