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mcconnell leads GOP opposition to health billMiamiHerald.com - - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON -- For weeks, Democratic leaders gritted their teeth whenever Senate Minority Leader Mitch mcconnell airily dismissed suggestions that Republicans would work to slow the health care debate. Video: Rare Saturday Session for Senate Health Care Debate 
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Philippine troops arrest dozens under martial lawThe Associated Press - - 23 minutes ago SHARIFF AGUAK, Philippines - Philippine troops arrested 62 people and discovered another major weapons cache Sunday after martial law was imposed in a southern province following the country's worst political massacre. Philippines declares martial law in troubled province Los Angeles Times Philippine official: Rebellion charges to be laid CNN International Russia's Perm Mourns, Anger Voiced After Club FireNew York Times - - 31 minutes ago By REUTERS PERM (Reuters) - Perm residents gathered at the central morgue on a bitter cold Siberian Sunday to identify the dead after Friday's nightclub fire and express outrage over safety standards they blame for causing 110 deaths. Russian nightclub fire death toll reaches 112 The Associated Press |
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An East-West clash over a Swiss referendum last week banning the construction of mosque minarets heated up today as Iran's foreign minister warned of unspecified "consequences" if the ban were enforced.
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Obama is expanding the war in Afghanistan, but that doesn't mean it will become another Vietnam War. There is a perennial danger in imagining that one war will replicate the history of another.
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Egyptian Rescuers End Search for Victims of Ferry Collision
Voice of America - 8 hours ago
Egyptian rescue workers have ended a search for possible victims of a collision between two ferries on the Nile River. Local officials say they have found no bodies and have accounted for everyone, after initial reports suggested dozens of passengers ...
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Sarah Palin in the belly of the beast: Washington
Washington Post - - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican firebrand Sarah Palin invaded the city she loves to hate on Saturday and rubbed shoulders with the herd of journalists she usually holds in disdain.
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Palin pokes fun at herself at journalists' dinner The Associated Press
Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for Post
Wall Street Journal - - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON—Sen. Max Baucus, one of the most powerful members of Congress and a key figure in the health overhaul debate, recommended his girlfriend to serve as the US attorney for his home state of Montana, a Baucus spokesman said Saturday ...
Baucus defends recommending girlfriend for job Los Angeles Times
Baucus defends recommending his girlfriend for US attorney post Kansas City Star
New jobs plan may be more of old one
The Free Lance-Star - - 1 hour ago
To hear the talk at the White House jobs summit, President Barack Obama has dozens of job-creating ideas to pick from when he sketches out his plan in a speech Tuesday.
Video: Obama Says He Concentrating on Jobs
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The costs of Obama's ambitions Washington Post
Comcast and NBC: Stay tuned for answers
Washington Post - - 6 hours ago
Will this be a sequel to the dot-com disaster flick that was AOL Time Warner, a "Citizen Kane"-esque tragedy of hubris and overreach, or a creative remake of the TV business as we've known it?
Comcast discloses ad contract with GE in wake of deal Houston Chronicle
Comcast-NBC deal ignites media debate TheNewsTribune.com
Can't find Zhu Zhu Pets? Try these ideas for Christmas
NewsOK.com - - 3 hours ago
Faux fuzzy hamsters have wriggled their way into the hearts of children this holiday season. By now many parents have found that out judging from the reports of people searching frantically for the Zhu Zhu Pets - one of this ...
Parents running in circles for Zhu Zhu pets Washington Post
Regulators Pull Plug on Bank
Wall Street Journal - - 13 hours ago
Federal regulators on Friday seized AmTrust Bank, a battered Cleveland thrift kept alive this year after local politicians pleaded with the government for a second chance.
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World Concerns About Climate Change Dwindle - Survey
New York Times - - 1 hour ago
By REUTERS COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - World concern about climate change has fallen in the past two years, according to an opinion poll on Sunday, the eve of 190-nation talks in Copenhagen meant to agree a UN deal to fight global warming.
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The Truth About 'Climategate'
Newsweek - - 15 hours ago
Few of us would escape with reputations intact if our e-mail were made public, and the scientists ensnared in "climategate" are no exception.
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What Apple's LaLa Acquisition May Mean for iTunes
PC World - - 12 hours ago
Apple has struck a deal to buy the streaming and downloading music Web site LaLa.com, according to reports from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Apple Has Acquired Lala Washington Post
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Cori Rist, two more women claim affair with Tiger Woods; tryst count hits six
New York Daily News - - 28 minutes ago
Tiger Woods is watching his reputation - and marriage - crumble before his very eyes, as three new women claimed on Saturday that they've had an affair with the golden golfer.
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Billy Joel Says Daughter Will Be Fine
People Magazine - - 4 hours ago
Billy Joel has spoken out about his daughter Alexa Ray Joel's condition following her hospitalization Saturday afternoon. "She is going to be fine," Joel told Newsday late Saturday evening.
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Adam Lambert to appear on 'The View' on Dec. 10
Entertainment Weekly - - Dec 4, 2009
Adam Lambert may be unsafe for Good Morning America and Jimmy Kimmel Live show, but the ladies of The View can handle him. At least that was the message ABC seemed to be sending when they announced Friday that the American Idol ...
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Texas likely to play for BCS title
Detroit Free Press - 43 minutes ago
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Colt McCoy and No. 3 Texas are likely headed for the BCS championship game. Hunter Lawrence nailed a 46-yard field goal as time expired, giving McCoy and the Longhorns a 13-12 victory over No.
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Florida's goals, dreams went out with the Tide
Tampa Tribune - - 16 minutes ago
AP Tim Tebow, defensive end Carl Johnson (57), and offensive lineman Maurkice Pouncey look on late in the fourth quarter Saturday.
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Media should be ashamed of Tiger Woods 'coverage'
Kansas City Star - - 3 hours ago
The media has been quick to make a buck off the story about Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren. Has the changing media landscape affected the coverage of Tiger Woods' tumble?
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Flu vaccine clinic turnout lower than expected
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Put down the Slim-Fast can -- regardless of flavor, sell-by date, etc.
Los Angeles Times - Dec 4, 2009
The maker of Slim-Fast has recalled all of its ready-to-drink canned beverages. All of them. Turns out, the stuff might be contaminated with the bacterium Bacillus cereus.
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Sorry legislation on mammograms
Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago
One of the ostensible reasons for reforming our health insurance system is the need to halt the growth of spending on medical treatment.
Debate on breast cancer screening overblown Houston Chronicle
Breast cancer study challenged Steamboat Pilot
Another woman emerges in Woods scandal
msnbc.com - - Dec 1, 2009
The Tiger Woods case might be closed in the opinion of the Florida Highway Patrol, but not according to some of the women who reportedly have had relationships with the pro golfer.
Edward Miller: Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
Wall Street Journal - - 14 hours ago
Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
Loneliness spreads in social networks
CNN - - Dec 4, 2009
Loneliness is defined as perceived social isolation, and it's not based on the number of people around you. (CNN) -- Have you ever felt cut off from other people, even if there are plenty around you?
The Talented Mr. Obama
FOXNews - - Dec 1, 2009
No matter what he says, he's guaranteed to hack off a ton of people within the first five seconds of the speech. That's because he's pre-empting "Charlie Brown's Christmas.
BIG MAN
New York Times - - Dec 1, 2009
A handful of decent Bruce stories get told. Robert De Niro admits to Mr. Clemons that he stole his “You talking to me?” shtick in “Taxi Driver” from Mr.