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Business leaders, Bay Area officials praise Obama's jobs planSan Jose Mercury News - - 1 hour ago Business leaders and Bay Area public officials praised President Barack Obama's call Tuesday to reduce the nation's persistent double-digit unemployment through a major federal spending effort to improve roads, bolster small businesses ... Video: President Obama on Job Creation and Economic Growth 
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Climate Conference Begins to Feel Pressure of the ClockNew York Times - - 32 minutes ago Protesters dressed as aliens in Copenhagen on Tuesday demanded action on climate change. More Photos > By ANDREW C. REVKIN and JAMES KANTER COPENHAGEN - Hundreds of government functionaries awoke on Wednesday feeling the rising pressure of a weekend ... Leaked document stirs anger at climate summit The Associated Press Senate rejects ban on abortion coverage in health care billDallas Morning News - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON - Abortion rights supporters won a victory on Tuesday as the Senate rejected a proposal to ban coverage of abortion by insurance plans under the health care legislation. Video: Source: Dems Drop Gov't-run Health Care Plan
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Iraq parliament calls session over deadly bombings
The Associated Press - - 29 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament asked top security officials Wednesday to appear before a special session to answer for how bombers once again found holes in Iraqi security that allowed for devastating attacks against government sites.
Baghdad bombs kill 127 as Iraq vote is set Los Angeles Times
Current Decade Hottest On Instrumental Record -UK Met Office
Wall Street Journal - - 17 hours ago
LONDON (Dow Jones)--The current decade has been by far the warmest decade on instrumental record, the UK's Meteorological Office said Tuesday as it released new figures at the climate change talks in Copenhagen ...
ActionAid Warns Against a Weak Deal at the Climate Change Conference Voice of America
Past decade set to be warmest ever ABC Online
Japan Q3 growth revised down from 4.8 to 1.3 pct
AFP - 1 hour ago
TOKYO - Japan's economy grew at a much slower rate than previously thought in the third quarter, fresh data showed Wednesday, as the country's fragile recovery from recession was hit by a soaring yen.
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Kennedy special election puts GOP in spotlight
The Associated Press - - 1 hour ago
BOSTON - A special election campaign to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat gives state Republicans something they've sorely missed for the past three years: a place in the political spotlight.
Ohio killer asks judge to stop 2nd execution try
The Associated Press - - 1 hour ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A day after Ohio became the first state in the country to use a single drug in a lethal injection, the condemned killer whose botched September execution prompted the change from a three-drug method returns to court to argue that ...
Video: First Person: Ohio Executes Inmate With One-Drug Injection
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New execution method unlikely to gain traction in California Los Angeles Times
Former FBI director to review handling of info on Fort Hood suspect
Dallas Morning News - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director William Webster was appointed Tuesday to conduct an independent investigation of how the bureau developed and shared information about the man charged in the Fort Hood rampage.
FBI asks former chief to lead Ft. Hood review Los Angeles Times
NATION: Webster to probe FBI actions prior to rampage Chicago Tribune
Volkswagen Will Pay $2.5 Billion for 19.9% Stake in Japan's Suzuki Motor
Bloomberg - - 1 hour ago
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest carmaker, agreed to buy 20 percent of Suzuki Motor Corp. for 222.5 billion yen ($2.5 billion) to boost its presence in India.
VW to Buy Stake in Suzuki Wall Street Journal
Stocks Slump on Dubai Loss, Greece Downgrade, Japan's Economy
Bloomberg - - 2 hours ago
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks dived after a Dubai developer posted a $3.65 billion loss, Japan's economy grew less than expected and Greece's debt rating was reduced.
Breakingviews.com Struggling Economies Weaken the Euro Zone New York Times
Administration to slash TARP cost $200 billion
CNNMoney.com - - 21 hours ago
White House expected to propose using that money to fund massive job creation program, according to officials. By David Ellis, cnnmoney.
Fed, FDIC Take Hard Line on Citi TARP Exit TheStreet.com
Getting Tough With Wells Wall Street Journal
The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg
Wall Street Journal - 11 hours ago
The opening days of the Copenhagen climate-change conference have been rife with denials and—dare we say it?—deniers. American delegate Jonathan Pershing said the emails and files leaked from East Anglia have helped make clear "the robustness of the ...
Hands on with Mac Chrome beta: incomplete but looking good
Ars Technica - - 13 hours ago
Chrome for Mac and Linux are officially in beta after months of developer builds. Does the browser hold up against Safari on the Mac?
Google Releases Chrome For Mac, Linux InformationWeek
When Google Said No Extensions For Mac Yet, They Meant It Washington Post
5 major publishers to take on Amazon
Los Angeles Times - - 6 hours ago
Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. plan to join forces to develop an online storefront for their content.
Publishers Make Plans for Devices Yet to Come New York Times
Gatorade ends Tiger-themed drinks, says move preplanned
USA Today - - 5 hours ago
AP By Michael mccarthy, USA TODAY The first dent in Tiger Woods' gold-plated endorsement portfolio appeared Tuesday as Gatorade said it was dropping its Woods-themed line of sports drinks.
Video: 911 Call Following Woods' Mother-in-law's Collapse
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More Tiger Woods drama: Mother-in-law is rushed to hospital Los Angeles Times
Tiger Woods saga intensifies
Boston Herald - - 24 minutes ago
A desperate 911 call for help from Tiger Woods' estate after the collapse of the golf great's mother-in-law topped another round of terrible Tiger tales as one report said his scorned wife is returning ...
As The World Turns, long-running US soap, cancelled
BBC News - 40 minutes ago
US show As The World Turns, one of the world's longest-running daytime soap operas, is being cancelled after 54 years, broadcaster CBS has announced.
'As the World Turns' canceled Los Angeles Times
Tigers must keep Justin Verlander
Detroit Free Press - - 1 hour ago
By the time you read this, the Tigers might have traded Edwin Jackson, especially if you're one of those people who saves newspapers to read a month later.
Clutch is the question with Granderson New York Post
Rondo took flight in fourth
Boston Globe - - 1 hour ago
By Frank Dell'Apa Rajon Rondo was scoreless entering the final quarter of the Celtics' 98-89 win over the Bucks last night at TD Garden.
Rondo carries Celtics past Bucks for 8th straight The Associated Press
Heisman Trophy - Toby, or not Toby?
San Francisco Chronicle - - 2 hours ago
(12-08) 20:45 PST -- At age 12, Toby Gerhart visited New York City's Downtown Athletic Club, then the home of the Heisman Trophy, and saw the portraits of the winners of college football's most prestigious award.
Gerhart could be frontrunner for Heisman San Jose Mercury News
Heisman Pundit poll Baltimore Sun
Md. expands swine flu vaccine availability
Baltimore Sun - - 1 hour ago
With supply growing and demand waning, Maryland officials announced Tuesday that they are expanding distribution of swine flu vaccine beyond priority groups and making it available to any adult who ...
Katy family details brush with swine flu Houston Chronicle
Swine flu vaccine programme in disarray Telegraph.co.uk
Soy doesn't harm, and may even help, breast cancer survivors, study finds
Los Angeles Times - - 6 hours ago
Earlier research in animals had raised fears that soy foods might cause a recurrence of the cancer because soy can act like estrogen.
Soy Beneficial for Breast Cancer Survivors: Study U.S. News & World Report
Health reform's heavy lifting
Washington Post - 5 hours ago
AS THE SENATE weighed whether to proceed to debate on health-care reform, we hoped lawmakers would take up an imperfect measure and improve it.
The Grand Senate Compromise: First Draft Atlantic Online (blog)
Lost University aims to help fans find the way
Los Angeles Times - 16 hours ago
The TV show's creators launch an online curriculum that features video courses by USC and UCLA professors on physics, philosophy and topics touched on by the famously baffling series.
Copenhagen climate summit: 1200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
Telegraph.co.uk - - Dec 5, 2009
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.
U.S. Helps Frequent Fliers Make a Mint
Wall Street Journal - - Dec 6, 2009
Free Shipping of Coins, Put on Credit Cards, Funds Trip to Tahiti; 'Mr. Pickles' Cleans Up By SCOTT MCCARTNEY Enthusiasts of frequent-flier mileage have all kinds of crazy strategies for racking up credits, but few have been as quick and easy as ...
Zhu Zhu Pets are safe, us agency says
Los Angeles Times - 19 hours ago
The Consumer Product Safety Commission's statement comes after consumer website goodguide said its tests found high antimony levels in one model of the toy hamster.
Woman tried to end rival's pregnancy, prosecutors say
CNN - - 21 hours ago
New York (CNN) -- Prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged a 38-year-old woman with tricking a pregnant woman into taking an abortion-inducing drug because the suspect thought her husband had fathered the child with the other woman.