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Stop giving the Fed chairman such a hard time; he prevented more bankruptcies than we'll ever know.
The Large Hadron Collider experiment, designed to shed light on the cosmos, restarts after 14 months of repairs.
AP - Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana....
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AP - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road.
Accompanied by two smitten young men vying to impress her, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and then plunged it into her roommate's neck, killing her, an Italian prosecutor charged in closing arguments Friday.
Students and faculty worry that deep budget cuts are pushing the University of California into decline.
Will Ferrell tops our list of actors who cost more than their box office worth.
US Weekly's Jill Martin and hairstylist Louis Licari make over a 57-year-old flight attendant from Alabama and a 48-year-old stay-at-home mom.
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The Large Hadron Collider experiment, designed to shed light on the cosmos, restarts after 14 months of repairs.
LONDON (AP) -- A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid....
After spending $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, the U.S. is concerned that Iraqis won't be able to maintain the facilities once the Americans have left.
AP - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
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The stock market ended a down week with light selling as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt.
Target, Best Buy preps for holiday shopping season; GDP, housing report.
Reuters - U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday as investors took weaker-than-expected results from computer maker Dell and homebuilder D.R. Horton as a further sign that the recovery would be anemic.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors can't shake their fears that the economy isn't keeping up with the stock market....
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The Kyoto Box, an award-winning solar cooker made of cardboard, aims to reach millions for free with the help of the carbon credit market.
Cheap, dinky netbooks took 2008 by storm. Now it's time for thinner, more powerful models.
AP - I'm typing this in between perusing Facebook, trying (and failing) to master a guitar-simulation game and listening to Internet radio on my smart phone.
Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to a popularity contest on the social media site Twitter. The celebrity and the news network are racing to get 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site, and the smack talk is flying.
The staff cuts could affect several hundred employees and may be announced when the company reports its earnings.
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The new guidelines on breast cancer screening have instantly ignited an emotionally charged firestorm among physicians across the country.
AP - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
Your chances of getting inoculated against America's worst pandemic since the 1918 flu improve greatly depending on where you live.
Hot lines, online groups and organizations that charge fees on a sliding scale are options for finding help.
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An Ohio police chief accused of burgling the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ...
Car giveaways, tearful interviews and couch-jumping are in the past -- and fans wonder what's next.
CHICAGO (AP) -- For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night....
AP - Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.
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LONDON (AP) -- There will be no rematch....
AP - The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussion, saying that is not an adequate solution.
Jimmie Johnson's run for his fourth straight Cup title starts from the pole.
History has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, battling each other and defying an army of club-wielding riot police.
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Reuters - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.
AP Top Strange News At 5:19 p.m. EST
From a crocodile sporting a boar-like snout to a peculiar pal with buckteeth for digging up grub, an odd-looking bunch of such reptiles dashed and swam across what is now the Sahara Desert some 100 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled.
Is the world ready for a sport played with a headless goat carcass?
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One game developer said it is cutting its investment in Android in favor of Apple's iPhone because it sells 400 times more games for the iPhone than it does for Android.
AP - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul....
With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democratic leaders pushed ahead Friday toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill amid indications the rank-and-file would stand together on President Barack Obama's signature issue.
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Jerking is a Los Angeles dance phenomenon that comes with its own dress code.
Jerking is a Los Angeles dance phenomenon that comes with its own dress code.
One way to improve is to read all you can. Of the many good books out in 2009, two appeal to me. One is "Right Through the Pack Again" by Australian maestro Ron Klinger, a collection of stories featuring Klinger's "Old Master," written with great humanity. The other is Larry Cohen's "My Favorite...
Your chances of getting inoculated against America's worst pandemic since the 1918 flu improve greatly depending on where you live.
Editorials/Opinions (more)
The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its ...
By not extracting concessions from bankers during the rescue of A.I.G., policy makers undermined their own credibility â€" and put the broader economy at risk.
American officials need to help resolve the impasse over election laws in Iraq, and Iraqis must learn how to forge reliable compromises.
The Yahoo! Newsroom - Republican Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter is Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee and serves the 11th congressional district of Southeast Michigan. He is currently serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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