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Bush eager to sign bill tripling AIDS assistance
Boston Globe (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Health
President Bush said Saturday he's eager to sign legislation that triples money to fight AIDS and other diseases around the world -- an initiative that has won him praise from some of his harshest critics. -
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FBI confiscate Anne Hathaway's diaries
lePaparazzi (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
Actress's personal possessions used in investigation into her ex Raffaello Follieri Anne Hathaway's personal possessions have been taken to help law officers build their case against her ex. Items including her private diaries have been seized by the FBI as part of their fraud investigation against Raffaello Follieri. He is charged with 12 counts of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering. 'Follieri... -
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Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture" author passes away
BloggingBaby.com (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Health
Filed under: In the news For better or worse, parents are a child's first and most influential teacher of life. It was a job that professor Randy Pausch took seriously. Dr. Pausch's participation in the "Last Lecture" series at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 was more than a life changing event for people all over the world, it was a message to his young children on how (and that they could, most... -
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FDIC Takes Over Two More Banks
Time (subscribe) | 20 minutes ago | US
The 28 branches of 1st National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank, operating in Nevada, Arizona and California, were closed Friday by federal regulators -
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Senate Advances Housing Bill to Bush
Time (subscribe) | 20 minutes ago | Politics
Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market
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California bans restaurants from using trans fats
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-- California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the notorious artery-clogger from menus. -
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Ex-Astronaut: Aliens Are Real and Government Knows It
Shooting The Messenger (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Sciences
Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — claims aliens exist. He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Mitchell also claimed human technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as the aliens' and "had they been hostile," he warned "we would... -
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Obama warns Iran over nuclear program
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In London, Obama says US must work with its allies
kansascity.com (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | World
Presidential contender Barack Obama on Saturday defended his decision to travel to Europe and the Middle East, saying that problems encountered by Americans at home are often best dealt with by working with allies overseas. -
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Sastre retains Tour lead going into final stage
Examiner (subscribe) | 41 minutes ago | Sports
Carlos Sastre closed in on a victory in the Tour de France by retaining the overall lead after Saturday's time trial in the next-to-last stage of the three-week race. - see all breaking news
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Apple Does a Twitter
The Last Word (Beta) (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Technology
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Surprise! Google Says The Web Is Really, Really Big
TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Google has announced that its search index, which chronicles the vast majority of the internet, has hit a major milestone: 1 trillion unique URLS. That’s 1,000,000,000,000 pages - more than twice as many as there are stars in the Milky Way. The index has grown exponentially since Google first launched. In 1998, the site [...] -
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Q2 Foreclosures Double
The Big Picture (subscribe) | yesterday | Business
“Forty-eight of 50 states and 95 out of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas experienced year-over-year increases in foreclosure activity in the second quarter." -RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio, Q2 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. > The latest RealtyTrac foreclosure data is out, and it is rather astonishing: Almost 740,000 properties were in some stage of the foreclosure process, the most since they... -
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Google Walks Away From Digg Deal
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Technology
The Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last week Google decided to walk from the deal, and notified Digg some time late Thursday or Friday that the acquisition [...] -
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Uh-Oh... Hotel Guard Tells All on John Edwards' Mistress Meet-up
Gateway Pundit (subscribe) | yesterday | Election 2008
A hotel security guard confirmed that he escorted John Edwards from a hotel earlier this week after he met with his mistress in LA. A panicked Silky Pony fled from the press and hid in the bathroom at the hotel. FOX News reported: A hotel security guard told FOXNews.com he intervened this week between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential... - see blog ranking see all discussions








