WASHINGTON— Confronting a grim economy and a Middle East on fire, Barack Obama turned today to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he’s in for: the four living members of the U.S. presidents’ club. In an image bound to go down in history, every living U.S. president came ...
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UNITED NATIONS -- Egypt's U.N. ambassador says representatives of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have agreed to meet Thursday for talks in Cairo on the Gaza crisis. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz says all the parties agreed to send technical delegations to discuss an Egyptian-French ...
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This morning, the Associated Press reported that Roland Burris, the man appointed to Barack Obama's Senate seat by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, will be allowed to take the seat. In a late morning press conference, however, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin ...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a halt to all deliveries of Russian natural gas to Ukraine. Earlier, Ukraine shut all four of its pipelines that ship the fuel to Europe. Prime Minister Putin's go-ahead to stop gas shipments to Ukraine was based on a recommendation from Gazprom chairman ...
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BOSTON (AP) - Citgo, the Venezuelan government's U.S.-based oil subsidiary, reversed course Wednesday and said it will continue shipments of heating oil to poor families in the United States . Former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, head of the Boston -based nonprofit which distributes the fuel, said ...
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The Cleveland Browns have agreed to hire Eric Mangini as their head coach, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. Mangini, fired last week by the New York Jets, reached an agreement with the club Wednesday, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because ...
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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 officials have ...
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