| Mobs disrupt some Haiti quake food handouts Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:50 AM PST ![]() PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Angry crowds mobbed three food distribution sites in Haiti's capital on Thursday, the latest handouts to turn chaotic as aid groups struggle to help the throngs left desperate and hungry by the catastrophic earthquake.
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| $5,000 tax credit for each new job a big part of Obama's plan Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:59 PM PST ![]() President Obama's new effort to give tax credits to companies that create jobs is getting a cool reception from the nation's ...
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| Tour players accuse Phil Mickelson of 'cheating' with old clubs Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:13 AM PST ![]() The PGA Tour season's not even a month old, and we've already got our first major controversy.
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| Energy prices fall so far in 2010 (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:11 PM PST ![]() For the past several months, oil prices have soared on the expectation that China would soon lead a new race for natural resources.
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| The Beginning of the End for Jobs Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:04 AM PST  I finally got around to watching the stream of Wednesday's iPad announcement at about 11:30 local time last night. Of course, I couldn't wait until the bitter end to go to bed, and falling asleep was a bit challenging even at that late hour. After a short but good night's rest, I awoke with a thought that had absolutely nothing to do with the iPad, and everything to do with the iPad all at the same time. I have a strange sense that we were watching what is perhaps the penultimate performance by the master of the keynote. Please understand, this is entirely an intuitive sense that something wa
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| US announces $6B arms sale to Taiwan (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 11:10 AM PST  AP - In a move sure to aggravate China, the Obama administration on Friday announced plans for more than $6 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island the Chinese claim as their own.
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| QB Kurt Warner retires, ending 12-year NFL career (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:31 AM PST  AP - Kurt Warner has called an end to one of the great storybook careers in NFL history. The 38-year-old quarterback announced his retirement from the game on Friday after a dozen years in a league that at first rejected him, then revered him as he came from nowhere to lead the lowly St. Louis Rams to two Super Bowls, winning the first of them.
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| Edwards mistress goes to court seeking return of 'private' tape Posted: 29 Jan 2010 10:05 AM PST  The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards wants a "very private and personal" videotape back from a former aide who wrote a book about the politician.
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| Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:24 AM PST  AP - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.
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| Democrats cry injustice Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:07 AM PST  Senate Dems feel buyer's remorse for votes to confirm Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
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| King Federer routs Tsonga, eyes 4th Australian title Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:26 AM PST ![]() It was Roger Federer all the way in Oz Open semis as he crushed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
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| ALL BUSINESS: Double standard in mortgage walkaway (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:06 PM PST |
| Argentine president: Eat pork, spice your sex life Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:00 PM PST ![]() BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy.
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| I survived the Great Recession and all I got was this stupid jobless recovery Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:47 AM PST ![]() I'm with stupid economy Hey did you hear the great news today? The recession is apparently over! The Commerce Department reports 5.7% growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Reuters, so let's just pretend that whole recession thing never happened, why don't we? We're all doing OK, we've all got jobs and work and lots of money so let's run out right now and buy ourselves a plasma screen TV, right? Oh, we don't have jobs you say? That stinks. Apparently all but 2.2% of that growth, Reuters says, results from a slowdown in inventory liquidation, and consumer spending, which accounts
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| Once-homeless dad is reunited with daughter -- 35 years later Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:45 AM PST  Richard Nary hugs daughter Krista Szymborski, who flew in from Wisconsin to be reunited with him Thursday. He had been homeless until last summer. Richard Nary had burned all his bridges. He fled his home in upstate New York 35 years ago, leaving a wife and five children to fend for themselves. He had sunk so low that he was sleeping inside a cardboard box in the parking lot of a Sacramento gas station. His body and mind battered from years of alcohol abuse, Nary had lost all hope of seeing his family again. Everything changed last summer when a stranger came into his life offeri
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