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Senate Democrats unveil jobs package with tax breaks to entice GOP

Boston Globe - Andrew Taylor, Stephen Ohlemacher - ‎4 hours ago‎
AP / February 10, 2010 WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats sought to round up Republican support yesterday for a limited jobs bill, hoping to hand President Obama a badly needed political victory before Congress breaks ...

Sri Lankan Gen Sarath Fonseka's arrest to be challenged

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Sri Lankan opposition parties have said they will mount a legal challenge to the detention of defeated presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka.

NY senator who dragged girlfriend fights expulsion

The Associated Press - Michael Virtanen - ‎16 minutes ago‎
ALBANY, NY - A Democratic state senator who betrayed his colleagues by joining Republicans in a brief coup and was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge for dragging his girlfriend around during an argument at his apartment says he'll go back to ...

'World moving fairly quickly on Iran'

Jerusalem Post - Herb Keinon - ‎2 hours ago‎
As a defiant Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama said the international community was “moving along fairly quickly” toward imposing new sanctions, and Prime Minister Binyamin ...

European Parliament approves new EU commission

Xinhua - ‎9 hours ago‎
BRUSSELS, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The European Parliament (EP) elected the new European Commission (EC) by 488 votes to 137, with 72 abstentions, in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

Nigeria: Jonathan Now Acting President

AllAfrica.com - Uchenna Awom, Adesuwa Tsan - ‎4 hours ago‎
Abuja - The two chambers of the National Assembly: Senate and the House of Representatives, yesterday unanimously resolved to constitutionally empower Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as acting president in line with Section 145 of the 1999 ...

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For GOP and Obama, partisan actions follow bipartisan talk

Dallas Morning News - Helene Cooper, Carl Hulse - ‎40 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and GOP leaders agreed Tuesday that they had pinpointed a handful of areas - most of them related to job creation - where the two sides might be able to work together.

Rendell plan widens sales tax | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/10/2010

Philadelphia Inquirer - Angela Couloumbis, Mario F. Cattabiani - ‎57 minutes ago‎
If Gov. Rendell gets his way, you will have to pay the state sales tax on those items and dozens of others that for years have been sold tax-free.

Music That Changed History and Still Resonates

New York Times - Jon Pareles - ‎3 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON - Half a dozen legislators sat a few feet away, under the crystal chandeliers of the East Room of the White House, as Bob Dylan sang “The Times They Are A-Changin',” poker-faced.

In Tokyo, Embattled Toyota Chief Faces a Nation

TIME - Shintaro Kano - ‎44 minutes ago‎
Toyota President Akio Toyoda surrounded by reporters after a meeting at the Transport Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2010 Asked to comment in English during an "emergency" press conference held last ...

Greece Hopes Lift European Stocks

Wall Street Journal - Michele Maatouk - ‎1 hour ago‎
LONDON—European stocks rose Wednesday, taking their cue from a strong session on Wall Street prompted by hopes that Germany will step in to resolve Greece's debt crisis.

CORRECTED-Honda sees over 10 pct rise in China sales in 2010

Reuters - Yumiko Nishitani, Yoshifumi Takemoto - ‎1 hour ago‎
TOKYO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Honda Motor (7267.T) said on Wednesday it aims to sell at least 632200 vehicles in China this year, up 10 percent from 2009, though the pace of growth will likely slow compared with a surge last year due to government ...

Google's Buzz Puts Facebook, Twitter on Notice

PC Magazine - Lance Ulanoff - ‎3 hours ago‎
Google's new social layer-cake service, Google Buzz, pays lip service to integration with non-Google apps like Twitter. But if Google gets its way, Twitter and Facebook will only be so much noise outside the increasingly closed world ...

Space shuttle Endeavour pulls in at space station

The Associated Press - Marcia Dunn - ‎26 minutes ago‎
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Shuttle Endeavour arrived to a warm welcome at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200 miles above Earth.

Google Gives In On Nexus One Fees, Support

PC World - Jr Raphael - ‎10 hours ago‎
Google may be busy buzzing about new services this week, but behind the scenes, the G-Team is quietly working to fine-tune its last major endeavor.

Ann Powers: Less Ellen, more guitars

Los Angeles Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
Hollywood Week's big news turned out a fizzle Tuesday night -- not because Ellen DeGeneres was bad, or offensive, or much of anything, as a judge, but because she seamlessly fit into the patter and often meaningless "critique" at the judges' table, ...

The last 'Jay Leno Show'

Los Angeles Times - Robert Lloyd - ‎3 hours ago‎
As far too many of us know, Jay Leno, who has been parked weeknights at 10 pm since September, is moving back to "The Tonight Show," the job he left at the end of May.

Lil Wayne jail stint's tooth delay

New York Post - Laura Italiano, Matt Williams - ‎28 minutes ago‎
Rap superstar Lil Wayne -- whose song "Lollipop" was a No. 1 hit in 2008 -- has won a month's reprieve from jail so he can finish up some major dental surgery.

Everything Is in Place in Vancouver, Except Snow

New York Times - Ian Austen, John Branch - ‎7 hours ago‎
WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The steady roar of a helicopter dumping snow on the Olympic snowboard halfpipe and a caravan of trucks hauling more snow from hundreds of miles away are creating a defining image of the ...

3. Daily Dime Live Recap

ESPN - ‎1 hour ago‎
ESPN.com writers and TrueHoop Network bloggers chatted with fans and gave their in-game opinions throughout Tuesday's games -- all in Daily Dime Live.

Loss erases Michigan State's Big Ten lead

Detroit Free Press - George Sipple - ‎52 minutes ago‎
EAST LANSING -- Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said Tuesday's crowd at the Breslin Center was one of the best in years. Unfortunately the crowd of 14759 battled the winter elements to get to the arena for a 9 pm start only to see the ...

FDA to Increase Medical Radiation Oversight

New York Times - Walt Bogdanich, Rebecca R. Ruiz - ‎7 hours ago‎
The federal Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would take steps to more stringently regulate three of the most potent forms of medical radiation, including increasingly popular CT scans, ...

Weight-Loss Surgery May Help Severely Obese Teens

BusinessWeek - Jason Gale - ‎36 minutes ago‎
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Weight-loss surgery was more effective at slimming severely obese teens and improving their health than two years of diet and exercise, a study found.

Revising the book on mental illness

Los Angeles Times - Shari Roan - ‎1 hour ago‎
Experts call for listing binge eating and gambling as official disorders, but not sex addiction or obesity. By Shari Roan After years of research, professional infighting and maneuvering from various interest groups, the nation's psychiatrists Tuesday ...

EXCLUSIVE (Update): Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes

Huffington Post (blog) - ‎Feb 6, 2010‎
Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand.

A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer

New York Times - ‎Feb 8, 2010‎
A former bank robber, Shon R. Hopwood emerged from more than a decade in federal prison as a skilled Supreme Court practitioner. At his home in Omaha, his wife, Ann Marie, held their six week old son Mark.

The great global warming collapse

Globe and Mail - Anthony Jenkins - ‎Feb 6, 2010‎
In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.

Ripples of Dubai killing spread

CNN - Paula Hancocks - ‎Feb 8, 2010‎
Dubai, UAE (CNN) -- A shadowy figure murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad that the police say operated with European passports.

The Art of Being Santa Fe

New York Times - Henry Shukman - ‎Feb 5, 2010‎
Far from adobe style, the Railyard is a complex of shops and a farmers' market. By HENRY SHUKMAN I CAN'T remember how or why it came to be dawn when I first saw Santa Fe from a bus window.
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