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Obama drops by daughter Sasha's school for event
Fresh from his weeklong trip through Asia, President Barack Obama is taking time to catch up on dad duty.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama stopped by 8-year-old daughter Sasha's school Friday morning. White House officials said they were visiting Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda, Md., for a school activity, but declined to elaborate.
Although Obama has no public events planned Friday, it's a busy time for him. The Senate is set for a...
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Republicans blast 'bait and switch' health bill
Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.Despite the criticism, there were growing indications Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate showdown set for Saturday night, and Majority Leader Harry Reid crisply rebutted the Republican charges. The bill "will save lives, save money and...
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Republicans blast 'bait and switch' health bill
Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.Despite the criticism, there were growing indications Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate showdown set for Saturday night, and Majority Leader Harry Reid crisply rebutted the Republican charges. The bill "will save lives, save money and...
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AK volunteers strive to save Santa letter service
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A group of volunteer "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior has set out to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon. The group is looking to counter a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to end a program begun in 1954 in the small town of North Pole, where volunteers respond to thousands of letters addressed to "Santa...
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Winfrey to announce Friday show will end in 2011
CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc. said Thursday night that the talk show host will give more details live on the "The Oprah Winfrey Show" broadcast Friday.Winfrey started her broadcasting career in Nashville, Tenn., and Baltimore, Md., before relocating to Chicago in 1984 to host WLS-TV's morning talk show "A.M. Chicago."That...
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Group blocks regents from leaving UCLA building
LOS ANGELES -- Some University of California regents who approved a student fee increase are trapped inside a UCLA building as protesters block the exits.The demonstrators are being confronted Thursday by lines of baton-wielding campus police, California Highway Patrol officers and metal barriers.University spokesman Phil Hampton says chains of demonstrators have linked arms to block the exits. One person inside the building says the regents have been held there for two hours. It is unclear how...
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Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits
NEW ORLEANS -- A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims.The federal judge's harshly worded decision also served as vindication for residents of St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans who have long argued that Katrina was largely a man-made disaster, caused by the federal...
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800 Pound Man Dies After Spending Eight Months In Chair
Greenwood, SC -- A man weighing upwards of 800 pounds died in a hospital Wednesday after spending eight months confined to a chair in his home. Emergency workers had to cut 33-year-old Tillmon Webb out of his chair in Greenwood Wednesday after they found him stuck to it and covered with sores. EMS workers also had to cut out a wall to get him out of the home because of his size. Police say Webb had been in his chair since March, when he...
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Sen. Kerry's daughter arrested in LA on DUI
LOS ANGELES -- The daughter of Sen. John Kerry was arrested Thursday in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk. Alexandra Kerry, 36, was stopped by officers at about 12:40 a.m. and booked at the Hollywood police station for investigation of driving under the influence, Officer April Harding said. She was held for about five hours and released at about 5:30 a.m. after posting $5,000 bail, Harding said. She had no other details. Jodi Seth, John Kerry's...
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Newseum puts Tim Russert's NBC office on display
WASHINGTON -- Museum visitors in Washington will get the chance to step into "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert's old NBC office, which has been reassembled at the Newseum.An exhibit opens Friday with the office recreated to look as it did in June 2008 when Russert died of a heart attack at age 58. The journalism museum will keep the office on display through 2010.Curators say it's an unpretentious office with Russert's favorite books, family photos and Buffalo Bills...
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FAA computer problem causes widespread delays
There are widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide Thursday because of a problem with the FAA system that collects airlines' flight plans.FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said she doesn't know how many flights are being affected or when the problem will be resolved.An AirTran Airways spokesman said there's no danger to flights in the air, and flights are still taking off and landing.However, spokesman Christopher White said flight plans are having to be inputted manually...
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Attorney General Says Feds Will Help With Cost For 9-11 Trials
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defends the controversial decision to put the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others on trial in lower Manhattan. Holder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer to critics who claim the Obama Administration is reverting to a pre-9-11 mentality. Holder says he's confident the Justice Department has hard evidence against the...
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Senate girds for historic debate on health bill
After months of maneuvering, the Senate stands at the brink of a historic battle over health care with President Barack Obama and his allies on one side and Republicans, outnumbered but unflinching, on the other."Now it's America's turn, and this will not be a short debate," Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, warned after Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation Wednesday night to extend coverage to 30 million more Americans and...
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AP lays off employees to hit cost-cutting goal
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press laid off an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday as part of the cooperative's yearlong plan to cut worldwide payroll expenses by 10 percent. AP spokesman Paul Colford refused to specify how many jobs were eliminated Tuesday or in previous months from the news staff and other departments throughout the company. He said the not-for-profit organization intended to realize the targeted payroll savings by the end of the year even as the AP is...
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Philly dealer selling letter Lincoln wrote to boy
PHILADELPHIA -- A letter President Abraham Lincoln wrote to a boy whose friends didn't believe he had met the commander in chief is being sold in Philadelphia. Lincoln sent the letter from the White House to 8-year-old George Patten two weeks after his March 1861 inauguration. The youngster had been mocked by classmates for saying he'd met the 16th president with his father, a journalist. His teacher wrote Lincoln to uncover the truth. Instead, the president...
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SC lawmaker: Rendezvous not enough to impeach gov
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A top South Carolina lawmaker says the embattled governor should not face impeachment simply because he secretly left the state in June - a trip he took to see his Argentine lover. House Speaker Bobby Harrell said Tuesday he thinks a newly filed measure to remove the Republican governor based on his alleged dereliction of duty does not carry enough weight. Instead, Harrell believes state representatives should rely on an Ethics Commission investigation of...
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Police: Man in custody in 'Cathouse' star's death
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A former Marine turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after being named a suspect in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse," police said. David Allen Tyner, 28, surrendered at the Mayes County Sheriff's Office on a warrant that included six murder complaints. Authorities said two of the victims - 22-year olds Brooke Phillips and Milagrous...
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Tequila sues Chargers OLB Merriman
SAN DIEGO -- Reality TV star Tila Tequila is suing San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman in a filing alleging domestic violence. Attorney Cyrus Nownejad told said that Tequila is seeking $1.5 million in damages. Merriman was arrested on Sept. 6 after Tequila signed a citizen's arrest warrant accusing him of battery and false imprisonment at his suburban home. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis declined to charge Merriman. Merriman said in an e-mail that he...
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Cleveland seeks survivors of 'house of horrors'
CLEVELAND -- Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning attention to the living. A nonprofit rape crisis center has set up a hot line in hopes of hearing from any women who survived encounters at the home of Anthony Sowell. But shame, checkered backgrounds and mistrust might make it tricky to learn of more victims. In Sowell's neighborhood, some people are saying that attitudes toward...
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Sarah Palin coy about 2012 run, but door is open
NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next presidential election. "My ambition, if you will, my desire is to help our country in whatever role that may be, and I cannot predict what that will be, what doors will be open in the year 2012," she told Barbara Walters. When asked whether she'd play a major role, the former Republican...
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Ill. town would rather get Gitmo prisoners
Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs. News that the federal government may buy the nearly empty Thomson Correctional Center and use the maximum-security state prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees has given people in Thomson hope that things might be about to turn...
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Bishops' assert moral duty in health care debate
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defended their involvement in the health care debate, saying Monday that church leaders have a duty to the nation and God to raise moral concerns on any issue, including on abortion rights and coverage for the poor. Chicago Cardinal Francis George, the conference president, said that the prelates must ensure that "issues that are moral questions before they become political remain moral questions...
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Amtrak preparing for Thanksgiving travel
Amtrak is preparing for what it believes will be its busiest travel day this year. Amtrak said Monday that it believes the Wednesday before Thanksgiving - Nov. 25 - will be its busiest travel day. The railroad predicts ridership could be as high as 125,000 passengers that day. On an average Wednesday the railroad carries approximately 74,000 passengers. Amtrak says it is...
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`2012' has worldwide box-office bang of $225M
Doom spelled dollars at the box office as the global-disaster tale "2012" opened at No. 1 domestically with $65 million and pulled in $225 million worldwide.The Sony Pictures action saga tells the story of a scramble to save remnants of humanity aboard giant arks as the earth's crust shifts and flood waters pour over most of the planet.
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Dozens of Gitmo detainees finally get day in court
In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.Complying with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges in the U.S. courthouse here are giving detainees their day in court after years behind bars half a world away from their homelands.
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Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood
Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.And in Oklahoma, a newlywed grieved for her husband of nearly three months.
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Dobbs says his departure from CNN was 'amicable'
Lou Dobbs says he doesn't feel like he was pushed out of CNN, the news organization where he worked for all but two years of its existence until last Wednesday."Not at all," he said in a weekend interview. "I don't know if people will believe it, but we had a very amicable parting on the best of terms. I spent 29 years there building that company, and I wish everyone there nothing but the best, and they have reciprocated with me.
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Geeky 'tweeters' to report on space shuttle launch
Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off Monday: About 100 of NASA's geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops and other Twittering gadgets.They plan to let loose with electronic messages - provided they aren't so swept away by the afternoon liftoff that they fall uncharacteristically silent for a moment or two.
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Mother of missing 5-year-old NC girl charged
The location and fate of a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother was unknown even after authorities charged the mother with human trafficking and other offenses.
Antoinette Nicole Davis, the mother of Shaniya (Shuh-nigh-uh) Davis, faces a child abuse charge involving prostitution as well as filing a false police report, according to a Saturday news release from the Fayetteville Police Department.
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NASA on track for Monday space shuttle launch
NASA has cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Monday on a trip to stock up the International Space Station with several years' worth of spare parts.Mission managers gave the go-ahead Saturday as forecasters put the odds of good launch weather at 90 percent, about as good as it gets.Atlantis will deliver nearly 30,000 pounds of pumps, storage tanks, gyroscopes and other spare parts, along with six astronauts who will unload everything.
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Clinton: Would look forward to coffee with Palin
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee.In an interview for broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton says she's never met the one-time GOP vice presidential hopeful and former Alaska governor and thinks it would be very interesting to sit down and talk with her.Clinton was responding to a question about a passage in Palin's new book.
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'Hello, Ohio!' (Psst! Boss, we're in Michigan)
The curse of Friday the 13th struck Bruce Springsteen in a most unusual way: it made the 60-year-old rock legend forget where he was.
The Boss bellowed "Hello, Ohio!" to his fans at the Auburn Hills Palace in Michigan.
Springsteen referred to the neighboring state several times in the following 30 minutes until E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt whispered in his ear.
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Pacquiao stops Cotto to win 7th title
Manny Pacquiao's speed and power were way too much for Miguel Cotto's heart.Pacquiao put on yet another dominating performance Saturday night, knocking down Cotto twice and turning his face into a bloody mess before finally stopping him at 55 seconds of the 12th round.The Filipino star used his blazing speed and power from both hands to win his seventh title in seven weight classes and cement his stature as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
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FBI searching backyard of Ohio home with 11 bodies
FBI agents are digging through the backyard of a Cleveland home where the remains of 11 women have been found.The agents used rakes and shovels Saturday in their search for evidence in the yard of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell. One agent had a tape measure, while another took pictures and a third marked locations with orange paint.On Friday, the FBI worked at the house next door to Sowell's to do X-rays, thermal imaging and other tests.
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Some Fort Hood victims' funerals set for Saturday
When Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger joined the U.S. Army Reserves after the 2001 terrorist attacks, she vowed to hunt down Osama bin Laden. When her mother said she couldn't do it alone, the soldier defiantly told her, "Watch me."Krueger and several of the other 12 victims of the Fort Hood shooting rampage were set to be mourned at funerals across the country Saturday.
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Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover
Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as this week, bringing the network of Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope, Milton Berle and Tom Brokaw under the corporate control of the company that owns the Golf Channel and E! Entertainment Television.
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Philly subway hammer attacker gets 4 to 10 years
PHILADELPHIA -- A man with schizophrenia who attacked a sleeping subway rider with a hammer was sentenced Friday to four to 10 years in prison for the attack, which a prosecutor dubbed "everybody's worse nightmare." Thomas Scantling, 27, of Philadelphia, had failed to take his anti-psychotic medications but used PCP and other illegal drugs. The judge found that a toxic combination fueled the violence. The September 2008 attack was captured by a security camera on...
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Review: Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading
Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents showed.According to the report, when a company-funded study's primary finding wasn't favorable, that result was usually buried and something else positive was highlighted, without disclosing the switch.The documents used in the review were obtained by lawyers suing Pfizer...
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Pair stole up to 1k bags at Ariz. airport
PHOENIX -- Two people suspected of stealing up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix's airport have been arrested by police who found heaps of the stolen bags strewn throughout their home.There were so many suitcases that Phoenix police could only give a rough estimate of their number Tuesday as they pulled them out one by one and gathered them in the yard of Keith Wilson King and Stacy Lynne Legg-King's suburban residence."A piece of luggage here, a piece of...
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Buses, subways halted by Philly transit strike
PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia transit system's largest union went on strike early Tuesday, stalling the city's bus, subway and trolley operations a day after the World Series shifted to New York and forcing thousands of commuters to find other ways to get to work. The sudden strike by Transport Workers Union Local 234 took many riders by surprise and all but crippled a transit system that averages more than 928,000 trips each weekday. The union represents more than 5,000 drivers,...
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Search resumes for Navy plane, 2 pilots off Texas
The Coast Guard has resumed its search for two missing Navy pilots and their plane along the central Texas coast.The search had to be suspended Thursday night because of stormy weather.Petty Officer Charles Reaves says a plane and a helicopter resumed the search shortly after 7:30 a.m. Friday.Naval Air Station Corpus Christi lost contact with the Navy T-34 training plane Wednesday afternoon. The single-engine plane's last known location was near San Jose Island, east of...
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House Democrats unveil health bill, reveal next steps and it is cheered on by Ob
WASHINGTON -- Their work swiftly heralded by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on private insurers and create a government-run insurance option for cost-conscious consumers. The measure "covers 96 percent of all Americans, and it puts affordable coverage in reach for millions of uninsured and underinsured families, lowering health...
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Queen Latifah Joins Macy's "Believe" Campaign
Queen Latifah is hoping to recruit some believers this holiday season. The singer-actress has just signed on to be a part of Macy's "Believe" campaign. According to "People's" "StyleWatch," she'll be starring in nostalgic commercials based on the infamous "New York Sun" editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus." Latifah gets to help Virginia mail a letter to Santa in the TV spot. The campaign will benefit the...
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ESPN: Woman who had affair with Phillips was fired
BRISTOL, Conn. -- An ESPN spokesman says the sports network has fired the production assistant whose affair with baseball analyst Steve Phillips led to his termination. Spokesman Mike Soltys (SAWL'-tiss) said Monday that Brooke Hundley was fired. He declined to say when she was fired or why. Hundley did not immediately return a phone message, and no one answered the door at her home in Bristol on Monday. Connecticut-based ESPN fired Phillips on Sunday night, less...
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Obama Praises Counterterrorism Efforts
New York, NY -- President Obama praised counterterrorism efforts in New York City. In a visit to the Joint Terrorism Task Force headquarters, Obama offered praise for thwarting an alleged New York City terror plot. The plot was allegedly concocted by Najibullah Zazi 1/8 1/8 nah-JIB-u-lah ZAH-zee 3/8 3/8. Zazi is in federal custody, having been charged with aiming to use weapons of mass destruction for an attack on New York City's mass transit system.
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Chinese migrants nabbed at Arizona border
Several groups of illegal immigrants from China have been arrested in southern Arizona in recent days, part of an increasing trend that U.S. Border Patrol agents said Monday was being fed by smugglers recruiting tourists to Central and South America. The arrests included two Chinese found among a large group of migrants who entered the county from Mexico on Friday. Three more Chinese were found Saturday, a group that included four Chinese...
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Schwarzenegger signs tougher anti-paparazzi law
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an anti-paparazzi bill making it easier to sue media outlets that use photos that invade celebrities' privacy. A statement issued Monday says the former "Terminator" star had signed a number of bills, including the amendment to a decade-old law that allows fines against paparazzi who illegally or offensively take photos or recordings. The...
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Monster-maker to Vt. brewer: No 'Vermonster' beer
Forget David and Goliath. This fight's between Matt and Monster. The maker of Monster energy drinks has taken aim at a Vermont brewery that sells a beer called "The Vermonster," ordering it to stop selling, advertising and promoting the craft brew because it could confuse consumers. The energy drink-maker, Hansen Beverage Co., wants tiny Rock Art Brewery to stop using the name...
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Chicago Cubs file for Ch. 11 to speed team's sale
The Chicago Cubs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow their owner to sell the baseball team in an $845 million deal. The filing in Wilmington, Del., was anticipated and is expected to lead to a brief stay in Chapter 11 for the Cubs. A hearing was scheduled for Tuesday in front of the judge who has been handling the bankruptcy of the Cubs' owner, Tribune Co.
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Chrysler Remake: New CEO shakes up exec team again
With sales down sharply and pressure to start generating cash before government loans run out, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne shook up his executive team Monday, replacing two of his brand managers after just four months and splitting Dodge into car and truck units. The changes show Marchionne's penchant for moving quickly and demanding performance, industry analysts say. But it's also a sign that all is not well inside the company's sprawling...
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Judge says Dallas bomb plot case to proceed
There is enough evidence for prosecutors to continue their case against a Jordanian teenager accused of trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he believed to be a car bomb, a judge ruled Monday. The ruling came after a brief probable-cause hearing for Hosam Maher Smadi, 19, who is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. If convicted he faces up to life in prison. FBI Special Agent...
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Court begins with argument over lawyer request
The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench as the court tried to hash out how long a suspect's request for a lawyer should be considered valid by police and the courts. The high court, listening to its first arguments of the session, seemed skeptical of defense lawyers' arguments that police should be banned from talking to a suspect without a lawyer present because of the possibility that the...
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Obama Discusses Afghanistan With NATO Chief
WASHINGTON -- As the White House began Tuesday to debate in earnest the increasingly unpopular Afghanistan war, NATO's secretary-general said President Barack Obama is right to delay troop decisions until a possibly revamped approach is devised."The first thing is not numbers," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, told reporters as he and Obama wrapped up their Oval Office meeting. Still, Fogh Rasmussen said U.S. and allied troops will remain in Afghanistan "as long as it takes. "The two leaders did not take questions...
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SC gov's state flights raise may tax liabilities
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's use of state planes for personal and political trips could open him to federal tax penalties because the flights never were recorded as taxable fringe benefits. Tax experts reviewed an Associated Press analysis of more than 100 Sanford flights and said numerous trips could have been subject to taxes.Internal Revenue Service rules require adding the value of non-official flights to the governor's wages for taxes.Sanford spokesman Ben...
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Obama Discusses Afghanistan With NATO Chief
WASHINGTON - NATO's secretary-general said Tuesday President Barack Obama is right to decide strategy first, then resources for Afghanistan and said he's confident that U.S. and allied troops will remain "as long as it takes."Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Obama met in the White House, addressing reporters afterward. Fogh Rasmussen said European leaders are examining an on-the-ground ssessment from the U.S. and NATO commander in...
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Man arrested after placing inactive bomb in Dallas
DALLAS (AP) - Federal officials say a 19-year-old Jordanian national has been arrested on charges he plotted to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper.A statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas says Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested Thursday after placing what he thought was a bomb at the 60-story Fountain Place office tower. The decoy device was given to him by an undercover FBI agent.The statement says the FBI has monitoring the man, who lived in the small north Texas town of...
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State labor officials: Extend benefits for jobless
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - Labor commissioners from 18 states are urging the U.S. Senate to immediately act to extend unemployment benefits for 300,000 people who will exhaust theirs in another week.New York Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith was in Niagara Falls Thursday with her counterparts from around the country for a meeting of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.At a news conference, Smith and officials from 17 other states pushed the Senate to follow the House's lead...
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42 states lose jobs in August, up from 29 in July
Forty-two states lost jobs last month, up from 29 in July, with the biggest net payroll cuts coming in Texas, Michigan, Georgia and Ohio.The Labor Department also reported Friday that 27 states saw their unemployment rates increase in August, and 14 states and Washington D.C., reported unemployment rates of 10 percent or above.
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FBI searches home of Colorado man in terror probe
DENVER (AP) - A man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida has left his suburban Denver apartment in an SUV as federal agents prepare to question him again.An attorney for Najibullah (NAH'-gee-bull-ah) Zazi (ZAH'-zee) said his client would meet with FBI agents again Thursday, but it wasn't immediately clear if that's where he was headed.The attorney, Arthur Folsom, said Wednesday his client hasn't been arrested.The 24-year-old Zazi has denied he is a central figure...
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In California, Shooting On A High School Campus
(Antioch, CA) -- A high school campus in Antioch, California is under lockdown after a shooting this morning that wounded one student. Police say it happened on the sidewalk at Deer Valley High School sometime before 8:30 a.m. There is no word on the condition of the wounded student, who is identified only as a male, but he was airlifted to an area hospital. Police don't believe the shooter is still on or near the campus and the incident may be a drive-by.
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Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift
NEW YORK - Kanye West has finally given a personal apology to Taylor Swift. Representatives from "The View" say West called Swift after her appearance on Tuesday's show. During the broadcast, the 19-year-old singing sensation said West had yet to contact her to apologize for hijacking her MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech on Sunday. The incident caused an uproar and led West to give an emotional apology on Monday's premiere of "The Jay Leno...
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President Obama To Speak At Cronkite Memorial In New York
(New York, NY) -- President Obama will be the headline speaker at a public memorial service tomorrow for the late television journalist Walter Cronkite. The longtime CBS anchorman's friends and extended family will gather at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to remember Cronkite, his life and achievements. Former President Bill Clinton will also speak at the event, as will retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Pop-rock icon Jimmy Buffett, jazz...
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