Poll: Majority says Burris should be blocked from Sen. seat - USA Today
Poll: Majority says Burris should be blocked from Sen. seat
CTV.ca
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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
Times Online
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
Canada.com
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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
Russian Natural Gas Supply to Europe Dwindles - Washington Post
Russian Natural Gas Supply to Europe Dwindles
Times Online
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
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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
German tycoon Adolf Merckle commits suicide
Europe's American Obstacle: Republicans in Decline - Washington Post
Europe's American Obstacle: Republicans in Decline
Washington Post
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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
Obama says expects deficit to approach $1 trillion
Bush orders new protections for Pacific marine seascapes - Christian Science Monitor
Bush orders new protections for Pacific marine seascapes
CBC.ca
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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
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural - The Associated Press
Obama raises $27 million for inaugural
Malaysia Star
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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
Obama?s Inauguration Fund-Raising Tops $24 Million
Fed Policy Makers Saw ?Substantial? Risks to Economy - Bloomberg
Fed Policy Makers Saw ?Substantial? Risks to Economy
RTT News
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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
Tyson Foods To Pay $500000 For Violating Worker Safety Rules
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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
Skilling?s Conviction Upheld, Resentencing Ordered
Canada.com
Bloomberg -
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
Summary: Software, MacBook Pro updates star in final Apple keynote - Macworld
Summary: Software, MacBook Pro updates star in final Apple keynote
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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 ...
Video: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormone Imbalance
Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection - USA Today
Apple changes iTunes prices; removes copy protection
Canada.com
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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 Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes
Apple changes iTunes pricing
Quick take: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro - CNET News
Quick take: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro
Product Reviews
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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
Inside the Frantic Fight to Save Jett Travolta's Life
Alyssa Milano Is Engaged - People Magazine
Alyssa Milano Is Engaged
The Gossip Girls
People Magazine -
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
Lindsay Lohan Blogs That She And Samantha Ronson 'Did Not Break Up!'
WELT ONLINE
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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
Rea's Say: Buckeyes Can Hold Their Heads High - Bucknuts.com
Rea's Say: Buckeyes Can Hold Their Heads High
Seattle Post Intelligencer
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By Mark Rea Go ahead and target Jim Tressel if you want to, but the blame for why Ohio State came up a little short of upsetting third-ranked Texas in the Fiesta Bowl should not fall to the players.
Texas should be 'Real McCoy' in 2009 campaign
Fiesta Bowl Buckeyes-Longhorns game draws 72047
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
Fresh 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
Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health 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
Lawsuits filed against Medtronic dismissed - Bizjournals.com
Lawsuits filed against Medtronic dismissed
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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 ...
Biden: Not Notifying Top Sens. on Panetta Choice a 'Mistake' - Washington Post
Biden: Not Notifying Top Sens. on Panetta Choice a 'Mistake'
New York Daily News
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By Paul Kane Vice-president-elect Joseph Biden admitted today the Obama transition team made a "mistake" in not notifying top Senate officials of the selection of Leon Panetta as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, defending the former Clinton ...
Video: Schieffer On Obama Cabinet
Source: Obama Chose Panetta for his Washington Experience
Franken Stays Out of Washington as Coleman Prepares Legal Challenge - FOXNews
Franken Stays Out of Washington as Coleman Prepares Legal Challenge
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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
Texas kills 50-year road building plan after outcry
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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