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New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage BillNew York Times - - 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. ny Lawmakers Reject Gay Marriage Wall Street Journal Afghanistan Tops NATO AgendaVoice of America - - 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 PublicABC News - - 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 ... |
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Minarets and Europe's crisis
Aljazeera.net - - 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.
Swiss vote banning minarets draws criticism Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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 - - 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 ...
Obama pressed from all sides as job summit nears MarketWatch
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.
White House Party Crashers Blame Dead Cell Phone Seattle Post Intelligencer
US Senate Democrats Bemoan Slowdown In Health Bill Debate
Wall Street Journal - - 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 ...
Video: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
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Santa Barbara Arts TV
Senate tempers rise over health care Salt Lake Tribune
Whitacre Said to Expect CEO Search Taking Up to Year
Bloomberg - - 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 ...
Video: GM CEO Henderson Resigns
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Beige Book: Economic Conditions Continue To Improve
Wall Street Journal - - 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 ...
Fed: Economy 'Modestly' Better BusinessWeek
US Stocks Retreat, Led by Energy Producers, Financials
Bloomberg - - 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.
Stocks seesaw on economic questions CNNMoney.com
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.
Hands On: Bing Maps Adds Street Level Pics, More PC Magazine
Microsoft Seeks To Keep Bing Momentum Going Wall Street Journal
AT&T, Verizon Drop Suits
PC World - - 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.
AT&T, Verizon end lawsuits over cell ads The Associated Press
AT&T drops lawsuit against Verizon over advertising spat Apple Insider
Google Makes It Easier for News Sites to Opt-out
PC World - - 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.
Google allows publishers to strengthen `pay walls' The Associated Press
Susan Boyle Beats Adam Lambert, Rihanna For Billboard #1
MTV.com - - 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.
Susan Boyle sets US chart record BBC News
Actress Meredith Baxter Says She's a Lesbian
ABC News - - 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.
'Family Ties' mom Meredith Baxter is a lesbian Los Angeles Times
'Family Ties' mom: 'I am a lesbian' msnbc.com
Swiss Say Roman Polanski House Arrest to Begin Friday
ABC News - - 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 - - 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 ...
Video: Golfers React to News About Tiger Woods
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Three Players Discuss Tiger's Dilemma Cybergolf National
Woods crash did $3200 damage to hydrant, tree
The Associated Press - - 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.
Video: First Highway Patrol Pics From Tiger Woods Crash
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Woods, wife in intense marriage counseling Chicago Sun-Times
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.
Brady: 'The mourning period is over.' Boston Globe
Patriots-Saints 2nd most-watched cable telecast The Associated Press
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 ...
New Stem Cell Lines Open to Research New York Times
Officials: Beware of scam e-mails on H1N1
Detroit Free Press - - 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.
Video: Area H1N1 flu shot clinics
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US Rep. Kendrick Meek on World AIDS Day 2009
Westside Gazette - - 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 ...
S. Africa to expand care for HIV mothers, babies Boston Globe
A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity
New York Times - - 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 - - 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 - - 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 - - 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 ...