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The militants who attacked Mumbai had months of commando training in Pakistan, raising the risk of heightened tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors as recriminations mounted at home, Indian investigators said.
By: seamusm | Updated: 12/6/2008 by (Guest) | (5)
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India has handed a list of about 20 people — including India's most-wanted man — to Pakistan's high commissioner to India on Monday night, said India's foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, and demanded that the men be turned over.
By: seamusm | Updated: 12/2/2008 by glendam | (3)
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Apart from gun fights in toy stores and a tragic trampling in Long Island, this year's Black Friday sales showed surprising strength, according to preliminary results.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/30/2008 by arnie | (4)
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After traces of the chemical turned up in Chinese baby formula, US FDA officials assured Americans that there was no similar threat here. Turns out, not so much...
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/26/2008 by ademers1980 | (5)
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If last year's numbers are any indication, some 46 million turkeys across America will be trussed up for Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday. How do turkey farmers meet the huge single-day demand for their birds?
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/27/2008 by arnie | (5)
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The big three automakers are having a hard time getting $25 billion in assistance but the feds are planning to rescue Citigroup, injecting a fresh $20 billion into the troubled firm.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/24/2008 by ademers1980 | (3)
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A Saudi Arabian oil tanker with 25-member crew has been captured by Somali pirates off the coast of the Kenya, officials in the US military and British Foreign Office has confirmed.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/18/2008 by ademers1980 | (4)
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The Labor Department says wholesale prices dropped by 2.8 percent in October, the biggest one-month decline in the sixty years since they started keeping such records.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/18/2008 by glendam | (4)
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The dismal downturn that has crippled much of the magazine world is also taking a bite out of book publishing. HMH has placed a temporary hold on new acquisitions.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/26/2008 by seamusm | (4)
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PETA officials say human breast milk would make life easier for cows and could benefit human health.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/4/2008 by ademers1980 | (35)
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The once proud titans of the American auto industry faced a withering reception on Capitol Hill today as they went begging for $25 billion to keep the sinking ships of commerce afloat.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/19/2008 by ademers1980 | (3)
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Calling the American industry a dinosaur who's day of reckoning has come, several key Republicans said Sunday that they would oppose any attempt to bail out American car makers.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/17/2008 by ademers1980 | (3)
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A 12-year-old boy was shot to death through a front door while trick-or-treating with his family, shocking residents of a South Carolina neighborhood where most people know each other well.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/3/2008 by kevinh | (11)
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Racial incidents, ranging from cross burnings to school children chanting "assassinate Obama" have reportedly been in the increase since last week's presidential election.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/15/2008 by ademers1980 | (3)
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Indian military forces were moving in to try to seize back a Jewish center where it was believed that terrorists were holed up and holding hostages, including an American rabbi and his wife.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/28/2008 by sharlour | (2)
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The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/11/2008 by glendam | (4)
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The the two year old son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg is safe, carried from the besieged Jewish Center in Mumbai and into the arms of relatives, the fate of the rabbi, his wife, and as many as seven other hostages is still unclear.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/28/2008 by ademers1980 | (1)
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At least part of the answer to what is expected to be a long and protracted crisis might turn out to be a Roosevelt era type public works project, which could create jobs, and pump cash over a long period of time into our moribund economy.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/9/2008 by (Guest) | (4)
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The Dow trimmed 680 of it's bull trap points today, as the government acknowledged the obvious, we're in a recession and have been since last December.
By: seamusm | Updated: 12/2/2008 by seamusm | (3)
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Here's one from the 'those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it' file. No major car manufacturer in the US which has ever filed for Chapter II recovered.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/24/2008 by glendam | (1)
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Using modern analysis, artificial body surrogates, and 3-D computer simulations, a team of experts has concluded that the shot that killed JFK most likely came from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/14/2008 by denniscmcgrath | (3)
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It was a carefully coordinated attack on the highest profile targets in the city has become the most visible symbol of India's modern economy. It's still ongoing, and westerners appear to be the target.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/26/2008 by sharlour | (2)
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We knew it was bad, but according to revised figures, the GDP shrank by a worse than expected 0.5 in the period from July to September, the worst decline in 28 years.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/25/2008 by glendam | (2)
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It's not just the AP poll, which indicates that Obama's lead has shriveled to 1 point, but there's also reason for the GOP to be hopeful about Florida and Virginia.
By: seamusm | Updated: 10/29/2008 by glendam | (12)
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Just days after Somali pirates pulled off the biggest seaborne hijacking in history, an Indian warship destroyed a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11/24/2008 by (Guest) | (5)
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Diplomats and European leaders raced around the region in search of a cease-fire, but with Palestinian rocket fire continuing, Israel said it won't stop its crippling assault until "tranquility" is achieved.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 hour ago by glendam | (2)
Congressional aides briefed on the measure say it likely will include tax cuts of up to $1,000 for middle-class families plus $200 billion to help pay for health care programs for the poor and for infrastructure projects and energy programs.
By: seamusm | Updated: 12 hours ago by seamusm | (1)
Most of the major publishing houses may be counting pennies when it comes to their staffs and trimming their reading lists, but when they go for a book, they're still going big, the WSJ reports.
Former President George H.W. Bush said on Sunday he'd like to see his second son, Jeb, become President of the United States some day.
By: seamusm | Updated: 12 hours ago by arnie | (2)
Could Tour de France icon and cancer activist Lance Armstrong be eyeing a bid for the US Senate. Mark McKinnon in the Daily Beast talks with him about it.
By: seamusm | Updated: 3 hours ago by ademers1980 | (2)
The veteran character actor who began his career in a bit part in on the Waterfront and supplemented his copious film work with some major Broadway work, succumbed to blood cancer.
By: seamusm | Updated: 13 hours ago by seamusm | (1)
With the recount done, comedian and some time radio talker Al Franken had a narrow lead over incumbent Norm Coleman and was expected to be declared the winner.
By: seamusm | Updated: 10 hours ago by glendam | (2)
The price of a barrel of oil rose for the third consecutive day on uncertainty about the impact of Israel's Gaza strategy on the Middle East, and on the lackluster performance of the greenback.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by seamusm | (1)
Citing an investigation into donations made by a California company that later won contracts in his state, Richardson has withdrawn his nomination to be commerce secretary.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by glendam | (2)
Israeli tanks and ground troops tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip, dividing the territory in two and surrounding its biggest city.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by (Guest) | (3)
A New Orleans man who initially told police gunmen kidnapped his 2 1/2-year-old son was arrested Saturday, accused of committing an "extremely hideous" murder because he was ordered to pay child support, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said.
At Kilgallen's and a couple of thousand other small dives where more booze is served than food, it's still legal to light up with your hooch despite PA's new ban on indoor smoking.
An explosion blew apart the 8-foot-wide cement slab covering a Pennsylvania water well in the heart of the region where a natural gas operator is exploring for gas in the Marcellus Shale. The DEP is planning an investigation.
Icy winds ripping across Northeastern PA, didn't deter Michael Sullivan. Clad only in boxers and T, he rammed a couple police cars and then plunged into the frigid Susquehanna River in a bod to escape.
Jiri Potuznik, the current Czech president of the European Union said that the current action against Islamist militants in Gaza is "a defensive, not offensive, action."
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by arnie | (2)
The murder rate has dropped significantly in such notoriously bloody cities as Detroit, Baltimore and Philadelphia, though the reasons remain murky.
By: seamusm | Updated: 3 hours ago by ademers1980 | (4)
John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died Friday morning at the family's vacation home in The Bahamas after what the family's lawyer says was a seizure-related incident.
By: seamusm | Updated: 1 day ago by glendam | (3)
Israel allowed foreigners and some Palestinians to leave the territory, an indication, according to some experts, that a ground invasion of Gaza may be imminent.
By: seamusm | Updated: 2 days ago by seamusm | (1)
It was all a big misunderstanding, says the airline, which bounced the men women ans children because some passenger got a little hincky.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11 hours ago by ademers1980 | (4)
The victim was apparently taunted for being a lesbian by the four - two men and two boys -- before she was assaulted in California.
By: seamusm | Updated: 11 hours ago by ademers1980 | (2)
Larry Flynt, the wheel chair bound smut peddler and First Amendment champion is locked in a bitter legal battle to provent his nephews from using a five letter word. FLYNT.
By: seamusm | Updated: 3 days ago by seamusm | (1)
Mark Anderson, a Sacramento area dentist accused of fondling his female patients wants the press barred from his upcoming trial.
There was no sign of a ceasefire, and Gazan extremists vowed revenge for Israel's killing of senior Hamas leader and his family, and said all options including suicide bombs were now open to "strike at Zionist interests everywhere."
With motorists driving less, fuel taxes aren't keeping pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs and so a federal commission created by Congress is talking about increasing federal gas and diesel taxes.
Facing the end of a year that saw global markets come crashing down — taking the world's morale with them — partygoers on the other side of IDL struggled to forget their troubles on what is typically a joyous night.
By: seamusm | Updated: 4 days ago by (Guest) | (5)