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Obama, Republicans spar over starting point for health care summit

CNN - ‎32 minutes ago‎
President Obama meets with congressional leaders, including (from left) Reps. Steny Hoyer, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi. Washington (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday his televised health care summit with Republican leaders on February 25 should ...

Fact Check: The cost of obesity

CNN - Diana Holden - ‎2 hours ago‎
(CNN) -- The White House on Tuesday unveiled its campaign to fight childhood obesity. First lady Michelle Obama is spearheading the effort.

Senate Republicans Block Labor Board Nominee

Wall Street Journal - Melanie Trottman, Kris Maher - ‎31 minutes ago‎
The nomination of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board fell short of the 60 votes needed to end a Republican filibuster Monday, with just 52 Senators voting in favor of invoking cloture.

Obama: New Iran Sanctions Being Developed Quickly

Voice of America - Kent Klein - ‎1 hour ago‎
As Iran accelerated its nuclear program on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama announced that major new sanctions on the Iranian government are being developed.

Nigeria's VP takes over from ailing president

AFP - ‎2 hours ago‎
ABUJA - Nigeria's Vice President Goodluck Jonathan took office as acting head-of-state on Tuesday after parliament voted to force ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand over until he is well enough to return.

Sri Lanka to Hold April Elections; Rajapaksa Dissolves Assembly

BusinessWeek - Paul Tighe - ‎24 minutes ago‎
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka will hold general elections in April as President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismissed parliament a day after the arrest of General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated opposition candidate in January's presidential ballot ...

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Gibbs Scrawls Grocery List on Hand in Jab at Palin

FOXNews - ‎3 hours ago‎
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a swipe at Sarah Palin Tuesday, mimicking the former vice presidential candidate's decision to use her hand as a notepad at the National Tea Party Convention last week.

Father of NY Terror Plot Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
By AP NEW YORK (AP) -- Prosecutors say the father of a Colorado airport driver accused in a terror plot against New York City has pleaded not guilty to obstructing the investigation.

Murtha's gallbladder procedure rarely deadly

CNN - Elizabeth Landau, Sabriya Rice - ‎1 hour ago‎
(CNN) -- Taking out a patient's gallbladder is routine. At least 500000 such surgeries are done each year in the United States.
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Toyota UK accelerator pedal fix will take a month

BBC News - ‎56 minutes ago‎
Toyota says it will start repairing the accelerator pedals on 180000 vehicles across the UK on Wednesday morning. It says it has the capacity to fix 6000 cars a day - meaning it will be a month before this process is complete.

Berlin's Wall Around Greek Ruins?

Wall Street Journal - Thorold Barker, Richard Barley - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Is it a loan? Is it a bond? No, it's a potential euro-zone guarantee for profligate sovereigns. After weeks of panicky markets, which caused Greek sovereign-debt spreads to balloon, stronger neighbors appear ready ...

Honda recalls 379000 cars for airbag hazard

CNNMoney.com - Julianne Pepitone - ‎40 minutes ago‎
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Honda announced it is expanding a previously announced recall to replace an airbag inflator in an additional 379000 US vehicles.
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Google Hoping 'Buzz' Not Another Social Media Fizzle

Wall Street Journal - Scott Morrison - ‎2 hours ago‎
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Google Inc. (GOOG) calls its new social media product "Buzz." If the service goes the way of the search giant's earlier forays into social networks, it may fizzle.

Microsoft Plugs 26 Vulnerabilities With 13 Patches In Record Update

ChannelWeb - Stefanie Hoffman - ‎36 minutes ago‎
Microsoft released a record 13-patch security update for its February Patch Tuesday, repairing a total of 26 vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.

Report says Apple gained US smartphone market share

Macworld - Marco Tabini - ‎52 minutes ago‎
According to market analysis firm ComScore, Apple's share of the US smartphone market grew by a full percentage point in December of 2009.

Tom Cruise set for fourth 'Mission'

Hollywood Reporter - Jay A. Fernandez - ‎24 minutes ago‎
Tom Cruise has committed to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in the next installment of the "Mission: Impossible" series at Paramount.

Lil Wayne Shot Nine Music Videos Last Weekend

MTV.com - Shaheem Reid - ‎2 hours ago‎
Preparing for Wayne's (delayed) stint in jail, MC shot footage for songs from Tha Carter IV, Rebirth and Young Money LPs. By Shaheem Reid Video director David Rousseau said he and the Cash Money team might need to check the Guinness Book of World ...

Ellen DeGeneres: 'I'd be fine with just the three of us'

Los Angeles Times - ‎39 minutes ago‎
New judge Ellen DeGeneres hasn't done many interviews in advance of her "Idol" debut tonight, but she did speak with "Extra's" Mario Lopez and told him that, despite the never-ending stream of rumors, she would "be fine if it was just the three of us.

Vancouver Games story lines

Yahoo! Sports - Dan Wetzel - ‎1 hour ago‎
If you think the start of the Winter Olympics snuck up on you - they light the torch Friday evening - then imagine how the people of Vancouver feel.

Utah could be target if Pac-10 decides to expand to 12 schools

USA Today - ‎3 hours ago‎
Two months after the Big Ten said it would look into expansion, the Pac-10 is following suit. League commissioner Larry Scott said "serious evaluation" would take place over the next 6-12 months with a decision to be made before negotiations start on ...

Cyst puts Lyon behind schedule

MLB.com - Brian McTaggart - ‎1 hour ago‎
HOUSTON -- Astros general manager Ed Wade said Tuesday relief pitcher Brandon Lyon had a small cyst in his right shoulder drained and will be a little behind schedule when he reports to camp next week.

FDA Wants New Controls On CT Scans

Baltimore Sun - ‎34 minutes ago‎
The Food and Drug Administration will require new safety controls on medical imaging devices and encourage development of more precise radiation dosing standards in a bid to reduce unnecessary exposure of patients to diagnostic radiation.

Surgery better than diet, exercise in obese teens

Reuters - Julie Steenhuysen, Paul Simao - ‎50 minutes ago‎
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Severely obese teens who had surgery to limit what they could eat lost more weight and enjoyed more health benefits than those who did an intensive lifestyle program, researchers said on Tuesday.

Health Buzz: Autism Risk Rises With Maternal Age

U.S. News & World Report - Megan Johnson - ‎6 hours ago‎
A new study suggests that older women are at greater risk of having a child with autism, HealthDay reports. When compared to women giving birth in their mid to late 20s, moms who had babies at age 40 or older had a 50 percent greater ...

World War II-era navigation system shut down

CNN Political Ticker - Mike M. Ahlers - ‎Feb 8, 2010‎
Coast Guard Loran Station Attu in Alaska is one of five that will remain open until June. In a series of small ceremonies, the US Coast Guard on Monday shut down Loran-C, a navigation and timing system that has guided mariners ...

The New Math on Campus

New York Times - Alex Williams - ‎Feb 5, 2010‎
Daniel Cope at “country night” at the Deep End, a bar in Chapel Hill, NC, with, from left, Katie Gane, Bekah Justus, Tucker Petty, Annie Cherry, Taylor Walters and Kelly Lynch.

Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political ...

Slate - Jacob Weisberg - ‎Feb 6, 2010‎
In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President ...

For Japan's cellphone novelists, proof of success is in the print

Los Angeles Times - Yuriko Nagano - ‎Feb 8, 2010‎
One teenager who wrote a three-volume novel on her phone has gone on to sell more than 110000 paperback copies, grossing more than $611000 in sales.

Why are liberals so condescending?

Washington Post - Gerard Alexander - ‎Feb 5, 2010‎
Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots.
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