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- House approves debt deal a day before deadline
- Congressional leaders reach agreement to raise the debt ceiling
- Bulldoze: The New Way To Foreclose
- Gabby Giffords returns to Congress and helps House pass debt compromise
- Debt ceiling deal: What's the impact on the economy, ordinary Americans?
- FBI: 'Credible lead' surfaces in D.B. Cooper case
- 'Christian terrorist'? Norway case strikes debate
- House OKs debt; Giffords brings down the House
- Joe Biden collecting rent from Secret Service
- Debt-limit votes: Senate momentum, House concerns
- Inside the raid that killed Osama bin Laden: "Crankshaft," DEVGRU and a dog named Cairo
- Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
- Crop circle creation theory: physics, not aliens
- Inside the debt deal: Who won, who lost
- Insurers must cover birth control with no copays
- With debt deal reached, can Congress swallow its own bitter medicine?
- Missing NH girl's body found in river near home
- Reports: Breivik had plastic surgery to look 'Aryan'
- CNN's Don Lemon makes waves, sometimes at his own network's expense
- U.S. says insurers must fully cover birth control
- Analysis: Bipartisan deal, bipartisan opposition
- Debt and budget bill saves more than $2T
- How the Tea Party Won the Deal
- All 50 States See Record Highs in July
- Perry backs a constitutional limit on marriage
- It's a deal: Obama, Congress will avert default
- South African soldiers battle rhino poachers in Kruger
- TV: Israel agrees to negotiate over pre-'67 lines
- Obama administration sues to block Alabama immigration law
- House OKs debt bill with Giffords in attendance
- House votes to raise debt limit, cut spending
- Manufacturing growth hits lowest level in 2 years
- Men build small flying spy drone that cracks Wi-Fi and cell data
- Congress moving quickly on debt and spending deal
- Liberals, hawks are obstacles to debt deal's coalition
- Oxygen Molecules Discovered in Deep Space for First Time
- How pilots wrestled in vain to save Air France jet
- Arrested Mexico gang leader linked to 1,500 murders: police
- In debt standoff, voters' role also key
- Flight 93 Pa. crash site marked by huge boulder
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House approves debt deal a day before deadline
Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Monday approved an 11th-hour deal to raise the borrowing limit, clearing the biggest hurdle to averting a potentially catastrophic debt default.
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Congressional leaders reach agreement to raise the debt ceiling
Sun,31 Jul 2011 06:52 PM PDT
The Ticket - Republican and Democratic leaders have agreed on a plan to raise the debt ceiling, President Obama announced Sunday night. The announcement arrives after months of intense closed-door negotiations, and just two days before the deadline set by the Treasury Department. According to the details available, the agreement would slow the growth of government spending over [...] Full Story | Top |
Gabby Giffords returns to Congress and helps House pass debt compromise
Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:18 PM PDT
The Ticket - Just a day before the United States faces financial default, House lawmakers approved a compromise bill that will raise the nation's debt ceiling in exchange for trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts. The bill, approved 269 to 161, will increase the debt ceiling by at least $2 trillion as well as cut roughly the [...] Full Story | Top |
Debt ceiling deal: What's the impact on the economy, ordinary Americans?
Mon,1 Aug 2011 09:34 AM PDT
The Lookout - In his announcement last night of the deal between Congress and the White House to raise the debt ceiling, President Obama declared that Washington leaders now "should be devoting all of our time" to addressing the country's broader economic woes. But the agreement could itself have a major impact on the struggling economy, if it [...] Full Story | Top |
House OKs debt; Giffords brings down the House
Mon,1 Aug 2011 05:52 PM PDT
AP -  Emergency legislation to avoid an economy-rattling government default sped through the House Monday night, a scant day before the deadline for action — the dramatic vote made all the more memorable by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' first appearance in Congress since suffering a head wound in a shooting six months ago.
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Joe Biden collecting rent from Secret Service
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:48 PM PDT
The Ticket - Joe Biden is a landlord to the Secret Service. That's right. The Washington Times reports that Biden has collected $13,200 from the Secret Service since April to rent a cottage adjacent to his Wilmington, Del., home and continues to charge the agency rent. The Secret Service has agreed to pay $2,200 per month for use [...] Full Story | Top |
Debt-limit votes: Senate momentum, House concerns
Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:25 PM PDT
AP -  The House began debate Monday on the hard-bargained plan to avert a national financial default, even as the White House and congressional leaders struggled to round up enough votes to approve it. Supporters said momentum for the deficit-reduction compromise was on their side, but resistance from both liberals and conservatives made the outcome unclear.
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Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  LAKE SELIGER, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.
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Crop circle creation theory: physics, not aliens
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT
The Upshot - Those otherworldly crop circles may not have been caused by aliens after all. Instead, think physics: A study in Physics World points to the possibility that the patterns could be caused by Earth-bound microwaves, lasers, and GPS. Maybe. Formations in fields have been documented more than 10,000 times in the late 20th century. They have been credited [...] Full Story | Top |
Inside the debt deal: Who won, who lost
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:45 AM PDT
Exclusives - By Major Garrett National Journal It started clean and ended messy. When the debt-ceiling crisis began to capture the public's and Wall Street's bemused imagination in June, President Obama's Gallup approval rating was 50 percent, the highest It's now at … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Insurers must cover birth control with no copays
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:12 PM PDT
AP -  Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.
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Missing NH girl's body found in river near home
Mon,1 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT
AP -  The body of an 11-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared almost a week ago was discovered Monday in a river less than half a mile from her home, authorities said. The death was being considered suspicious.
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Reports: Breivik had plastic surgery to look 'Aryan'
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:27 AM PDT
The Lookout - The head of Norway's intelligence agency Janne Kristianse that she believes accused terrorist Anders Breivik received plastic surgery in order to look more "Aryan." "You do not have that Aryan look naturally in Norway," she said in an interview with the Sunday Times (article behind paywall). "Hitler would have had him on posters. He has the [...] Full Story | Top |
CNN's Don Lemon makes waves, sometimes at his own network's expense
Mon,1 Aug 2011 11:49 AM PDT
The Cutline - Don Lemon is having a coming out party--and this one has nothing to do with the CNN weekend anchor's recent announcement that he's gay. Lemon--who came out of the closet in a memoir published in May--was the focus of a "Daily Show" segment last week. "Every so often a news anchor ends up becoming a [...] Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Bipartisan deal, bipartisan opposition
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:27 AM PDT
AP -  The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise between President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a historic accomplishment of divided government, with all the disappointment that implies for the most ardent partisans inside the two major parties and out.
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House OKs debt bill with Giffords in attendance
Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:34 PM PDT
AP - Emergency legislation to avoid an economy-rattling government default sped through the House Monday night, a scant day before the deadline for action — the dramatic vote made all the more memorable by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' first appearance in Congress since suffering a head wound in a shooting six months ago.
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Men build small flying spy drone that cracks Wi-Fi and cell data
Sat,30 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT
Digital Trends -  Built by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (otherwise known as the WASP) is a flying drone that has a 6-foot wingspan, a 6-foot length and weighs in at 14 pounds. The small form factor of the unmanned aerial vehicle allows it to drop under radar and is often mistaken for a large bird. It was built from an Army target drone and converted to run on electric batteries rather than gasoline. It can also be loaded with GPS information and fly a predetermined course without need for an operator. ...
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Congress moving quickly on debt and spending deal
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:35 AM PDT
AP -  A crisis-conquering deficit-reduction agreement struck by the White House and congressional leaders after months of partisan rancor picked up momentum in the Senate Monday, as a member of the Republican leadership predicted at least 30 GOP votes.
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Liberals, hawks are obstacles to debt deal's coalition
Sun,31 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT
The Washington Post - With a deal to lift the limit on the Treasury's borrowing authority coming into view, congressional leaders spent Sunday surveying the contours of their caucuses to determine how many votes would be lost once the legislative details were unveiled. The defections were expected on the right and the left, among Republicans and Democrats. The task for the leaders was to make sure that neither side lost too many to doom a possible deal. Full Story | Top |
In debt standoff, voters' role also key
Sun,31 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT
AP -  Dear voter: Want to know why Democrats and Republicans in Congress find it so hard to work together to solve tough problems like the debt ceiling, health care and Social Security?
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Flight 93 Pa. crash site marked by huge boulder
Sun,31 Jul 2011 01:34 PM PDT
AP - The western Pennsylvania site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after passengers confronted hijacking terrorists during the Sept. 11 attacks almost a decade ago is being marked by a gigantic boulder. Full Story | Top |
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