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Obama embraces GOP health care proposals

President Obama extended a bipartisan olive branch to GOP leaders in the health care debate Tuesday, stating in a letter that he is willing to consider several of their ideas in a compromise plan. Spe

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Postal Service to shed another 30,000 jobs

The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday that it would reduce its workforce by another 30,000 positions and slash overtime this year in an effort to reduce costs. Together these staffing reductions wil

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TiVo subscribers will be able to pull Internet content, musi

The son of a founder of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, Tuesday told CNN that he was a spy for Israel. For 10 years, Mosab Yousef said he gathered information about Hamas terrorist plots and fe

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TiVo adds Web, music, movies with Premiere

TiVo subscribers will be able to pull Internet content, music and movies onto their televisions more easily with new devices the digital-video recorder company announced Tuesday. Called TiVo Premiere,

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Remains likely those of missing California teen, sheriff say

Human remains found Tuesday in San Diego, California, are likely those of a teenage girl missing since Thursday, the San Diego County sheriff said. The remains were found in a shallow grave along a tr

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Federal judge rules Elizabeth Smart suspect competent to sta

Brian David Mitchell, accused of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Monday. Carlie Christensen, acting U.S. attorney for Utah, release

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Nasdaq, S&P turn positive for 2010

Stocks jumped Monday, with the Nasdaq and SP 500 pushing back into positive territory for the year, as investors welcomed AIG's $35 billion asset sale and a pair of mergers in the pharmaceutical secto

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Democrats face health care hurdles amid talk of reconciliati

While Democrats have recently threatened to use a parliamentary procedure to pass the health care reform bill, it is unclear whether their caucus will even have enough votes to take the first step. Co

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Mexican journalist dismembered, burned, officials say

A Mexican journalist kidnapped in 2007 was cut into pieces and burned in a barrel, the Tabasco state attorney general's office said. The determination of reporter Rodolfo Rincon Taracena's fate was ba

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America's hidden debt bombs

America's total debt load is on pace to top $13 trillion this year, and $22 trillion by 2020 -- and that's just the debt we're counting. What's not being counted: potential debt bombs that don't get f

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Lawmakers brace for reconciliation showdown

With last week's health care summit showing no sign of getting either side to budge, lawmakers Sunday staked out positions in the battle many believe is imminent: a presidential effort to push legisla

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Report: Iran releases four journalists, professor

Iran on Sunday released on bail four journalists and a retired professor whom it had held for two months, the semi-official Iran Labour News Agency reported. The five prisoners had been held since the

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Will Toyota's problems hurt Honda?

Toyota's recall problems could hurt more than its own reputation. It may have damaged the valuable image of quality and dependability American buyers attribute to most Japanese car brands. Many assume

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Student admits hanging noose in campus library

The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday. We are feeling real pain, and we will take real a

2010-02-28 3469 阅读

SI: Feds likely to subpoena elite athletes in Galea HGH inve

Federal law enforcement officials have alerted a number of world-class athletes to expect grand jury subpoenas in the case against Canadian physician Anthony Galea, three sources familiar with the inv

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