| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:53 PM |
| Dems delay auto bailout vote, seek plan from Big 3
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AP - The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought by Detroit's beleaguered Big Three, collapsed Thursday as Congress drew the line at one more bailout and Democrats said they wouldn't even consider it until the companies produced a convincing plan for rebuilding their once-mighty industry.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:29 PM |
| Congress extends jobless benefits, stocks sink
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AP - 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.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:41 PM |
| Gates more likely to remain Secretary of Defense under Obama
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AP - What Robert Gates once called "inconceivable to me" his remaining as defense secretary beyond Inauguration Day is looking a bit more conceivable to the rest of Washington.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:41 PM |
| Staffers weep as Ted Stevens gives last Senate speech
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AP - "Uncle Ted" Stevens, an old-style Senate giant and the chamber's longest-serving Republican, delivered his swan song address and yielded the floor for the final time Thursday. He was saluted by his colleagues as a staunch friend and teacher.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:51 PM |
| Judge orders release of five terror suspects at Guantanamo
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AP - A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:51 PM |
| Report: Records search on Joe the Plumber improper
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AP - An agency director improperly used state computers to find personal information on "Joe the Plumber," a government watchdog said in a report released Thursday. There was no legitimate business purpose for the head of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services to order staff to look up the records, Inspector General Tom Charles said.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:51 PM |
| Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier
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AP - Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 05:26 PM |
| Dr Pepper to deliver on its free-soda promise
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AP - Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a reality. The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 04:00 PM |
| Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet
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AP - A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
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| Story posted on: 11/20/2008 at 06:53 PM |
| Yankees control shifts to Steinbrenner's son Hal
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AP - George Steinbrenner is boss of the New York Yankees no more. The omnipresent owner's colorful 35-year reign of pronouncements, threats and firings ended Thursday when he passed control of baseball's most famous franchise to his youngest son, Hal.
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