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| French teen killed by Cairo bomb was on class trip (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 8:19 am
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|  AP - A group of French teenagers on a school trip were hit hard by a bombing at a landmark Cairo bazaar, which killed a 17-year-old girl on the tour and wounded at least a dozen other students, the mayor of the teens' hometown said Monday.
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| Obama to convene fiscal summit at White House (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 7:49 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is bringing together dozens of advisers and adversaries to discuss how to curb a burgeoning federal deficit laden with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid obligations.
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| Forecasters: Economy worse in '09, better in '10 (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 7:19 am
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|  AP - Brace yourself: The recession is projected to worsen this year. The country stands to lose a sizable chunk of economic activity in 2009 as consumers at home and abroad retrench in the face of persistent economic troubles. And the U.S. unemployment rate — now at 7.6 percent, the highest in more than 16 years — is expected hit a peak of 9 percent this year.
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| 'Slumdog' rules Oscars with 8 prizes, best picture (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 7:17 am
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|  AP - "Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit.
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| Greeks hunt for convicts who escaped by helicopter (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  AP - Greek police scoured the country Monday for two convicts who orchestrated a brazen helicopter prison break for the second time in three years, deeply embarrassing authorities who had vowed to improve security.
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| Beijing teen hot-wires bus, causes chaos (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 7:04 am
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| | AP - A 13-year-old boy apparently hot-wired a public bus and took it on a joyride in downtown Beijing and crashed it into a dozen vehicles in a scene witnesses likened to a blockbuster movie, state media reported Monday. |
| S. Korea: NKorea deploys new ballistic missile (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 6:30 am
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|  AP - North Korea recently deployed a new type of medium-range ballistic missile capable of reaching northern Australia and the U.S. territory of Guam, South Korea's Defense Ministry said Monday.
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| Freddie Mac investigates self over lobby campaign (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 6:23 am
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|  AP - Lawyers hired by mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac are quietly investigating the firm's own $2 million lobbying campaign, The Associated Press has learned. The lobbying effort helped quash proposed new regulations on the company before the housing market collapsed.
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| Ministers get close look at Antarctic ice threat (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 6:22 am
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|  AP - A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in this remote corner of the icy continent on Monday, in the final days of an intense season of climate research, to learn more about how a melting Antarctica may endanger the planet.
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| Governors, Obama to discuss stimulus plan (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 6:19 am
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|  AP - After an evening of black tie grandeur at the White House, governors planned to return Monday morning for a business meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss how to spend the economic stimulus money soon flowing to their states.
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| Demand for GED classes increase with job losses (AP)
February 23, 2009 at 5:31 am
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|  AP - Donna Sharp made a good living even without a high school diploma, earning about $19 an hour putting stripes on recreational vehicles in a northern Indiana county known as the RV capital of the world.
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| AP IMPACT: Army charity hoards millions (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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|  AP - As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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| Hawaii is latest civil unions battleground (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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|  AP - Hawaii, the state that adopted the nation's first "defense of marriage" constitutional amendment a decade ago, has now become the latest battleground in the fight for same-sex civil unions.
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| Warden: Jail can't accommodate slaying suspect, 11 (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 6:04 pm
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|  AP - A jail warden said Sunday he will ask a judge to move an 11-year-old boy accused of killing his father's pregnant girlfriend from an adult lockup to a juvenile detention center because the jail cannot accommodate the boy.
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| AP IMPACT: Army charity hoards millions (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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| AP - As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows. |
| EU leaders back sweeping financial regulations (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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|  AP - European leaders mounted a united front against the global financial crisis Sunday, proposing sweeping new market regulations, but it remained unclear whether economic giants like the United States and China would go along.
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| Unrest in Caribbean has roots in slavery past (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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|  AP - Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are not just about demands for lower prices and higher wages: For demonstrators they are no less than a battle against the vestiges of slavery.
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| Pakistan to arm village militias to fight terror (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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|  AP - Authorities in a Pakistani border province plan to arm villagers with 30,000 rifles and set up an elite police unit to protect a region increasingly besieged by Taliban and al-Qaida militants, an official said Sunday.
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| Republican governors split over Obama stimulus (Reuters)
February 22, 2009 at 1:07 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. Republicans governors were split on Sunday over whether to accept all of the money their states stand to receive from a $787 billion economic stimulus plan which President Barack Obama signed last week.
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| 8-year mystery of Chandra Levy's slaying may end (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 10:37 am
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|  AP - A Salvadoran immigrant convicted of attacking two women in the park where Chandra Levy's remains were found was expected to be arrested in the next few days in the former intern's slaying, a person close to the investigation said.
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| Obama Plans to Slash Budget Deficit by End of His First Term (Bloomberg)
February 22, 2009 at 10:27 am
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|  Bloomberg - Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama plans to increase taxes on the wealthy and cut spending for the war in Iraq as part of a plan to slash the U.S. budget deficit to $533 billion by the end of his first term, according to an administration official.
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| Supreme Court hears immigrant's ID theft case (AP)
February 22, 2009 at 8:19 am
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| | AP - Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, an undocumented worker from Mexico, made a curious and undeniably bad decision. After working under an assumed name for six years, he decided to use his real name and exchanged one set of phony identification numbers for another. |
| European leaders meet amid euro-zone worries (Reuters)
February 22, 2009 at 6:33 am
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|  Reuters - European leaders met in Berlin on Sunday to agree a common stance on overhauling global financial rules but their summit risked being overshadowed by concerns about the fragility of euro zone and eastern European states.
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| Poachers put Balkan lynx on brink of extinction (AFP)
February 22, 2009 at 1:17 am
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|  AFP - The camera sits hidden in a field ready to track every move of the Balkan lynx, a wild cat both revered as an icon and reviled as a pest that has teetered on extinction for nearly a century.
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| Official: Obama wants to halve budget deficit (AP)
February 21, 2009 at 10:31 pm
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|  AP - Barack Obama wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to finalize his first budget request.
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| Obama's Tuesday speech a broad look at economy (AP)
February 21, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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|  AP - For President Barack Obama, it's a chance to take a deep breath and paint a big picture after a first month of gargantuan economic proposals, legislative accomplishments and Cabinet missteps.
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