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'Fiscal cliff' at hand - talks continue

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎22 minutes ago‎
Washington --. A Capitol Hill deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" proved elusive Sunday as a deadline to avert tax hikes on virtually every American worker and block sweeping spending cuts that are set to strike the Pentagon and other federal agencies grew ...
Congress edges closer to 'fiscal cliff' deal but can't close it
Sides move closer in fiscal cliff talks, but rhetoric still divides them
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State Police veteran among three firearms rights activists on the NRA board

Albany Times Union - ‎51 minutes ago‎
New York has three strong voices on the 76-member board of directors of the National Rifle Association, including two outspoken gun rights activists and a senior investigator with the New York State Police.
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Two Rookies Help Redskins Summon Team's Glory Days

New York Times - ‎41 minutes ago‎
LANDOVER, Md. - Joe Gibbs, the Hall of Fame Washington coach, was at FedEx Field on Sunday night. So was the star running back Clinton Portis, the Super Bowl-winning quarterback Joe Theismann and a host of former players, all braving the frigid air ...
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Kanye West announces he is expecting first child with girlfriend Kim Kardashian

Fox News - ‎20 minutes ago‎
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Kardashian clan is getting bigger: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child. The rapper announced at a concert Sunday night that his girlfriend is pregnant.
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Oregon bus crash kills 9 on icy road

Los Angeles Times
1 hour ago
Written by
Matt Pearce
Nine passengers died and more than 20 were injured when a charter bus returning to Vancouver, Canada, from Las Vegas veered off an icy Oregon road Sunday and plunged down an embankment, officials said.
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Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight

Ynetnews - ‎22 minutes ago‎
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is confronting "new complications" due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery, his vice president said in Cuba as he visited the ailing leader for the first time since his operation.
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India gang rape protesters gather in Delhi

BBC News - ‎42 minutes ago‎
Protesters are gathering in the Indian capital, Delhi, for more demonstrations in anger at the gang rape of a young woman on a bus a fortnight ago.
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19 die as car bomb hits convoy of pilgrims

The News International - ‎2 hours ago‎
QUETTA: A powerful car bomb killed at least 19 Shia pilgrims and injured 25 others, including four women, who were travelling in three buses in the Daringar area of Mastung district on Sunday.
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Psychiatric test for suspect in NYC subway death

The Hindu - ‎2 hours ago‎
A 31-year-old woman accused of shoving an immigrant from India to his death in front of a subway train, because she believed he was Muslim, laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Pediatricians say kids need recess during school

Reuters
1 hour ago
Written by
Andrew Seaman
By Andrew M. Seaman. NEW YORK | Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:47am EST. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A group of American pediatricians is telling school districts that children need recess and free time during the school day, and it should not even be taken ...
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Firefighters, police pay respects to lieutenant killed in ambush

NBCNews.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
Crime & courts on NBCNews.com. Search. Advertise | AdChoices. Firefighters, police pay respects to lieutenant killed in ambush.
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Obama makes case for gun control on TV

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎22 minutes ago‎
Washington --. President Obama declared in an interview aired Sunday that the Dec. 14 shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., "was the worst day of my presidency" as he sought to rally public support for lawmakers seeking tougher gun controls.
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Cops: Couple gunned down by landlord

Boston Herald - ‎1 hour ago‎
A teen couple were shot to death by their 74-year-old landlord in an apparent dispute over snowstorm parking in Biddeford, Maine, cops and neighbors said.
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Tribune Co. Emerges From Bankruptcy

Bloomberg
1 hour ago
Written by
Edmund Lee
Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and six other daily papers, is exiting bankruptcy, four years after a doomed leveraged buyout by billionaire Sam Zell led to Chapter 11 proceedings.
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China Manufacturing Pickup Shows Rebound Gains Traction: Economy

Businessweek - ‎24 minutes ago‎
China's manufacturing unexpectedly expanded at the fastest pace in 19 months in December, boosting optimism that a recovery in the world's second-biggest economy is gaining traction.
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Strong Asian gains overshadowed by US fiscal cliff

Reuters - ‎41 minutes ago‎
SYDNEY | Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:07am EST. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Several major Asian stock indexes closed on Monday with the strongest annual gains in years, but these were overshadowed by the lack of progress in talks to avert the looming U.S.
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Foot-Dragging USDA May Be Consumer's Friend as $7 Milk Looms

Bloomberg - ‎1 hour ago‎
The specter of milk jumping to $7 a gallon as U.S. farm programs expire probably will be held off because regulators will need time to write new pricing rules, even if Congress fails to avert a so-called dairy cliff.
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Matthew McConaughey Names Son Livingston, Rate His Choice

Cinema Blend
1 hour ago
Written by
Mack Rawden
Earlier this week, Matthew McConaughey's wife Camila Alves gave birth to the couple's third child. By all accounts, the delivery went smoothly, and the growing family is positively stoked about its newest addition, young Livingston Alves McConaughey.
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Zero Dark Thirty

New Yorker - ‎1 hour ago‎
The writer-director team of Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have made a mesmerizing chronicle of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, centered on the obsessive drive of a C.I.
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First look at wild-card matchups

FOXSports.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
The suspense surrounding the NFL playoffs is finally over. Falcons and Saints · WEEK 17 SCOREBOARD · Buccaneers 22, Falcons 17 · Bills 28, Jets 9 · Bengals 23, Ravens 17 · Steelers 24, Browns 10 · Bears 26, Lions 24 · Titans 38, Jaguars 20 · Giants 42, ...
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No Super Bowl repeat for N.Y. Giants

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎27 minutes ago‎
Justin Tuck called it a funny year. He and his New York Giants teammates weren't laughing. There will be no repeat championship for the Giants, not even a playoff berth.
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NFL Wild Card Weekend Picks And Predictions: Bengals Vs. Texans, Vikings Vs ...

Inside the Iggles - ‎43 minutes ago‎
When your team sucks and you know you'll have three solid months of focusing on the NFL Draft, well, you want to at least temporarily delay that study and focus on the teams that are actually vying to play in New Orleans come February for the Super Bowl.
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Isaiah Thomas, DeMarcus Cousins power Kings past Celtics

USA TODAY - ‎31 minutes ago‎
Isaiah Thomas, DeMarcus Cousins power Kings past Celtics. 1:26a.m. EST December 31, 2012. CommentsShare. 2012-12-30-demarcus-cousins.
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Approaching comet may outshine the moon

Reuters - ‎Dec 28, 2012‎
Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:28pm EST. * Comet ISON discovered in September. * Could be brightest comet in decades. By Irene Klotz. Dec 28 (Reuters) - A comet blazing toward Earth could outshine the full moon when it passes by at the end of next year - if it survives ...
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Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in the new year

NBCNews.com - ‎Dec 29, 2012‎
PASADENA, Calif. - Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt.
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Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103

New York Times - ‎6 hours ago‎
Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who discovered critical chemical tools that the body uses to direct cell growth and build nerve networks, opening the way for the study of how those processes can go wrong in diseases like dementia ...

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