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Cowboys' Brent charged after former Illiini teammate Brown dies in crash

Chicago Tribune - ‎1 hour ago‎
Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Saturday after practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown Jr.
Cowboys' Brent arrested for drunk driving, crash kills teammate
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Unemployed in danger of being pushed over fiscal cliff

MSNBC - ‎46 minutes ago‎
House Speaker John Boehner is starting to sound like a broken record when he says there has been “no progress” on the fiscal cliff negotiations.
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Egypt's Morsi annuls most of contested decree, stays firm on Dec. 15 referendum

Washington Post - ‎14 minutes ago‎
CAIRO - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi early Sunday annulled most of an extraordinary Nov. 22 decree that gave him near-absolute power and plunged the country into a deeply divisive political crisis that has seemed to worsen by the day.
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After Radio Prank, Hospital Chairman Condemns Australian Network

New York Times (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎
Last Updated, 3:28 p.m. A day after a nurse at a London hospital was found dead after falling victim to a prank call seeking medical information about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, the hospital's chairman issued a scathing indictment of the Australian ...
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Apple Loop: Tim Cook Talks, Macs In The USA, The 'Steve Jobs Patent,' Kutcher ...

Forbes - ‎2 hours ago‎
Keeping you in the loop on some of the things happening around Apple this week, which were fueled in large part by Apple CEO Tim Cook's making the media rounds in New York.
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Nelson Mandela 'proven' to be a member of the Communist Party

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎1 hour ago‎
For decades, it was one of the enduring disputes of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle. Was Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, really a secret Communist, as the white-only government of the time alleged?
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Hamas leader calls for Palestinian unity

ABC Online - ‎1 hour ago‎
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has rejected ceding "an inch" of Palestinian territory to Israel or recognising the Jewish state, in a speech in Gaza marking the 25th anniversary of the Islamist group's founding.
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* Afghan president says the man who came in the name of a guest to meet with ...

Pakistan Daily Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday a suicide attack that wounded the country's spy chief was planned in Pakistani city of Quetta, and added he would raise the issue with Islamabad.
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Wade McCree: 'Shirtless Judge' of Detroit Placed On Leave Following Affair

Huffington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
DETROIT -- A Detroit judge recently reprimanded for sending a shirtless photo of himself to an employee has been placed on leave amid allegations he had a relationship with a woman whose child-support case was pending in his court.
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NY Ignored Sandy Warnings

Daily Beast - ‎2 hours ago‎
For the last 30 years New York officials were warned of a storm of historic proportions that could flood the subways, create widespread power outages, and hit the Rockaways peninsula especially hard.
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Shining brightly on Hanukkah

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Around the world, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is bringing families and communities together around the menorah. Lighting candles signifies the Maccabees' victory over Greek soldiers in 165 B.C.
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Feds Tighten Belt Around Cohen's SAC With Weight Watchers Probe, Says ...

Forbes - ‎5 hours ago‎
Late Friday, citing information from anonymous sources, Reuters reported that federal authorities are investigating billionaire Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors for “possible insider trading” in Weight Watchers International stock early in 2011.
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Locke-Ober auction marks end of an era for venerable restaurant

Boston.com
14 hours ago
Written by
Laura Finaldi
Bobby Sager and his family are big travelers, but they always found time to visit Locke-Ober restaurant about once a week when in Boston.
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The Next Move for the Fed

New York Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
TIME is running out for Operation Twist, the Federal Reserve stimulus program named for that hip-swiveling dance from the 1960s. Enlarge This Image.
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China's Wanxiang wins auction for US government-backed A123

Chicago Tribune - ‎1 hour ago‎
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - China's largest maker of auto parts won a politically sensitive auction for A123 Systems Inc , a bankrupt maker of batteries for electric cars that was funded partly with U.S.
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Putting November's Jobs and Unemployment Numbers in Perspective

Tucson Citizen - ‎2 hours ago‎
Today's report from the Department of Labor shows that a net total of 146,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in November.
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UN summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping

CNET
Dec 5, 2012
Written by
Declan McCullagh
Deep packet inspection standard adopted despite Germany's warning that it will "empower" censorship. Other uses: detecting BitTorrent transfers and identifying "copyright protected audio content.
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Xbox outsells Wii U, Wii in weak month for games

Washington Post
Dec 7, 2012
Written by
Hayley Tsukayama
The video game industry had another hard month despite high-profile launches headed into the end of the year, according to a report from the NPD Group.
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Toni Braxton hospitalized for Lupus and blood clots

Zap2it.com (blog)
1 hour ago
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Carina MacKenzie
toni-braxton.jpg R&B singer Toni Braxton has been hospitalized for complications related to her Lupus, she announced via Twitter.
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Art Basel In Miami Gets Us Thinking: Is It Art?

WLRN - ‎1 hour ago‎
Is This Art? Neon bench is part of a three-bench installation called 'Street Lamp' by Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith. One of the benches was damaged when an Art Basel visitor sat on it.
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Donald Fehr maintains sides were close in NHL talks

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
Donald Fehr maintains sides were close in NHL talks. Mike Brehm, USA TODAY SportsShare. Comments. 2012-12-08-donald-fehr. Donald Fehr addressed the news media on Thursday after the union made a counter-proposal.
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C's divisional woes go on with OT loss

Boston Herald - ‎18 hours ago‎
PHILADELPHIA - Doc Rivers, asked before the game about the new and improved Atlantic Division, laughed as he said, “It (stinks).
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UN conference adopts extension of Kyoto climate accord

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
DOHA, Qatar - Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries, but will only cover about 15 percent of global emissions.
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Monkeys Show Why It's Hard to Prove Ancient Human Interbreeding

LiveScience.com - ‎Dec 7, 2012‎
A bundle of recent genetic studies have suggested that modern humans had sex with Neanderthals thousands of years ago when the two populations roamed the planet alongside each other.
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Social media may be a weapon against childhood obesity, experts say

Boston.com - ‎Dec 7, 2012‎
(Relaxnews)—In a new scientific statement published in the journal Circulation, the group calls for more research into how to incorporate social media into programs fighting childhood obesity.
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Blood Thinner From Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Blocks Leg Clots

Bloomberg - ‎1 hour ago‎
Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY)'s experimental drug Eliquis prevented blood clots in the legs and lungs and kept them from recurring, a study found.
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