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Reuters -
President
Barack Obama makes a statement on new minimum wage and overtime
protections for in-home care workers in Washington December 15, 2011.
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CBS News -
Republican
presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich is reacting positively to a
bipartisan Medicare reform plan, tweeting, "The Wyden-Ryan bipartisan
Medicare reform plan is a major breakthrough with Democrats and
Republicans working together to solve ...
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Entertainment Weekly -
by
Dave Karger Not to sound like a broken record here, but before we start
discussing how this morning's Golden Globe nominations may affect the
Oscar race, it's important to remember that there is absolutely no
overlap between the voting bodies of the ...
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Los Angeles Times -
With
the acquisition of Chris Paul, will the Clippers finally be the main
show at Staples Center? Writers from around the Tribune Co.
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CNN -
By
the CNN Wire Staff Sheriff of Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona,
Arpaio has sparked controversy by conducting raids using deputies in
order to apprehend illegal immigrants and housing inmates in large
outdoor tents.
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The Guardian -
Vladimir
Putin dismissed the thousands of protesters who have massed against his
rule as agents of the west in his first response to the growing
discontent during a marathon phone-in show.
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Washington Post -
PARIS
- As French president, Jacques Chirac was called all sorts of names,
not the least for his vociferous opposition to the US-led war in Iraq.
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Los Angeles Times -
REPORTING
FROM BEIRUT –- Syrian military commanders and officials in the
country's intelligence agencies gave orders to use lethal force against
unarmed protesters and to beat and torture detainees in the crackdown
against a 9-month-old uprising, ...
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Washington Post -
JOHNSTON,
Iowa - Newt Gingrich chided his GOP presidential opponents in a new TV
ad for going negative and said separately Thursday that his checkered
personal history wouldn't be to blame if he begins losing voter support
in the run-up to Iowa's ...
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Reuters -
By
Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of families in
the United States are struggling to put food on the table as poverty
rises in major cities, a new survey showed on Thursday.
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BusinessWeek -
By
John Hechinger Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Almost half of US public schools
are labeled failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law, compared
with the 80 percent estimate President Barack Obama's administration
cited as a rationale for changing ...
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CNN -
By
Les Christie @CNNMoney December 15, 2011: 1:44 PM ET The average rate
on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.94%, matching the all-time low
hit in early October, according to Freddie Mac's weekly mortgage rate
survey.
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The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON
(AP) - Jon Corzine disputed an allegation that he knew more about
customer money that vanished from MF Global than he previously
testified.
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Bloomberg -
By
Inyoung Hwang - Thu Dec 15 19:32:34 GMT 2011 Traders work on the floor
of the New York Stock Exchange on December 12, 2011. Photographer:
Spencer Platt/Getty Images US stocks rose, snapping a three- day decline
in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...
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USA Today -
By
Charlie Szold, USA TODAY Facebook's new "Timeline" design will
automatically organize your photos, status updates and relationship
changes into an interactive - you guessed it - timeline of your Facebook
life.
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BusinessWeek -
By
Danielle Kucera Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the world's
largest online retailer, said customers have bought about 1 million of
its Kindle e-book readers and tablets in each of the past three weeks,
the most detailed sales numbers the ...
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SlashGear -
After
weeks of waiting, the Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE has finally arrived.
It's hardly an unfamiliar phone - after all, we reviewed the HSPA+
Galaxy Nexus back in November, coming away charmed by its combination of
720p HD display and Ice Cream Sandwich ...
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Computerworld -
By
Sharon Gaudin Based on the most popular 2011 Google search terms,
people were most interested in getting information on Apple founder
Steve Jobs, the iPhone 5, the iPad 2, and Google+.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Dec.
15 (Bloomberg) -- Sirius XM Radio Inc. host Howard Stern has signed
with Comcast Corp.'s NBC Universal to become a judge on the reality TV
show "America's Got Talent.
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E! Online -
In
case you haven't been keeping count on your calendar, there are now
officially less than 100 days until The Hunger Games hits theaters on
March 23, 2012.
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New York Daily News -
Film
Info: With Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz
Couples turn nasty as they discuss their kids' fight.
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New York Daily News -
Film
Info: The singing rodents get stranded on a desert isle. Director: Mike
Mitchell. (1:27). G: Wacky peril. At area theaters. Either the “Alvin
and the Chipmunks” movies are getting better, or I've accidentally
buried my brain for the winter.
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CNN -
Peter
King gives an early preview to the matchup between the 10-3 New England
Patriots and the 8-5 Denver Broncos. ENGLEWOOD, Colo.
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CBSSports.com -
Dan
Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas
Motor Speedway -- contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the
two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.
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Chicago Tribune -
By
Jeremy Gorner and Vaughn McClure, Tribune reporters Chicago Bears
receiver Sam Hurd was arrested Wednesday night outside a Chicago
restaurant after he accepted a kilogram of cocaine from a confidential
informant and an undercover federal agent ...
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FOXSports.com -
Jason
Whitlock writes about the sports world from every angle, including
those other writers can't imagine or muster courage to address.
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National Geographic -
By
plane and by skis, a steady stream of visitors are flocking to the
South Pole in time for the centennial celebrations of two pioneering
Antarctic expeditions.
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BBC News -
By
Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website, Geneva The most coveted
prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed,
say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.
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Medical News Today -
HPV
DNA testing is better than cytology alone in preventing cervical cancer
or detecting it early on for women over thirty, researchers reported in
The Lancet Oncology.
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CBS News -
It
can be an all too common scenario for certain stroke survivors. They
can't see or recognize anything on one side of their body.
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USA Today -
By
Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Science should halt medical experiments on
chimpanzees, the closest cousins to humans in the animal world, except
perhaps for preventive vaccines for Hepatitis C and some drug therapies
where there are no better alternatives, ...
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New York Daily News -
BY
Berenice Garcia One of every 15 high school seniors reported smoking
pot on a daily or nearly daily basis, according to a report released by
the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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