| Dem health care overhaul endangered by Mass. race (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 07:58 AM PST  AP - Democrats faced the unthinkable Tuesday — losing their prized health care overhaul along with Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, just as Kennedy's and President Barack Obama's goal seemed tantalizingly close to reality.
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| Mass. Senate Results: Upset Of The Century? Posted: 19 Jan 2010 08:43 AM PST  Will Scott Brown pull it off? What does it mean for health care and the rest of President Obama's agenda? If Martha Coakley loses to Brown, it would certainly be the biggest political upset I have seen in my career.
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| Google postpones mobile phone launch in China Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:35 AM PST ![]() Google on Tuesday postponed the planned launch of its mobile phone in China amid a dispute with the government over Internet ...
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| Mass. voters brave snow, rain in Senate race (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:48 AM PST  AP - Massachusetts voters are facing a backup at some polling places as they cast their ballots in the pivotal race to fill the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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| Mystery visitor to Poe's grave is a no-show (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 04:47 AM PST  AP - It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on the anniversary of the writer's birth. This year, no one showed.
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| Grading Obama: What locals have to say about the president's first year in office Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:40 PM PST ![]() We asked a variety of local luminaries, and other folks around Bakersfield, to grade President Barack Obama's first year in office before Wednesday's anniversary. After about 11 months in office, Obama gave himself "a good, solid B+." Here's what locals had to say at one year: Bill Thomas, retired congressman Grade: Incomplete Thoughts: "We've ended the first session of the first Congress when he was president," said Thomas, Bakersfield's longtime Republican representative before his retirement in early 2007, referring to the session that ended Dec. 23. "Since the first session ended
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| In Israel, the Messiah with More Than 30 'Wives' Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:16 AM PST  Israeli police arrest a self-styled healer who headed a strange household of many women and more than 80 children
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| Citigroup loses $7.6B in 4Q as it repays TARP (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:59 AM PST ![]() Citigroup said Tuesday it lost $7.58 billion during the final three months of 2009 as consumers still struggled to repay loans and the bank repaid its government bailout money.
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| Egypt announces find of ancient cat goddess temple (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 05:38 AM PST  AP - Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday. The ruins of the Ptolemaic-era temple were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the heart of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C.
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| For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:10 AM PST ![]() LOS ANGELES – Only miles from the scenic vistas and celebrity mansions that draw sightseers from around the globe — but a world away from the glitz and glamour — a bus tour is rolling through the dark side of the city's gang turf.
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| Avatar: the feel-good movie for white people Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:06 AM PST ![]() Rejoice, white people! You never wiped out the Native Americans, enslaved the Africans or polluted the environment. Because you hit the reset button. You journeyed to some far-off planet whose inhabitants just happen to look like Native Americans with yellow cat's eyes. Just as they are about to be exterminated by an evil Earth corporation, one of the humans – a white man – has a pang of remorse and sallies forth to lead the natives to victory. His conscience is our redemption. No need for us to feel guilty about the Native Americans and the Africans. Hollywood gave us a second chance to make
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| Mona Gable: Doctors Without Borders in Haiti: Why Couldn't They Land? Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:42 PM PST  Bill Clinton is on the ground in Haiti with Chelsea touring the rubble. I'm elated the former president was able to get permission from the Defense Department to fly in. It's no small feat, I'm telling you. Because apparently not everyone can. Take Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the highly respected international medical humanitarian organization. You know, the one Sandra Bullock gave $1 million this week before she won the Golden Globe? They've been in Haiti for years. They have hundreds of medical staff in place, and are working in five hospitals in Port-au-Prince. They know the countr
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| Spaniard used in bin Laden pic rejects US apology (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 06:06 AM PST  AP - A Spanish lawmaker on Tuesday angrily rejected the United States' apology for the FBI's using a photo of him to create a poster showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.
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| Royal Caribbean's decision to dock ships at Haitian resort creates controversy Posted: 19 Jan 2010 12:11 PM PST ![]() By now, most of us have seen and heard about the profound devastation and suffering wrought upon Haiti last week after a massive earthquake. So you'd probably think there's no way that cruising tourists could have returned to frolicking on Haiti's beaches mere miles from where people are trapped ...
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| Chrysler to recall 24,177 vehicles on brake issue (Reuters) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 07:32 AM PST  Reuters - Chrysler Group LLC will recall 24,177 vehicles due to a potential defect in a brake system that could result in sudden brake failure, the automaker said in a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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