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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to swiftly pass a massive economic stimulus bill, which could cost as much as $800 billion.
Shijiazhuang (Xinhua) - Four more people in China's tainted dairy scandal went on trial Monday in a local court in Shijiazhuang, capital of northern Hebei Province.
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The U.S. employment picture eroded sharply in November with unemployment jumping from 6.5 percent to 6.7 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
Millions worldwide march peacefully to end bigotry and discrimination.
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Ferocious wildfires aided by blasting winds and high temperatures forced 30,000 Southern California residents to flee their homes, officials said Sunday.
Small and medium companies supported discriminatory amendment against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality; No Fortune 500 companies on the list.
Discriminatory Proposition 8 was supported by hate groups and out-of-state religious extremists.
Herrera Joined by Los Angeles, Santa Clara Counterparts in Suing to Invalidate Prop 8.
How the Race Was Decided
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As the polls closed and the parties began, the early results showed how the new President was set for victory
Pennsylvania: Obama
One of three crucial swing states that has played a decisive role in presidential elections for the past 50 years.
Paid slate-mailer "endorsements" are not worth the paper they're printed on.
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Kyodo - The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven economies vowed Friday to use all available tools, including public capital injection, to fight the worldwide credit crunch and prevent "systemically important financial institutions" from failing.
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Russia will pull back Wednesday from the southern edge of a buffer zone inside Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia, a senior Russian officer said, ahead of a deadline Friday.
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By Andy Furillo and Sam Stanton
WILLIAMS -- At least 10 people were killed and dozens others injured Sunday night when a privately owned tour bus headed from Sacramento to a Colusa-area casino flipped over on a two-lane road, officials said.
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By Larry Eichel, The Philadelphia Inquirer
This is the night that political junkies -- and there are millions and millions of you out there this year -- have been waiting for.
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The number of babies sickened by tainted milk products in China totals more than 50,000, with four dead and another 104 seriously ill.
USA TODAY - By Sue Kirchhoff, Kathy Chu, Barbara Hagenbaugh and Edward Iwata
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday night it will lend up to $85 billion to American International Group, effectively putting the government in control of the flailing insurance giant, saying the move was necessary to protect the financial system and the economy.
By Mike Dorning, Chicago Tribune
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Residents of Haiti were last night clearing up the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Hanna, as officials in the US prepared for the storm to hit.
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By Del Jones
Hurricane Gustav took a direct hit on the Gulf of Mexico, temporarily suspending 100% of oil production in the Gulf, yet gasoline prices appear lower.
Obama's Speech Capped a Convention Aimed at Unifying Democratic Party.
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By Candace Rondeaux, The Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's ruling coalition parties agreed Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, setting up a major showdown between the former military chief and the newly elected civilian government.
BBC Monitoring NewsfileThe Olympic torch relay began its final leg in Beijing from the landmark Forbidden City Wednesday morning.
United Press International - A U.S. government scientist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland of an apparent suicide, colleagues said.
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BERLIN - In a highly unusual move for an American presidential candidate, Barack Obama staged a foreign policy speech Thursday before a huge overseas audience, calling for renewed trans-Atlantic cooperation to rein in Iran, fight religious extremism and terrorism, and address global warming and poverty.
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Scrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced unprecedented steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
SAN JOSE) – The Governor´s budget cuts to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) would devastate thousands of families and hurt the economy by reducing hours and jobs for many health care workers employed by the valuable safety net program, Democratic legislators said today.
Joining senior and disabled citizens and health care workers at Vivente 1 Apartments in San Jose, five state Democratic legislators said the Governor´s decision to turn his back on the needy is poor policy and bad economics.
The Governor´s budget plan would eliminate $266 million from the IHSS program, which provides care to low-income, disabled and aged Californians in their homes and allows them to avoid more expensive out-of-home care.
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A suicide bomb exploded Monday on a crowded street near the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 41 people and injuring 140, officials said.
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Several Airlines Likely to Fail; Affordable, Frequent Air Travel and Jobs at Risk.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Marie Welton figures her daughter will have to bulldoze her flooded home here.
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The Independent (UK) - By Rupert Cornwell
After an epic five-month battle that has rewritten US politics, Barack Obama last night stood poised to secure the 2008 Democratic nomination, with a very real chance of becoming the first African American president in the country's history.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hillary Clinton coasted to victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, a win she hoped would give her a desperately needed boost-but probably would not.
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Jan. 10--DAMASCUS -- Israel's war on Gaza has left more than 700 Palestinians dead -- nearly a third of them women and children -- and more than 3,000 injured.
THE bombs are raining down on Gaza, while ground assault moves deep into what is left of the Palestinian territory.
Leading lawmakers set an informal goal of mid-February to enact tax cuts and spending that could cost as much as $1 trillion.
Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin gave Florida the jolt it needed to become a national champion.
By Ibrahim Barzak and Karin Laub
Of all the missives the top U.S. military commander in Iraq has signed, none is likely to generate more cheer than the one issued this week authorizing all U.S. troops to drink beer.
Disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ripped a House panel's vote to recommend his impeachment, saying the outcome was never in doubt.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Tiny bodies lying side by side wrapped in white burial shrouds.
NEW YORK -- Prosecutors said Thursday that investigators found 100 signed checks worth $173 million in Bernard Madoff's office desk that he was ready to send out to his closest family and friends at the time of his arrest last month in what is alleged to be largest financial fraud in history.
MIAMI -- Tim Tebow gave Florida the jolt it needed to become a national champion.
WASHINGTON -- The number of laid-off workers who are continuing to draw unemployment checks jumped more than expected to 4.6 million at the end of December and is likely to keep climbing this year -- fresh evidence that people are finding it increasingly difficult to get a new job amid a deepening recession.
WASHINGTON -- In a speech before a specially invited group of government leaders, including Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, President-elect Barack Obama implored Congress on Thursday to "act boldly and act now" to fix an economy growing perilously weaker.
The number of laid-off workers who are continuing to draw unemployment checks jumped more than expected to 4.6 million at the end of December and is likely to keep climbing this year - fresh evidence that people are finding it increasingly difficult to get a new job amid a deepening recession.
["China Calls for Full, Effective Implementation of New UN Resolution on Gaza"]
If Tim Tebow can't crack the top three among the Big 12 Conference's quarterbacks, the Florida Gators don't mind.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepened yesterday after the main UN aid agency suspended its operations in the strip, saying staff were at risk from the Israeli army after one of its drivers was killed by a tank shell.
Jan. 9--STOW -- A man who waited in line inside a Stow bank, ignoring requests to remove his ski mask, robbed a teller with what turned out to be a toy gun, police said.
Jan. 9--MIAMI -- College football's latest super hero is a square-jawed, brush-cut, almost-too-good-to-be-true 21-year-old named Tim Tebow, who can dazzle a full college stadium by day and still make time to preach the gospel in front of a packed prison auditorium by night.
Jan. 9--JERUSALEM -- As dozens of bodies were pulled from the rubble of shelled houses in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Israel faced a growing confrontation with aid groups alarmed by the toll of its offensive against Hamas, and the UN called for an end to hostilities.
Jan. 9--The game ended ages ago, and yet the Florida Gators remained on the field at Dolphin Stadium in the early moments of Friday morning, laughing, hugging, posing for pictures and ignoring pleas to head toward the locker room.
Text of editorial entitled "Israel and Hamas must spare civilians" published by leading privately-owned Ugandan newspaper The Daily Monitor website on 9 January
CHICAGO -- An Illinois House committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend the impeachment of Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich as Roland Burris said there was "absolutely, positively" no exchange of favors with Blagojevich for his U.S. Senate appointment.
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Faced with the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama already has assumed the burden of the presidency -- and with it the opportunity to shape his legacy and make the economy go boom or bust.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- As Florida quarterback Tim Tebow ran off the field near the end of the third quarter against Oklahoma in the Bowl Championship Series title game Thursday night, the right shoulder of his white jersey was tattooed with many grass stains.
[Xinhua: "China Supports New UN Resolution on Gaza: Foreign Ministry"]
Jan. 9--It would be a shame if we just watched Tim Tebow play his final college football game.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. _ Three Chicago Democrats, including one who's thinking about asking Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for a state job, were the only House lawmakers not to vote for impeachment.
Jan. 9--SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for abuse of power, including allegations that he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
Illinois' high court ruled Friday Roland Burris did not need the signature of the state secretary of state to take his U.S. Senate seat.
THE UN yesterday halted all aid supplies to Gaza amid a growing row over Israel's treatment of civilians in the area.
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To do so, two Virginia Tech geotechnical engineering students went to New Orleans and obtained about 2,000 pounds of different soil samples that have organic contents greater than nine percent.
While in Bangladesh, Uddin will work with local educators and researchers to study the feasibility, reliability and livability of low cost coastal housing designed to endure hurricanes using environmentally friendly composite building techn
The National Science Foundation-funded study group is developing a strategic plan for sustaining barrier island ecosystems in the face of increases in storm frequency and intensity, as well as sea level rise associated with global climate c
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In the working paper, " Incentives for Retailer Forecasting: Rebates versus Returns", Taylor and co-author Wenqiang Xiao, assistant professor, Stern School of Business, New York University, find that when a retailer's forecasting efforts ar
The lab led by George L. King, M.D., Director of Research at Joslin, will apply the funds to the Joslin Medalist Study, which Dr. King launched in April 2005 through previous funding from the Thomas J. Beatson, Jr. Foundation to identify ph