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Israel looks warily to the Lebanon border - Jerusalem Post
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By YAAKOV KATZ AND BRENDA GAZZAR Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday that Israel was keeping a watchful eye on the northern border out of concern that Hizbullah would try to attack while the IDF is preoccupied with Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza ...
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Fighting flares outside Gaza City
Obama begins work on stimulus plan - Detroit Free Press
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By TODD SPANGLER • FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF • January 5, 2009 WASHINGTON - With Michigan and the nation struggling to find a bottom to the economic crisis, President-elect Barack Obama returned to the nation’s capital today two weeks ahead of his ...
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Obama Pitches Stimulus Package to House Republicans
India Seeks Extraditions in Mumbai Siege - New York Times
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By SOMINI SENGUPTA and JEREMY KAHN NEW DELHI - Calling the Mumbai terrorist attacks a “conspiracy” hatched on Pakistani soil, India on Monday handed Pakistan what it said was the first comprehensive evidence linking them to Pakistan and demanded that ...
India hands over Mumbai ‘evidence’ to Pakistan
Proof given by India not enough, says Pakistan
Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence - CNN
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SDEROT, Israel -- Mohammed Abu Hassanin may be a young boy, but he's old enough to know he's scared of the attacks being launched by Israel in Gaza.
Protests Held Across City As Gaza Violence Continues
Cairo finds its Gaza balancing act hard to maintain
US Embassy in Iraq Largest, Most Expensive Ever - FOXNews
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AP Jan. 5: US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, right, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani look on during a ceremony marking the opening of the new US Embassy in Baghdad.
Video: Raw Video: US Baghdad Embassy Opens
US opens world's largest foreign mission in Iraq
Franken Win Certified, but Senate Will Delay Seating - Washington Post
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By Chris Cillizza Entertainer-turned-politician Al Franken declared victory in Minnesota's US Senate race yesterday, just hours after a state panel charged with overseeing the recount of nearly 3 million ballots certified that the Democrat had received ...
Video: Franken: Senate Victory 'Incredibly Humbling'
Democrat Is Winner in Recount of Minnesota Senate Race
Panetta Chosen as CIA Chief in Surprise Step - New York Times
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By MARK MAZZETTI and CARL HULSE WASHINGTON - Leon E. Panetta, a former congressman and White House chief of staff, has been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Video: Obama Fills Key Intelligence Positions
Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA
Credentials of Burris Are Rejected by Senate - New York Times
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Roland W. Burris talked to reporters at news conference at Midway Airport in Chicago on Monday before leaving for Washington. By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON - Senate officials on Monday rejected credentials offered on behalf of Roland W. Burris, ...
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Burris: 'I am the legally-appointed senator'
Auto sales plunge again in December - CNNMoney.com
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Sales of cars, trucks and SUVs all plummeted, capping the worst year for industrywide auto sales since 1992. By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.
Video: Chrysler, Toyota, Lead Declines in Auto Sales
Toyota, Honda US Slump Ends Gains Dating to Mid-90s
'Hormone imbalance' raises question of cancer - Los Angeles Times
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By Shari Roan Pancreatic cancer has a dismal survival rate, surely one reason the business world has been abuzz in recent weeks over the gaunt appearance of Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs.
Surgery May Have Spurred Steve Jobs’s Weight Loss
Mac fans wish Steve Jobs well
Gazprom Reduces Deliveries of Gas Through Ukraine - New York Times
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By ANDREW E. KRAMER MOSCOW - Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, on Monday reduced deliveries of gas for transit through Ukraine to Western European customers, saying that it was seeking to make up for gas stolen by Ukraine.
Video: Europe to monitor Ukrainian gas transit?
Putin Orders Cut in Gas Sent Via Ukraine as Disruptions Spread
Hackers hijack Obama's, Britney's Twitter accounts - Computerworld
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By Gregg Keizer January 5, 2009 (Computerworld) Hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities and organizations, including President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Fox News, early on Monday, the company confirmed today.
Twitter's veracity chewed up by Britney's four-foot vagina
Spears, Obama hit by Twitter tampering
HDTV and Mobile Gear to Steal CES 2009 Spotlight - PC World
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From multi-display laptops, HDTVs wired for broadband, to Blu-ray players that can deliver Web content, the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has it all.
Video: Loaded: Happy New Year!
In tough times, Vegas CES gets smaller
Chinese Government Campaign Targets Internet Porn - PC World
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China's government launched a month-long campaign to stamp out Internet pornography on Monday, with Google's search engine topping the list of Web sites it wants to see crack down on pornographic content.
How significant is China’s new crackdown on pornography?
Beijing hits out at Google in web porn crackdown
Scientologists clear up Travolta misconceptions - MSNBC
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By Courtney Hazlett Bahamian officials determined it was a seizure that caused Jett Travolta’s sudden death, but there have been a number of outspoken critics of Scientology claiming that the church’s practices might have played a part in how the ...
Death certificate: Travolta son killed by seizure
Autopsy performed in Bahamas on Travolta's son
Lindsay Lohan Denies Split With Samantha Ronson - People Magazine
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By Mike Fleeman In a MySpace Celebrity Blog posting under "RUMORS," the actress writes, "Little piece of TRUE information: We did NOT break up!
Updated: Lindsay Lohan Says She & Samantha Ronson Are Still Together
Lindsay Blogs About Not Breaking Up
Producers Guild nominations announced - Entertainment Weekly
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The Producers Guild listed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk, and Slumdog Millionaire as their five nominees today, further sharpening this year's Oscar race.
Producers Guild of America nominations = Oscars' front-runners
Hollywood producers unveil best film nominees
Pat Burrell Signs With Rays; Milton Bradley Expected to Join Cubs - New York Times
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By BEN SHPIGEL The logjam of free-agent outfielders finally showed signs of breaking Monday. Pat Burrell signed with the Tampa Bay Rays, and Milton Bradley has apparently decided to play for the Chicago Cubs.
Milton Bradley to sign with Cubs
Bradley to travel to Chicago
Nets hand Kings 11th straight road loss - Sports Network
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East Rutherford, NJ (Sports Network) - Vince Carter scored 29 points, grabbed nine rebounds and doled out seven assists as the Nets beat the Kings, 98-90, at the IZOD Center to hand Sacramento its 11th consecutive road loss.
Carter has 29, Yi 22 to lead Nets over Kings 98-90
Dooling scores nine in Nets win
Rays' resources limited after big signing - MLB.com
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By Bill Chastain / MLB.com ST. PETERSBURG -- Monday's signing of Pat Burrell to a two-year, $16 million deal will push the Rays' anticipated 2009 payroll to approximately $60 million, effectively shutting the checkbook for the remainder of the ...
MLB beat: Burrell is Rays' new DH
Burrell's value to Tampa Bay Rays goes beyond numbers
Teens Divulge Risky Behavior on Social Networking Sites - Washington Post
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By Serena Gordon MONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of teens who use the social networking site MySpace have posted information about sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence, new research shows.
Study: Teens on MySpace mention sex, violence
Kids reveal a lot about themselves online
Spending Rise for Health Care and Prescription Drugs Slows - New York Times
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By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON - National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963, the government reported Monday.
Spending on prescription drugs slows
Rise in health care spending slows down
CFS Linked to Childhood Trauma - WebMD
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By Salynn Boyles Jan. 5, 2009 -- Experiencing serious trauma during childhood may increase a person's risk for developing chronic fatigue syndrome later in life, a new study suggests.
Chronic fatigue, early trauma linked
Stress hormone 'a marker for ME'
SEC Broadens Its Probe Of Failures in Madoff Case - Washington Post
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By Zachary A. Goldfarb The inspector general of the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday that he is broadening his investigation into the agency's failure to detect the alleged fraud committed by Bernard L. Madoff, examining whether the ...
Madoff Sons Told Prosecutors of Jewelry, Lawyer Says
Prosecutors Want Madoff’s Bail Revoked
Prop. 8 backers blast Calif. Attorney General - The Associated Press
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday of advancing a far-fetched legal theory to justify overturning it.
California gay marriage battle turns to court role
Prop. 8 proponents call Jerry Brown 'profoundly wrong'
Richardson, Obama Teams Trade Blame - Washington Post
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By Carol D. Leonnig and Michael D. Shear Weeks before President-elect Barack Obama chose New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to head the Commerce Department, a small group of volunteers with ethics, tax and investigative expertise -- most of them lawyers ...
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