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Jobs report weakens Obama's election argument

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
CHICAGO (AP) -- The suddenly dismal news on American jobs is a blow to President Barack Obama's re-election argument that he has been a steward of recovery. It's heightened White House anxiety over global threats to U.S. economic growth - and the president's political prospects, too....
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Zimmerman back to jail; judge says he lied

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's shooter must return to jail, a judge ordered Friday in a strongly worded ruling that said George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain bond in a case that hinges on jurors believing his account of what happened the night the teen was killed....
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Dismal jobs report sends Dow into 275-point dive

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
Alarmed by an ominously weak U.S. jobs report, investors ran for safety Friday from new worries about a global slowdown, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest loss since November....
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Dismal jobs report sends Dow into 275-point dive

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
Alarmed by an ominously weak U.S. jobs report, investors ran for safety Friday from new worries about a global slowdown, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest loss since November....
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Md. man accused of cannibalism ranted on Facebook

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
JOPPATOWNE, Md. (AP) -- The college student suspected of killing and eating parts of a man staying at his home ranted months ago about "mass human sacrifices" on Facebook, one of several details that emerged Friday in the second gruesome case of alleged cannibalism in the U.S. in a week....
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Some courts are ruling `gay' is not slanderous

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- One by one, courts around the country are deciding it's no longer slander to falsely call someone gay - a measure of how attitudes are changing in the era of same-sex marriage and gays in uniform....
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Help for job market unlikely to come from Congress

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot weaker....
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Help for job market unlikely to come from Congress

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot weaker....
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Appeals court rules against ex-Gitmo prosecutor

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided federal appeals court Friday threw out a lawsuit by the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay against his former boss at the Library of Congress, who fired the ex-prosecutor for publicly criticizing the Obama administration over Guantanamo detainees....
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Record-setting NM fire grows to 339 square miles

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
RESERVE, N.M. (AP) -- A wildfire burning in what New Mexico's governor called "impossible" terrain in an isolated, mountainous area of the state continued its rapid growth Friday as forecasters called for thunderstorms and dry lightning that could spark even more fires....
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In California, it's Big Tobacco vs Lance Armstrong

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Fabled as a mecca for the health-conscious and fitness-obsessed, California is also one of only a few states that has not hiked its cigarette taxes in the last decade, meaning it is less expensive to light up in Los Angeles and San Francisco than many other places in the country....
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India fears for Afghanistan after NATO withdrawal

TruthNews.US - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
Pak Tribune | India is concerned by recent NATO summit announcement that by 2014 a majority of combat troops will be pulled out of Afghanistan.

Cameras being installed across north country

TruthNews.US - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 02:47
mpcourier.com | In an effort to protect the northern border, federal authorities are installing cameras on utility poles to read license plates.
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