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Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico's Baja California
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 3 minutes ago | World
LA PAZ, Mexico — Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches today as Hurricane Norbert strengthened to a Category 2 storm and bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California Peninsula. -
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Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'
Examiner (subscribe) | 8 minutes ago | US
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' word "sterling" at the senator's corruption trial. Federal prosecutors have accused Stevens of lying on Senate documents about more than $250,000 in renovations to his Alaska cabin and other gifts from Bill Allen, former head of the oil services company VECO Corp. -
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Bush says financial rescue plan big enough to work
Examiner (subscribe) | 8 minutes ago | Politics
President Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. "We can solve this crisis and we will," he said in brief remarks from the White House Rose Garden. -
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Radio talkers accuse Magic Johnson of faking AIDS
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 23 minutes ago | Health
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Magic Johnson says he's outraged that a pair of Minneapolis talk radio hosts accused him of faking AIDS. KTLK's Chris Baker and Langdon Perry made the remarks during Baker's conservative talk show on Wednesday. The context for the remarks wasn't clear.... -
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Spokesman for pirates makes threats off Somalia coast
USA Today (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | World
A spokesman for the group of pirates holding an arms-laden tanker off the coast of Somalia has threatened to blow up the ship ...
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Two American journalists say they were abducted into Syria
LA Times (subscribe) | 57 minutes ago | World
Taylor Luck and Holli Chmela tell their paper that a taxi driver illegally took them across the Lebanese border. They say they were locked up and interrogated by Syrian officials being released. BEIRUT -- Two American journalists who disappeared earlier this month during a trip across the Middle East said they were abducted by a taxi driver and taken illegally across the Lebanese border into Syria,... -
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Stocks extend huge losses to 8th straight day
Examiner (subscribe) | 23 minutes ago | US
Wall Street extended its devastating decline Friday as investors, still seeing no resolution to the credit crisis, sold frantically and propelled the Dow Jones industrials to their eighth straight day of losses and worst week ever. Stocks gyrated in the opening minutes as a burst of buying in financial stocks spread to other sectors, but all the major indexes were down more than 5 percent by midafternoon.... -
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Provisional Ballots, the New “Hanging Chad”?
Firedoglake (subscribe) | 37 minutes ago | Politics
A federal judge on Thursday ordered Ohio's top elections official to verify the identity of newly registered voters by matching them with other government documents. Big woop. HAVA ain't the only law on the books. -
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Mom of Phillies manager Manuel dies before Game 2
Examiner (subscribe) | 38 minutes ago | Sports
Charlie Manuel plans to manage the Philadelphia Phillies against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the NLCS despite the death of his mother. The Phillies said that June Manuel died Friday morning. No other information was immediately available. -
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How Ugly Is It?
Swampland (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Politics
News reports from John McCain rallies of recent days have suggested there is a growing intensity, anger and just plain ugliness to the crowds that are showing up to hear the candidate and his running mate. Stories have included references to racial epithets and even calls for violence from McCain supporters. And, of course, much of it directed at the media. How bad is it? I happened to catch part of... -
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Connecticut Supreme Court rules that gay couples have the right to marry.
Think Progress (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | US
In a 4-3 decision released this morning, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, stating that same-sex couples have the right to wed. Citing the equal protection clause of the state constitution, the justices ruled that civil unions were discriminatory. From the ruling: Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly [...] -
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For the Ages
Talking Points Memo (subscribe) | 16 hours ago | Politics
In advance of tomorrow's release of the Alaska legislature's report on the troopergate investigation, the McCain-Palin campaign has released its own investigative report clearing Palin of any wrongdoing.... -
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HTC's first WiMAX-enabled handset revealed: T8290, from Russia with Speed
Engadget (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
Filed under: Cellphones , Wireless With Sprint snagging the vast majority of the WiMAX limelight of late , we aren't going to complain with a similar network halfway across the globe yanking it back. Out of absolutely nowhere comes HTC's first WiMAX-enabled handset, the sure-to-be-delightful T8290. Reportedly, this bugger packs a 3.8-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, 802.11g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0,... -
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Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Powerpoint Presentation Of Doom
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Technology
VentureBeat was able to track down the presentation Sequoia Capital gave to it's portfolio company CEO's earlier this week. It's a long, 56 slide Powerpoint message of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley that we covered yesterday along with an email that angel investor Ron Conway sent to his 130 active portfolio companies. Benchmark Capital jumped on the band wagon today with their own email to portfolio... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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