Sunday, February 28, 2010

Rescuers search for Chile quake survivors; death toll of 300 expected to rise - Los Angeles Times


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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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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Huge quake hits Chile; tsunami threatens Pacific - Washington Post


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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

Los Angeles Times


Chile earthquake update: 3 dead, 10 missing after wave hits island

CNN International


Massive earthquake strikes Chile, 122 dead

Reuters


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Friday, February 26, 2010

Teacher killed in Tacoma school shooting Friday - TheNewsTribune.com


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Teacher killed in Tacoma school shooting Friday

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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

Washington Post


Teacher shot and killed at Tacoma, Wash., school

Seattle Times


Woman Reportedly Shot at Tacoma School

ABC News


Seattle Post Intelligencer -Baltimore Sun -WAOW


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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Obama: Politics Trumped Common Sense in Health Care Debate - ABC News


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

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Toyota's President to Take 'Full Responsibility' - New York Times


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.

BusinessWeek


Factbox: What has Toyota pledged to change?

Reuters


Jim Press: Toyoda can save Toyota from 'pirates'

Detroit Free Press


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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

LIVE: Toyota's US boss grilled by Congress - The Guardian


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 »


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Monday, February 22, 2010

Obama Details Plan to Expand Health Care to Uninsured - New York Times


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

Washington Post


Republican Doctors Offer to Make White House C »


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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Marines, Afghan troops battle holdout insurgents in Marja - Los Angeles Times


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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

Aljazeera.net


Operation on Taliban slows down in minefields in S Afghanistan

Xinhua


Afghan police move into Taliban stronghold

AFP


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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Alexander Haig, former secretary of state, dies - Washington Post


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

Boston Globe


Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig dies

CNN


Ex-Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig dead at 85

Reuters


BusinessWeek -Los Angeles Times (blog) -AFP


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Friday, February 19, 2010

Plane crash pilot's rage was well hidden, friends say - CNN


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?

ABC News


IRS Worker: Austin Attack "Unfair"

CBS News


Tax Protester Crashes Plane Into IRS Office

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Where the Tea Parties Should Go From Here - Wall Street Journal


Los Angeles Times


Where the Tea Parties Should Go From Here

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Silver Lining Hard to Find for Some on Anniversary of Stimulus - FOXNews


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 »


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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

What they are saying about Sen. Bayh - Indianapolis Star


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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 »

Monday, February 15, 2010

Microsoft unveils mobile software upgrade - USA Today


Reuters


Microsoft unveils mobile software upgrade

USA Today


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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Professor's arrest roils Alabama campus after shootings - Los Angeles Times


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 »

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Mixed GOP response to WH health summit invite - San Jose Mercury News


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 »


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Friday, February 12, 2010

Bill Clinton released from hospital - CNN


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

Washington Post


Bill Clinton Leaves Hospital

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ex-US congressman Charlie Wilson dies in hospital - BBC News


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

Voice of America


Ex-Rep.Charlie Wilson dies at 76

Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Roy Exum: Charlie's Good Time

The Chattanoogan


New York Times -The Takeaway -Jackson Clarion Ledger


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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

4.3 earthquake 'rattles people awake' in west suburbs - Chicago Sun-Times


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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 ...


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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Jobs bill: A chance for bipartisanship or election strategy? - CNN


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 »


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Monday, February 8, 2010

Middletown Explosion: Relief Centers Set Up For Employees, Family Members - Hartford Courant


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 ...


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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Iran says to start work on 20 percent nuclear fuel - Reuters


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

Voice of America


Ahmadinejad orders uranium enrichment for medical reactor

Los Angeles Times


Defiant Ahmadinejad orders uranium enrichment to 20%

AFP


Washington Post -Press TV -Reuters UK


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Saturday, February 6, 2010

The Tea Party is still taking shape - Washington Post


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 »


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