LOS ANGELES - The Screen Actors Guild says contract talks with Hollywood studios has failed despite the help of a federal mediator and it will now ask its members to authorize a strike. The guild says it adjourned talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers shortly before 1 a ...
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WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation’s intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said Friday. The stock market soared on the news. Word of Geithner’s ...
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Miam i - The message OMG popped up next to the live webcam broadcast of Abraham Biggs laying motionless on his bed, followed by LOL and “hahahah.” But Biggs wasn't joking. The 19-year-old Broward College student really did commit suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live Internet ...
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KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine is commemorating the start of the 1930s famine that was engineered by Soviet authorities and killed millions of people. President Viktor Yushchenko is trying to win international recognition of the 1932-33 tragedy as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation. Ukraine ...
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NABLUS, West Bank— Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel will free 250 prisoners as a goodwill gesture before an upcoming Muslim holiday. Abbas said at a conference in the northern West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday that Israel will release the prisoners before Eid al-Adha, an ...
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BEIJING - A college student was attacked by a panda in a south China park after climbing a fence and trying to hug the endangered animal in its enclosure, state media reported. The student, identified only by his surname Liu, was in hospital recovering from multiple bites to his arms and legs after ...
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PHILADELPHIA -- The Clippers filled their void in the post Friday, acquiring forward Zach Randolph and guard Mardy Collins from the Knicks for Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas. The Clippers had been lacking an inside presence since Elton Brand left in July to sign with the 76ers. They were just 2-9 ...
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