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| Cricket ref: Pakistan police fled during ambush (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 9:40 am
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|  AP - A British referee accused police Wednesday of abandoning him and other match officials in the deadly ambush of the Sri Lankan cricket team, as officers said their manhunt for the attackers was making little headway.
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| Clinton: Israeli home demolitions 'unhelpful' (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 9:38 am
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|  AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday promised vigorous and personal involvement in stalled Mideast peace efforts and criticized Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem as "unhelpful."
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| Intl court issues warrant for Sudanese president (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 9:37 am
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|  AP - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. He is the first sitting head of state the court has ordered arrested.
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| U.S. private sector cuts 697,000 jobs in February (Reuters)
March 4, 2009 at 9:23 am
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|  Reuters - U.S. private sector job losses accelerated in February, according to a report by ADP Employer Services that suggests hefty employment declines are on the way in the government's payrolls report due on Friday.
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| One in five U.S. mortgage borrowers are underwater (Reuters)
March 4, 2009 at 8:55 am
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|  Reuters - One in five U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more to their lenders than their properties are worth, and the rate will increase as housing values drop in states that have so far avoided the worst of the crisis, a new study shows.
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| Source: Obama to order gov't contracting overhaul (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 7:49 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama plans to change how government contracts are awarded and who can earn them, a move his aides say would save taxpayers about $40 billion a year by making the process more competitive.
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| Levy parents thankful arrest warrant was issued (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 7:42 am
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|  AP - After nearly eight years of waiting, the parents of slain intern Chandra Levy got what they were looking for when an arrest warrant was issued for the man investigators believe was responsible for her death.
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| Search ends for 2 NFL players, 3rd man lost at sea (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 6:46 am
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|  AP - The Coast Guard's three-day search for two NFL players and a third man sent adrift in chilly seas ended in futility, dashing hopes they might be found after rescuers plucked one survivor from the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Russian scholar says US will collapse — next year (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 4:39 am
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|  AP - If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
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| Obama seeks Russian help on Iran but denies deal (Reuters)
March 4, 2009 at 4:17 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted to work with Russia to resolve a nuclear stand-off with Iran but denied reports he had offered to slow deployment of a missile defense shield in exchange for Moscow's help.
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| Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 12:14 am
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| | AP - The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people." Such reviews are becoming more common as consumer ratings services like Zagat's and Angie's List expand beyond restaurants and plumbers to medical care, and some doctors are fighting back. |
| 13 contaminated FEMA trailers turn up in Missouri (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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| | AP - Thirteen former FEMA trailers deemed unlivable and set for the scrap heap somehow ended up in a mobile home park near St. Louis, where they were close to being offered as housing, a state official said Tuesday. |
| Surprise! Saturn has small moon hidden in ring (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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|  AP - Scientists have found a new moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings. The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the moon, which measures about a third of a mile wide. The discovery was announced Tuesday in a notice by the International Astronomical Union.
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| Warrant issued for immigrant in Chandra Levy death (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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|  AP - An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for an imprisoned Salvadoran immigrant in the killing of federal intern Chandra Levy, nearly eight years after the case captivated the nation's capital and ended the career of a congressman.
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| Ford, Toyota sales plunge as auto slump continues (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 1:57 pm
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|  AP - Major automakers' U.S. sales continued their deep slump in February, putting the industry on track for its worst sales month in more than 27 years as huge rebates and low-interest financing fail to spur fearful consumers to make a major purchase.
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| Cologne building collapses; 3 missing, many escape (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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|  AP - Cologne's six-story city archive building rumbled and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday. Many people inside were able to flee to safety, but authorities said they were searching for three people missing from nearby buildings.
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| Senate keeps pet projects in spending bill (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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|  AP - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to preserve thousands of earmarks in a $410 billion spending bill, brushing aside Sen. John McCain's claim that President Barack Obama and Congress are merely conducting business as usual in a time of economic hardship.
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| Bernanke defends AIG rescue, says U.S. had no choice (Reuters)
March 3, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday defended the government's latest bailout of embattled insurer AIG, telling irate lawmakers that he was also angry, but that the failure to act could have triggered an economic disaster.
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| Gunmen attack Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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|  AP - At least a dozen men ambushed Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday, converging on the squad's convoy as it drove through a traffic circle near an eastern Pakistani stadium.
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| U.S. to send two envoys to Syria (Politico)
March 3, 2009 at 9:22 am
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|  Politico - JERUSALEM — Two U.S. officials are being sent to Damascus for talks with Syrian officials on improving ties, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced — a sign of the Obama administration’s interest in moving quickly on several fronts in the Middle East.
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| Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. (BusinessWeek Online)
March 3, 2009 at 8:08 am
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|  BusinessWeek Online - As the debate over H-1B workers and skilled immigrants intensifies, we are losing sight of one important fact: The U.S. is no longer the only land of opportunity. If we don't want the immigrants who have fueled our innovation and economic growth, they now have options elsewhere. Immigrants are returning home in greater numbers. And new research shows they are returning to enjoy a better quality of life, better career prospects, and the comfort of being close to family and friends.
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| Blue Angels crash artifacts found 50 years later (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 7:02 am
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|  AP - Debbie Harris knew the military dog tag and small metal emblem of a Navy fighter squadron she recently found in the sand near her home on an Alabama beach belonged to a Blue Angels pilot who was killed when his jet crashed there a half-century ago.
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| Lawmakers take first whack at Obama budget plan (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 6:07 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is sending his Treasury secretary and budget director to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend his proposed tax increases, which are being met with misgivings by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
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