For Reid, Dodd, clout on big issues cuts both ways
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Two Senate leaders trying to steer a pair of President Barack Obama's high-stakes initiatives through Congress are being dogged by re-election worries, and it's not clear whether their legislative prominence will help...
AP sources: New charges in Somali terror case
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Federal authorities are due to unseal new charges against eight suspects in a long-running probe of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia. Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of...
IED riddle tougher in Afghanistan
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A senior Pentagon official says that preventing roadside bombs from killing troops has proven to be tougher in Afghanistan than in Iraq because of the austere conditions there. Ashton Carter, the Defense Department's...
More anti-gay, religious-motivated crimes reported
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Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday. Overall, the number of reported hate crime incidents increased about 2 percent. These same...
Obama calls security meeting on Afghanistan
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President Barack Obama called his war council together Monday as he moves toward a decision on whether to add more U.S. forces in Afghanistan. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he's not aware of any more...
Obama to honor young inventors at science fair
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Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair. President Barack Obama said Monday he would convene a national science fair next year to honor young inventors with the...
Pentagon: Fort Hood review due Jan. 15
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The Pentagon says its review of personnel, health and other policies in light of the Fort Hood massacre will be completed by January 15th. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the review last week, and named two...
Clinton says Iraqi election might be delayed
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding out the possibility that Iraq's national election could be delayed beyond January because of a dispute over the allocation of seats in parliament. Clinton told...
$75M verdict unsealed in Prempro-cancer case
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A jury in Philadelphia has ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages after finding a link between her breast cancer and a hormone-replacement drug. That's according to an attorney for...
SC gov faces 37 charges he broke state ethics laws
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose tryst with an Argentine lover blossomed into a wide-ranging scandal, is accused of breaking ethics laws by using taxpayer money for pricey airline seats, taking state planes for...
Alleged Hawaii spy found competent to stand trial
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A Hawaii man accused of selling military secrets to China has been found competent to stand trial. U.S. Magistrate Kevin S.C. Chang says Noshir Gowadia's personality may make him a difficult defendant. But Chang says...
Police: Elevator call led to Mo. building lockdown
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Police say an unfounded report of a hostage situation in a building near the Missouri governor's mansion was caused by someone calling an elevator phone to warn of a hostage-taking. Police locked down the Jefferson...
Palin limits crowd interaction at NC's Fort Bragg
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Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is wrapping up a three-hour book signing by thanking soldiers and shaking their hands at a North Carolina Army base. Palin did not give a speech during her stop...
Sister: Man arrested at station is mentally ill
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The sister of an unruly passenger injured after being removed from a San Francisco Bay area commuter train says transit police used excessive force on the mentally ill man. Lisa Gibson says the officer was being overly...
Pipe-cutting led to radiation at Pa. nuke plant
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Radioactive dust unexpectedly blew out of a pipe being cut by workers during weekend maintenance at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, and officials on Monday were trying to determine exactly how and why it...
CO2 curve ticks upward as key climate talks loom
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The readings at this 2-mile-high station show an upward curve as the world counts down to climate talks: Global warming gases have built up to record levels in the atmosphere, from emissions that match scientists'...
Kangaroo tries to drown dog, attacks owner
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A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs. The Australian, Chris Rickard, was in stable condition Monday after...
Argentina's president urges Middle East peace
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Argentina's president says Israel and the United States should do more to push for peace in the Middle East. Cristina Fernandez said while hosting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday that every participant...
Israel, Hamas near swap of prisoners for soldier
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Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captive Israeli soldier held by the Islamic militant group for more than three years. The exchange...
Brazil: World must engage, not isolate Iran
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The world must engage, not isolate Iran in the push for Middle East peace and Iran should negotiate with Western nations for a "just and balanced" solution to its polemical nuclear program, Brazilian President Luiz...
Canada woman to fight insurance co. over Facebook
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A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party. ...
Bombings, shooting kill 12 around Afghanistan
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Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama convened his war council again Monday to fine-tune a strategy to respond to the...
Woman found 25 hours after Indonesia ferry sank
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Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing. A...
Embassy: Japanese man released by Yemeni captors
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A Japanese engineer seized by Yemeni tribesmen seeking to swap him for a prisoner with al-Qaida links was released Monday after a week in captivity, his embassy said. Takeo Mashimo returned to the capital, San'a, after...
Schumer: Dems ready to go-it-alone on health care
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A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the "system is broken." "We prefer to go at it with Republicans if we...
AP Poll: Debt stress turns shoppers into Scrooges
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A lot more Americans are feeling stressed out by debt this holiday season, raising the glum likelihood they'll behave like Scrooge rather than Santa. In fact, fully 93 percent say they'll spend less or about the same...
NC Slim Jim plant explosion claims 4th victim
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A fourth victim has died from injuries suffered in a natural gas explosion that tore through a North Carolina Slim Jim plant five months ago, a hospital spokesman said Monday. Curtis Ray Poppe, 55, died Thursday at the...
October sales gains lift hopes for housing market
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First-time buyers seized on a tax credit, combined with low mortgage rates and falling prices, to boost home sales in October to their highest level in 2 1/2 years. Home sales are now nearly 37 percent above their...
Publisher of The Tennessean retires, successor set
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The Tennessean newspaper's president and publisher, Ellen Leifeld, is retiring and Gannett Co. Inc. has named Carol Hudler to replace her. The appointment was announced Monday by Bob Dickey, president of Gannett's U.S....
October home sales rise 10.1 pct from September
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Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit. Home sales nationwide are now up nearly...
Arkansas farmers detail crop losses from flooding
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Arkansas farmers say that a record amount of rainfall and flooding this year has put a strain on their crops and their infrastructure. Farmers and farming advocacy groups on Monday detailed the problems that the year's...
Tyson Foods posts 4Q loss on beef charge
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Tyson Foods Inc. said it made strides in the meat business this year and predicts more improvements next year, but analysts worry the company's all-important chicken business is lagging others in the industry. The...
McKellen, Weisz win at London theater awards
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Rachel Weisz took top acting honors and Ian McKellen was recognized for a half-century in the theater Monday at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards. Weisz won the acting prize for playing faded southern belle...
Ex-prosecutor pleads not guilty to bribery charges
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A former federal prosecutor and prominent New Jersey defense attorney whose past clients have included Queen Latifah and Lil' Kim has pleaded not guilty to bribery, drug and prostitution charges. Paul Bergrin of...
ABC gets complaints about Lambert's performance
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ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards. The network characterized the response as "moderate." Before his performance,...
New Macy's Parade route means no cutting corners
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It won't be just the balloons, marching bands and floats on display in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The laws of physics will also be on parade. For the first time in its more than 80-year history, the...
Jackson's doctor returns to work at Houston clinic
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Michael Jackson's doctor returned to work at his Houston medical clinic on Monday for the first time since the pop star's death. Dr. Conrad Murray arrived at the Armstrong Medical Clinic and was greeted by a couple...
NPR's Carl Kasell to retire from 'Morning Edition'
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Carl Kasell will finally get to sleep in. The veteran newscaster is retiring from NPR's "Morning Edition." The 75-year-old Kasell has done the newcast during NPR's flagship morning program since its inception 30 years...
AC/DC, MJ, Miles Davis, Def Jam and more box sets
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Here are a selection of box-set offerings this season: AC/DC "Backtracks" (Sony) The essence of a box set is great packaging, lots of swag and hard-to-find content. All that is here on the latest AC/DC box set. The...
Winfrey to interview widow of Ted Kennedy
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Another interview coup for Oprah Winfrey: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. In her first interview since her husband's death, Vicki Kennedy will appear on Winfrey's television talk show Wednesday,...
Atheist student groups flower on college campuses
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The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist." Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift...
FIRST-PERSON: 'Blind Side' one of the best of the year
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--The key words in John 3:16, for the purpose of this article, are "world" and "whosoever." Those two words indicate that God finds value in each person. So God bless those who understand that each...
FIRST-PERSON: Your tax dollars, funding abortion
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WASHINGTON (BP)--It will be a while before we know all that Senate majority leader Harry Reid is proposing in the name of health care reform in his "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," which exceeds 2,000 pages...
LIFE DIGEST: 40 Days for Life reports more than 580 unborn babies saved
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!P>WASHINGTON (BP)--The 40 Days for Life campaign reported more than 580 unborn children were saved and eight abortion clinic workers left the business by the close of the initiative Nov. 1.In the waning days of this...
FIRST-PERSON: The AP 'goes rogue'
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!P>ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--I don't know which frustrates me more: hypocritical politicians -- Democrats and Republicans - who are more concerned about their own power than their constituents concerns, or liberal members...
Bingo machines illegal, Ala. high court rules
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP)--The Alabama Supreme Court dealt the state's electronic bingo gambling industry a severe blow Nov. 13 when it ruled that so-called "electronic bingo machines" are in fact an illegal form of...
Alabama affirms CP, adopts $46M budget
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (BP)--Messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention affirmed the effectiveness of cooperative missions and adopted a $46 million 2010 Cooperative Program budget during their annual meeting, Nov....
Reaching the Berbers of North Africa
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering supplements Cooperative Program giving to support more than 5,600 Southern Baptist missionaries as they share the Gospel overseas. This year's offering goal is $175...
Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years
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A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday. Rom Houben, 46, had a car crash in...
Health reform: Is tax on 'Cadillac' plans fair?
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Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a "Cadillac" health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers. She has $10 copays and no deductible. She...
Study: kids watching hours of TV at home daycare
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Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two...
Former NIH chief: Ignore new mammogram guideline
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The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer. Dr. Bernadine Healy says the directive would save...
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
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Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks...
Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
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Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of...
Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
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Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. Smiling kids embracing a...
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
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Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It's the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S. Health officials said...
Motorola, Research in Motion sued over voicemail
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Patent holding company Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday said it's suing Motorola Inc. and the maker of BlackBerry smartphones for allegedly violating its patent for visual voicemail. Klausner said Motorola uses...
Micros says CFO Kaufman will retire in March 2010
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Micros Systems Inc., which makes software for the restaurant and hospitality industries, said Monday Chief Financial Officer Gary Kaufman will retire on March 31, 2010. Micros said corporate controller Cynthia Russo...
Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snag
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A pair of astronauts zipped through the third and final spacewalk of their mission Monday, installing an enormous oxygen tank at the International Space Station and accomplishing everything else on their list. "You...
Google scoops up display ad specialist Teracent
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Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web. The acquisition of Teracent Corp., a 3-year-old startup, provides Google with more tools for customizing the online...
Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline
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Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies. Instead, Fitton has gone...
Big Bang atom smasher sends beams in 2 directions
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The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. ...
UN says greenhouse gases reach record high in 2008
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Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday. Levels of greenhouse gases, believed to be...
Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy
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The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films. CEO Jim Gianopulos said...
The nation's weather
5:57
The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida were expected to continue tracking through the Southeastern U.S. on Thursday. The system was forecast to continue pulling abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and allow for wet...
The nation's weather
4:43
A strong storm in the center of the country was expected to continue bringing wintry weather to the Central Rockies and Plains on Thursday. A strong low pressure system that developed over the Rockies would continue...
The nation's weather
5:18
Unsettlement was expected over most of the country Friday as two strong systems were forecast to continue kicking up wet weather. In the East, a strong low pressure system was expected to sweep eastward from the...
The nation's weather
4:57
Wet weather was forecast to sweep through the Central U.S. on Thursday as a strong low pressure system pushed off the Rockies and into the Plains. The system that developed over the Great Basin and spread light...
The nation's weather
5:26
Drier conditions were expected for the Eastern U.S., while a strong storm would continue tracking over the Rockies. A high pressure system would continue building over the East Coast as a low pressure system slowly...
The nation's weather
4:54
Wet weather was forecast to persist in the Northeast while diminishing across the Southeast as a front pushed off the East Coast on Tuesday. A strong low pressure system would continue to track over the Great Lakes and...
The nation's weather
5:05
Monday's main weather event was forecast to develop in the Midwest as a deepening area of low pressure in the northern Great Lakes swung a cold front through the Upper Great Lakes. Significant precipitation with...
The nation's weather
7:29
A low-pressure system will begin Sunday over the Ohio Valley before tracking over New England into the Atlantic Ocean by the end of the day. This storm will carry a significant amount of moisture that will produce...