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Poll: Majority says Burris should be blocked from Sen. seat - USA Today
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By Harry Hamburg, AFP/Getty Images By Susan Page and John Fritze, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans say Roland Burris should be blocked from taking a US Senate seat and Illinois should hold a special election to fill the vacancy he was ...
Video: Burris Refused Seat in US Senate
Roland Burris is turned away at Senate
Israel Puts Media Clamp on Gaza - New York Times
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By ETHAN BRONNER JERUSALEM - Three times in recent days, a small group of foreign correspondents was told to appear at the border crossing to Gaza.
Video: Notebook: Gaza
UN official says Gaza school was clearly marked
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
India's Premier Suggests Pakistani Agencies Backed Mumbai Attackers
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.
NEWSMAKER-German billionaire commits suicide after VW losses
German billionaire kills self, family says
ANALYSIS-Europe gas stocks tested by Russia crisis - Reuters
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By Daniel Fineren LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Europe may be forced to drain its winter gas stocks with spring still months away, find other ways of generating electricity and buy tankerloads of alternative fuel to keep warm unless Russian exports return ...
Video: Russia-Ukraine: gauging the gas feud
Russian Natural Gas Supply to Europe Dwindles
No instant gratification in US stimulus plan - Reuters
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By Emily Kaiser - Analysis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even if US lawmakers give President-elect Barack Obama every penny he wants for a massive spending and tax-cut program, it could be another year before the full benefits filter through to the paralyzed ...
Video: Obama's Pushes Stimulus Plan
Obama to include accountability in economic plan
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural - The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite the economic hard times, money keeps pouring in for President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural festivities.
Your road to the inauguration
Partying times 10 on Inauguration Night
Texas kills 50-year road building plan after outcry - Reuters
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By Joan Gralla NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Texas has killed its 50-year, multibillion-dollar road-building plan after criticism that it would have wrested too much land from private owners and failed to focus on short-term needs, a state official said ...
Perry: TxDOT killed Trans Texas Corridor name, not initiative
TxDOT scraps Trans-Texas Corridor
Fed Policy Makers Saw ‘Substantial’ Risks to Economy - Bloomberg
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By Steve Matthews Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve policy makers saw “substantial” risks to the slumping economy last month as they cut the benchmark interest rate to a record low and pledged to expand emergency loans if necessary.
Fed Minutes Signal Worry About Long Recession
Fed: Economic woes will last despite radical moves
Tyson Foods To Pay $500000 For Violating Worker Safety Rules - CNNMoney.com
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Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN) pleaded guilty to willfully violating worker safety regulations and agreed to pay a $500000 fine following the death of an employee at its Arkansas plant, according to the US Department of Justice.
Tyson pleads guilty, fined for OSHA violation
Tyson agrees to fine over worker death
Skilling’s Conviction Upheld, Resentencing Ordered - Bloomberg
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By Jef Feeley and Thom Weidlich Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- A US appeals court upheld the conviction of former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling for spearheading the fraud that destroyed the world’s largest energy trader, while finding ...
US court orders Enron's Skilling resentenced
Court upholds Skilling conviction, orders resentencing
Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage - CNET News
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Some nasty pranksters, likely associated with Web forum 4Chan, have hacked into Apple gossip mainstay MacRumors' live-blog coverage of Tuesday's Macworld keynote.
Video: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormone Imbalance
Macworld09: Live blogging the Apple keynote
Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes - New York Times
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Philip W. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Apple changes iTunes pricing
Jobs-less Macworld offers up 17-inch MacBook Pro, variable iTunes ...
Apple introduces iWork '09, iWork.com - Apple Insider
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By AppleInsider Staff Users of Apple's updated iWork office productivity suite will find new location features in their desktop applications and a new online document sharing service at iWork.
Expo: Apple adds productivity features to iWork
Macworld 2009: Apple unleashes iWork '09 and cloud-based iWork.com ...
Travolta's son cremated, ashes flown to Florida - Reuters
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By John Marquis NASSAU, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The body of actor John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, was cremated in the Bahamas after his sudden death during the New Year's holiday and his parents flew to Florida with his ashes, a Bahamian lawmaker said ...
Travolta returns home to plan funeral
Inside the Frantic Fight to Save Jett Travolta's Life
Alyssa Milano Is Engaged - People Magazine
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By Brian Orloff and Alexis Chiu Milano, 36, will marry David Bugliari, an agent at the Creative Arts Agency. The couple have been dating for more than a year.
Alyssa Milano Uses Charms, Gets Engaged
Alyssa Milano: Engaged!
Patrick Swayze Admits He's Scared About His Cancer - People Magazine
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By Steve Helling Patrick Swayze has already reached one milestone: although the majority of patients with advanced stage pancreatic cancer die within six months of diagnosis, the actor has been battling the disease for nearly a year.
Patrick Swayze on cancer battle: 'I'm going through hell'
Patrick Swayze Admits Asking 'Why Me?'
Teixeira introduced at Yankee Stadium - MLB.com
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By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com NEW YORK -- Having vowed to return to playoff-caliber baseball by any means necessary, the Yankees showcased their biggest financial investment on Tuesday, introducing Mark Teixeira in a Yankee Stadium news conference.
Teixeira: 'In the back of my mind, the Yankees were always the top'
Yankees welcome Teixeira to the Bronx
Philly DA unable to press charges - ESPN
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Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham announced Tuesday that her office will not be able to proceed with criminal charges against Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison in connection with a shooting in North Philadelphia last year.
Prosecutor: Harrison's gun used in April shooting
Philly DA unable to proceed in Harrison case
Tribune Co. close to Cubs decision - MLB.com
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By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com CHICAGO -- The Tribune Co. is apparently close to picking the winning bid for the Cubs from the three finalists.
Mark Cuban playing back-up for Cubs
Winner in Cubs sale process to be picked this week
Health Spending Slows, but Will It Last? - WebMD
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By Todd Zwillich Jan. 6, 2009 -- The United States spent $2.2 trillion on health care in 2007, a record despite a substantial slowdown in the growth of medical costs, according to federal data released Tuesday.
Health Care Spending in US Grew at Lowest Rate in a Decade
Growth in health care spending slows
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
Warning over 'third hand smoke' - BBC News
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Many people are unaware that even smoking away from babies or pregnant women presents a risk, according to US research. Poisons in cigarette smoke can linger on fabrics or hair, but a survey of 1500 households found that fewer than half of smokers knew ...
What is third-hand smoke? Is it hazardous?
Third-hand smoke
Source: Obama Chose Panetta for his Washington Experience - FOXNews
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Obama's selection of Panetta surprised and dismayed several individuals in the intelligence community because he has no experience in the intelligence world.
Video: Schieffer On Obama Cabinet
It’s drizzling on Obama’s post-election honeymoon
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 ...
President Bush's Last Act of Greenness
President Bush to add marine reserves; not all are applauding
Franken Stays Out of Washington as Coleman Prepares Legal Challenge - FOXNews
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The head of Minnesota's Canvassing Board claims it properly counted the votes that gave Al Franken victory in the US Senate race but Norm Coleman is going to court to dispute the tally of hundreds of absentee ballots.
Video: Franken: Senate Victory 'Incredibly Humbling'
Coleman heads to court as last option in recount
