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New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage Bill

New York Times - Jeremy W. Peters - ‎44 minutes ago‎
Senator Thomas K. Duane, the sponsor of same-sex marriage legislation, embraced Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson after she announced her support for the bill during the debate on the senate floor on Wednesday in Albany.

Afghanistan Tops NATO Agenda

Voice of America - Lisa Bryant - ‎26 minutes ago‎
Tuesday, US President Barack Obama announced a build up of US forces there, but some NATO members are reluctant to boost their own troop levels in Afghanistan.

Tiger Woods Apologizes as Alleged Mistress Jaimee Grubbs Goes Public

ABC News - Emily Friedman - ‎1 hour ago‎
The day after a Los Angeles woman claimed to have had a nearly three-year affair with Tiger Woods, the golf star released a statement of his own, apologizing for his "transgressions" and vowing to be a better husband and father in the ...

Minarets and Europe's crisis

Aljazeera.net - Anas Altikriti - ‎8 hours ago‎
The mind is boggled by the fact that Switzerland, a country renowned for its tolerant nature, could come to see less than a handful of minarets as a threat to its identity and culture.

Freed by Iran, British sailors land in Dubai

CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎
London, England (CNN) -- The relatives of five British sailors whose boat apparently drifted into Iranian territorial waters last week voiced relief Wednesday as their sons arrived at a yacht club in Dubai.

In Jerusalem, revocations of residency for Palestinians escalate

Washington Post - Howard Schneider - ‎45 minutes ago‎
JERUSALEM -- Israel last year revoked the Jerusalem residency of more than 4500 Palestinians, far more than in any other year since Israel took full control of the city in 1967, according to government figures obtained by a local ...

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Union Executives and Academics at Jobs Summit Were Hefty Obama Donors

FOXNews - ‎3 hours ago‎
A large number of union executives and academics who gave heavily to President Obama's 2008 campaign will be at the table for President Obama's White House jobs summit Thursday -- along with a number of corporate executives capable of creating the jobs ...

Emails show White House crashers lobbied hard for invite

AFP - ‎20 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON - Copies of emails exchanged between a couple who crashed a White House dinner and a Pentagon official show the pair lobbied hard for an invite, but apparently showed up to the event without one.

US Senate Democrats Bemoan Slowdown In Health Bill Debate

Wall Street Journal - Patrick Yoest - ‎45 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--US Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were considering cutting off debate on Republican amendments to health-overhaul legislation and warned that the Senate could work on the bill ...

Whitacre Said to Expect CEO Search Taking Up to Year

Bloomberg - Jeff Green, Katie Merx - ‎44 minutes ago‎
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. Chairman Ed Whitacre, who took over the chief executive officer job from Fritz Henderson yesterday, told employees that the search for a new CEO may take as long as a ...

Beige Book: Economic Conditions Continue To Improve

Wall Street Journal - Meena Thiruvengadam - ‎32 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Economic conditions continued to improve across much of the country in late October and early November, but a weak labor market and deteriorating commercial real-estate sector remain ...

US Stocks Retreat, Led by Energy Producers, Financials

Bloomberg - Mary Childs - ‎1 hour ago‎
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- US stocks fell, pulling the Dow Jones Industrial Average down from a 14-month high, as a drop in oil dragged down energy shares and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The Fall Of Bing (Seasonal Release, That Is)

Washington Post - ‎39 minutes ago‎
We're here at Microsoft's San Francisco headquarters so they can show off what they're calling the "Bing Fall Release.

AT&T, Verizon Drop Suits

PC World - Nancy Gohring - ‎1 hour ago‎
On Wednesday, AT&T asked the court to dismiss its lawsuit that sought to prevent Verizon from continuing to run the commercials.

Google Makes It Easier for News Sites to Opt-out

PC World - David Coursey - ‎13 minutes ago‎
In what will be seen as a concession to media baron Rupert Murdoch, Google has made it easier for news sites--such as those Murdoch controls--to opt-out of Google News.

Susan Boyle Beats Adam Lambert, Rihanna For Billboard #1

MTV.com - Gil Kaufman - ‎3 hours ago‎
"Britain's Got Talent" runner-up Susan Boyle is exactly the kind of Christmas present the beleaguered music industry has been looking for.

Actress Meredith Baxter Says She's a Lesbian

ABC News - Corinne Heller, Bob Tourtellotte - ‎41 minutes ago‎
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Meredith Baxter, a star of the 1980's sitcom "Family Ties", said on Wednesday she was a lesbian as media reports and published photos of her and a woman embracing began to surface in public.

Swiss Say Roman Polanski House Arrest to Begin Friday

ABC News - Sonya Hepinstall - ‎4 hours ago‎
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities will release film director Roman Polanski into house arrest at his luxury Alpine chalet on Friday, the government said on Wednesday.

At Chevron, Tiger still dominates the conversation

FOXSports.com - Jim McCabe - ‎16 hours ago‎
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - On the one hand, you could say Tiger Woods' Thanksgiving weekend has turned the proceedings here at Sherwood Country Club into a Hollywood soap opera - which is perfect, given the locale just north ...

Woods crash did $3200 damage to hydrant, tree

The Associated Press - Antonio Gonzalez - ‎1 hour ago‎
ORLANDO, Fla. - Tiger Woods caused $3200 in property damage, wasn't wearing a seat belt and was driving erratically outside his Florida home before crashing into a tree, according to a final report released Wednesday.

Tom Brady: 'The mourning period is over' for Patriots

USA Today - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Tom Brady said today the Patriots are not hanging their head after Monday's blowout loss to the Saints. "The mourning period is over," Brady told reporters, via theboston Herald.

NIH Has Approved 13 Human Stem Cell Lines For Research

Wall Street Journal - ‎25 minutes ago‎
(Updates with comments from Dr. George Daley, who developed 11 of the stem cell lines) By Jared A. Favole Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins said the agency has approved 13 human ...

Officials: Beware of scam e-mails on H1N1

Detroit Free Press - Robin Erb - ‎1 hour ago‎
Scam artists have turned to the Web again, this time using the concern over H1N1 to lure users into making their computers vulnerable to a virus.

US Rep. Kendrick Meek on World AIDS Day 2009

Westside Gazette - Adam Sharon - ‎30 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON, DC - US Congressman Kendrick B. Meek (D-FL) today issued the following statement in recognition of Dec. 1st as World AIDS Day 2009: “Today we honor the memory of all who have lost their lives to the global epidemic of ...

A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity

New York Times - John Noble Wilford - ‎Nov 30, 2009‎
Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, ...

Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012

Newsweek - ‎Nov 28, 2009‎
Gallup is not asking about him in its prospective polling, and his daughter Liz's recent Fox News Sunday allusion to a presidential run provoked good-natured laughter, as though the suggestion were just a one-liner.

At This School, It's Marijuana in Every Class

New York Times - Tamar Lewin - ‎Nov 28, 2009‎
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the legal how-to's of Michigan's new medical ...

Facebook to lose geography networks, add privacy features

CNN - Doug Gross - ‎5 hours ago‎
Facebook users will lose geographic networks but gain the ability to decide with every post which friends get to see it. (CNN) -- Facebook users will soon lose the ability to join a network of friends who live in the same area but ...

We need a new women's health movement

Los Angeles Times - Barbara Ehrenreich - ‎19 hours ago‎
Has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult? When the House passed the Stupak amendment, which would take away abortion rights from women who get any government help purchasing insurance, the female response ...
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