| Iraq to support Blackwater lawsuit in U.S. courts (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 05:15 AM PST  Reuters - Iraq will help victims of the 2007 shooting of civilians in Baghdad to file a U.S. lawsuit against employees of security firm Blackwater, an incident that turned a spotlight on the United States' use of private contractors in war zones.
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| Obama terror advisor goes after Dick Cheney Posted: 03 Jan 2010 11:02 AM PST  President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser lashed out at former Vice President Dick Cheney Sunday, accusing the GOP stalwart of either deliberately misrepresenting the President's position or being ignorant of it.
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| Goodell says NFL will look at Colts case Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:16 AM PST ![]() Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL will consider offering incentives to teams playing late-season games to discourage them from resting their starters for the playoffs. Goodell said the league was sensitive to criticism of the Indianapolis Colts' decision to use backups a week ago in a game they lost, ending their bid for a perfect season.
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| Pat White carted off with head injury (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:42 PM PST  Miami Dolphins rookie quarterback Pat White was carted off the field with a head injury Sunday following a chilling helmet-to-helmet collision with Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor. The 190-pound White moved his arms and legs and was talking before leaving the field to go to a hospital for examination.
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| Tech fans deck the Alamodome for Leach; Tech players less sympathethic Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:13 AM PST ![]() Texas Tech gave interim coach Ruffin McNeill a warm reception after Saturday night's Alamo Bowl win over...
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| `Avatar' rules with $68.3M, tops $1B worldwide (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 01:11 PM PST ![]() James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.
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| Foreclosures weigh on home appraisals (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 10:42 AM PST  AP - It wasn't the first time that Katherine Scheri ruined a real estate agent's day with a low property appraisal.
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| Robert Pattinson set for worst actor 'Razzie'; Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox in line for worst actress (IrishCentral) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST ![]() Robert Pattinson is hot favorite for worst actor award in the Razzies, the annual list of Hollywood's worst films and actors of the year.
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| Bernanke: Regulation can hold back market excesses Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:47 AM PST ![]() Stronger regulation should be the first line of defense against excessive speculation that could send the economy into a new ...
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| Great Abs: Post-Holiday Workout Posted: 03 Jan 2010 06:53 AM PST  With the holiday eating coming to an end, we are starting to think about how we are going to start off our New Year's health kick. This weekend, we are visiting some great workout secrets so that you can pick and choose what to work on when you get back to your regular routine. Today: abs!
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| Rustlers ride wideopen range of Great Basin (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:47 AM PST  AP - Cruising down a two-lane blacktop where the Catlow Rim drops down into a broad valley of sagebrush and bunchgrass, ranch manager Stacy Davies pulls his pickup over to let pass a herd of young bulls being trailed along the road by a couple of his buckaroos, as ranch hands are called here.
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| Vancouver Contractors Video - Blasting Hotels in Vancouver with Style Posted: 03 Jan 2010 02:20 AM PST ![]() What happens when you mix stunning actress model with a Vancouver construction company? The results can be rather explosive! Vancouver model, Denyc, takes you to beautiful British Columbia, to show you how Blasting Construction in Vancouver is done with Pacific Blasting, Vancouver. Watch downtown
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| John Brennan: Cheney 'Ignorant' Or Distorting Terror Facts (VIDEO) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:43 AM PST  Another Obama administration official is pushing back against Dick Cheney's attacks on the White House over the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack. On Fox News Sunday, senior counterterrorism adviser John Brennan -- who also served under President Bush -- responded to Cheneys comment that Obama thinks the war on terror is over. "It's disappointing to me that either the vice president or others have willfully mischaracterized President Obama's position and actions or they're just ignorant of the facts," he said. "I think in either case, it doesn't speak well to sort of the reasons why
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| Hamas inmates say torture ends in West Bank jails (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:18 AM PST  AP - Palestinian security forces in the West Bank have stopped torturing Hamas prisoners, ending two years of systematic abuse, Hamas inmates told The Associated Press in jailhouse interviews.
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| Robots Will Save The American Worker Posted: 03 Jan 2010 03:01 PM PST ![]() Image by tkksummers via Flickr It has become basically mandatory for American business writers to write off "has-been" Japan. This is a bizarre spectacle: we've seen economic obituary after economic obituary for a country besot by a "crushing" unemployment rate of 5.2% (!), the burden of boasting 88 Fortune 500 companies, one of the world's highest living standards, and one of the its most sophisticated infrastructures. (That's quite a comfortable hospice!) Yet it's China, we're told, that is going to Rule The World. While the sun is allegedly setting on the Land of the Rising Sun, China, wit
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