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February 19, 2011
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Bipartisan Talks to Cut Deficit Stumble
Top Senate Democrats tried to scotch efforts by Majority Whip Richard Durbin to include Social Security in comprehensive deficit-reduction negotiations.
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Middle East News
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Death Toll Mounts as Gulf Unrest Grows
Soldiers fired live rounds on thousands of marching protesters in Bahrain, dramatically escalating the conflict in one of the world's key energy corridors on a day when deadly clashes also mounted in Libya and Yemen.
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Retirement Planning
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Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short
The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn't pretty. The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases.
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In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures
Abigail Kawananakoa has been on a decades-long treasure hunt—a bid to recover silverware, lamps, rare furniture and other assorted objects from her family's former home. Make that "palace."
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Bernanke fired back at foreign critics who say the Federal Reserve's easy money policies are breeding inflation and asset bubbles abroad.
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Mozilo won't face criminal prosecution as federal prosecutors have decided to close their probe of the former Countrywide chief executive.
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The largest U.S. banks are testing how much their customers are willing to pay for checking-account services that used to be free.
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China continued its fight against inflation, saying it will raise the bank reserve-requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage point, the second such increase this year.
WORLD-WIDE
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Wisconsin Democratic senators, holed up in out-of-state hotels, gave no timetable for a return to the capital, putting a bill that would strip most unionized state workers of their collective-bargaining rights on hold.
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Republicans, surrounded by thousands of raucous protesters, offered little hope of a compromise.
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Bahraini soldiers fired live rounds on thousands of marching protesters, on a day when Libyans battled over the fate of their government and Yemen saw deadly clashes and its biggest rally yet.
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Iran's opposition called for a nationwide demonstration on Sunday, and labeled the struggle as a fight against "a religious dictatorship."
U.S. NEWS
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The Numbers Guy
Behind the Information Overload Hypes
A closer look at studies analyzing the glut of information people face every days suggests the avalanche of words and images isn't as massive as feared.
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Another Senate Democrat Won't Run
Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico plans to retire at the end of his term, putting another seat in play for Democrats as the party seeks to hold onto its Senate majority.
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Week of Odd Allies, Shifts for House
The House's weeklong debate over spending cuts exposed just how much the 2010 election has blurred the lines of authority in Washington.
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Politics
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Wisconsin Democrats Keep on the Move
Wisconsin Democratic senators, holed up in out-of-state hotels, gave no timetable for a return, putting on hold a fiscal bill that would limit collective-bargaining rights.
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Politics
Skipping Town: Tried-and-True Tactical Trick
By skipping town to delay a legislative vote, Wisconsin state senators are following a tradition dating to Abraham Lincoln's days in the Illinois legislature and, before that, the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
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Politics
Wisconsin Battle Fuels War on Labor, Spending
Wisconsin's heated battle over state employee benefits has flared into a wider fight between Republican leaders and the Obama administration over the rights of organized labor and the proper ways to corral government spending.
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California Faces Public-Pension Fight
Fights over spending on public employees have shut down the state capitol in Wisconsin, sent firemen marching in Newark, N.J., and are now complicating California Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to close a $26.6 billion budget gap.
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U.S. News
Sundays Stay Dry In Georgia
Sundays will remain dry in Georgia, after state lawmakers shelved a bill that would have axed a ban on the sale of alcohol on that day.
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Health Industry
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Fight Over Fix for Florida 'Pill Mills'
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's call to cancel a state drug-monitoring program has sparked an uproar in Appalachian states that say they are deluged with illegally bought pills from South Florida pain clinics.
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Emanuel Seeks Outright Win Tuesday
During an hourlong debate, three candidates for Chicago mayor took turns attacking a fourth, Rahm Emanuel, the favorite in the coming election, who didn't display any of his well-known combativeness.
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THIS WEEK
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This Week: Feb. 14-18
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Budget Battles, Mideast Action, Apple Drama
The week in essential news, analysis, stats, graphics and photos.
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By the Numbers
Facts and figures from the news. This week, the Tempel 1 comet fly-by and the incredible shrinking workspace.
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Economy
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Bernanke Defends U.S. Policies
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fired his most pointed rebuttal yet at foreign critics who say the U.S. central bank's easy money policies are breeding inflation and asset bubbles abroad.
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Middle East News
U.S. Vetoes Israeli Settlement Resolution
The U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have declared continued Israeli settlements in the West Bank "illegal" after the U.S. failed to persuade the Palestinian Authority to change the text.
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Asia Business
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China Raises Reserve Requirement
China's central bank said Friday it will raise banks' reserve-requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage point, the second such increase this year, as inflationary pressures remain in the spotlight.
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Asia News
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Back on Island, Koreans Find Ruin
Hundreds of the displaced residents of Yeonpyeong Island, which was shelled by North Korea three months ago, returned home to ruins.
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World News
World Watch
World Watch items for Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011.
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Middle East News
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Egypt Rallies for More Democratization
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo's Tahrir square to celebrate Mubarak's ouster a week earlier and to demand further democratization steps by the military that now rules the country.
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Middle East News
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Bahrain Family Finds Bumps on Middle Path
King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has for years sought a middle path between order and freedom for Bahrain—a balancing act that may become more difficult as demonstrators ratchet up demands amid his government's crackdown.
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Middle East News
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Royal Rift, Absent Saudis Beset U.S.
U.S. efforts to stabilize Bahrain, another key Arab ally threatened by popular uprising, is being threatened on several fronts—including apparent splits in Bahrain's royal family and a sense of disengagement by Saudi Arabia, the region's biggest power.
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Middle East News
Strategic Puzzle Shifts in Middle East
Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, along with the dozens of protests they inspired across the Mideast, are changing the paradigms that guided policy makers and regional leaders for the past two decades.
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Anti-Gadhafi Protests Swell to Biggest Level
Longtime Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi faced what appeared to be the greatest resistance to his rule, with human-rights and opposition groups reporting demonstrations in several Libyan cities that met with deadly government response.
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At Least Four Killed in Yemen
One protester died in a grenade attack in the central square of Taiz, and at least three more protesters died in Aden, while supporters and opponents of the government clashed for an eighth day.
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Iran Opposition Raises Stakes
Iran's opposition called for another nationwide demonstration on Sunday, and raised the stakes by openly labeling the struggle as a fight against "a religious dictatorship."
SPORTS
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Golf Journal
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Why Tiger Will Never Dominate Again
Like hitting .400 in baseball, Tiger Woods's past exploits are unlikely to be repeated, even by himself.
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Heard on the Links
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More Gray Matter, or Lack of Same
Sports reporter Jim Gray, suspended from the Golf Channel's coverage of the Northern Trust Open, defied protocol Thursday. Plus, George W. Bush to head First Tee program.
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