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Daley plans to go directly to federal government for economic ... - Chicago Sun-Times
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BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter With Gov. Blagojevich facing impeachment, Mayor Daley is trying to engineer a political end-run around Springfield when it comes to Chicago's share of the $800 billion economic stimulus plan being crafted by ...
Video: Burris' Near Miss
Democrat Roland Burris blocked from US Senate
Controversy Arises Over Alleged Hamas-Iran Ties - Voice of America
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By Gary Thomas While moderate Arab states have been largely quiet about the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Iran has been sharply vocal in its criticism of Israel and has offered support to Hamas.
Video: Cash drain leaves Gaza stranded
Egypt announces Israel-Palestinian ceasefire plan
Gazprom slashes supplies to Europe - International Herald Tribune
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By Andrew E. Kramer MOSCOW: Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, halted nearly its entire export of natural gas to Europe on Tuesday in a sharp escalation of a dispute over prices with neighboring Ukraine that also underscored Russia's increasingly ...
Video: Russia-Ukraine: gauging the gas feud
Ukraine threatens more cuts in gas supply-Gazprom
Dossier From India Gives New Details of Mumbai Attacks - New York Times
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By SOMINI SENGUPTA NEW DELHI - In the beginning, they were 32. A squad of suicide bombers raised in Pakistan, they were taught how to make bombs, withstand interrogation, and fight to their death.
Video: Singh: Pakistan Agency Had Hand in Attack
Pakistan ‘official agencies’ backed attack, says PM
Facing Losses, German Billionaire Commits Suicide - New York Times
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By CARTER DOUGHERTY FRANKFURT - Adolf Merckle, the German billionaire whose speculation in volatile Volkswagen shares had pushed his sprawling business empire to the edge of ruin, has committed suicide, his family said Tuesday.
German tycoon Adolf Merckle commits suicide
German billionaire kills self, family says
Obama predicts $1 trillion deficit 'for years to come' - USA Today
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By Gerald Herbert, AP By David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday that he foresees a $1 trillion US deficit soon and "for years to come" as the nation climbs out of its economic crisis.
Video: Obama Pushes Economic Stimulus
Obama’s Media Availability
Ex-Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush won't run for Senate in 2010 - The Associated Press
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that he won't run for the US Senate in 2010 to replace the retiring Mel Martinez, saying that it was not the right time to return to elected office.
Jeb Bush's decision on US Senate run due
Follow Up: Jeb Says No To Florida Senate
CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post - The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) - CNN says President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general.
CNN Doc Sanjay Gupta Reportedly Next Surgeon General
Sanjay Gupta For Surgeon General?
Fed predicts economy will get worse - CNNMoney.com
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In the minutes from its last meeting, the central bank said it expects GDP to decline in 2009 and unemployment to rise into 2010. By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.
Fed Policy Makers Saw ‘Substantial’ Risks to Economy
Fed Negative On 2009; Street Resilient
Bank of America CEO Lewis to skip '08 bonus-reports - Reuters
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NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Kenneth Lewis, Chief Executive of Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), has recommended to his board of directors that he not receive a bonus for 2008, news reports said on Tuesday.
Bank of America’s Lewis Urges No Bonus for Himself
BofA CEO Wants No Bonus; Results Below Views: Report
National Association of Realtors sales index declines - Bizjournals.com
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The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index has dropped to a record low as the housing market continues to weigh on an already distressed economy.
Pending home sales plunge to record low in Nov.
Pending home sales fall to record low
Apple takes another small step on to the Web - CNET News
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At Tuesday's Macworld keynote Apple announced a handful of upgrades to existing software. Of the changes, one of the biggest is the budding online integration found inside two of its software suites: iLife and iWork.
Video: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormone Imbalance
Apple Says Goodbye to Macworld, Without Jobs
Upgrading to a DRM-free iTunes library will cost you - CNET News
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Apple and the three largest music labels didn't take any half steps in walking away from copy-protection software at Macworld 2009 Tuesday.
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection
Apple iTunes Music Store Going DRM-Free
Expo: Microsoft to enhance Entourage Exchange, SharePoint on the Mac - Macworld
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by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld.com A quarter-century after it began making products for the Mac, Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit announced future updates to Microsoft Office that will enhance collaboration and sharing.
Apple Security: Time To Stop Feeling Superior?
Microsoft bangs 'Apple tax' drum once again
Jett Travolta Mourned - Extra TV
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"Extra" was on the ground at the Travolta family home in Ocala, Florida as John's plane touched down, as the family returned home after the tragedy in the Bahamas.
Travolta's son cremated, ashes flown to Florida
Inside the Frantic Fight to Save Jett Travolta's Life
Ron Asheton: 'You just play 'til you drop' - Entertainment Weekly
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Sad news today: Ron Asheton, the guitarist from The Stooges, has died at age 60. He and his brother, drummer Scott Asheton, never became household names the way frontman Iggy Pop did, but Ron's raucous guitar parts on those first two Stooges albums in ...
Punk-guitar pioneer Ron Asheton of Stooges dies at age 60
Stooges guitarist Asheton found dead in Ann Arbor
Patrick Swayze angry, scared, determined on cancer - Reuters
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By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Patrick Swayze said he was scared, angry and "going through hell" with pancreatic cancer, but a year after being diagnosed, he was determined to keep going.
Patrick Swayze on cancer battle: 'I'm going through hell'
Patrick Swayze Admits He's Scared About His Cancer
Carmelo Anthony: (Hand) Out Three to Four Weeks - Rotowire
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Anthony will miss at least three weeks with a fractured metacarpal in his shooting hand, the Denver Post reports. The good news is that Anthony will not need to undergo surgery, but the Nuggets and fantasy owners will be pressed to account for his ...
Melo may miss a month
Nuggets' Anthony out 3 weeks with broken bone
Phillies to address Romero void - MLB.com
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By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com Heading into a 2009 season in which they are hoping to defend their World Series title, the Phillies were banking on the fact that they'd have the National League's best bullpen from '08 almost completely intact.
Baseball Suspends Two Pitchers for Drug Use
Phillies' JC Romero is suspended for 50 games
Sources: Tribe, Pavano reach incentive-laden deal - FOXSports.com
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by Ken Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.
Indians sign RHP Pavano
Indians sign Carl Pavano to 1-year deal
Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Those With Advanced Parkinson's - U.S. News & World Report
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By Amanda Gardner TUESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The largest study of its kind finds that deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life after six months in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Study backs deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's
Brain pacemaker helps Parkinson's, but with risks
Nation's Health Spending Rises, but Not So Much - ABC News
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By KEVIN FREKING AP Writer AP Health care continued to take up a greater share of the economy in 2007, as spending on hospitals, doctors and other services increased 6.1 percent to $2.2 trillion.
Health Spending Slows, but Will It Last?
Health Care Spending in US Grew at Lowest Rate in a Decade
Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health News - U.S. News & World Report
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About 54 percent of adolescents who use the social networking website MySpace often discuss sexual behavior, substance abuse, or violence on the site, according to a pair of new studies published this month in Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent ...
Doc Reaches Out to Misbehaving Teens on MySpace
A Note to the Wise on MySpace Helps
Obama said to pick a spy chief with little intelligence experience - Christian Science Monitor
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By Gordon Lubold | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Reporter Gordon Lubold discusses how President-elect Obama may be sending a message to the US intelligence community with his reported choice of Leon Panetta as CIA director.
Video: Schieffer On Obama Cabinet
Obama apologizes to Feinstein for his CIA surprise
Barack Obama Spends First Full Day in DC as President-elect - Voice of America
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By Carolyn Presutti US President-elect Barack Obama arrived in Washington DC on Sunday. His first task on Monday was visiting Congressional leaders to talk about the financial crisis which he has called "an extraordinary economic challenge.
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural
Obama Inauguration: Youth Inaugural Ball
Bush orders new protections for Pacific marine seascapes - Christian Science Monitor
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Together with earlier moves, 355000 square miles of islands, reefs, and atolls now have new safeguards. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor/ January 6, 2009 edition Reporter Pete Spotts talks about some of the ...
Bush to Establish World's Largest Marine Sanctuary
President Bush's Last Act of Greenness
