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3 hrs ago | News9 Oklahoma City

White House mocks Sarah Palin from podium

Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her palm during a speech to "tea party" activists.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama

8 hrs ago | content.usatoday.com | Mr_Bill

Obama nominees get released from senator's holds

As President Obama meets with Republican leaders at the White House this morning, he's already made progress on one goal of the meeting: Getting more of his appointees confirmed by the Senate.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, Richard Shelby, US Politics

8 hrs ago | www.reuters.com | Mr_Bill

Senate jobs bill has road money, no estate tax

Bipartisan job-creating legislation that could pass the Senate this week will include money for highway repairs and tax breaks for small businesses, Senate Democrats said on Tuesday.

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8 hrs ago | www.businessweek.com | Mr_Bill

Paulson Tells Buffett Banks to Repay 'Every Penny'

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the U.S. government will be repaid in full for the funds it put into the country's lenders.

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Related Topix: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Insurance, Construction, Investment Services

8 hrs ago | blogs.usatoday.com | Mr_Bill

Shuttle Endeavour cruises towards International Space Station

Endeavour's astronauts are closing in on the International Space Station and aim to dock at the outpost early Wednesday, winding up a two-day trip from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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11 hrs ago | www.huliq.com | Iria

Toyota Recalls 437,000 Hybrids Globally

Toyota has announced a worldwide recall of 437,000 hybrids, including the popular 2010 Toyota Prius over brake issues. The company announced that the fix will come via a software "patch" for the antilock braking system.

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Related Topix: Toyota Prius, Hybrid Vehicles, Toyota, Video Games, Lexus

12 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Girl Attends Obama Event As Governor's Guest

Persistence pays off for a Nashua fourth-grader who has learned the power of writing a simple letter.

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Related Topix: Video, US Politics

17 hrs ago | The Dallas Morning News

White, Shami spar on death penalty, gas tax in Texas Democratic governor debate

Businessman Farouk Shami and former Houston Mayor Bill White squared off Monday in their only statewide televised debate before the March 2 primary.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas, Houston, TX, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, US Governors

Mon Feb 08, 2010

ABC News

Neb. Democrat Joins GOP to Oppose Labor Nominee

Nebraska's Democratic senator says he will join Republicans in opposing a union lawyer's nomination to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Senator Ben Nelson, US Senate, Democrat, Nebraska Government, Nebraska

CNN

Sri Lanka opposition leader arrested

Sri Lanka's former army chief and presidential candidate general Sarath Fonseka adresses the media on February 3 in Colombo.

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Related Topix: Sri Lanka, World News, Asia, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Mahinda Rajapaksa

snafu-ed.blogspot.com | Iria

Soldier Simulates Drowning Of Daughter When She Fails Alphabet Test

A soldier has been accused of simulating drowning, pushing his four-year-old daughter's face underwater because she was unable to recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor, 27, is a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington.

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Related Topix: Snafu, Pop/Rock, Tacoma, WA

www.marinecorpstimes.com | Mr_Bill

Murtha, powerful troop advocate, dead at 77

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the powerful and controversial chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for defense funding, died Monday, leaving a huge hole in the Democratic Party's national security team.

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www.reuters.com | Mr_Bill

Obama anti-terror adviser lashes out at lawmakers

using national security issues as a "political football" for their own gains

President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser on Sunday lashed out at U.S. lawmakers, accusing them of using national security issues as a "political football" for their own gains.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Terrorism

www.courant.com | Mr_Bill

All Accounted For At Middletown Power Plant Explosion

Explosion Kills At Least 5

UPDATE : As rescuers work to determine how they can safely search an unstable section of the Kleen Energy plant, state and Middletown police detectives are trying to come up with a list of workers who were at the plant when it was damaged in an explosion Sunday.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Middletown, CT, Old Saybrook, CT

www.marketwatch.com | Mr_Bill

China's wealth fund details U.S. holdings

China Investment Corp. offered a rare glimpse into its U.S. equity holdings over the weekend, revealing an affection for resources companies as well as household consumer names such as Apple Computer and Coca Cola, which make up part of its $9.63 billion portfolio of U.S.-listed assets, the sovereign wealth fund said in a regulatory filing.

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Related Topix: MarketWatch, Startups, Beverages, CocaCola, Computers, Apple Computer, Mining, Kinross Gold

dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com | Mr_Bill

Fed Said to Prepare Plans for Eventual Tightening

U.S. economy will be strong enough to operate without the interventions

As much as the Federal Reserve is trying to ease credit for small businesses, it is already looking ahead to a time when it will bring its policy closer to what it knew before the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke

www.businessweek.com | Mr_Bill

AIG Hires Hancock to Oversee Risk, Derivatives Unit

American International Group Inc. named Peter Hancock, described by a former employer as an "architect" of the derivatives business, to oversee finance and risk, including the insurer's money-losing credit-default swap unit.

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Related Topix: Insurance, American International Group, Energy, Oil & Gas, Banking, JP Morgan Chase , New York University, Investment Banking, Financial Services

www.collectspace.com | Mr_Bill

"Shuttle launch lights the night for last time"

Shuttle launch lights the night for last time Space shuttle Endeavour blazes a path spaceward through the pre-dawn sky on the last shuttle night launch.

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Related Topix: NASA

www.huliq.com | Iria

Tebow Super Bowl Ad Sends "Gentle" Message

The announcement that Focus on the Family was going to air a Super Bowl ad caused a lot of controversy. Yesterday, CBS aired two versions of the ad, but they were both very light, gentle, and not really worthy of the big bruhaha they caused.

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Related Topix: Classical, Focus on the Family

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