Obama Targets 2.5 Million New Jobs in 2-Year Economic Stimulus - Bloomberg


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Obama Targets 2.5 Million New Jobs in 2-Year Economic Stimulus
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago
By Jason Gale Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama said he aims to create 2.5 million new US jobs in a two-year plan to simulate an economy facing a “crisis of historic proportions.
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Kin outraged, distraught over teen's cyber suicide - The Associated Press


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Kin outraged, distraught over teen's cyber suicide
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MIAMI (AP) - The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't act ...
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US missiles striking terror into Pakistani militants - guardian.co.uk


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US missiles striking terror into Pakistani militants
guardian.co.uk - 1 hour ago
United States forces are believed to have carried out about 20 missile attacks since August in north-west Pakistan, a sharp rise that reflects Washington's frustration at Islamabad's efforts to tackle militants on its own soil.
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Jimmy Carter Barred from Zimbabwe - New York Times


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Jimmy Carter Barred from Zimbabwe
New York Times - 58 minutes ago
By CELIA W. DUGGER JOHANNESBURG - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 84-year-old president, clinging to power after 28 years in office, barred another famed 84-year-old - former President Jimmy Carter - from entering the country Saturday.
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Bush arrives in Peru for APEC summit - Los Angeles Times


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Bush arrives in Peru for APEC summit
Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago
In the final scheduled foreign trip of his presidency, he hopes to bolster confidence in efforts to rescue the global economy and move forward on North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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Report: Clinton ready to accept sec'y of state job - Newsday


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Report: Clinton ready to accept sec'y of state job
Newsday - 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is ready to accept the job of secretary of state, according to a report that came a day after the Obama transition team worked out an arrangement with her husband, Bill Clinton, on his worldwide charities and ...
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Attorney General Collapses While Giving Speech - New York Times


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Attorney General Collapses While Giving Speech
New York Times - 8 hours ago
By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was taken to the hospital after he failed to regain consciousness.
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Nebraska closes safe-haven loophole - San Francisco Chronicle

Nebraska closes safe-haven loophole
San Francisco Chronicle - 5 hours ago
Nebraska closed a loophole on Friday in a controversial law that had allowed parents to abandon their children at hospitals. The unicameral Legislature voted 43-5 to make abandonment legal only for infants up to 30 days old.
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For Exiting Wal-Mart CEO, a Victory Lap - BusinessWeek


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For Exiting Wal-Mart CEO, a Victory Lap
BusinessWeek - 5 hours ago
By Christopher Palmeri Talk about a holiday surprise. Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) announced just a week before Black Friday, the biggest sales day of the year, that it would have a new chief executive officer come February.
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Downey Seized, Sold to US Bancorp as Mortgage Fallout Spreads - Bloomberg


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Downey Seized, Sold to US Bancorp as Mortgage Fallout Spreads
Bloomberg - 5 hours ago
By Ari Levy and Finbarr Flynn Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Seizure and sale of Downey Financial Corp. and two smaller lenders may cost the FDIC more than $2 billion as foreclosures rise and home prices extend declines in the worst housing slump since the ...
Downey Savings, PFF Bank seized by federal regulators Los Angeles Times
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Citigroup Shares Keep Sinking - BusinessWeek


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Citigroup Shares Keep Sinking
BusinessWeek - 5 hours ago
By Mara Der Hovanesian Citigroup's shares continued their breathtaking decline on Friday, Nov. 21, despite a broader market rally, indicating that time is quickly running out for Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit.
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Digital Gear: IPhone Clone Tries to Whip up a Storm - PC World


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Digital Gear: IPhone Clone Tries to Whip up a Storm
PC World - 11 hours ago
The iPhone has stolen the hearts of millions, but nowadays it's far from the only slick-looking touch-screen phone in town. Two recent additions to the pack are T-Mobile's G1, which launched last month, and Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm, ...
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Apple Updates Maps, Apps in ... - InternetNews.com


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Apple Updates Maps, Apps in ...
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By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: Now that Apple has put most -- but not all -- of the complaints about the iPhone 3G's performance behind it, the company has turned its attention to adding new functionality and tweaking the existing apps ...
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Obama, Pentagon Suffer ... - InternetNews.com


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Gaps in policy may have led to separate incidents at Verizon Wireless and the Department of Defense, industry observers say. By Richard Adhikari: More stories by this author: Security breaches have struck both President-elect Barack Obama and the ...
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Midnight is a fine time for 'Twilight' fans - Los Angeles Times

Midnight is a fine time for 'Twilight' fans
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago
FANG-FUL: “Twilight�-garbed Deeanna Lopez, left, Sabrina Lopez and Ilrimani Cisneros attend a midnight show in Universal City.
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Baby-name experts grade `Bronx Mowgli' - The Associated Press


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Baby-name experts grade `Bronx Mowgli'
The Associated Press - 6 hours ago
The name Brooklyn has been done before, so Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz turned to another New York City borough in naming their newborn son: The Bronx.
Bronx? Cheer! Chicago Tribune
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New Guns N' Roses album hits stores, a little late - Reuters


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New Guns N' Roses album hits stores, a little late
Reuters - 15 hours ago
By Dean Goodman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The day many rock fans never expected to see in their lifetimes is nigh. Guns N' Roses, the rock band that ruled the music world in the early 1990s and then self-destructed in a slow-motion death march, ...
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Knicks deal Crawford, Randolph with eye on 2010 - Newsday


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Knicks deal Crawford, Randolph with eye on 2010
Newsday - 5 hours ago
BY ALAN HAHN | alan.hahn@newsday.com In one of the most dramatic trade days in franchise history, Donnie Walsh stuck his shovel in the dirt Friday and began the process of digging out from under the mountainous Knicks payroll, trading away his team's ...
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Sorenstam’s Final Shots Fall Short - New York Times


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Sorenstam’s Final Shots Fall Short
New York Times - 8 hours ago
By LARRY DORMAN WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Leaving too soon, from both the ADT Championship and competitive golf, the most dominating player of her generation stepped from the spotlight and away from the LPGA Tour on Friday, leaving the crowds screaming ...
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Red Raiders ready for Sooner showdown - New York Daily News


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Red Raiders ready for Sooner showdown
New York Daily News - 3 hours ago
BY DICK WEISS The Red Raiders have become the darling of college football, a 10-0 team that has burst into the spotlight the last two games with a dramatic 39-33 last-second victory over Texas and an impressive 56-20 blowout over Oklahoma State.
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