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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
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: Notebook: Gaza
Israeli Strike Hits Refugees Near a UN School in Gaza
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
Telephone links, key part of evidence shared with Pakistan
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
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 tycoon Adolf Merckle commits suicide
German billionaire kills self, family says
Obama to include accountability in economic plan - The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to bar lawmakers' pet projects from his massive economic stimulus plan and to bring unprecedented accountability to federal spending.
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Barack Obama Spends First Full Day in DC as President-elect
Obama Wants Journalist for Surgeon General - Washington Post
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By Howard Kurtz President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.
Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General?
Obama Flexes Centrist, Couch Potato Credentials in Surgeon General ...
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
Bush enviro legacy: Largest chunk of ocean ever protected
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 Minutes Signal Worry About Long Recession
Economy trumps geopolitical strife: oil falls - The Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Oil prices fell Tuesday as fresh signs of a deepening US recession trumped tensions in the Middle East and worries over natural gas shortages in Europe.
Oil Rises to 5-Week High Above $50 on OPEC Cuts, Russia Dispute
MARKET SNAPSHOT: US Stocks Lose Some Steam Along With Crude Oil ...
Court upholds Skilling conviction, orders resentencing - Houston Chronicle
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By KRISTEN HAYS Houston Chronicle Copyright 2009 An appeals court today upheld former Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling's 19 federal felony convictions, but ordered a trial court to resentence him.
Skilling’s Conviction Upheld, Resentencing Ordered
US court orders Enron's Skilling resentenced
Apple Says Goodbye to Macworld, Without Jobs - PC World
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There was a standing ovation at the Macworld Conference and Expo this year, but it wasn't for Steve Jobs or a hot new Apple product.
Video: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormone Imbalance
Macworld Goes On Without Jobs
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection - USA Today
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By Robert Galbraith, Reuters By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Tuesday said songs on its popular iTunes digital music service will cost between 69 cents and $1.29, and will no longer be saddled with copy-protection software.
Apple, labels, sing new tunes on iTunes
Apple iTunes Music Store Going DRM-Free
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 Software, MacBook 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.
Jett Travolta Mourned
Travolta's son cremated, ashes flown to Florida
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 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
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 Carl Pavano to 1-year deal
Cleveland Indians top candidate to sign Carl Pavano, report says
Bidding for Chicago Cubs may be near a conclusion - Chicago Tribune
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By Ameet Sachdev | Tribune reporter Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs, is close to selecting a winning bid for the team from three finalists, according to people familiar with the sales talks.
Tribune Co. close to Cubs decision
Winner in Cubs sale process to be picked this week
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
Morning Rounds Bird Flu, Fire Hazards and a Vaccine for Boys - New York Times
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By RONI CARYN RABIN Chinese health authorities have confirmed that a 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, according to the World Health Organization.
Bird flu fears return after death in Beijing
China says 19-year-old woman dies from bird flu
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
Source: Obama Chose Panetta for his Washington Experience
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
