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- Dems, GOP still at loggerheads as clock ticks
- Late stab at debt-limit deal to avert US default
- House passes Boehner's debt ceiling plan–and Senate puts it on ice
- House rejects Senate Dems' debt-limit bill
- Boehner, Obama relationship tested in debt fight
- Apple has more cash than the federal government
- Perry backs a constitutional limit on marriage
- Bush explains slow reaction to September 11 attacks
- Huge pot bust in Northern Calif national forest
- On tea party bandwagon, DeMint in driver's seat
- Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat
- Perry stresses personal opposition to gay marriage
- Who will Uncle Sam pay if there's no debt deal?
- Cheers to screams as jet from NY crashes in Guyana
- US review finds Iraq deadlier now than a year ago
- House approves debt bill; Senate rejects it
- Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
- Tea party role in debt bill raises GOP eyebrows
- Obama's approval numbers hit all-time low
- Atheist group sues over proposed cross at 9/11 memorial
- UK watches year's second, low key, royal wedding
- Norway suspect was considering other targets
- Jet from New York crashes in Guyana; no deaths
- Norway gunman's tale diverges sharply from reality
- NATO bombs Libyan state TV transmitters
- Can Obama Really Use The 14th Amendment To Raise The Debt Limit?
- Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak forced out of Navy
- One-of-a-kind transparent "Ghost Car" sold at auction
- Iraq says to buy 36 F-16 fighters from U.S
- Anxiety in Afghanistan over troops pay if U.S. defaults
- Factbox: Republicans who voted against Boehner bill
- Obama hits new low in key poll
- Budget, debt worries plague troops
- Analysis: Answers to the 7 big "what-ifs" of debt default
- Barak says Israel still looking for peace talks formula
- Amid bee die-off, healthy hives thrive in cities
- US soldier charged in Fort Hood bomb plot
- New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
- Xbox addict 'dies from blood clot'
- Polygamist leader, in court outburst, says is persecuted
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Dems, GOP still at loggerheads as clock ticks
Sat,30 Jul 2011 11:52 AM PDT
AP -  The GOP-controlled House and the Democratic Senate remain at loggerheads over debt legislation required to avoid a first-ever default on U.S. financial obligations as lawmakers and the White House head into a pressure-packed weekend in search of compromise.
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House passes Boehner's debt ceiling plan–and Senate puts it on ice
Fri,29 Jul 2011 03:34 PM PDT
The Ticket - After a grinding week of negotiations in the House of Representatives, the chamber's GOP majority finally approved Speaker John Boehner's plan to increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling just ahead of the the Aug. 2 deadline for its expiration. And in short order, the Democratic-led Senate voted to table the House-passed measure in favor [...] Full Story | Top |
Boehner, Obama relationship tested in debt fight
Sat,30 Jul 2011 12:55 AM PDT
AP -  The fight over the debt ceiling has turned into a dramatic leadership test for President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, opponents in a divided government who've gone from negotiating in secret to facing off in public at a watershed moment for the country and their own political careers.
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Apple has more cash than the federal government
Fri,29 Jul 2011 09:30 AM PDT
The Ticket - Who's ready for iAmerica? As the BBC has reported, the software company Apple has more cash on hand than the United States federal government, according to the company's financial records. Apple's quarterly financial report shows that the company responsible for the iPad, iPod and the iPhone now has $76.4 billion in reserve cash, while the [...] Full Story | Top |
Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat
Fri,29 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT
The Lookout - The revelation that more than 80 Atlanta teachers admitted to cheating on state standardized tests--with one group of elementary teachers even holding a "party" after school to change their pupils' answers by hand--has rocked the education reform movement. But one question has been left unanswered: Why would a teacher resort to cheating in the first [...] Full Story | Top |
Who will Uncle Sam pay if there's no debt deal?
Fri,29 Jul 2011 11:29 AM PDT
Exclusive - By JANE SASSEEN Yahoo! News Come Aug. 3, just who will get paid? That's the new worry coursing throughout Washington as the contentious debt ceiling negotiations hurtle towards Aug. 2, the deadline beyond which President Barack Obama has warned that … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
US review finds Iraq deadlier now than a year ago
Fri,29 Jul 2011 11:49 PM PDT
AP -  Frequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Saturday.
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House approves debt bill; Senate rejects it
Fri,29 Jul 2011 07:23 PM PDT
AP -  In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an unprecedented government default and Senate Democrats scuttled it less than two hours later in hopes of a better deal.
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Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
Sat,30 Jul 2011 07:51 PM PDT
AP -  Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president's personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center.
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Atheist group sues over proposed cross at 9/11 memorial
Thu,28 Jul 2011 11:09 AM PDT
The Lookout - The group American Atheists and four New Yorkers are suing the states of New York and New Jersey for planning to place a cross--a piece of debris from the World Trade Center--at the 9-11 memorial for the attacks' victims. The planned memorial--which will at long last be unveiled this September--has received millions in federal money. [...] Full Story | Top |
UK watches year's second, low key, royal wedding
Sat,30 Jul 2011 09:43 AM PDT
AP -  Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips married England rugby star Mike Tindall on Saturday — but Britain's second royal wedding of the year was largely a low-key affair, with only a hint of the glamor and excitement of Prince William's showstopping nuptials.
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Norway suspect was considering other targets
Sat,30 Jul 2011 10:55 AM PDT
AP -  The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister's Labor Party, police said Saturday.
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Jet from New York crashes in Guyana; no deaths
Sat,30 Jul 2011 11:09 AM PDT
AP -  A Caribbean Airlines jet from New York touched down on rainy runway, then slid through a chain-link fence and broke apart just short of a ravine on Saturday in Guyana. Miraculously there were no immediate reports of death among the 163 people aboard, despite several dozen of injuries.
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Norway gunman's tale diverges sharply from reality
Sat,30 Jul 2011 08:47 AM PDT
AP -  In the world according to Anders Behring Breivik, a seat on Oslo's city council was once nearly in his grasp — until he was sidelined by a jealous adversary. Nonsense, says the so-called rival, who notes that Breivik attended just five or six party meetings and barely spoke.
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NATO bombs Libyan state TV transmitters
Sat,30 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT
AP -  NATO warplanes bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli overnight, targeting a key propaganda tool that the military alliance said Saturday is used by Moammar Gadhafi's government to incite violence and threaten civilians.
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Can Obama Really Use The 14th Amendment To Raise The Debt Limit?
Fri,29 Jul 2011 07:58 PM PDT
Forbes -  Here is the scenario that is becoming all too possible-It is Tuesday morning, August 2nd 2011. The Boehner Bill to raise the debt limit has gone down to instant defeat in the Senate. In turn, the Reid Bill, assuming it was not filibustered out of existence in the Senate, has been defeated in the House.Meanwhile, Minority Leader McConnell, who has refused to negotiate a resolution with Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, meets with the president but nothing is going anywhere.It is do or die day. ...
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Iraq says to buy 36 F-16 fighters from U.S
Sat,30 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT
Reuters -  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday his government would buy 36 F-16 fighters from the United States, doubling the number it had initially planned to purchase to strengthen its weak air defenses.
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Factbox: Republicans who voted against Boehner bill
Sat,30 Jul 2011 02:45 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-two Republicans broke with their party leadership on Friday and voted against legislation sponsored by House Speaker John Boehner to extend the nation's debt limit in exchange for deep spending cuts. Full Story | Top |
Obama hits new low in key poll
Fri,29 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT
AFP -  US President Barack Obama's job approval rating slumped to a personal low of 40 percent in a public opinion survey out Friday, a possible reflection of the political war over US debt.
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Analysis: Answers to the 7 big "what-ifs" of debt default
Fri,29 Jul 2011 03:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The debt negotiations are getting down to the wire. Republican and Democratic lawmakers are scrambling to broker a deal to raise the country's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling before Tuesday, when the Treasury will no longer be able to borrow funds to meet all of its obligations. It all means the United States could face the possibility of defaulting on its debt and losing its prized triple-A credit rating.
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Amid bee die-off, healthy hives thrive in cities
Fri,29 Jul 2011 07:41 AM PDT
AP -  Among the wildflowers and native grasses in the garden atop Chicago's City Hall stand two beehives where more than 100,000 bees come and go in patterns more graceful, but just as busy, as the traffic on the street 11 stories below.
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US soldier charged in Fort Hood bomb plot
Sat,30 Jul 2011 12:55 AM PDT
AFP -  A soldier suspected of planning an attack on fellow soldiers near a US military base refused to stand up for the judge during a brief court appearance and was escorted shouting from the room.
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New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:23 PM PDT
Forbes -  NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.Study co-author Dr. ...
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Xbox addict 'dies from blood clot'
Sat,30 Jul 2011 04:19 AM PDT
AFP -  The family of a budding computer programmer have on Saturday launched a campaign to raise awareness about the health risks of playing online computer games after their son died following a marathon session on his Xbox.
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