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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
Senate rejects Burris, but law may be on his side
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
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
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 billionaire kills self, family says
NEWSMAKER-German billionaire commits suicide after VW losses
RPT-UPDATE 1-New US Congress convenes focused on economy - Reuters
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By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Democrats sealed their increased control of the US Congress on Tuesday with the swearing in of newly elected members expected to help enact President-elect Barack Obama's call for a ...
Video: Obama's Pushes Stimulus Plan
New House members sworn in
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
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
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
US STOCKS-Gains trimmed after Fed Minutes released
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
Apple disappoints--no Jobs or big news at Macworld - Reuters
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By Gabriel Madway and David Lawsky SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday said it was dropping copy protection from songs sold on the Internet and debuted its slimmest 17-inch laptop yet, but with no dramatic products or master pitchman ...
Video: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormone Imbalance
Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage
Summary: Software, MacBook Pro updates star in final Apple keynote - Macworld
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by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com In what the company has said will be its last Macworld Expo keynote ever, Apple on Tuesday announced updates to its iLife and iWork suites while unveiling a 17-inch MacBook Pro that now mirrors the unibody design of the ...
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection
Apple Unveils Software, MacBook At Macworld
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 engaged to Hollywood agent
Alyssa Milano Uses Charms, Gets Engaged
Lindsay Lohan Blogs That She And Samantha Ronson 'Did Not Break Up!' - MTV.com
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By Gil Kaufman For those of you still keeping score at home: Lindsay Lohan and porkpie-hat-loving DJ Samantha Ronson have not broken up ... at least not as of today. The tabloid-targeted couple reportedly got into a very public fight in Miami on New ...
Sam: Lindsay Wasn't My Sole Provider
Lohan Sets the Record Straight
No Charges Against Harrison - Washington Post
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The Philadelphia district attorney's office does not plan to file criminal charges against Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison for his possible role in an April shooting in the city, District Attorney Lynne Abraham announced today.
Philly DA unable to press charges
Prosecutor: Harrison's gun used in April shooting
Brees Named Offensive Player of Year - Washington Post
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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was named the NFL's offensive player of the year today by the Associated Press after having the second 5000-yard passing season in league history.
Saints QB Brees is AP Defensive Player of Year
No MVP, but Brees gets AP Offensive POY
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
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
Lawsuits filed against Medtronic dismissed - Bizjournals.com
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A group of lawsuits filed against Medtronic Inc. regarding one of the firm’s cardiac devices has been dismissed by a federal court in Minnesota, the company said Tuesday.
Federal Court Dismisses Suits Against Medtronic
Dismissal of Medtronic Injury Lawsuits Sends Wrong Message to ...
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
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
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
