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• Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed (AP)
• Obama taking latest jobs message to hard-hit Ohio (AP)
• China: Clinton Internet speech harms ties with US (AP)
• Obama health plan in doubt as Dems reject fast fix (AP)
• Businesses, unions freed to spend big on elections (AP)
• India issues terror alert over hijack plot (AP)
• Gates stresses common cause with Pakistan (AP)
• 2 families caught up in Virginia killing rampage (AP)
• NBC: Conan O'Brien reaches $45M exit deal (AP)
• LeBron leads Cavaliers over Kobe and Lakers 93-87 (AP)
• China lashes back at U.S. over Internet criticism (Reuters)
• Outside of the rubble, Haiti tends to its living (Reuters)
• Obama threatens fight with banks on new risk rules (Reuters)
• Pelosi says Senate health bill cannot pass House (Reuters)
• Gates strives to build trust with Pakistan military (Reuters)
• U.S. to boost Afghanistan civilian presence (Reuters)
• Landmark Supreme Court ruling allows corporate political cash (Reuters)
• Storm-battered California hit with new deluge (Reuters)
• Internet freedom row hurts US-Sino ties: China (AFP)
• Mass relocation for Haiti homeless (AFP)

Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:40 AM PST AP - Haitian officials are planning a massive relocation of 400,000 people from makeshift camps to the outskirts of the capital as the U.S. government tackles repairs to the damaged main port — dual efforts to help residents survive the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake.

Obama taking latest jobs message to hard-hit Ohio (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:51 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama is telling voters in Ohio, already wracked by high unemployment, that investments in clean-energy technologies will help boost the nation's economy.

China: Clinton Internet speech harms ties with US (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:06 AM PST AP - China has rejected U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for China and other nations to lift their restrictions on the Internet, saying it was harmful to relations.

Obama health plan in doubt as Dems reject fast fix (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:40 AM PST AP - Though reeling from a political body blow, House Democrats rejected the quickest fix to their health care dilemma Thursday and signaled that any agreement on President Barack Obama's signature issue will come slowly, if at all.

Businesses, unions freed to spend big on elections (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST AP - A bitterly divided Supreme Court vastly increased the power of big business and unions to influence government decisions Thursday by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.

India issues terror alert over hijack plot (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:27 AM PST AP - Indian airports were on high alert Friday after intelligence services received information that al-Qaida-linked militants were plotting to hijack a plane.

Gates stresses common cause with Pakistan (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:50 AM PST AP - The United States has no designs on Pakistan's nuclear weapons or "a single inch of Pakistani soil," U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Pakistani military officers Friday, adding that fighting terrorists along the Afghan border is in Pakistan's interest as well as Washington's.

2 families caught up in Virginia killing rampage (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:36 AM PST AP - Jonathan Quarles was the kind of guy who took in flying squirrels and turtles, then released them back to the wild. The kind of guy who gathered clothes and furniture for strangers when their house burned down.

NBC: Conan O'Brien reaches $45M exit deal (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST AP - If it wasn't already official enough by airtime Thursday, "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien left no doubt that he is leaving.

LeBron leads Cavaliers over Kobe and Lakers 93-87 (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:42 AM PST AP - The Cavaliers haven't lost their holiday spirit.

China lashes back at U.S. over Internet criticism (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:11 AM PST Reuters - China hit back hard against U.S. criticism of Beijing's controls over the Internet, saying on Friday that Washington's push against online censorship could harm relations between the two big powers.

Outside of the rubble, Haiti tends to its living (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:22 PM PST Reuters - With food, cash and medicine starting to flow, Haiti's government and aid workers are turning to the mammoth task of feeding and sheltering hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors still living in the capital's rubble-strewn streets and filthy tent cities.

Obama threatens fight with banks on new risk rules (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:41 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama threatened to fight Wall Street banks on Thursday with new proposals to limit financial risk taking, sending stocks and the dollar tumbling.

Pelosi says Senate health bill cannot pass House (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:00 PM PST Reuters - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she did not think the Senate's version of healthcare reform had enough support to pass the House of Representatives without changes.

Gates strives to build trust with Pakistan military (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:09 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates sought to build bridges with the next generation of Pakistan's military leaders on Friday and end a "trust deficit" that he said has hampered cooperation against Islamist militancy.

U.S. to boost Afghanistan civilian presence (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:18 PM PST Reuters - The United States will maintain a civilian presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan for a long time, even after American combat troops leave the region, a U.S. State Department report said on Thursday.

Landmark Supreme Court ruling allows corporate political cash (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST Reuters - Corporations can spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, a landmark decision denounced by President Barack Obama for giving special interests more power.

Storm-battered California hit with new deluge (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:54 PM PST Reuters - The fourth and strongest winter rainstorm in a week clobbered normally sunny Southern California on Thursday, canceling flights, pounding beaches with huge waves and threatening to bring torrents of mud down on pricey hillside homes.

Internet freedom row hurts US-Sino ties: China (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2010 12:36 AM PST AFP - China on Friday said US calls for Internet freedom were "harmful" to ties, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticised Chinese censorship of the web.

Mass relocation for Haiti homeless (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:49 PM PST AFP - Haiti has launched a huge operation to move hundreds of thousands of homeless out of the ruined capital, as hopes of finding more survivors fade 10 days after the devastating quake.

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