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| Washington Post | - 35 minutes ago |
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Washington began bracing for a prolonged government shutdown on Tuesday, with House Republicans continuing to demand that the nation's new health-care law be delayed or repealed and President Obama and the Democrats refusing to give in.
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Washington Post
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President Obama's overtures to Asia have been built on the twin premises that the United States will be a reliable partner and that its democratic values are to be emulated.
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| ABC News | - 2 minutes ago |
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The Jacksonville International Airport in Florida has reopened after authorities found two suspicious packages - one they said was destructive - that led to an evacuation and a shutdown for hours.
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New York Times
4 hours ago
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PITTSBURGH - It was everything the Pittsburgh Pirates could have dreamed, and the best part, for them, is that now there is more to come.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 9 minutes ago |
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu castigated the U.S. diplomatic outreach to Tehran, telling world leaders Iranian President Hasan Rouhani is a "wolf in sheep's clothing" determined to use a political thaw to advance his country's nuclear program.
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Berlusconi tries to topple Italy's government (again). Greece may need another loan and is experiencing political turmoil with the problematic Golden Dawn party.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 23 minutes ago |
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ROME—Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta urged lawmakers Wednesday to "seize the moment" and steer the country away from "potentially fatal risks," hours ahead of a confidence vote that will decide whether his coalition government remains in office.
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| Reuters | - 30 minutes ago |
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By Steve Gutterman. MOSCOW | Wed Oct 2, 2013 6:11am EDT. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities charged Greenpeace activists from several nations with piracy on Wednesday over a protest against Arctic oil drilling at a platform owned by the ...
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Almost 1,000 people were killed and more than 2,000 wounded in violence in Iraq in September, the UN has said. Baghdad was the worst affected province as 887 civilians and 92 members of the Iraqi Security Forces died nationwide.
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World War II veterans breach the security perimeter surrounding the World War II Memorial in Washington on the first day of the government shutdown Tuesday.
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| STLtoday.com | - 3 hours ago |
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The usually bustling District of Columbia is uniquely affected by the first government shutdown in 17 years, with thousands of federal employees who make up the backbone of the metro area's workforce ordered not to report to work.
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Search and rescue officials plan to renew their efforts to locate a man and a woman missing in separate, remote parts of southwest Washington after a helicopter rescued two other hikers from waist-deep snow.
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West Texas Intermediate fell for the ninth time in 10 days on signs of increasing oil inventories and concern that the U.S. government's first shutdown in 17 years will slow economic growth and demand for crude.
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| Businessweek | - 47 minutes ago |
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Republicans coined “Obamacare” as an ominous putdown—and to avoid ever having to refer to the president's signature health-care law by its loftier official title, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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| MarketWatch | - 2 hours ago |
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MADRID (MarketWatch) -- If the political stalemate over the budget causes difficulties in reaching agreement over the debt ceiling, the U.S.
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| Philly.com | - 3 hours ago |
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A combine harvests soybeans on a farm in Fairfield County, Ohio. The Department of Agriculture will cease all but essential functions during the shutdown, and no new rural loans or guarantees will be made.
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| Register | - 14 minutes ago |
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Gamers keen to get online and play Grand Theft Auto V against humans rather than machine intelligence have had to wait after server problems left them stymied.
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Apple has acknowledged the iMessage issues that plague a number of users since they've upgraded to iOS 7, and is working on a fix, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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| Register | - 25 minutes ago |
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Three Microsoft investors that collectively own more than five per cent of the company are lobbying to fire founder Bill Gates from his role as Chairman.
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Washington Post
8 hours ago
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The European Union and Google appear to be close to a final settlement over the tech firm's search practices, which critics said violated antitrust law.
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| InformationWeek | - 12 hours ago |
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Amazon's one-touch "Mayday button" on the new Kindle Fire HDX is our first glimpse of the 24-7 customer service world to come.
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| The Hollywood Gossip | - 31 minutes ago |
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You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work bitch. You want a Lamborghini? Sippin martinis? Look hot in a bikini?
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| USA TODAY | - 18 hours ago |
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Today's Pick: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer on YouTube. The Topic: Get a glimpse of what's in store for Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and company in part 2 of their three-part journey.
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| Boston Globe | - 1 hour ago |
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Alums are invited back to The Heights to take part in activities that include the induction of this year's class into the Varsity Club Hall of Fame and the silver anniversary reunion of the 1988 BC football team that defeated Army in Dublin.
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| Columbus Dispatch | - 50 minutes ago |
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See videos, stories and photos from the Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin. Golf Headlines. Team play not exactly how Muirfield fans know golf · Presidents Cup: Watch for mind games during play · Presidents Cup: Kuchar may be choice to ...
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| USA TODAY | - 5 hours ago |
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The NHL had its first scary-looking injury on opening night as Montreal Canadiens tough guy George Parros was taken off the ice on a stretcher.
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| WJBD Online | - 20 minutes ago |
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Jonathan Daniel/ Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- The Chicago Blackhawks raised another championship banner to the rafters at the United Center, and from there it was back to business.
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| Boston Herald | - 6 hours ago |
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CLEVELAND - If Terry Francona's joking about chicken and beer, you know that he's back to being himself again. And if Francona's back to being himself, then that means he's not only got his sense of humor back after enduring the darkest days of his ...
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International Business Times
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April showers bring May flowers nowadays, but hundreds of millions of years ago, they didn't. Flowering plants didn't arise until dinosaurs roamed the Earth -- though according to new research, they popped up 100 million years earlier than we thought.
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Furloughs are expected to impact several federal science programs, but essential services related to nation's safety and defense will be unaffected.
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More people are surviving breast cancer, thanks in part to screening tests that detect the disease early. But less than 73 percent of women get their recommended mammograms, according to the U.S.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today granted accelerated approval to Perjeta (pertuzumab) as part of a complete treatment regimen for patients with early stage breast cancer before surgery (neoadjuvant setting).
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| Wall Street Journal | - 10 hours ago |
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The health-insurance marketplaces at the center of President Barack Obama's health law saw a surge of consumer interest Tuesday that surprised even many of the law's backers.
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| Boston Globe | - 4 hours ago |
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In the decade since a landmark study uncovered the risks of taking hormone replacement therapy for disease prevention, some doctors have shied away from prescribing the drugs even for women with severe hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms.
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| BBC News | - 27 minutes ago |
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Exercise can be as good a medicine as pills for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study has found. The work in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) looked at hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients to assess the merits of exercise and ...
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