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More names emerge for Obama team - Financial Times
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By Andrew Ward in Washington More names emerged as likely members of Barack Obama's cabinet yesterday as Hillary Clinton continued to consider becoming his secretary of state.
Video: Napolitano Top Choice for Homeland Security Job
Napolitano is likely pick as homeland nominee
Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree - The Associated Press
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LONDON (AP) - Madonna and Guy Ritchie have been granted a preliminary decree of divorce. After six weeks and a day, the divorce can become final.
Madonna, Ritchie granted quick divorce
Madonna, Guy Ritchie finalizing divorce today
Asian Markets Recover, and Europe Posts Modest Advances - New York Times
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By KEITH BRADSHER and BETTINA WASSENER HONG KONG - Asian stock markets rebounded from early declines Friday after Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa of Japan described recent turbulence in currency and equity markets as undesirable and said that ...
Video: Asian Markets Follow Wall Street's Lead, Tumble
Asia, Europe stocks rebound after Wall Street rout
Google, It Wasn’t Broke - TechCrunch
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by Michael Arrington on November 21, 2008 Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live).
Google unveils customised search
Google proves its search methods aren’t set in stone
Putin Sparks Speculation About His Return to Kremlin (Update1) - Bloomberg
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By Henry Meyer Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Russians are back to playing their favorite parlor game: speculating on whether or when Vladimir Putin will reclaim the presidency.
Russia proposes June 2009 world grains summit-source
Putin vows to protect Russia's economy
Automakers need to make case for government aid - The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Detroit's embattled automakers have two weeks to show a skeptical Congress how a multibillion-dollar lifeline will help them keep the industry from imploding.
Send Congress a plan, and a message on jobs
Congressional Leadership Rejects Proposed Auto Bailout Deal
Girl Living Without Heart For 4 Months Leaves Hospital - eFluxMedia
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By Anna Boyd D’Zhana Simmons, a 14-year-old girl from South Carolina, was able to leave the hospital on Wednesday after having had two transplants and survived with artificial heart pumps, but no heart, for four months between the transplants.
US teen lives 118 days without heart
Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz delivers baby boy - Reuters
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rock-star husband Pete Wentz have become parents for the first time, People magazine reported on Friday.
Report: Ashlee Simpson Gives Birth to Baby Boy
It's a Boy for Ashlee & Pete!
Shuttle, astronauts prep for mid-mission reboost - The Associated Press
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HOUSTON (AP) - Astronauts at the international space station prepared to work on a urine-recycling contraption and re-fire the space shuttle's thrusters Friday, before enjoying a half-day off to reboost their own energy.
Video: Astronaut Who Lost Tool Bag Admits Mistake
Spacewalkers extra cautious in 2nd day outside craft
UPDATE 2-Thai police brace for violence at Sunday rally - Reuters
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By Chalathip Thirasoonthrakul BANGKOK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Thai police are braced for violence at an anti-government rally this weekend and have asked the army for reinforcements to prevent a repeat of last month's bloody street battles, ...
Blast in Bangkok Kills 1, Injures 23
Thai protesters threaten strike
Senate sends Bush expanded jobless benefits bill - Reuters
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush legislation to extend jobless benefits for those who have been unemployed for a prolonged period in an economy that has been shedding jobs.
Congress sends jobless benefit extension to Bush
As jobless funds fall, states look to raise taxes
Citi Investors Look Beyond Royalty - Forbes
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Saudi Prince said he would raise his stake, but investors sent the bank's stock down 26.4% on expected losses. Citigroup investors turned up their noses to royal treatment from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who announced he was upping his stake in ...
Citigroup Tries to Stop the Drop in Its Share Price
Citigroup's Worries Mount
Celtics have the answers - Boston Globe
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By Frank Dell'Apa Among the Celtics' goals is to rout the opposition, allowing the starters to take a fourth-quarter break.
PISTONS CORNER Celtics win with pressure defense
NBA Roundup Rondo’s 18 Help Celtics Win
Daily Dime: Shaq and Kobe play nicely - NBA - ESPN
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Kobe Bryant's Lakers have now won 31 of 37 regular season games with Pau Gasol in the lineup. Kevin Garnett and the Celtics outscored the Pistons by a combined 20 points in the middle quarters.
Bryant leads Lakers past Shaq-led Suns 105-92
Lakers roll past Suns
Michigan winning with guys no one else wanted - FOXSports.com
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by Jeff Goodman Jeff Goodman is a senior college basketball writer for FOXSports.com. He can be reached at GoodmanonFOX@aol.com or check out his blog, Good 'N Plenty.
Michigan uses late burst to upset No. 4 UCLA
Duke, Michigan to meet in 2K Sports Classic final
Waxman win boosts state's clout in Congress - San Francisco Chronicle
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Los Angeles Rep. Henry Waxman's stunning overthrow Thursday of legendary Michigan Rep. John Dingell to take over one of the House's most powerful committees may be bad news for Detroit and its struggling auto industry, but it's a clear sign of ...
Rep. Henry A. Waxman's career
Comment by Frank O'Donnell President, Clean Air WatchCourt: Sex-offender law unfairly restrictive - San Francisco Chronicle
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(11-20) 18:17 PST SANTA ANA -- A voter-approved law prohibiting sex offenders from living within 2000 feet of a school or a park amounts to additional punishment for the offenders' original crimes, a state appeals court has ruled in a case that could ...
News Analysis With Same-Sex Marriage, a Court Takes on the People ...
Appeals court rules on sex offender restriction
Pritzker rejects Cabinet - Chicago Tribune
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By Mike Dorning | Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker, who led the prolific fundraising that helped power Barack Obama's presidential campaign, said Thursday that she had taken herself out of the running for an appointment ...
Leaks dampen Obama's plans
I don't want to be commerce secretary: Pritzker
Big 3 given time to prepare plan - Chicago Tribune
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By Richard Simon and Jim Puzzanghera | Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - In a last-minute effort to avoid a stalemate that could have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, congressional leaders agreed Thursday to give Detroit automakers more time to make ...
Send Congress a plan, and a message on jobs
Congressional Leadership Rejects Proposed Auto Bailout Deal
US influence is on the decline, report says - Los Angeles Times
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American intelligence agencies predict that China and India will cut into US clout over the next two decades. The report also sees an increase in terrorist violence.
US global dominance 'set to wane'
Report Sees Nuclear Arms, Scarce Resources as Seeds of Global ...
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion launches counterattack against ... - Los Angeles Times
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The company unveils the Storm, a device that lets users take pictures, play movies and music and visit Facebook and MySpace pages with ease -- and has the 'world's first "clickable" touch screen.
Big "Storm", BlackBerry Storm, Coming From RIM Today
Can The BlackBerry Storm Live Up To The Hype?
MOVIE REVIEW | 'TWILIGHT' The Love That Dare Not Bare Its Fangs - New York Times
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By MANOHLA DARGIS It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
'Twilight'
why women find vampires so sexy
Mukasey collapses during speech - Los Angeles Times
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By Josh Meyer Reporting from Washington -- Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey was rushed to the hospital Thursday night after collapsing at the lectern and losing consciousness during a speech on the Justice Department's war on terrorism, ...
Video: Mukasey Collapses During Speech
Mukasey Collapses During Address in Washington; Condition Unknown
Many People Disregard Advice to Get HIV Tests - Washington Post
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By David Brown Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week ...
Routine HIV testing not performed, forum says
US Lags on HIV Testing Goals
Pacific Rim Leaders Meet to Push Trade Deals, Back G-20 Plans - Bloomberg
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By Bill Faries and Shamim Adam Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations will push for more trade accords when they meet this weekend, seeking to stem any turn toward protectionism amid the worst financial crisis since the Great ...
Russia's Medvedev calls on APEC to assume greater global role
APEC leaders gather for economy-dominated summit
Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away - CNN
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By Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba.
Ginkgo Biloba Shows No Benefit in Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease ...
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