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Senate health bill costs pegged at $829 billion

Reuters - Donna Smith, John Whitesides - ‎3 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A US Senate Finance Committee health plan would cost $829 billion and cut the budget deficit by $81 billion over 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts said on Wednesday in a report that could ...

Yankees Take Opener According to Plan

New York Times - Tyler Kepner - ‎35 minutes ago‎
The Yankees' old shrine still stands on 161st Street in the Bronx, dark and cold and gutted. The October games that made it so famous have moved across the street, where the new Yankee Stadium hosted its first playoff game in style ...

Pacific quakes spark tsunami fears

Aljazeera.net - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Two powerful undersea earthquakes in the Pacific triggered a widespread tsunami warning on Thursday but the alert was later cancelled and there appeared to be little damage.

Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Mission

Washington Post - Rajiv Chandrasekaran - ‎27 minutes ago‎
In early March, after weeks of debate across a conference table in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the participants in President Obama's strategic review of the war in Afghanistan figured that the most contentious part ...

Furor Sends Palestinians Into Shift on UN Report

New York Times - Isabel Kershner, Neil MacFarquhar - ‎1 hour ago‎
JERUSALEM - Faced with a torrent of criticism at home and abroad, the Palestinian leadership abruptly reversed course on Wednesday by endorsing a Security Council debate on a United Nations report accusing Israel ...

Court Ruling Deals Blow to Berlusconi

Wall Street Journal - Stacy Meichtry, Alessandra Galloni - ‎1 hour ago‎
ROME -- Italy's Constitutional Court struck down a law protecting Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and other top officials from criminal prosecution, in a politically explosive ruling that paves the way ...

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Democrats Hold Off GOP Attack On Rangel

Washington Post - Perry Bacon Jr - ‎46 minutes ago‎
Rep. Charles B. Rangel, under investigation for alleged ethics violations, will at least for now remain chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.

US officials seek answers in wake of Fenger killing

Chicago Tribune - Azam Ahmed - ‎11 minutes ago‎
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder came to Chicago on Wednesday to address the issue of youth violence across the nation, bringing the weight of their offices but relatively little in the ...

Argument Over Cross on Public Land Deals Minimally With the Broader Issue

Washington Post - Robert Barnes - ‎1 hour ago‎
Caretakers of the cross in the Mojave Desert attend the Supreme Court's oral arguments over whether it violates the separation of church of and state.

GM Falls Short on Some Goals

Wall Street Journal - Sharon Terlep - ‎59 minutes ago‎
General Motors Co. is falling short on several significant goals it plans to meet by year's end, including worker reductions and the sale of failing brands, Chief Executive Frederick "Fritz" Henderson told reporters and analysts.

Alcoa sees aluminum demand picking up in second half

Reuters - Carole Vaporean - ‎1 hour ago‎
NEW YORK, Oct 7 (Reuters) - While Alcoa Inc (AA.N) executives expect aluminum markets to remain sluggish for 2009, they do expect an 11 percent increase in demand growth for the second half, not including replenishment of very low ...

Bloomberg Says Gun-Show Dealers Often Violate Law

New York Times - David W. Chen - ‎45 minutes ago‎
In one video, a man trying to buy a gun at a gun show in Ohio tells the dealer that he probably couldn't pass a background check.

33 Arrested as FBI Busts Global 'Phishing' Ring

Washington Post - Brian Krebs - ‎38 minutes ago‎
Law enforcement authorities in California, Nevada and North Carolina arrested 33 people Wednesday as part of an international crackdown on "phishing," e-mail scams that trick people into giving personal and financial data to counterfeit ...

Get a refurbished Kindle for $149

CNET News - Rick Broida - ‎12 hours ago‎
This is the first time I've seen a refurb offer on the famed e-book reader, though, as it turns out, you can also get a 1st-generation Kindle for just $149 (!).

2 Americans Share Nobel Chemistry Prize

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Two Americans and an Israeli won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for creating detailed blueprints of the protein-making machinery within cells, research that's being used to develop new antibiotics.

Inside CBS, Disbelief at an Arrest

New York Times - Bill Carter, Alison Leigh Cowan - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Inside CBS News, Robert Joel Halderman was a widely liked and well-regarded producer, known for chasing action and taking chances.

Irving Penn dies at 92; a giant of photography

Los Angeles Times - Mary Rourke - ‎5 hours ago‎
He began as a fashion photographer, but crossed the chasm that separated commercial and art photography. His works are considered icons.

'Dancing' delivers a double whammy

msnbc.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
Debi Mazar, left, and Tom delay, right, both shuffled off the show on Tuesday -- delay through injury, Mazar through voting. Donny Osmond, Kelly Osbourne, and others remain in competition for this season's mirrorball trophy.

Phillies put on running shoes in Game 1

MLB.com - Mark Bowman - ‎1 hour ago‎
PHILADELPHIA -- As one of the 12 Major League clubs that have had four different players hit 30 homers in the same season, it's easy to primarily describe this year's Phillies lineup as powerful.

Prucha's on-his-back goal leads Coyotes past Pens

The Associated Press - Alan Robinson - ‎43 minutes ago‎
PITTSBURGH - Petr Prucha was knocked off his skates in front of the net but still pushed the puck into the net while sitting on a Penguins player's back in the second period, and the Phoenix Coyotes took advantage of nine power plays to beat Pittsburgh ...
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Purdy: Crabtree has his work cut out for him

San Jose Mercury News - Mark Purdy - ‎4 minutes ago‎
After the rookie wide receiver ended his silent, two-month-long contract holdout, he answered questions for just three and a half minutes before his 49er handlers cut off the session and said Crabtree had to hurry off for practice.

Areas hit hard by flu in spring see little now

San Jose Mercury News - Anemona Hartocollis, Donald G. McNeil Jr. - ‎1 hour ago‎
While concern over the spread of the H1N1 virus sweeps the country, epidemiologists in New York and a few other cities that were awash in swine flu last spring are detecting very little evidence of a ...

Review: Stand By Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men

Chicago Tribune - Peter Bernard - ‎5 hours ago‎
Writer John W. Anderson knows a thing or two about helping the women in his life battle breast cancer. His mother, Annie, died from the disease and his mother's best friend Caryl, his sister Mary, and his wife, Sharon, all battled breast cancer and ...

A Better Way to Health Reform

Washington Post - Martin Feldstein - ‎3 hours ago‎
The American health-care system suffers from three serious problems: Health-care costs are rising much faster than our incomes. More than 15 percent of the population has neither private nor public insurance.

Will California become America's first failed state?

guardian.co.uk - ‎Oct 3, 2009‎
Los Angeles, 2009: California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike.

David Letterman had secret bedroom above Ed Sullivan Theater, sez ex-'Late ...

New York Daily News - ‎Oct 4, 2009‎
David Letterman had a special 'suite' above the 'Late Show' theater, according to an ex-staffer. An ex-"Late Show" intern unmasked herself Saturday as one of David Letterman's former flings - and sources revealed the randy funnyman keeps a bachelor pad ...

Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared

New York Times - Julie Creswell - ‎Oct 4, 2009‎
For most of the 133 years since its founding in a small city in Wisconsin, the Simmons Bedding Company enjoyed an illustrious history.

Ted Keith

SI.com - Ted Keith - ‎Oct 4, 2009‎
AP With all due apologies to TNT -- the sister station to TBS that will broadcast Tuesday's one-game American League Central playoff game between the Tigers and Twins and the ensuing Division Series that awaits the winner -- we can say this about the ...

SD town gets rid of 44 tons of stinking bison meat

Yahoo! News - Carson Walker - ‎Oct 4, 2009‎
BRIDGEWATER, SD - Behind the freezer doors at a meat plant mysteriously abandoned by its owner, the 44 tons of bison meat managed to hold its own for months, masked by the brutal chill of two South Dakota winters.
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