| Iran chokes off Internet on eve of student rallies (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST  AP - Government opponents shouted "Allahu Akbar" and "Death to the Dictator" from Tehran's rooftops in the pouring rain on the eve of student demonstrations planned for Monday. Authorities choked off Internet access and warned journalists working for foreign media to stick to their offices for the next three days.
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| Jones: Bin Laden still spends time in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 07:58 AM PST  AP - National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."
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| 'Blind Side' eclipses 'New Moon' with $20M weekend (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:13 PM PST ![]() LOS ANGELES - The football-inspired drama "The Blind Side" has become the underdog hit of the season with a $20.4 million weekend and a box-office victory over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." The Warner Bros. sports tale had been runner-up for the previous two weekends to Summit Entertainment's ...
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| Obama to promote new job ideas in Tuesday speech (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:10 AM PST ![]() In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hiring among skittish employers.
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| GOP pushes on 'Climategate' Posted: 06 Dec 2009 04:05 AM PST  Republicans hope that a scandal among scientists will also damage Obama's green agenda.
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| Tiger Woods' Fourth Mistress Steps Forward Posted: 06 Dec 2009 06:05 AM PST  New Tiger Woods mistress means business. Rachel Uchitel, Kalika Moquin, exhibitionist Jaimee Grubbs,...and now a fourth Tiger Woods mistress. Yes, Jamie Jungers has stepped forward in the Tiger Woods scandal to expose her affair with the golf superstar -- and based on her approach of stepping into the light, she means serious business.
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| U.N. talks on climate "turning point" set to start (Reuters) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 10:46 AM PST  Reuters - U.N. talks billed as a "turning point" in a bid to slow global warming open on Monday seeking to agree curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and raise billions of dollars for the poor in aid and clean technology.
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| Jack ties shoelace during live play; Bulls watch, twiddle thumbs Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:06 PM PST ![]() Oh, this is gold. Nearing the end of Saturday night's Raptors-Bulls' third quarter action, Raptors point guard Jarrett Jack (notes) held the ball at the top of the key.
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| Charmed Saints are 12-0, top Redskins 33-30 in OT Posted: 06 Dec 2009 02:11 PM PST ![]() The New Orleans Saints had no business winning. Two of their biggest plays were unbelievable flukes, bad mistakes that somehow morphed into positive results. Then they needed the other team's kicker to miss a 23-yard field goal just to stay alive, and a freeze-frame replay reversal to get the ball in overtime.
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| New NFL concussion guidelines are a play-fake Posted: 06 Dec 2009 07:53 AM PST ![]() Fake the handoff, look-off a linebacker, and then fire a perfect spiral (hopefully) while the defense chokes on the big plate of red herrings you dished up. Football is part force, part chess, part con-game. Unfortunately, the business of the game follows the same pattern; protect the game at all costs, even if it cynically puts players' brains at risk, from the smallest pee-wee who looks about to topple over from the weight of his helmet to concussed Super Bowl quarterbacks. Traumatic brain injury and professional football is impossible to ignore, at least after Wayne Chrebet's wobbly retire
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| BCS title game not the only battle of unbeatens Posted: 06 Dec 2009 05:25 PM PST ![]() Alabama and Texas will face off for the national title next month, but that clash of Mack Brown vs. Nick Saban won't be the only BCS game to pit two undefeated teams. A Fiesta Bowl matchup between upstart programs TCU and Boise State will serve as an intriguing undercard to the Alabama-Texas battle
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| Uighurs flee China, seek asylum in Cambodia: exile group (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:07 PM PST ![]() Reuters - A group of Uighurs who have fled China are seeking asylum through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an overseas activist group said, adding that other would-be refugees had been captured while fleeing China after ethnic riots in their homeland in July.
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| Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:05 PM PST ![]() Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.
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| AP IMPACT: Timber program becomes vast entitlement (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 11:52 AM PST  AP - A federal program that began as a safety net for Pacific Northwest logging communities hard-hit by battles over the spotted owl in the 1990s has morphed into a sprawling entitlement — one that ships vast amounts of money to states with little or no historic connection to timber, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
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| Michael Vick wins over fans in return to Atlanta (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2009 11:03 AM PST  Michael Vick had a feeling his return to Atlanta would be special. He could tell by the tears welling in his eyes even before he reached the Georgia Dome. "I'll never forget this day," Vick said after running and passing for touchdowns in the Philadelphia Eagles' 34-7 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
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