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New York Times -
Eight
American soldiers were charged with manslaughter and an array of other
crimes in connection with the death of Pvt. Danny Chen, a fellow soldier
from New York whose body was found in October lying in a guard tower in
southern Afghanistan, ...
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CNN International -
By
Tom Cohen and Alan Silverleib, CNN NEW: Rep. Chris Van Hollen,
D-Maryland, tries to get the House to vote on Senate plan Speaker John
Boehner and House GOP negotiators urged Democrats to restart talks on
extending the payroll tax cut Wednesday, ...
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New York Times -
FRANKFURT
- Banks lined up on Wednesday for almost half a trillion euros in cheap
three-year loans from the European Central Bank as part of its
unprecedented effort to keep credit flowing at a time when normal market
funding in Europe is scarce and ...
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AP BEDFORD, NH - Sharpening his message ahead of voting in Iowa and New
Hampshire, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday
accused President Barack Obama of deepening the economic crisis and
backing policies that will redistribute ...
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InformationWeek -
From
mergers to phones, wireless technologies, and mobile operating systems,
2011 was an explosive one for the mobile industry. Here are the five
biggest stories of the year.
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USA TODAY -
By
Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY Iraq's Shiite prime minister is warning
Kurdish authorities that they will face "problems" if they don't hand
over the Sunni vice president who fled to the Kurdish region after he
was charged in an arrest warrant with ...
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BBC News -
Syria's
main opposition coalition has called for emergency meetings of the UN
Security Council and the Arab League to discuss the intensifying
violence in the north-west of the country.
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Christian Science Monitor -
Alexei
Navalny, a vocal critic of Putin and leader in Russia's protest
movement, could pose a tough threat to his presidential bid.
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The Associated Press -
FORT
MEADE, Md. (AP) - Lawyers for the Army intelligence analyst blamed for
the biggest national security leak in American history briskly presented
evidence in his defense Wednesday, a year-and-half after the young
private allegedly handed a trove of ...
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AP TOPEKA, Kan. - Fierce winds and snow made travel through the Great
Plains difficult Tuesday, although highway officials reopened portions
of several major interstates that closed during the worst of the storm.
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ABC News -
By
COLLEEN CURRY Maine State Police Det. Christopher Tupper, left, and
Waterville Det. Lincoln Ryder, right, question Justin DiPietro, second
from left, after he arrived at his home in Waterville.
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CNBC.com -
Now
we know that the recent housing crash was about 14 percent worse than
previously thought. That is the conclusion of benchmark revisions by the
National Association of Realtors, after they realized that their
numbers were “drifting” from other ...
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Fox Business -
The
technology sector pushed the markets into the red, with the tech-heavy
Nasdaq falling more than 1%, after Oracle's earnings miss spooked
traders.
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MarketWatch -
By
Rex Crum, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Tech stocks hit the
ground running with broad losses Wednesday, hit by Oracle Corp.
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PC Magazine -
By
Will Greenwald Amazon has released its newest update for the Kindle
Fire and it has some tweaks many users will find welcome, and one tweak
power users will hate.
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Fox News -
DEVELOPING:
Verizon Wireless customers across the country woke up up to spotty data
connections Wednesday morning, according to reports from various
Internet forums and Twitter.
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InformationWeek -
By
Paul McDougall InformationWeek Motorola Mobility, which Google has
agreed to acquire, uses technology in its Android smartphones that
violates a patent held by Microsoft, the International Trade Commission
has found.
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BusinessWeek -
Dec.
21 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry
smartphone, surged the most in 10 weeks in Nadsdaq trading after reports
Microsoft Corp.
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Christian Science Monitor -
By
Sandy Schaefer, Screen Rant / December 21, 2011 It's been a tumultuous
trek for The Hobbit over the past two years. The project was slowly but
steadily coming together under the guiding hand of Guillermo del Toro -
that is until MGM's financial ...
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msnbc.com -
From
breaking news to news you can't use, but enjoy anyway, we offer up the
latest developments on the hot stories of the day in TV, movies, music
and celebrities.
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Washington Post -
Director
Steven Spielberg explains why his latest film, 'The Adventures Tintin,'
is so special to him, while actors Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell admit to
being huge fans of the ginger-haired reporter.
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Los Angeles Times -
Among
the violations, eight players were found to have received substantial
cash payments or preferential treatment from the owner of a tattoo
parlor.
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ESPN -
By
ESPNsoccernet staff Former Uruguay international Gustavo Poyet says he
backs fellow countryman Luis Suarez "to the death" after the Liverpool
striker was banned for eight matches for racially abusing Manchester
United defender Patrice Evra.
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ESPN -
Which
teams hold the tiebreakers and who does each team have left to play?
ESPN breaks it down entering Week 16. Story GREEN BAY, Wis.
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AP CHICAGO - Derrick Rose says there isn't much that excites him. A
maximum contract extension, though, just might. The reigning MVP agreed
to a five-year contract extension with the Chicago Bulls worth
approximately $94 million, a person familiar ...
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New York Times -
In
what amounts to a kind of holiday gift to the cosmos, astronomers from
NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday that they had discovered a
pair of planets the size of Earth orbiting a distant star.
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Fox News -
By
Remy Melina Flowers and branches of the Boswellia sacra tree, the
species from which most frankincense is derived. The biblical Christmas
story of the three kings may need a rewriting, or at least a tweak to
one of the gifts - frankincense.
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CBS News -
(CBS/AP)
Government officials want a group of bird flu researchers to keep some
of their findings out of medical journals - so they don't get into the
hands of terrorists.
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USA TODAY -
PARIS
- French health authorities are considering whether to suggest that an
estimated 30000 women in France get their breast implants removed, amid
warnings by leading doctors about the risks of rupture and possible
cancer.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Beginning
in January, 17000 Medicare patients in the Bay Area will be guinea
pigs, of sorts, in a federal program meant to improve the quality of
their care, and at the same time lowering the costs of a system that
threatens to overwhelm the nation's ...
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