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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 ...
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Democrat Roland Burris blocked from US Senate
Israeli Strike Hits Refugees Near a UN School in Gaza - New York Times
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A wounded man was carried near a United Nations school in northern Gaza where at least 30 people were killed on Tuesday after an Israeli strike.
Video: Notebook: Gaza
Obama refrains from detailed comment on Gaza conflict
Russian Natural Gas Supply to Europe Dwindles - Washington Post
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By Philip P. Pan MOSCOW, Jan. 6 -- The flow of Russian natural gas to Europe dropped sharply Tuesday with six countries reporting a complete halt of shipments as Russia deepened its gas embargo of neighboring Ukraine.
Video: Russia-Ukraine: gauging the gas feud
ANALYSIS-Europe gas stocks tested by Russia crisis
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
Pak in denial mode despite incriminating evidence
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.
Israel: No worries about our image
Rules seen preventing EU-Hamas meeting
Obama says expects deficit to approach $1 trillion - Reuters
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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he expects to inherit a US budget deficit approaching $1 trillion (670.7 billion pounds) and that his administration would have to make some tough budget choices.
Video: Obama's Pushes Stimulus Plan
Europe's American Obstacle: Republicans in Decline
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
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
German tycoon Adolf Merckle commits suicide - Reuters
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By Markus Nagle BLAUBEUREN, Germany (Reuters) - German billionaire Adolf Merckle has committed suicide, in despair over the huge losses suffered by his business empire during the financial crisis, his family said on Tuesday.
Facing Losses, German Billionaire Commits Suicide
German Billionaire Merckle Kills Himself
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
INSTANT VIEW: Fed sees risk of uncomfortably low inflation
Limits to Oil Majors' Largesse - Wall Street Journal
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By LIAM DENNING With energy investing, geopolitics might provide the drama, but the slowing global economy is the main plot. Nymex crude has moved back towards $50 a barrel.
Oil Rises to 5-Week High Above $50 on OPEC Cuts, Russia Dispute
NYMEX-Crude up, but choppy on profit taking, data
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
Macworld Goes On Without Jobs
Apple iTunes Music Store Going DRM-Free - InformationWeek
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The company will also offer new price points to offset competition from Amazon.com and will let iPhone users buy songs over 3G networks.
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection
Apple, labels, sing new tunes on iTunes
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 ...
Quick take: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro
Apple unveils new MacBook Pro, iLife/iWork suites at Macworld
Travolta returns home to plan funeral - New York Daily News
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The Travoltas board their personal plane from the Bahams Monday night to return home with the body of their son, Jett. Carrying a heavy heart and his son's ashes in an urn, John Travolta returned to his Florida home on Tuesday.
Travolta's son cremated, ashes flown to Florida
Teen years risky for kids with seizure disorder, expert says
Punk-guitar pioneer Ron Asheton of Stooges dies at age 60 - Chicago Tribune
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The godfather of punk guitar, Ron Asheton of the Stooges, was found dead Tuesday in his Ann Arbor, Mich., home. Asheton, 60, had not been heard from for a few days, and police were called to the guitarist’s house by his personal assistant to check on ...
Stooges guitarist Asheton found dead in Ann Arbor
The Stooges guitarist found dead
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 Admits He's Scared About His Cancer
Patrick Swayze on cancer battle: 'I'm going through hell'
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
Fiesta Bowl Buckeyes-Longhorns game draws 72047 - Bizjournals.com
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A sold-out crowd at the University of Phoenix Stadium watched a fourth-quarter stunner that put the University of Texas Longhorns ahead in the final seconds to give them a 24-21 win over the Ohio State University Buckeyes.
Rea's Say: Buckeyes Can Hold Their Heads High
Texas should be 'Real McCoy' in 2009 campaign
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.
Brees named Offensive Player of the Year
Saints QB Brees is AP Defensive Player of Year
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
Judge dismisses lawsuits in Medtronic heart device case - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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A ruling by a federal judge dismisses dozens of complaints filed by patients claiming they were injured by the defective Medtronic heart product.
Lawsuits filed against Medtronic dismissed
Federal Court Dismisses Suits Against Medtronic
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
Biden: Not Notifying Top Sens. on Panetta Choice a 'Mistake'
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
Kennedy Shadow Looms Over Senate Hopefuls - New York Times
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By JEREMY W. PETERS UTICA, NY - It is not easy competing with a Kennedy. This axiom of American politics has been true for more than half a century.
Caroline Kennedy 'unfazed' about continuing push for Hillary ...
Caroline Kennedy Is A Good Choice...To Be An Ambassador
