ABC News | Rescuers search for Chile quake survivors; death toll of 300 expected to rise Los Angeles Times Scattered looting breaks out, and some residents are without water or electricity. Tsunami warnings are lifted after sm » |
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ABC News | Rescuers search for Chile quake survivors; death toll of 300 expected to rise Los Angeles Times Scattered looting breaks out, and some residents are without water or electricity. Tsunami warnings are lifted after sm » |
ABC News | Huge quake hits Chile; tsunami threatens Pacific Washington Post AP TALCA, Chile -- One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake ... 8.8 earthquake hits Chile; tsunami feared throughout eastern Pacific Chile earthquake update: 3 dead, 10 missing after wave hits island Massive earthquake strikes Chile, 122 dead |
WWLP 22News | Teacher killed in Tacoma school shooting Friday TheNewsTribune.com Faculty embrace as they show up to Birney Elementary school this morning. It appears a teacher wasshot and killed before children arrived. A woman has been shot and killed at Birney Elementary in Tacoma this morning. Tacoma school officials have ... Teacher shot and killed at Tacoma, Wash., school Teacher shot and killed at Tacoma, Wash., school Woman Reportedly Shot at Tacoma School |
New York Times (blog) | Obama: Politics Trumped Common Sense in Health Care Debate ABC News President Obama kicked off a bipartisan health care summit today with hopes that Democrats and Republicans can bridge their divide to achieve a substantive discussion about how to move forward on overhaul ... Rove: What the GOP Should Say at the Health Summit |
The Guardian | Toyota's President to Take 'Full Responsibility' New York Times Cliff Owen/AP Toyota President and Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda, center, and Rep. Darrell Issa, second from right, left a meeting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. By MICHELINE MAYNARD WASHINGTON â€" Toyota's elusive president goes before a House ... Degrees of Losing: Toyota's Trouble in Washington. Factbox: What has Toyota pledged to change? Jim Press: Toyoda can save Toyota from 'pirates' |
Reuters | LIVE: Toyota's US boss grilled by Congress The Guardian Hold onto your seatbelts. It's the first of two days of congressional grilling for Toyota bosses, who are being c » |
New York Times | Obama Details Plan to Expand Health Care to Uninsured New York Times WASHINGTON â€" President Obama on Monday laid out for the first time a detailed legislative proposal for overhauling health care. His plan sticks largely to the approach passed by the Senate with unified ... Obama embraces Senate approach in new health-care plan Republican Doctors Offer to Make White House C » |
ABC News | Marines, Afghan troops battle holdout insurgents in Marja Los Angeles Times NATO encounters "determined resistance" around the southern Afghanistan town as the offensive rages for a ninth day. Marines rest in a compound as they push ahead in Marja. NATO said the operation remains "on track," but commanders said last week that ... Afghanistan offensive easing off Operation on Taliban slows down in minefields in S Afghanistan Afghan police move into Taliban stronghold |
Telegraph.co.uk | Alexander Haig, former secretary of state, dies Washington Post Alexander Haig, a former Army general and adviser to three presidents, died Saturday from complications from an infection. He was 85. By James Hohmann Retired Army Gen. Alexander Haig, who held influential positions in the United States military and in ... Alexander M. Haig, military man, presidential aide, dies at 85 Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig dies Ex-Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig dead at 85 |
CBC.ca | Plane crash pilot's rage was well hidden, friends say CNN Friends were unaware of the despair that apparently led Joseph Stack to crash his plane into this building in Austin, Texas. Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Friends say they had no inkling of the rage tormenting a man believed to have deliberately crashed a ... Texas Plane Crash: Did Suicidal Pilot Joe Stack Have Explosives on Board? IRS Worker: Austin Attack "Unfair" Tax Protester Crashes Plane Into IRS Office |
Los Angeles Times | Where the Tea Parties Should Go From Here W » |
Reuters | Silver Lining Hard to Find for Some on Anniversary of Stimulus FOXNews While the Obama administration and congressional Democrats are out in force this week touting the success of the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed exactly one year ago, critics are pointing to a still-dismal jobs picture ... Obama stimulus plan halted economic freef » |
Reuters | What they are saying about Sen. Bayh Indianapolis Star Here's what reporters and bloggers are saying today about Evan Bayh's decision note to seek a third term in the Senate. A day after he stunned most of Washington by announcing his resignation from the Senate, Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh said this ... What Evan Bayh's retirement re » |
Times Online | Professor's arrest roils Alabama campus after shootings Los Angeles Times Amy Bishop is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors. A Massachusetts police chief discloses that Bishop fat » |
New York Times (blog) | Mixed GOP response to WH health summit invite San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTONâ€"Congressional Republicans sent mixed signals after President Barack Obama ch » |
Washington Post | Bill Clinton released from hospital CNN New York (CNN) -- Former President Clinton left a New York hospital early Friday, less than a day after doctors performed a procedure to restore blood flow in one of his coronary arteries. Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton confidant and former chairman of the ... After heart procedure, former president Bill Clinton released from hospital Bill Clinton Leaves Hospital |
Sydney Morning Herald | Ex-US congressman Charlie Wilson dies in hospital BBC News Former US congressman Charlie Wilson has died at the age of 76, a hospital spokeswoman has said. Mr Wilson represented Texas in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1996 and was nicknamed "Good Time Charlie" for his party-loving ways. ... Congressman Who Backed Afghan Fighters Against the Soviets Dies Ex-Rep.Charlie Wilson dies at 76 Roy Exum: Charlie's Good Time |
WOOD-TV | 4.3 earthquake 'rattles people awake' in west suburbs Chicago Sun-Times An earthquake has occurred in the west suburbs near Geneva early Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey. At 3:59 am an earthquake of a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 hit an area about five miles east of Sycamore, or about 4 miles west/northwest ... Sm » |
China Daily | Jobs bill: A chance for bipartisanship or election strategy? CNN Washington (CNN) -- As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if c » |
Telegraph.co.uk | Middletown Explosion: Relief Centers Set Up For Employees, Family Members Hartford Courant Where: Not-yet-operational 620-megawatt Kleen Energy power plant on the Connecticut River in Middletown. Size: The 96 percent complete plant was to be one of the largest in New England in recent years. Operations: The Kleen Energy plant is meant to ... Not » |
BBC News | Iran says to start work on 20 percent nuclear fuel Reuters Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Industries Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian wear protective glasses while visiting an exhibition of Iran laser science and technology in Tehran February 7, 2010. TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ... Iran's President Orders Higher Enrichment of Uranium Ahmadinejad orders uranium enrichment for medical reactor Defiant Ahmadinejad orders uranium enrichment to 20% |
Washington Post | The Tea Party is still taking shape Washington Post Six hundred tea party leaders arrived Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, for the first-ever three-day National Tea Party Convention. Organizers announced the creation of a political action committee c » |