CHICAGO — Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush - striking choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted "strong ...
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Discussing the NBER revelation that the country's been in recession since last December, with CNBC's Dennis Kneale, Bill... NBER Says U.S. Recession Be... The National Bureau of Economic Research says the U.S. recession began in Dec. 2007 and will last about 120 months, repo... The US economy ...
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New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress arrives at a police station, Monday, Dec.1, 2008, in New York. Burress was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh. Burress shot himself at a Manhattan nightclub Friday night and was released from a hospital early ...
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Public outrage in India over the devastating Mumbai attacks has been fuelled by fresh reports that clear warnings of a coming assault were ignored. The Hindustan Times said intelligence agencies had precise information at least 10 months ago that the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba was ...
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office has issued the following press release declaring a fiscal emergency for California and calling a special session of the legislature to address the budget crisis: After the previous legislature’s inaction in both addressing the state’s $11.2 billion current ...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A week before the final standings are released and the Bowl Championship Series is already ticking people off. Oklahoma -- not Texas -- is headed to the Big 12 championship game with an inside track to the national title game by moving ahead of the Longhorns in the BCS standings ...
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Space shuttle Endeavour's crew has family reunions on their minds today after being forced to land in California due to poor weather in Florida. The California landing yesterday delayed reunions between astronauts and their families, who were waiting in Florida. They're expected to reunite this ...
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