Roland Burris, the man appointed to Barack Obama's Senate seat by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, will be allowed to take the seat, according to the Associated Press. Spokespersons for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin are denying the report. ( See update below ...
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Correspondent Josh Mitnick discusses where the Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza could be headed. Tel Aviv - Israel held its fire on Hamas for three hours Wednesday afternoon, allowing strained Gazans to restock food and medical supplies, to ease a deepening humanitarian crisis that has led to a storm ...
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A man loads a wood-burning stove at his home in the town of Elin Pelin near the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Jan. 7. Bulgaria's energy ministry says Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Macedonia have been suspended. SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian school children sang songs to keep ...
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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama yesterday braced Americans for the unparalleled prospect of "trillion-dollar deficits for years to come," a stark assessment of the budgetary outlook that he said would force his administration to impose tighter fiscal discipline on the government. Mr. Obama ...
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BOSTON (AP) - Boston College called a news conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss its football team and coach Jeff Jagodzinski, who has interviewed with the New York Jets. Jagodzinski was warned by athletic director Gene DeFilippo his job would be in jeopardy if he interviewed with the Jets ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that reportedly has sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they do not yet know exactly how the bacteria has been spreading. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not named all the states, but Ohio health ...
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A man who claimed to have a bomb aboard a Los Angeles-bound airliner and lunged for a door after it landed was tackled by other passengers and held for questioning Wednesday, authorities said. Nobody was hurt and no other flights were disrupted. Delta Air Lines Flight 110 from Atlanta was on ...
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