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If Newt Gingrich is the Answer, Tea Party has Failed

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Newt Gingrich is only the latest improbable Republican frontrunner, and unlike those who preceded him - Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain - he has a decent chance of sticking around.

Clinton offers Myanmar first rewards for reform

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1 of 7. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talk as they have dinner at the US Chief of Mission Residence in Rangoon, December 1, 2011.

Wind storm disrupts traffic, flights and power in Los Angeles

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1 of 6. A man walks past a gasoline station that was damaged during a high wind storm in Pasadena, California December 1, 2011. By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A powerful wind storm with gale-force gusts left much of the Los Angeles area strewn ...

The Band Perry 'Ecstatic' Over Grammy Nomination

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The Band Perry received their second Grammy nomination on Wednesday and the country trio is over the moon with excitement.

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UN report says Syria now in a civil war with 4000 dead from Assad regime ...

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BEIRUT - Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad's regime, the UN's top human rights official said Thursday.

EU Broadens Economic Sanctions Against Iran

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December 01, 2011 EU Broadens Economic Sanctions Against Iran Lisa Bryant | Paris European Union foreign ministers agreed to broaden sanctions against Iran Thursday and condemned this week's mob attack on Britain's embassy in Tehran.

NATO attack threatens war on militants: Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan, enraged by a NATO cross-border attack that killed 24 soldiers, could end support for the US-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the foreign minister said, ...

Hinckley hearing focuses on his relationships

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John Hinckley, seen here in 2003, has been allowed brief furloughs from a Washington mental hospital to visit his mother. Washington (CNN) -- John Hinckley Jr.

Florida A&M Dismisses Students in Wake of Death

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AP ORLANDO, Fla.—Florida A&M University said that it is dismissing four students for their role in the death of a marching-band member last month, while audio of an emergency call released Thursday showed that the drum major had vomit in his mouth in ...

* ECB chief calls for new euro zone fiscal compact

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By John O'Donnell and Emmanuel Jarry BRUSSELS/TOULON, France, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The new head of the European Central Bank signalled on Thursday it stood ready to act more aggressively to fight Europe's debt crisis if political leaders agree next week ...

GM offers to buy back Chevrolet Volts from fearful owners

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General Motors will buy a Chevrolet Volt back from any owner who is afraid the plug-in extended range electric car will catch fire, the company's CEO told the Associated Press today.

Stocks on Wall Street Drift Slightly After Gains

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By REUTERS Stocks on Wall Street drifted lower Thursday as investors took a breather a day after market indexes posted their best gains in months.

Yes AMR, Bankruptcy IS Failure

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Most people are so used to everything about airlines sucking that news a major filed bankruptcy simply wasn't surprising. Conceptually, business is not hard to understand.

Wikileaks docs reveal that governments use malware for surveillance

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The latest round of documents published by Wikileaks offers a rare glimpse into the world of surveillance products. The collection—which Wikileaks calls the Spy Files—includes confidential brochures and ...

Siri is Dumb. There, We Said It.

PC Magazine -
The flap over Siri's apparent reluctance to point users to abortion services makes for great political theater. It's also an indictment of our understanding of how technology works.

Apple, Samsung Dispute Likely To Turn On 1994 Knight-Ridder Tablet

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A leading design patent expert predicts that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will be unable to stop Samsung from selling its Galaxy tablet in the United States, and says the press has misunderstood a dramatic moment in the patent trial taking place between the tech ...

Viewers to see a new YouTube

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Shiva Rajaramon, YouTube Group Product Manager shows a new YouTube Xbox application for HDTV at a press conference at YouTube offices in San Bruno on Thursday, December 1, 2011.

Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln: What would Bill the Butcher say about the beard?

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Daniel Day-Lewis looks like a million bucks. That is, he looks like 200000 five-dollar bills. The two-time Oscar-winning actor has to be the early favorite for another statue after a photographer tweeted a picture of the actor looking ...

Hanson uncaps MMMHop beer; Former teen boy band of brothers to launch their ...

New York Daily News -
BY Priyanka Padode Zac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Isaac Hanson of the band Hanson in New York City. The Hanson brothers may have become pop stars in their teens but now that they're of age, they're celebrating.

Scorsese's 'Hugo' named best film by NBR awards

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NEW YORK (AP) - The National Board of Review picked Martin Scorsese's 3-D "Hugo" as the year's best film, an unusually kid friendly choice sure to add further intrigue to the Oscar hunt.

Fox unveils midseason schedule

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Fox is adding three new dramas and - of course, the 11th season of American Idol - in its just-announced midseason schedule. Idol is back Jan. 18 in the same pattern as last year, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 ET/PT, ...

Vikings release McNabb

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McNabb, who started just six games in his lone season with the club, was acquired from Washington this past summer, but hasn't taken a snap since he was benched during an October 16 game against Chicago and has watched rookie Christian Ponder start ...

Fingerpointing over tape about alleged abuse by Syracuse coach

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SYRACUSE, New York (Reuters) - Syracuse University's chancellor said on Thursday the school would have fired ex-coach Bernie Fine eight years earlier had it known of an audio tape that suggests he sexually molested young boys, ...

Talk SEC Championship Game and more with Doug Segrest on Friday at 11

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By The Birmingham News The fate of the free world comes down to a few key college football games this weekend. OK, that may be overstating it just a little, but as far as the Bowl Championship Series national championship, the results of games this ...

Mysterious gamma ray burst has two perfectly good, completely different ...

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NASA recently observed a cosmic explosion, and nobody knows what it was. Actually, that's not exactly true: there are actually two equally good, utterly different explanations.

Voyager spacecraft offer up unprecedented view of galaxy

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Voyager 1 and its twin were launched in 1977 to explore our solar system's giant planets and to study the electrically charged solar wind streaming from the sun.

Obama sets new US goal on fighting AIDS

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President Obama delivers remarks at a World AIDS Day event at George Washington University in Washington, December 1, 2011. By Caren Bohan and Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to boost US efforts to fight AIDS with a ...

Senators Probe Efforts to Beat Back Generic Lipitor

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Just as generic Lipitor (atorvastatin) hit the US market Wednesday, three US senators fired up an investigation into Pfizer's aggressive campaign to hang on to Lipitor's market share.

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