Al Franken declared winner after 8-month battlePhiladelphia Inquirer - - 2 hours ago
AP ST. PAUL, Minn. - Al Franken went yesterday from the ranks of former Saturday Night Live comedians to the US Senate, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month-long recount battle and courtroom saga.
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Teen survivor of Yemeni jet crash 'doing well'The Associated Press - - 12 minutes ago
MORONI, Comoros (AP) - A teenage girl who is the only known survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash could barely swim but managed to hang on long enough for rescuers to find her in the ocean, her father told French radio Wednesday.
Video: Yemeni Airline Crashes With 153 on Board
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Losing Honduras, Zelaya Wins Outside SupportNew York Times - - 1 hour ago
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Manuel Zelaya was close to slipping into Honduran history books as a former president with ideas as large as his signature Stetson hat, but nowhere near enough political consensus to remake his troubled country.
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Iraq's 'Milestone' Day Marred by Fatal Blast
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While more than 130000 US troops remain in Iraq, patrols by heavily armed soldiers in hulking vehicles have largely disappeared from Iraq's urban centers, as the United States turns over security to Iraqi police and soldiers.
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Iran shuts newspaper challenging Ahmadinejad
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.
Freight Train Derailment and Explosion Kill 16 in Italy
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Lorenzo Galassi/AP A firefighter sprayed down a car of a freight train that was carrying liquefied petroleum gas. The train derailed late Monday.
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California Fails to Meet Budget Deadline
FOXNews - 7 minutes ago
The California Senate has shut down for the night after failing to approve a stopgap plan to stave off the need for IOUs and ease the state's $24.3 billion budget deficit.
Frantic budget talks fall short San Jose Mercury News
11th-hour votes on state budget fail Los Angeles Times
SC gov gambles to 'lay it all out' about affair
The Associated Press - - 1 hour ago
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - After days of assuring the public he was firmly in control after admitting a scandalous affair, South Carolina Gov.
Sanford admits more visits with 'soul mate' Philadelphia Inquirer
S. Carolina GOP Has Been Wary of Bauer Washington Post
EPA lets state get tougher on new vehicles
San Francisco Chronicle - - 2 hours ago
(06-30) 19:21 PDT -- Federal officials on Tuesday cleared California to impose tough greenhouse gas limits on new motor vehicles that more than a dozen other states can follow immediately and that will form the basis of new nationwide rules in 2012.
US adopts California auto emissions standards Baltimore Sun
Stocks ready to advance
CNNMoney.com - 1 hour ago
Investors start the third quarter with key economic reports on manufacturing, auto sales and employment. By CNNMoney.com staff How will the economy fare in the second half of 2009?
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Caterpillar Falls to Lead the Dow Down on the Day Wall Street Journal
E.Europe PMIs tick up in June, recovery looks slow
guardian.co.uk - - 18 minutes ago
PRAGUE, July 1 (Reuters) - Manufacturing in the European Union's biggest eastern nations crept closer to recovery in June, but PMI data still reflected overall declines due to a continuing lack of demand from their main market, ...
UK June Manufacturing PMI Rose to 47.0 Forex District
Cities Grow at Suburbs' Expense During Recession
Wall Street Journal - - 4 hours ago
US cities that for years lost residents to the suburbs are holding onto their populations with a mix of people trapped in homes they can't sell and those who prefer urban digs over more distant McMansions, according to Census data ...
Detroit's boosted census count may skew others in Wayne County Detroit Free Press
Population numbers bounce back in cities USA Today
China's Internet backdown lauded by firms, activists
Washington Post - - 1 hour ago
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday, as activists and industry groups welcomed AN abrupt delay of the contentious ...
Green Dam in a jam CNN International
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Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a ...
Pirate Bay Users Jump Ship Over Site Sale
PC World - - 9 hours ago
Calling The Pirate Bay's owners “sellouts” who made a “deal with the devil,” users of the notorious torrent-tracking site expressed their frustrations across the Internet today.
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Public Enemies
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The massive financial rip-off masterminded by Bernard Madoff, an extended crime spree that harmed thousands, is proof enough that public enemies still walk among us.
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Jackson's public viewing set amid speculation on cause of death
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- More than two dozen television satellite trucks lined the narrow, two-lane road leading to Neverland Ranch early Wednesday, jostling to reserve space for a public viewing of pop icon Michael ...
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
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The bar for 3-D animated movies has been set high. This year alone, the skewed demonic fairy tale Coraline, the pop-up-book clever Monsters vs.
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Orioles rally for stunning 11-10 win over Boston
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Terry Francona nearly carved a path into the infield grass at Camden Yards while walking from the dugout to the mound.
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Yankees win sixth straight
Boston Globe - 2 hours ago
Melky Cabrera hits his run-scoring double against the Mariners in the eighth inning as the Yankees defeated Seattle to extend their winning streak.
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Pistons fans love, hate move to fire Michael Curry
Detroit Free Press - 1 hour ago
Chiavon: He (Joe Dumars) won the Title. Any talk about how Joe should be fired, he shouldn't be a GM, yadda yadda. … Has Dumars made mistakes?
Curry fired in 'difficult decision' for Pistons Atlanta Journal Constitution
Michael Curry is latest coach to be fired by Pistons Los Angeles Times
New Zealand influenza A/H1N1 confirmed cases rise to 711
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WELLINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The number of influenza A/H1N1 confirmed cases in New Zealand rose to 711 on Wednesday, up 58 from 653 on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said.
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Panel Recommends Ban on 2 Popular Painkillers
New York Times - - 6 hours ago
ADELPHI, Md. - A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.
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Kennedy Seeks Public Health Insurance Plan That Finances Self
Bloomberg - - 3 hours ago
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy's committee will propose creating a government-backed alternative to private insurance designed to pay for itself after getting federal start-up money.
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Supreme Court decisions made in the 2008-09 term
The Associated Press - 2 hours ago
Some of the significant cases the Supreme Court decided in its 2008-09 term: REVERSE DISCRIMINATION The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.
Ricci vs. DeStefano decision disappoints San Francisco Chronicle
7 teens shot outside Detroit school
Boston Herald - - 45 minutes ago
DETROIT - Seven teenagers were wounded - three critically - after they were sprayed with gunfire near a Detroit school on Tuesday by two gunmen who apparently used T-shirts to cloak their ...
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North Korean ship under US scrutiny changes course
The Associated Press - - 1 hour ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean ship under scrutiny for more than a week by the US Navy has changed course and was heading back the way it came, US officials said, as Pyongyang warned Wednesday it will take military action if anyone attempts ...