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Boy's wrapped birthday gift is dad back from Iraq
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:47 pm PST
AP - Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise, but his present sure was. The kindergartner was so engrossed in the cupcakes his mother brought to his class on Wednesday that he didn't notice the enormous wrapped box off to the side. Full Story
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Grandma: Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:32 pm PST
AP - The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. Full Story
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Priest uncovering beginnings of Final Solution
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:49 pm PST
AP - The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind's eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces. Full Story
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Its a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:26 am PST
AP - On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English. Full Story
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Ky. struggles with outages in ice storm aftermath
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:46 pm PST
AP - As hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians lingered in the dark nearly a week after an ice storm wrecked the state's power grid, National Guard troops prepared to go door-to-door to check on residents. Full Story
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GOP governors press Congress to pass stimulus bill
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:30 pm PST
AP - Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care. Full Story
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Will family's 4th generation at GM be its last?
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:22 pm PST
AP - As a 10-year-old, Rollin Green was awestruck when he saw the line of hulking orange-and-silver robotic arms swinging with rhythmic precision during his first visit to an auto plant. But something impressed him even more: His dad worked there. Full Story
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Iraq sculpture honoring Bush shoe-thrower removed
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:56 am PST
AP - The director of an Iraqi orphanage says a sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed. Full Story
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Obama readies road map for new bailout spending
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:48 pm PST
AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the second installment of the financial rescue plan. Full Story
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Iraqi elections avoid violence but complaints loom
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:46 pm PST
AP - Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation's quest for stability in provincial elections that were carried off without major violence but tarnished by claims of flaws and threats of challenges. Full Story
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Russian newspaper mourns another murdered reporter
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:39 am PST
AP - The dead loom over the morning editorial meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper. Novaya Gazeta's staff is trying to plan the next issue and editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood. Full Story
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Strike by 24,000 refinery workers averted for now
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:51 pm PST
AP - A strike by some 24,000 refinery workers was averted, at least for now, as both sides agreed to extend negotiations for at least 24 hours. Full Story
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Stimulus plan mixes long and short term job goals
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:30 am PST
AP - No matter the color of your work shirt, this recession is sparing few. Full Story
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America abortion debate reaches into African slums
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:00 am PST
AP - Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America's battle over abortion. Full Story
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Don't panic about your 401(k) losses. Here's why.
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - When big public companies slash payroll, no stock seems safe. The current bear market is already being used as an excuse in some corners to condemn 401(k)s and indulge in pension nostalgia. Full Story
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Fire station burns after cooking mishap
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:25 am PST
Reuters - A blaze broke out at a fire station in Japan this week after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls. Full Story
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California octuplets case dismays fertility experts
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:52 pm PST
Reuters - The birth of octuplets in California, hailed as a medical triumph by doctors who delivered the tiny infants, has dismayed fertility experts who say high-number multiple births are an outcome they work hard to avoid. Full Story
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