Poll: Majority says Burris should be blocked from Sen. seat - USA Today
Poll: Majority says Burris should be blocked from Sen. seat
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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
Israeli Strike Hits Refugees Near a UN School in Gaza - New York Times
Israeli Strike Hits Refugees Near a UN School in Gaza
Sydney Morning Herald
New York Times -
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: Cash drain leaves Gaza stranded
Obama refrains from detailed comment on Gaza conflict
Dossier From India Gives New Details of Mumbai Attacks - New York Times
Dossier From India Gives New Details of Mumbai Attacks
CTV.ca
New York Times -
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
Russian Natural Gas Supply to Europe Dwindles - Washington Post
Russian Natural Gas Supply to Europe Dwindles
BBC News
Washington Post -
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
Facing Losses, German Billionaire Commits Suicide - New York Times
Facing Losses, German Billionaire Commits Suicide
CTV.ca
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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
Europe's American Obstacle: Republicans in Decline - Washington Post
Europe's American Obstacle: Republicans in Decline
BBC News
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By Roberto Pena Unfortunately for Europe, the biggest obstacle standing in the way of the greatest reversal in modern US-European relations is a Republican Party on the decline.
Video: Obama's Pushes Stimulus Plan
Schwarzenegger presses Obama on stimulus measures
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural - The Associated Press
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural
The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau
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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
Richardson Withdrawal Hurts Obama?s Southwest Strategy
Bush orders new protections for Pacific marine seascapes - Christian Science Monitor
Bush orders new protections for Pacific marine seascapes
Times Online
Christian Science Monitor -
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
INSTANT VIEW: Fed sees risk of uncomfortably low inflation - Reuters
INSTANT VIEW: Fed sees risk of uncomfortably low inflation
Globe and Mail
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US Federal Reserve policy makers wanted to send a clear message that they intended to keep interest rates very low for a long time to help the economy recover from a recession, minutes of their December meeting showed on Tuesday.
Fed Minutes Signal Worry About Long Recession
Fed: Economic woes will last despite radical moves
Skilling?s Conviction Upheld, Resentencing Ordered - Bloomberg
Skilling?s Conviction Upheld, Resentencing Ordered
stv.tv
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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
Pending home sales plunge to record low in Nov. - BusinessWeek
Pending home sales plunge to record low in Nov.
Dividend.com
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By ALAN ZIBEL Pending US home sales fell to the lowest level on record in November, as the plummeting stock market and faltering economy gave more buyers cold feet, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday.
National Association of Realtors pending sales index drops
Pending Sales of Existing Homes Fell 4% in November
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection - USA Today
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection
New York Times
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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.
Summary: Software, MacBook Pro updates star in final Apple keynote
Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes
Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage - CNET News
Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage
CNET News -
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
Apple disappoints--no Jobs or big news at Macworld
Quick take: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro - CNET News
Quick take: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro
Product Reviews
CNET News -
Pre-Macworld buzz suggested both a new Mac Mini and a 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro laptop were in the offing from Apple Tuesday on the hardware front.
Expo: 17-inch MacBook Pro gets unibody makeover
Replaceable battery be damned, give me 8 hours of life!
Travolta returns home to plan funeral - New York Daily News
Travolta returns home to plan funeral
guardian.co.uk
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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
Patrick Swayze angry, scared, determined on cancer - Reuters
Patrick Swayze angry, scared, determined on cancer
SheKnows.com
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By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Actor 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 on cancer battle: 'I'm going through hell'
Patrick Swayze Admits He's Scared About His Cancer
Alyssa Milano Is Engaged - People Magazine
Alyssa Milano Is Engaged
United Press International
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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
Fiesta Bowl Buckeyes-Longhorns game draws 72047 - Bizjournals.com
Fiesta Bowl Buckeyes-Longhorns game draws 72047
Boston Globe
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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
No Charges Against Harrison - Washington Post
No Charges Against Harrison
CBC.ca
Washington Post -
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.
Philadelphia DA will not charge Colts WR Marvin Harrison
Philly DA unable to press charges
Brees Named Offensive Player of Year - Washington Post
Brees Named Offensive Player of Year
The Associated Press
Washington Post -
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
Brees named Player of the Year
Nation's Health Spending Rises, but Not So Much - ABC News
Nation's Health Spending Rises, but Not So Much
SmartAboutHealth
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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
Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health News
ABC News
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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
Judge dismisses lawsuits in Medtronic heart device case
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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
Obama said to pick a spy chief with little intelligence experience
New York Daily News
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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
Franken Stays Out of Washington as Coleman Prepares Legal Challenge
ABC News
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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
Kennedy Shadow Looms Over Senate Hopefuls
New Zealand Herald
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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 ...
Poll: Caroline Kennedy losing favor with voters