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| | | AFP - The European Union faced a new round of risky treaty change Friday after its leaders agreed to embark on landmark reforms designed to wade off another financial crisis by shoring up the euro.
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| | | Reuters - The U.S. economy is a "fiscal train wreck" waiting to happen that risks ushering in a period of stagnation featuring by minimal growth, high unemployment and deflationary pressure, U.S. economist Nouriel Roubini wrote on Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - Environment ministers from around the world tried to wrap up a U.N. meeting to preserve nature on Friday but remained split on targets to fight losses in animal and plant species that support livelihoods and economies.
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| | | AP - Tony Michluda and Declan Sullivan lived in the same residence hall at Notre Dame and used to have long talks about their future. Sullivan "was always interested in who you were," Michluda said.
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| | | Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday the world was big enough for their two countries to develop and cooperate, sounding a positive note ahead of a visit planned for later this year. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied on Thursday the United States was seeking to contain China as she began a two-week trip to an Asia-Pacific region rattled by recent Chinese assertiveness.
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| | | AP - Sarah Palin took aim at U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski as she sought to rally Alaskans for Murkowski's beleagured GOP rival, Joe Miller. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - Halliburton Co. used flawed cement in BP Plc's doomed Gulf of Mexico well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a White House panel said on Thursday. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - The economy likely expanded at a greater rate last quarter as Americans loosened a tight grip on their wallets. But the expected pickup in growth wasn't strong enough to make a noticeable dent in high unemployment. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - The San Francisco Giants seized a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series by blanking Texas on Thursday behind the sterling pitching of Matt Cain and an embarrassing eighth inning by Rangers relievers. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - A senior Defense Department official violated Pentagon rules and deliberately misled senior military officers when he created a spy operation using private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a Pentagon inquiry has found, according to the New York Times. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - An internal Pentagon study has found that most U.S. troops and their families don't care whether gays are allowed to serve openly and think the policy of "don't ask, don't tell" could be done away with, according to officials familiar with its findings.
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| | | AP - The fisherman was jolted awake by the powerful earthquake and ran with his screaming neighbors to high ground. He said they watched as the sea first receded and then came roaring back "like a big wall" that swept away their entire village.
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| | | AP - Federal health regulators have decided not to approve an experimental diet pill called Qnexa, which had been touted by many experts as the most promising weight-loss drug in more than a decade. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Matt Cain zeroed in for six innings, Edgar Renteria reprised his role as a postseason star and the San Francisco Giants led the Texas Rangers 1-0 in Game 2 of the World Series on a windy Thursday night.
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| | | Reuters - Toyota secretly bought back from U.S. consumers vehicles it found with speed-control defects as part of a strategy to hide unintended-acceleration problems from safety regulators and the public, a revised lawsuit claims. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Jurors have convicted a karate instructor of killing a wealthy Florida couple during a home invasion robbery while the couple's nine special-needs children cowered or slept nearby.
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| | | AFP - The death toll from a tsunami that pummelled remote Indonesian islands is expected to pass 500, an official said as questions mounted over whether a warning system had failed.
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| | | AFP - European leaders moved to meet a German demand for treaty change aimed at avoiding new Greek-style crises as part of the EU's biggest reforms since the 1999 creation of the euro.
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| | | AP - Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek on Thursday denied reports that he agreed to drop out of the Florida Senate race under pressure from former President Bill Clinton. Politico reported that Clinton, while campaigning with Meek in Florida last week, tried to talk him into quitting, and that Meek agreed twice to drop out and endorse independent candidate Gov. Charlie Crist.
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| | | Reuters - Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street's expectations with a 51 percent jump in quarterly profit, as higher sales of its flagship Windows and Office software knocked down fears Apple Inc's iPad would take a bite out of its main business.
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| | | AP - A day after Gov. Chris Christie killed the nation's largest public works project, an underwater rail tunnel linking New York City to its populous New Jersey suburbs, he said Thursday that it's time to focus on badly needed improvements to the state's roads and bridges.
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| | | AP - Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple times a day as they walk down the street. Now lawmakers are examining whether to do something to discourage it.
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| | | AP - Stage and screen actor James MacArthur, who played "Danno" in the original version of television's "Hawaii Five-O," died Thursday at age 72. MacArthur's agent, Richard Lewis, said the actor died in Florida of "natural causes," but no direct cause was specified.
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| | | Reuters - A Florida Democrat running a distant third in the state's three-way Senate race vowed on Thursday to stay in the contest and denied media reports that former President Bill Clinton asked him to withdraw. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators with the president's oil spill commission said Thursday.
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| | | AP - When a widely publicized poll showed Republican John Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio's governor's race, aides to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland fought back hard. Against the poll.
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| | | AP - The tip that led to the FBI's subway bombing sting came from a source in the Muslim community: A Pakistani-born man from a middle-class suburb was trying to join a terrorist group, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
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| | | AP - House and Senate candidates aren't the only ones targeted by interest groups in this year's campaign. While they have spent at least $185 million just since Labor Day to influence voters in close congressional races, outside money is pouring at similar rates into state elections for governors and down the ticket to city councils and even local sewage boards.
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| | | AP - Armed men rumbled into a gritty neighborhood of the Mexican capital Thursday and gunned down six men hanging around a convenience store, fueling fears that one of the world's largest cities is falling prey to the cartel-style violence that has long terrorized other parts of the country.
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| | | AP - A jury on Thursday convicted Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist and boyfriend of conspiring to use false names to obtain prescription drugs for the former Playboy model and reality TV star but acquitted the doctor who prescribed a plethora of drugs for her.
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| | | AP - Sandy Alderson was chosen as the New York Mets general manager, and is now responsible for rebuilding a big-spending organization beset by problems on and off the field. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - The tip that led to the FBI's subway bombing sting came from a source in the Muslim community: A Pakistani-born man from a middle-class suburb was trying to join a terrorist group, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
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| | | AP - Armed men rumbled into a gritty neighborhood of the Mexican capital Thursday and gunned down six men hanging around a convenience store, fueling fears that one of the world's largest cities is falling prey to the cartel-style violence that has long terrorized other parts of the country.
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| | | AP - A day after Gov. Chris Christie killed the nation's largest public works project, an underwater rail tunnel linking New York City to its populous New Jersey suburbs, he said Thursday that it's time to focus on badly needed improvements to the state's roads and bridges.
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| | | AP - Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple times a day as they walk down the street. Now lawmakers are examining whether to do something to discourage it.
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| | | AP - Scientists say they've found the first complete skeleton of a dinosaur that is an ancestor to the sauropod, the largest creature ever to walk the planet. The 30-foot-long skeleton, complete with skull, may help reveal the story of how the 120-foot-long, giant-necked sauropods evolved and became solely plant eaters. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Tom Tancredo is quick to admit he brings plenty of baggage to the Colorado governor's race. Like the time he called Miami a "Third World country." Or when he got thrown out of the White House for suggesting then-President George W. Bush was soft on illegal immigration. Or when he refused to take part in a presidential debate because it was on a Spanish-language network.
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| | | AP - A jury has acquitted Anna Nicole Smith's doctor of all counts in the late model's prescription drug conspiracy case. Dr. Sandeep Kapoor is the first of three defendants to hear the jury's verdicts Thursday in Los Angeles. The jury found the prosecution did not present enough evidence to convict Kapoor of six charges that he funneled excessive prescription drugs to Smith.
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| | | Reuters - The United States launched a diplomatic assault on Syria at the United Nations on Thursday, accusing it of joining forces with Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas to destabilize and undermine Lebanon. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied on Thursday the United States was seeking to contain China as she began a two-week trip to an Asia-Pacific region rattled by recent Chinese assertiveness. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - Britain on Thursday called on the United States to take down websites used by extremists and urged more concerted action to thwart militant threats before resorting to war. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - Microsoft Corp reported a 51 percent jump in quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by higher sales of its flagship Windows and Office software and the launch of the latest blockbuster Halo video game.
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| | | AFP - European leaders Thursday agreed the biggest reforms since the creation of the euro while reaching out for a compromise on a German demand for treaty change that aims to avoid new Greek-style crises.
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| | | AP - Two volcanoes erupted Thursday on Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, tossing massive ash clouds miles (kilometers) into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing one town with thick, heavy ash.
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| | | AP - Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators with the president's oil spill commission said Thursday.
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| | | AP - House and Senate candidates aren't the only ones targeted by interest groups in this year's campaign. While they have spent at least $185 million just since Labor Day to influence voters in close congressional races, outside money is pouring at similar rates into state elections for governors and down the ticket to city councils and even local sewage boards.
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| | | AP - When a widely publicized poll showed Republican John Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio's governor's race, aides to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland fought back hard. Against the poll.
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| | | AP - A Pennsylvania couple claims in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that their newborn was taken by county officials when a drug test the mother took came out positive because she had eaten a poppy seed bagel. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Stage and screen actor James MacArthur, who played "Danno" in the original version of television's "Hawaii Five-0," died Thursday at age 72. MacArthur's agent, Richard Lewis, said the actor died in Florida of "natural causes," but no direct cause was specified.
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| | | AP - A feisty 88-year-old Kentucky woman said she must have had perfect aim when she fought off an intruder by kicking him. Kathryn Byassee said she came upon the intruder, who was wearing a pumpkin mask, at 5 a.m. Tuesday in her kitchen. Byassee told WPSD-TV that she asked him who he was and what he wanted and he never answered her, instead wrestling her into her bedroom and trying to smother her with a pillow. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Joe Girardi and the New York Yankees have agreed on the outline of a $9 million, three-year contract for the manager, according to a baseball official familiar with the negotiations. Although the agreement is not complete, the sides "are dotting the 'i's and crossing the t's,' the person said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.
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| | | Reuters - A Pakistani-born man, who believed he was part of an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Washington subway system, was also training to fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to an FBI affidavit released on Thursday. | | | | | |
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| | | AFP - EU leaders on Thursday adopted a vast plan of action to tighten budgetary discipline across bloc borders, the biggest change since the euro currency's introduction in 1999, a diplomatic source said.
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| | | AP - There were accusations of an executive slush fund, financial shenanigans and dictatorial management. But it was the $900,000 in secret sexual harassment payments that got the head of the nation's fourth-largest housing authority fired and had the mayor asking how the housing board missed it all. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - A Brazilian court has ordered McDonald's to pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds while working there a dozen years. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - The foam cement that Halliburton Co. used to seal BP Plc's doomed Macondo well was unstable and may have contributed to the blowout that led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a presidential commission said on Thursday. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - General Motors Co. says it will cut its debt and pension obligations by $11 billion.
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| | | AP - The government says General Motors will pay back $2.1 billion of the funds that taxpayers invested in the company. That brings the total it has repaid to $9.5 billion out of the nearly $50 billion the government loaned to and invested in the company. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - The Valentine's Ball thrown by venture capitalist Alan Salzman and his wife Jillian Manus every year is one of Silicon Valley's hottest tickets. People are still talking about the Bailey's Irish Cream flowing from the nipples of ice sculptures at the soiree last year. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Defending national champion Duke is a runaway No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 men's basketball poll. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - The federal government will send $2.4 billion to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states, the Transportation Department said on Thursday, following up on announcements made by members of Congress and governors earlier in the week. | | | | | |
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| | | AFP - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner appeared Thursday at the wake for her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, whose sudden death has triggered mourning across Latin America.
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| | | AP - A person familiar with the process tells The Associated Press that Sandy Alderson has been chosen as the New York Mets' general manager. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Famished bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries - and reportedly eating at least one body - after a scorching summer destroyed their natural food sources of forest berries and mushrooms, officials said Thursday. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - The White House said on Thursday that North Korea appeared to be in the early stages of a leadership transition and it would still take some time to discern the final outcome.
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| | | AP - For 33 years, Maridjan spoke to Mount Merapi, appeasing its unpredictable spirits by throwing offerings of rice, clothes and chickens into the volcano's gaping crater.
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| | | Reuters - New claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to a three-month low, hinting at some improvement in the listless labor market.
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| | | AP - Mariah Carey is going to be a mommy.
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| | | AP - Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the second drop in a row and a hopeful sign the job market could be improving. | | | | | |
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| | | AP - Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday that income jumped 55 percent in the third quarter on higher oil prices and increased production.
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| | | Reuters - Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted on Thursday for the second time in a week, blasting vast plumes of ash into the sky, as the death toll from the initial eruption and a tsunami that hit remote western islands reached 377.
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| | | AFP - The European Union heads into a showdown summit determined to draw up new rules to avoid economic crises but divided on a risky Franco-German drive to write them into a new treaty.
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| | | AP - The job market and the economy will improve only slightly next year, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists whose outlook for 2011 has dimmed over the past three months.
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| | | Reuters - China said on Thursday it will not use its dominance of supplies of rare earths as a bargaining tool with foreign economies, and the United States said it hoped trade in the high-tech ores would continue as normal. | | | | | |
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| | | AFP - Diplomacy is not enough to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons, the head of Britain's foreign spy service said Thursday, urging an "intelligence-led" approach to stopping nuclear proliferation. | | | | | |
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| | | Reuters - Britain's top spy, in the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said on Thursday terrorists might hit the West again "at huge human cost" but nuclear proliferation by states was a more far-reaching danger.
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| | | AP - Defense lawyers are seeking urgent tests of two syringes and an IV bag found in Michael Jackson's mansion, arguing that the evidence in the manslaughter case against the singer's doctor is drying up and deteriorating.
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