Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:36 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits slipped last week, the latest sign the employment picture is slowly brightening....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:10:33 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:45 GMT
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Early results from Iraq's key election began coming in Thursday, showing a coalition led by the prime minister ahead in two southern Shiite provinces where he was opposed by hard-line religious parties with close ties to Iran....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:08 GMT
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Two strongly felt earthquakes have rocked central Chile as dignitaries arrive for the inauguration of President-elect Sebastian Pinera....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:32:03 GMT
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:05:24 GMT
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WASHINGTON AP) (AP) -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a financial regulation bill as bipartisan talks have failed to yield agreement on consumer protections and other sticking points....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:16 GMT
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but 'unquestionably the right thing to do.'...
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:36:15 GMT
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person - a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club....
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:14:22 GMT
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael 'Big Mike' Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the 'American Idol' judges giddy with a moving performance of 'This Woman's Work.'...
Published: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:30 GMT
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training....
