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Senate health bill costs pegged at $829 billionReuters - - 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 ...
Video: Pawlenty on Baucus Bill
Fox Business
CBO: Senate Finance Health Plan Would Cut Deficit
Wall Street Journal
Yankees Take Opener According to PlanNew York Times - - 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 fearsAljazeera.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.
Tsunami warning sparks Pacific panic
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Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Mission
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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 ...
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Furor Sends Palestinians Into Shift on UN Report
New York Times - - 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 - - 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 - - 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.
Democrats Defeat GOP Effort to Oust Rangel
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GOP fails in third effort to remove Rangel
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US officials seek answers in wake of Fenger killing
Chicago Tribune - - 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 ...
Video: Holder, Duncan to Fight Chicago Teen Violence
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Argument Over Cross on Public Land Deals Minimally With the Broader Issue
Washington Post - - 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.
Religion Largely Absent in Argument About Cross
New York Times
Supreme Court debates legality of Mojave cross
Los Angeles Times
GM Falls Short on Some Goals
Wall Street Journal - - 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.
Video: GM CEO Offers Business Snapshot
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GM Expects Car Sales to Stay Slow
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Alcoa sees aluminum demand picking up in second half
Reuters - - 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 ...
Alcoa returns to profit as cost cuts, sales help
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Alcoa announces surprise profit
BBC News
Bloomberg Says Gun-Show Dealers Often Violate Law
New York Times - - 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.
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33 Arrested as FBI Busts Global 'Phishing' Ring
Washington Post - - 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 ...
Dozens indicted in identity-theft scheme
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Get a refurbished Kindle for $149
CNET News - - 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.
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3 Win Nobel for Ribosome Research
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Inside CBS, Disbelief at an Arrest
New York Times - - 43 minutes ago
Inside CBS News, Robert Joel Halderman was a widely liked and well-regarded producer, known for chasing action and taking chances.
Letterman accused of 'sexual favoritism'
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Irving Penn dies at 92; a giant of photography
Los Angeles Times - - 5 hours ago
He began as a fashion photographer, but crossed the chasm that separated commercial and art photography. His works are considered icons.
Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
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'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.
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Phillies put on running shoes in Game 1
MLB.com - - 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.
Lee keeps Phillies from having to use maligned 'pen
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Prucha's on-his-back goal leads Coyotes past Pens
The Associated Press - - 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 ...
Coyotes-Penguins Sums
New York Times
Purdy: Crabtree has his work cut out for him
San Jose Mercury News - - 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.
Crabtree contract dust clears in 6-year deal
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Areas hit hard by flu in spring see little now
San Jose Mercury News - - 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 ...
More walk-in flu clinics canceled as vaccines delayed
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Review: Stand By Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men
Chicago Tribune - - 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 ...
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A Better Way to Health Reform
Washington Post - - 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.
A Look at Health Care Plans in Congress
New York Times
A look at health care plans in Congress
San Francisco Chronicle
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 - - 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.
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SI.com - - 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 - - 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.