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WGN TV Chicago - 18 minutes ago
Other finalists for the magazine's annual honor include President Barack Obama (2008 winner), Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and US General Stanley McChrystal TIME Magazine has announced their seven finalists for their annual "TIME Magazine Person of the Year."
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WCAX-TV Vermont - 22 minutes ago
Associated Press - December 14, 2009 9:05 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has ruled the New York Police Department must release 2,000 pages of documents related to its surveillance of...
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The Patriot-News - 23 minutes ago
The Patriot-News U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter (pictured) and Robert Casey announced the allocation of $7.6 million for an army reserve center and $2.4 million for flood gauges on the Susquehanna River.
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TheCelebrityCafe.com - 33 minutes ago
The actress' production company is set to start production in 2011 Ingrid Bergquist Natalie Portman is starring and producing the upcoming movie “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” reported New York Daily News . Portman will be producing the film based on the best-selling book “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” by Seth Grahame-Smith. The writer, who used Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as the ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - Mon Dec 14, 12:09 pm ET
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California is in the Republicans' crosshairs in next year's election, targeted as one of Congress' most liberal and partisan Democrats as the party swept from power looks to make a comeback, bolstered by anti-incumbency sentiment and...
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The Tennessean - Mon Dec 14, 4:35 pm ET
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Sunday cleared for President Barack Obama's signature a $447 billion omnibus spending bill that contains thousands of special projects and double-digit increases for several Cabinet agencies, the latest target for Republicans seeking to make growing federal deficits a focal point of the 2010 elections.
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The Washington Times - Mon Dec 14, 4:23 pm ET
The public debt of the United States is rising at such a rapid clip that it threatens to plunge the nation into a crisis unless Congress and the White House reverse course over the next couple years, a blue-ribbon commission of fiscal experts warned Monday. In the past year alone, the U.S. public debt level soared from 41 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 53 percent. The debt is ...
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The Washington Times - Mon Dec 14, 4:23 pm ET
A Senate Democrat on Monday called on President Obama to veto the $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill Congress sent the White House over the weekend, saying the president must "take the credit card away from the politicians who just want to spend, spend, spend." Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, who voted against the bill on three separate occasions over the past few days, said Mr. Obama didn't create ...
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9 News Denver - 1 hour 29 minutes ago
DENVER (AP) - Stephanie Villafuerte, Gov. Bill Ritter's deputy chief of staff, withdrew her nomination for U.S. attorney in Colorado following a flap over access to a restricted law enforcement database during Ritter's 2006 campaign.
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Rockford Register Star - 1 hour 42 minutes ago
ROCKFORD — The Rock Valley College Chamber Singers will perform a holiday concert Thursday at the White House.
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WCPO Cincinnati - 1 hour 57 minutes ago
It will be years before the public sees any of the recovered e-mails.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:44 pm ET
President Barack Obama's hopes of sparking rapid political transformation in 2009 fell short, yet his bruised administration still dreams of forging historic change in the year to come.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:37 pm ET
Twitter, fueled by smartphones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace to become the world's leading social network.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 13, 6:22 pm ET
Houston Saturday became the first major U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, Annise Parker, after a hotly contested run-off election that gave gay and lesbian supporters a symbolic victory following defeats over legalizing same-sex marriages in California and Maine.
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The Huffington Post - 2 hours 54 minutes ago
Barack Obama is a traitor. That's what Dick Cheney said. Too bad Tiger Woods stepped on the story. The decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed...