WASHINGTON – Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. The economic picture was only getting worse, if ...
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A secret meeting between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton yesterday has set rumors swirling that the president-elect might tap his former rival to be his secretary of State. The pair met Thursday afternoon at Obama's office in downtown Chicago, Times staff writers confirm. Neither politician has ...
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With that, bailout-fatigued lawmakers closed up shop for Thanksgiving, leaving the nation's foundering car companies scrambling to meet a Dec. 2 deadline to come up with plans to modernize their industry. "We want them to get their act together. We want them to come up with something," said Senate ...
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A mudslide triggered by days of heavy rain buried houses in a southern Philippine gold mining town, killing five people and leaving at least two missing, officials said Friday. Two girls and their brother, ranging in age from 6-11 years, were among the five bodies pulled ...
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Election news withdrawal experienced by political junkies across the country is being mitigated by three United States Senate races for which final results have not, or have only recently, been definitively determined. The races, in Minnesota, Alaska, and Georgia each determine whether a Democrat ...
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Google, too, decided not to proceed with commercial search advertising arrangements fearing that the concerns voiced by the US authorities would result in litigations and hamper its market growth. It hardly comes as a surprise, then, when Yang declared he will step down as CEO of Yahoo!, its ailing ...
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AP – Local women sit on the banks of the Suez canal as a Suez Canal Authority pilot boat passes by in Ismailia, … NAIROBI, Kenya – The U.N., African Union and Arab nations struggled to respond Thursday to a surge of pirate attacks, authorizing sanctions and calling for international ...
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