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GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block
Mon,22 Aug 2011 01:05 AM PDT
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photoNews flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.


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Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
Mon,22 Aug 2011 07:43 AM PDT
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photoLaid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.


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USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable?
Mon,22 Aug 2011 10:19 AM PDT
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photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.


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Researchers Say They've Found Common Cause of All Types of ALS
Mon,22 Aug 2011 08:58 PM PDT
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The apparent discovery of a common cause of all forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could give a boost to efforts to find a treatment for the fatal neurodegenerative disease, a new study contends. Full Story
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Romney plans to quadruple size of Calif. home
Sun,21 Aug 2011 07:07 AM PDT
The Washington Post - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is planning to nearly quadruple the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion. Full Story
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Missouri teacher sues state over 'Facebook law,' says she can't contact her own child online
Mon,22 Aug 2011 09:21 AM PDT
The Lookout - A Missouri teacher has sued the state over a new law that prevents teachers from contacting their students over the Internet, arguing that it will make it illegal for her to chat with her own child over Facebook. The law, which has been nicknamed the Facebook law, prohibits teachers from having exclusive communications with students [...] Full Story
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Jobless total exceeds population of all but four states
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:21 AM PDT
The Lookout - America's jobless crisis has been going on so long that the raw numbers have lost much of their power to convey the severity of the problem. The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel has found a clever new way to get at the issue. Wessel notes that there are more officially unemployed people in the United [...] Full Story
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NJ GOP lawmaker quit over wife's Carl Lewis email
Mon,22 Aug 2011 03:53 PM PDT
AP - A freshman Republican lawmaker resigned because his wife sent "an offensive and racist" email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, a GOP official acknowledged Monday. Full Story
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Obama: Low rating shows unhappiness with Congress
Sun,21 Aug 2011 08:35 AM PDT
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photo President Barack Obama says his low approval rating is a reflection of public unhappiness with Congress.


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Cops increasingly under siege after homeless death
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:25 AM PDT
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photoUntil last month, the most pressing issues in this quiet Southern California suburb were whether to build homes on rolling hills north of the city, how best to preserve a historic movie theater and a downtown bar scene that got a little too popular for its own good.


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Where is Gadhafi? Guessing game begins as an era ends in Libya
Mon,22 Aug 2011 09:47 AM PDT
The Envoy - Where in the world is Moammar Gadhafi? "He's everywhere, he's nowhere; he's negotiating to get out, he will never surrender; who knows?" former United Nations official Mark Quarterman said of the contradictory reports about Gadhafi's fate in an interview Monday with The Envoy. What's important for Libya's reconciliation process is not just that the dictator [...] Full Story
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Scout leader fatally stabbed on Ind. hiking trip
Mon,22 Aug 2011 04:47 AM PDT
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photo A 76-year-old man has been stabbed to death while leading Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in northern Indiana, and a suspect who battered his mother and killed a dog near the trail is under arrest, police said.


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SC preacher accused of raping women behind church
Sun,21 Aug 2011 12:01 PM PDT
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photo Dale Richardson was saved at a tent revival 32 years ago, was called to preach the Lord's word in 2006 and, for the past year, had served as pastor at Freedom Free Will Baptist Church, a modest red brick structure on a South Carolina side road running along a railroad track.


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Gaddafi on the run as rebels fight in Tripoli
Mon,22 Aug 2011 04:04 PM PDT
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photoTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Remnants of forces still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi staged a desperate stand in Tripoli on Tuesday as rebels fought their way into the capital, but the whereabouts of the veteran leader was a mystery.


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Upgrade Your Life: Revive a dying laptop battery
Fri,19 Aug 2011 12:24 PM PDT
Upgrade Your Life - Laptop battery wearing down? In this week's episode of Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News' Becky Worley shows us how to help batteries last longer ... and what to do when they run out! First, the basics Most laptops use batteries that can last for 3-5 years, or about 1000 charges. (A premium laptop's battery might [...] Full Story
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Obama administration won't deport Venezuelan man who is married to an American man
Mon,22 Aug 2011 07:13 AM PDT
The Lookout - The Obama administration has dropped its deportation case against Alex Benshimol, a 47-year-old Venezuelan man who is married to an American citizen, Doug Gentry. Though Benshimol and Gentry were legally married in Massachusetts in 2008, the Defense of Marriage Act prevents Gentry from sponsoring Benshimol for a green card. The federal government launched a deportation [...] Full Story
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Gaza militants renew rocket fire despite truce
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:24 AM PDT
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photoPalestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel Monday, despite an unofficial truce meant to defuse days of escalating violence.


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Balanced budget amendment to get votes in Congress
Mon,22 Aug 2011 11:43 AM PDT
AP - As a "supercommittee" tries to find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans will be pressing a far more ambitious goal: passing an amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. Full Story
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Stephen Colbert turns Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old "intrepid cub reporter" in Iowa, into a national celebrity
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:07 PM PDT
The Lookout - Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old TV reporter from Des Moines, Iowa, has become a national celebrity thanks to Stephen Colbert. Eastman's employer, WOI-ABC 5, refused to air an advertisement from Colbert's political action committee. The ad urged Iowa voters to cast their ballots for "Rick Parry," deliberately misspelled. Colbert, or at least his televised persona, then [...] Full Story
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Police: Woman fatally shot at Pa. gun shop
Mon,22 Aug 2011 08:40 AM PDT
AP - Authorities are identifying the woman shot to death inside a central Pennsylvania gun shop. Full Story
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Elite group of 9/11 first responders still battling illness, 'WTC Cough'
Fri,19 Aug 2011 11:21 AM PDT
Yahoo! 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Site - Fire chief Harold Schapelhouman is just one of thousands of first responders dealing with health issues after breathing in dust at Ground Zero. Full Story
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Sunken treasure sparks legal tussle
Sun,21 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT
Reuters - WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - It was an eye-popping investment pitch no one else could match -- in return for $2 million, Manhattan accountant Neil Ash was offering investors a stake in the one of the biggest sunken treasures ever, an underwater site teeming with emeralds. Full Story
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Romney plans to quadruple his $12M beachfront home
Mon,22 Aug 2011 10:22 AM PDT
The Ticket - Mitt Romney is planning to expand his $12 million beachfront home, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported this weekend. The newspaper reported Saturday that the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor has filed an application to bulldoze his 3,009 sq. ft. house in La Jolla, Calif., and quadruple its size. Romney purchased the three-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom [...] Full Story
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Perry says no to "Obamacare," but what's his plan?
Mon,22 Aug 2011 09:34 AM PDT
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photo With the highest percentage of uninsured residents, Texas would be one of the biggest beneficiaries of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.


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Will Palin run for president? Karl Rove and an Iowa tea party organizer say that signs point to yes
Mon,22 Aug 2011 07:41 AM PDT
The Ticket - Sarah Palin has not yet said if she will enter the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but Karl Rove, the former George W. Bush adviser, and tea party organizer Peter Singleton this weekend added their names to the list of people who think the former Alaska governor is poised to announce her campaign. [...] Full Story
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Analysis: Victory hands new set of problems to Libya rebels
Mon,22 Aug 2011 05:29 AM PDT
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photoLONDON (Reuters) - Even as they battle Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds in Tripoli, Libyan rebel leaders must race to impose order and prevent bloody score-settling as the capital shakes off 42 years of despotism, analysts and Western officials say.


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Obama summer reading list leans toward fiction
Sat,20 Aug 2011 11:18 AM PDT
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photoVINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, perhaps seeking a break from harsh reality after a tough summer battling the economy and Republicans in Congress, has picked a summer reading list that is long on fiction.


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Scientists warn that aliens may come to destroy us
Mon,22 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT
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photoThere have been 20-30 major Hollywood alien apocalypse movies released in the last year or so, and more are on the way. They're unavoidable. Some of them are cataloged here, but there are almost too many to count. As such, it's no wonder that scientists have hostile aliens on the brain. Several researchers have released a study that says there is a good chance aliens will come and wipe us out if they think we're irresponsible, expanding too quickly, or a number of other reasons, reports the IB Times. ...


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Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution
Fri,19 Aug 2011 06:16 AM PDT
The Ticket - Rick Perry has many ideas about how to change the American government's founding document. From ending lifetime tenure for federal judges to completely scrapping two whole amendments, the Constitution would see a major overhaul if the Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate had his druthers. Perry laid out these proposed innovations to the founding document [...] Full Story
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Wingwalker dies after fall at Michigan air show
Sun,21 Aug 2011 03:40 PM PDT
Reuters - DETROIT (Reuters) - A wingwalker at an air show near Detroit fell to his death on Sunday, after he tried to transfer from an aircraft to a helicopter and plunged about 200 feet to the ground, officials said. Full Story
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Rick Perry Clueless On Use Of Executive Presidential Powers To Kill Obamacare
Sun,21 Aug 2011 12:18 PM PDT
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photoLooking toward to a not-s0-distant future where Rick Perry could occupy the Oval Office, candidate Perry had this to say when speaking last week in South Carolina-If I'm so fortunate to be elected the president of the United States, on Day One, when I walk into the Oval Office, there will be an executive order on that desk that eliminates as much of ObamaCare that I can have done with an executive order.Via MSNBCWhat should disturb you about this vision of the future is not so much that a President Perry would try to bring Obamacare to an end as that is to be expected from any GOP contender. ...


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Obama offers cautious optimism on Libya: "This is not over yet"
Mon,22 Aug 2011 01:25 PM PDT
The Envoy - President Barack Obama said Monday that Libya is at a tipping point and the 42-year rule of Moammar Gadhafi is coming to an end. But he avoided any "Mission Accomplished" triumphalism during a press conference broadcast from his vacation rental farm in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Obama cautioned that the fight for democracy in Libya has [...] Full Story
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Republicans may never get 2012 dream candidate
Mon,22 Aug 2011 07:01 AM PDT
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photoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans still hoping that another candidate will jump into the presidential race and give the party a better chance of defeating President Barack Obama in 2012 may need to get over it.


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Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it's possible
Sun,21 Aug 2011 12:18 PM PDT
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photoLONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free world more than 3.4 billion years ago.


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Spitzer sued for libel over his Slate column
Mon,22 Aug 2011 11:50 AM PDT
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photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was hit with two libel lawsuits seeking $90 million by former Marsh & McLennan Cos executives over a column posted on Slate.com about an insurance bid-rigging scandal.


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Clashes near Gadhafi compound in Libyan capital
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:46 AM PDT
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photo Tanks opened fire at rebels trying to storm Moammar Gadhafi's main compound in Tripoli on Monday, although the whereabouts of the longtime Libyan leader remained unknown a day after a lightning advance by opposition fighters who poured into Tripoli capital with surprising ease.


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Rep. Maxine Waters: 'The tea party can go straight to hell'
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:39 AM PDT
The Ticket - California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who had some tough words for the leaders of her own party last week, took aim at the other side on Saturday, saying that the tea party could "go straight to hell." "I'm not afraid of anybody," Waters said at a weekend community meeting in Inglewood, California. "This is a [...] Full Story
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Iran starts moving uranium centrifuges to bunker
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT
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photoTEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has begun moving machines that enrich uranium to an underground bunker near the holy city of Qom, a senior official said, a move likely to fan Western fears of an Iranian advance toward nuclear weapons capability.


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Prosecutors tell NY judge to drop Strauss-Kahn case
Mon,22 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT
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photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.


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Lil Wayne hurt in St. Louis skateboard accident
Mon,22 Aug 2011 10:12 AM PDT
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photo Lil Wayne said Monday he is recovering after gashing his head at a St. Louis-area skateboard park.


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