| Officials work to speed aid to devastated Haitians (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST  AP - With food, water and other aid flowing into Haiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital.
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| Obama, congressional Dems near health care accord (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:53 AM PST  AP - President Barack Obama and top congressional Democrats closed in on agreement Friday on cost and coverage issues at the heart of sweeping health care legislation, their marathon White House bargaining sessions given fresh urgency by an unpredictable Massachusetts Senate race.
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| Afghan lawmakers voting again on Karzai Cabinet (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:38 AM PST  AP - The Afghan parliament approved President Hamid Karzai's picks for three ministries but rejected the nominee for higher education as voting began Saturday on a second slate of Cabinet choices after lawmakers rejected most of his first list.
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| Source: Deal near for O'Brien to leave `Tonight' (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:03 AM PST  AP - NBC neared a deal Friday with "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien to leave the network, freeing Jay Leno to reclaim the late-night show he stewarded for 17 years, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
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| Denver Post owner plans prepackaged Ch. 11 filing (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:49 AM PST  AP - Affiliated Media Inc., the holding company for MediaNews Group Inc. newspapers including The Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News, said Friday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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| Survivors of Hudson crash toast to anniversary (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:50 AM PST  AP - They looked like they were posing for an eclectic class picture: dozens of smiling faces, everyone carefully lined up. As cameras clicked, the survivors of US Airways Flight 1549 cheered and laughed loudly enough to remind everyone that they had made it.
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| Critics' choose `The Hurt Locker' as best picture (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:52 AM PST  AP - James Cameron's "Avatar" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" won the most awards at Friday's Critics' Choice Awards, but the top honor went to Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" and its director-producer Kathryn Bigelow.
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| Health bill at stake, Obama to stump in Bay State (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:05 AM PST  AP - His health care plan in peril, President Barack Obama laid on a last-minute campaign trip to Massachusetts for Democrat Martha Coakley on Sunday with polls showing her struggling in an unexpectedly close race against Republican Scott Brown to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat.
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| AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:05 AM PST  AP - A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information.
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| Arenas awaits sentence on gun charge, fate in NBA (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:05 AM PST  AP - Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas will have to wait until March to learn if he will be sent to prison for a felony gun conviction, while his future with the NBA sits in limbo.
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| Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:48 PM PST  Reuters - Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and food that began to trickle in three days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people.
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| U.S. inflation tame, industrial output rises (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:36 PM PST  Reuters - U.S. consumer prices rose modestly last month, while industrial output rose on a cold snap, suggesting the economy was growing but not generating a level of inflation that would spur the Federal Reserve to roll back from its stimulative policies.
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| Fort Hood shooting was terrorism, U.S. says (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST Reuters - The shooting rampage at a U.S. Army base in November was "an act of terrorism," an Obama administration official said on Friday, as the Pentagon ordered an overhaul of protocols to spot threats within the military. |
| J&J recalls more products after unusual odor (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST Reuters - Johnson & Johnson's consumer division is recalling more than 53 million bottles of over-the-counter products including Tylenol, Motrin and Rolaids after reports of an unusual odor, expanding on an issue that led to a Tylenol recall last year. |
| Enormity of Haiti quake disaster clear from the sky (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:06 PM PST Reuters - Witnessing Haiti's earthquake aftermath from street level is horrific -- dead bodies poking out of collapsed buildings, bandaged survivors whimpering in tent cities and the stench of rot and death. |
| Mexico army hands control to police in drug war city (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:02 PM PST  Reuters - Mexico's army, facing accusations of rights abuses, will give federal police control of security in the country's most violent drug war city even as cartel killings escalate, police said on Friday.
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| Aid trickles onto Haiti streets as US troops pour in (AFP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 11:51 PM PST  AFP - Thousands of hungry and thirsty, destitute victims of the Haiti earthquake were still waiting to receive aid Saturday amid massive international efforts to help them.
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| Afghan parliament set to vote on second cabinet list (AFP) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:17 PM PST  AFP - Afghan lawmakers are set to vote on Saturday for President Hamid Karzai's second list of cabinet nominees, after rejecting most of his first choices, but are again expected to veto a high number.
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