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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to bar legislators' pet projects from his massive economic stimulus plan and to bring unprecedented accountability to federal spending.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
VIENNA, Austria - The Russia-Ukraine natural gas dispute hit Europe with the force of a winter storm Tuesday, cutting or limiting supplies to nearly a dozen countries. Tens of thousands of people were left without heat and governments scrambled to find alternate energy sources.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
MINNEAPOLIS - The morning after the Nov. 4 election, Norm Coleman stood before TV cameras, declared victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate election and said that if he were opponent Al Franken he'd "step back."
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
DETROIT - Nearly a year after headlines revealed a City Hall sex scandal, the former top aide to ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail today to serve the same punishment as her boss: 120 days with time shaved for good behaviour.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - A city already well-versed in pomp, circumstance and crowd control is in serious overdrive this week with just 13 days to go until millions of people descend upon the U.S. capital for Barack Obama's inauguration.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
PARIS - Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza has sparked protests across Europe, and now there are signs that some of that sentiment is turning violent.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
JERUSALEM - An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a UN school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
BERLIN - German billionaire Adolf Merckle has committed suicide after his business empire, which included interests ranging from pharmaceuticals to cement, ran into trouble in the global financial crisis.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's appointed successor was turned away when he appeared at the U.S. Capitol to take his seat.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama is promising that his economic stimulus plan won't include money for politicians' pet projects and will include provisions aimed at ensuring his administration is open and accountable to taxpayers and Congress.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - Despite the economic hard times, money keeps pouring in for president-elect Barack Obama's inaugural festivities.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - Roland Burris announced Tuesday he was rejected for Barack Obama's Senate seat, in a bizarre rainy-day scene on the Capitol grounds as lawmakers awaited the gavelling of the 111th Congress into session.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
WASHINGTON - A former U.S. judge who unsuccessfully sued his South Korean immigrant dry cleaners for $54 million over a lost pair of pants is not giving up.
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian medical officials say the death toll from an Israeli air strike outside a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30.
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