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- Senate OKs short-term extension of payroll tax cut
- Senate passes payroll tax cut, spending bill
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- Death toll in Philippine floods rises to 436
- Senate OKs $1T budget bill, payroll tax cut
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- Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy
- Duggar Family Takes Controversial Photos of Stillborn Baby Girl
- Train-hopping couple buried alive under coal
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- Huntsman's economic director calls Ron Paul's budget plan 'ludicrous'
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- The digital ways kids cheat
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- Russia's Mars probe will crash to Earth in January
- Senate leaders reach last-minute accord
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- South Carolina has first human rabies case in 50 years
- Gingrich says Freddie money went to overhead, not him
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- Truck thieves take millions in electronics
- 'Sanford & Son' actor Graham Brown dies in NJ
- Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
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Senate OKs short-term extension of payroll tax cut
Sat,17 Dec 2011 07:28 AM PST
AP -  Senators racing for the exits after a year of bitter battles passed legislation Saturday that would extend a Social Security payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months, setting the stage for the next fight until February.
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Senate passes payroll tax cut, spending bill
Sat,17 Dec 2011 03:03 PM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Saturday approved a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut and a $1 trillion bill to fund the government, resolving the latest in a year-long series of tense political stand-offs but setting up fresh battles for 2012. Democrats and Republicans were unable to agree on how to pay for a full-year extension of the tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits, as President Barack Obama requested. ...
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Death toll in Philippine floods rises to 436
Sat,17 Dec 2011 07:24 AM PST
AP -  Pounding rain from a tropical storm swelled rivers and sent walls of water crushing into two southern Philippine cities in the thick of night, killing at least 436 people, many caught in their beds, officials said Saturday.
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Senate OKs $1T budget bill, payroll tax cut
Sat,17 Dec 2011 11:30 AM PST
AP -  The Senate passed legislation Saturday extending a Social Security payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months, handing President Barack Obama a partial victory while setting the stage for another fight in February.
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Unexplained shower of apples falls from sky over town
Thu,15 Dec 2011 02:19 PM PST
The Sideshow - More than 100 apples mysteriously rained down upon a small British town on Monday night. The still-unexplained apple shower left 20 yards of city streets and car windshields covered in the cascading fruit just after the daily rush hour. The news immediately brought up comparisons to biblical tales of raining frogs and whether such reported [...] Full Story | Top |
Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy
Fri,16 Dec 2011 10:30 AM PST
LiveScience.com - Louisiana's state health department has issued a warning about the dangers of improperly using nasal-irrigation devices called neti pots, responding to two recent deaths in the state that are thought to have resulted from "brain-eating amoebas" entering people's brains through their sinuses while they were using the devices. Full Story | Top |
Duggar Family Takes Controversial Photos of Stillborn Baby Girl
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:48 PM PST
The Blaze - In November, to the surprise of many, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar announced that the couple's 20th child was on the way. As the Blaze reported, they encountered a fair amount of criticism, considering the large size of their family, past complications and Michelle's age (she's 45). Full Story | Top |
Train-hopping couple buried alive under coal
Fri,16 Dec 2011 08:29 AM PST
The Sideshow - A young couple hopping railroad cars across the country was found dead under a mound of coal at a Florida power plant. Christopher Artes, 25, and Medeana Hendershot, 22, shared a passion for illegally hopping freight trains and traveling the country without a set plan. They had spent the past several months traveling across the [...] Full Story | Top |
5 dead, including 3 children, in Illinois town
Fri,16 Dec 2011 07:41 PM PST
AP - Five people, including a baby and two children, were found shot to death Friday at a home in a small eastern Illinois farming town, authorities said, and police said they were not searching for a gunman. Full Story | Top |
Huntsman's economic director calls Ron Paul's budget plan 'ludicrous'
Fri,16 Dec 2011 12:47 PM PST
The Ticket - WASHINGTON --The economic policy director for Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign wants you to know that her boss is a conservative, but she thinks the idea that Ron Paul could cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in one year is "ludicrous." At a Wednesday panel discussion hosted by the America's Future Foundation, a club of [...] Full Story | Top |
FBI considered sting aimed at Gingrich
Fri,16 Dec 2011 11:34 AM PST
The Washington Post - It is a curious case in the annals of the FBI: The bureau considered a sting operation against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich after sifting through allegations from a notorious arms dealer that a $10 million bribe might get Congress to lift the Iraqi arms embargo. Full Story | Top |
The digital ways kids cheat
Fri,16 Dec 2011 07:56 AM PST
The Lookout - The low-tech days of cheaters writing answers on their hands are over, according to this round up of the new and digital ways kids are finding to cheat on tests by USA Today's Greg Toppo. Some companies sell tiny earbuds that let test-takers communicate with a helper outside the exam room. (In China, two students taking [...] Full Story | Top |
Russia's Mars probe will crash to Earth in January
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:38 AM PST
AP -  A Russian spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars and stuck in Earth's orbit will come crashing back next month, but its toxic fuel and radioactive material on board will pose no danger of contamination, the Russian space agency said Friday.
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Senate leaders reach last-minute accord
Fri,16 Dec 2011 08:34 PM PST
AP -  Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months while requiring President Barack Obama to accept Republican demands for a swift decision on the fate of an oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs.
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Key Iowa paper backs Romney for president
Sat,17 Dec 2011 06:30 PM PST
Reuters -  DES MOINES (Reuters) - The main newspaper in Iowa, the Des Moines Register, Saturday endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential race, less than three weeks before the state holds the first nominating contest for the 2012 election on January 3. The newspaper said Romney stands out in the field of Republican candidates who are trying to become their party's nominee who will attempt to stop Democratic President Barack Obama's re-election bid. ...
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The World's Fastest Camera
Thu,15 Dec 2011 07:30 AM PST
This Could Be Big - It's difficult to imagine how a camera could possibly capture a trillion frames per second. The idea that anything can happen a trillion times in the space of a second is difficult to rationalize, but at the MIT Media Lab they have built a camera that can, and in doing so have redefined slow motion [...] Full Story | Top |
South Carolina has first human rabies case in 50 years
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:27 PM PST
Reuters - CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A middle-aged woman in South Carolina has contracted the state's first case of human rabies in more than 50 years, health officials said on Friday. "There are only about one to three cases of human rabies each year in this country," said Dr. Eric Brenner, epidemiologist with the state Department of Health and Environmental Control's Bureau of Disease Control. "Tragically, rabies almost always ends in death," he said in a statement. Brenner said health officials believe the woman likely was bitten by a bat that entered her home a few months ago. ... Full Story | Top |
Gingrich says Freddie money went to overhead, not him
Sat,17 Dec 2011 02:22 PM PST
Reuters -  DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich fought back on Saturday against attacks over the more than $1.6 million in payments he received from mortgage giant Freddie Mac, insisting the money went to overhead for his firm and not to his wallet. On a teleconference with Iowans, Gingrich said he worked with Freddie Mac to help poor people get homes, and he wanted to "set the record straight." The payment received over a six-year period was spent mostly on overhead, the former House of Representatives speaker said. ...
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Truck thieves take millions in electronics
Sat,17 Dec 2011 09:33 AM PST
Reuters - INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Police said on Saturday they suspect four or five people were involved in the theft of almost $2 million in electronics when a truck driver discovered his tractor trailer missing from a rest stop. Chesterfield, Indiana police officer Mike Milbourn said the cab of the missing truck was found within a half mile of where it was taken but its trailer containing more than 5,000 Blackberry Playbook tablets is still missing. Milbourn said he thought the theft of the 2007 Volvo truck Thursday on its way to Waterloo, Canada, was very well planned. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:46 AM PST
Christian Science Monitor - Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran. Full Story | Top |
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