| Former Sen. John Edwards admits the child is his (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:46 AM PST  AP - Confirming what practically everyone already suspected, John Edwards confessed Thursday he fathered the baby born to his ex-mistress — an admission that came just ahead of a bombshell book by a top aide to the former Democratic presidential candidate.
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| Religious Item Causes Airplane Scare Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:35 PM PST  by Mike Krumboltz A 17-year-old passenger inadvertently caused a scare aboard a US Airways flight from New York to Louisville on Thursday morning. The young flyer, an Orthodox Jew, was wearing an article of clothing that some on the plane feared might be an explosive device. In reality, it was a simple religious item called phylacteries. Here's what happened. According to Reuters, another passenger mistook the phylacteries, also called a tefillin in Hebrew, for a bomb. Phylacteries consist of two leather boxes with straps attached. "Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on thei
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| Socialite Betty Broderick seeks parole in murders (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:34 AM PST ![]() AP - Betty Broderick, the one-time San Diego socialite convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his wife, has told a parole board she didn't intend to kill anyone.
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| Calipari, UK score with 'Hoops for Haiti' Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:08 AM PST ![]() Kentucky coach John Calipari inspires with a last-minute telethon that raised $1.2M for earthquake victims.
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| Supreme Court rolls back campaign spending limits Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:47 AM PST ![]() Government cannot restrict corporations from spending money to influence political campaigns, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday ...
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| Goldman Sachs earns $4.79B in Q4, cuts bonus pool (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:11 PM PST ![]() Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Thursday it earned $4.79 billion in the fourth quarter -- a windfall that came in part from slashing its compensation ratio in response to political pressure over lavish Wall Street bonuses.
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| New Banking Regulations: Obama Seeks Bigger Banking Restrictions (VIDEO) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:43 AM PST  JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is calling for tougher regulations on banks that would limit the size and complexity of large financial institutions. The proposal would limit banks' ability to engage in high-risk trades. Restrictions would be placed on proprietary trading by commercial banks to separate those institutions from investment banks. Obama said Thursday that without these regulations, the financial system will continue to operate under the same rules that led to its near collapse. The announcement comes as Obama renews his calls for financial r
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| 2010 Australian Open Women’s Preview Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:11 AM PST ![]() The Belgians – both of them – are back. Dinara Safina's not the top-ranked female tennis player in the world. Serena Williams hasn't promised to shove a ball down the throat of a linesperson… yet.
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| Biggest Two Day Drop in Months Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:36 AM PST ![]() Jitters ahead of President Obama's financial reforms and concerns over tighter lending measures to curb inflation in China are weighing on the markets again today. With another round of losses today, the major indices are now sitting at their lowest levels of the new year.
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| Toyota recalls 2.3M US vehicles to fix gas pedals (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:22 PM PST ![]() AP - Toyota is recalling 2.3 million U.S. vehicles to correct sticking accelerator pedals, the latest in a string of quality problems that have bedeviled the Japanese automaker.
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| Pelosi says House cannot pass Senate's health-care bill without changes Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:52 AM PST  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the Senate will have to amend its version of a health-care reform bill before Democrats in her chamber would be willing to vote for it.
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| Survivor describes Nazi camp at Demjanjuk trial (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:43 AM PST  AP - Jewish prisoners had to unload decomposed corpses at the Nazi death camp at Sobibor and were forbidden to warn new prisoners that they would be gassed within the hour, a survivor testified Thursday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.
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| Sour swing voters desert Democrats Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:07 AM PST  Democrats lost yet another race on friendly terrain because centrists fled into the arms of the GOP.
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| U.S. firm to remove Bible references from gun sights Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST ![]() A defense contractor will voluntarily stop stamping references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights made for the U.S. military, ...
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| Rise in jobless claims signals bump in recovery (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:53 AM PST ![]() A surprising jump in first-time claims for unemployment aid sent a painful reminder Thursday that jobs remain scarce six months into the economic recovery.
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