WASHINGTON The Senate health committee cast a milestone vote Wednesday to approve legislation expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans, becoming the first congressional panel to act on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. Th ...
Posted Wednesday, July 15th 2009 at 11:56AM
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JERUSALEM More than two dozen Israeli soldiers who fought in the Gaza war say the military forced Palestinians to serve as human shields and used reckless firepower that caused needless deaths, according to a report released Wednesday. One of the ...
Posted Wednesday, July 15th 2009 at 11:49AM
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WASHINGTON Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a Hispanic pioneer well qualified for the Supreme Court on Monday, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama's views as well at the start of confirmation hearings. ...
Posted Monday, July 13th 2009 at 12:54PM
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PENSACOLA, Fla. Investigators are looking at business ties among other leads for a motive in the slaying of a wealthy Florida couple who adopted 12 children with developmental disabilities and other problems, authorities said Monday. There may be ...
Posted Monday, July 13th 2009 at 12:47PM
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SYDNEY Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country _ and possibly the world _ to take such a drastic step in the growing backla ...
Posted Friday, July 10th 2009 at 4:38PM
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Ghanaians are planning to welcome President Obama and his family who arrive in the West African country this evening. The Obamas will be coming from Italy, where the president attended the G-8 Summit and met with the Pope. Obama will meet with the p ...
Posted Friday, July 10th 2009 at 4:34PM
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Eight years have passed since Laura Bush declared that "because of our recent military gains, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes" in Afghanistan. For eight years, that claim has been a lie. The fact is that life for women in Afghanistan h ...
Posted Friday, July 10th 2009 at 1:38PM
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VATICAN CITY President Barack Obama sat down with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday for frank but constructive talks between two men who agree on helping the poor but disagree on abortion and stem cell research. "It's a great honor," Obam ...
Posted Friday, July 10th 2009 at 1:03PM
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(Taylor Media Services) Ethiopia - the East African land where it was long thought that the human race first evolved - cannot seem to get break. Just as it was beginning to prosper after years of famine and war, a United Nations agency reported last ...
Posted Thursday, July 9th 2009 at 3:21PM
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(Taylor Media Services) Another celebrity fashion line bit the dust last week. Jennifer Lopez announced that she was placing "Sweetface" on hiatus and possibly discontinuing the line completely after the spring 2009 collection. The announcement came ...
Posted Thursday, July 9th 2009 at 2:49PM
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...Experts note that while mental illness affects people of all ages, walks of life, gender and race, women experience it differently. For instance:
- Women are more likely to suffer from anxiety disorders and depression.
- Women are more likely ...
Posted Thursday, July 9th 2009 at 8:00AM
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ITS no secret that Wendy Williams wears a wig. Oh no, honey, she talks about it all the time on her radio show, four hours of daily gab and gossip broadcast nationally from New York. Of course there is little about the statuesque Ms. Williams that i ...
Posted Sunday, July 5th 2009 at 5:55PM
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Serena Williams has won her third Wimbledon title, beating sister Venus Williams 7-6 (3), 6-2 in the final. The second-seeded Serena also beat Venus in the 2002 and '03 Wimbledon finals, but lost to her older sibling in las ...
Posted Sunday, July 5th 2009 at 2:04AM
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LOS ANGELES More than 1.2 million people have now registered to get tickets for Michael Jackson's memorial service next week. Only 11,000 tickets will be given out for the Tuesday service at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Another 6,500 ti ...
Posted Sunday, July 5th 2009 at 1:28AM
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Lawmakers failed to agree on balancing the state's budget on Tuesday and the state government began its fiscal year on Wednesday without a spending plan in place. In response, state finance officials began issuing "IOUs" in lieu of payments for tax ...
Posted Sunday, July 5th 2009 at 1:19AM
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