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Social Security freeze means seniors must scrimp (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:41 AM PDT

Retired beer truck driver Frank Ferrira, 90, talks about social security Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 at the Pembroke Pines, Fla. Southwest Focal Senior Center. There will be no cost-of-living increase for more than 50 million Social Security recipients next year, the first year without a raise since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)AP - If her check was bigger, 76-year-old Agnes Conti might be able to spring for a better cut of meat for her pot roast. She could afford to send her nine grandchildren more than $20 for their birthdays and Christmas. She'd be able to spring for some nice new clothes, like she sees on QVC, not what she settles for at Walmart.

STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus boon for South, Southwest (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2009, file photo, Aaron Wilson, right, of Pasadena, Calif., a recently hired worker with the California Conservation Corps, clears hiking trails with other CCC workers in the San Bernardino National Forest in Hemet, Calif. Eight of the 18 CCC workers were hired by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the recently approved federal stimulus plan. Businesses that received federal contracts under the economic stimulus are reporting more than 30,000 jobs saved or created in the first months of the program.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Businesses in the South and Southwest benefited most from the first federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama's stimulus program, according to initial data released by a government oversight board. Military construction and environmental cleanup contributed to a boost of about 30,000 jobs.

Car bomb kills 7 at police station in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:50 AM PDT

People pray during a funeral service for police officers killed by gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border Thursday, killing dozens in an escalating wave of anti-government violence. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - A car bomb exploded outside a police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least seven people in the latest bloodshed in an unrelenting wave of terror that has hit the country.

Boy feared floating away in homemade balloon found (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:18 PM PDT

Six-year-old Falcon Heene sits cross-legged on the roof of his family's van outside his home in Fort Collins, Colo., after the little boy was found hiding in a box in a space above the garage on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Falcon Heene at first had been reported to be aboard a flying-saucer-shaped balloon fashioned by his father and then carried by high winds on to the plains of eastern Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - A 6-year-old boy was found hiding in a cardboard box in his family's garage Thursday after being feared aboard a homemade helium balloon that hurtled 50 miles through the sky on live television.

Figure in Abramoff scandal to be sentenced (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 12, 2006 file photo, David Safavian, the former chief of staff at the General Services Administration, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse, in Washington. Stung by a jury that deadlocked on charges against a former lobbyist, federal prosecutors in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal are returning to court in an attempt to make sure one of their biggest catches is sent to prison. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)AP - Stung by a jury that deadlocked on charges against a former lobbyist, federal prosecutors in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal are returning to court in an attempt to make sure one of their biggest catches is sent to prison.

Baucus: All Senate Dems will support health bill (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:18 PM PDT

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., looks on before speaking to reporters about health care reform legislation, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - When it comes time to vote, every Democrat in the Senate — and perhaps more than one Republican — will support legislation overhauling the nation's health care system, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee predicted Thursday.

Giving babies Tylenol may blunt vaccines' effects (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:22 PM PDT

FILE ** Syringes filled with an influenza vaccine are piled in a container at Rocky Mountain Primary Care's Thornton, Colo., location, in this, Oct. 26, 2006 file photo. Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, according to a study published in the Friday Oct. 16, 2009 issue of the British medical journal, Lancet. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)AP - Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests.

Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:23 PM PDT

AP - A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Garth Brooks' new gig not your old Las Vegas (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:01 AM PDT

Country music star Garth Brooks appears at a news conference in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Brooks has announced he will be coming out of retirement to perform a series of special engagements at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison)AP - Millions of fans wish they could've seen Garth Brooks where it all started at Willie's Saloon in Stillwater, Okla.

Homer-happy Phils beat Dodgers 8-6 in NLCS opener (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 10:53 PM PDT

Philadelphia Phillies' Carlos Ruiz hits a three-run home run as Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Russell Martin watches during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the National League Championship baseball series Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Brad Lidge has regained that nasty slider. Ryan Howard and Carlos Ruiz are stroking big hits. Cole Hamels is winning postseason games without his best stuff. Boy, this is looking real familiar for the Philadelphia Phillies.

In New Orleans, Obama fires back at critics (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama addresses a town hall meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Obama has signed a 7.5 billion dollar aid package for Pakistan, as the key US anti-terror ally reeled from a new wave of militant attacks which killed 40 people.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama fired back on Thursday at critics who say he has few accomplishments of note in his nine months in office and declared he was just getting started.

Google, IBM round out strong tech results week (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Google Inc and IBM rounded out a strong week of technology results, outstripping already high expectations and providing further evidence that a recovery is brewing.

U.S. mulling new assessment of Iran threat: report (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:54 PM PDT

An Iranian technician works at the control room of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, 420 kms south of Tehran in 2007. The US Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation Thursday that bars companies selling fuel to Iran from winning US government deals, piling pressure on Tehran over its suspect nuclear program.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)Reuters - U.S. spy agencies are considering whether to rewrite a controversial 2007 intelligence report that asserted Tehran halted its efforts to build nuclear weapons in 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Wasserstein death to result in $186.5 million payment (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 06:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Former Lazard Ltd Chief Executive Bruce Wasserstein's death will result in a payment of more than $186 million in restricted stock, according to the company's proxy statement.

Ex-Bear Stearns manager did not lie-trial lawyer (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Reuters - Former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin, on trial for fraud and lying to investors early in the financial crisis, might have made strategic mistakes but he did not conspire with colleagues to commit a crime, his lawyer said on Thursday.

North Korea invites U.S. envoy: report (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 07:16 PM PDT

EU trade commissioner Catherine Ashtone (right) and South Korean Minister for Trade Kim Jong-Hoon shake hands after signing the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.(AFP/File/John Thys)Reuters - North Korea has renewed an invitation to U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth to visit Pyongyang, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported, in a signal that it wants to return to nuclear talks, albeit on Pyongyang's terms.

Boy thought to be in drifting balloon found safe (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 06:16 PM PDT

Reuters - An American 6-year-old set off a massive search-and-rescue operation and media frenzy on Thursday for fear he was inside a homemade helium balloon that broke loose and drifted thousands of feet above Colorado for hours before he was found safe at home.

Bomb kills six in Pakistani city of Peshawar: police (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:39 AM PDT

<p/>(afp.com)AFP - A bomb exploded near a police investigation bureau Friday, killing six people in an army garrison of Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar, said a police official.

Afghan probe said to reduce Karzai's vote share (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:27 AM PDT

An electoral worker at the Independent Elections Commission carries a ballot box in Kabul in mid September. A fraud probe into elections in the country has trimmed President Hamid Karzai's vote share to just 47 percent, a report said Friday, while a senior aide conceded a second round could be in the offing.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - A fraud probe into Afghan elections has trimmed President Hamid Karzai's vote share to just 47 percent, a report said Friday, while a senior aide conceded a second round could be in the offing.
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