WASHINGTON January 7, 2009 -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Roland Burris will not likely take Barack Obama's Senate seat until a court in Illinois rules on a dispute surrounding his appointment. While Reid embraced Burris, he said the Senate is awaiting a court ruling in a case that ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush met successor Barack Obama for the second time at the White House on Wednesday ahead of a lunch with all living U.S. presidents some two weeks before Obama's inauguration. Bush, a Republican, and Obama, a Democrat, were expected to discuss the crisis ...
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, right, attend a joint news conference in Egypt. The three-hour cessation of fighting today was the first of what both Israeli and Hamas officials said would be a parenthesis of calm every 24 or 48 hours. That pause is ...
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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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Joe Wurzelbacher, dubbed "Joe the Plumber" by the McCain campaign. TOLEDO, Ohio — Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook. The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the ...
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Good morning. Boston College's Jeff Jagodzinski has interviewed with the New York Jets. The question isn't whether he will get the job but whether he will get fired from the one he has. BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo told his coach that if he interviewed the school would terminate his contract ...
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TOKYO - Toyota is suspending production at all 12 of its plants in Japan for 11 days over February and March, a stoppage of unprecedented scale for the nation’s top automaker as it grapples with shrinking global demand. The last time Toyota Motor Corp. halted production at all of its Japanese ...
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