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Being creative in a 'Dilbert' world

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
Offices often aren't the best places to work.
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US declassifies attacks in Yemen, Somalia

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is partially lifting the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia by formally acknowledging for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks in those countries....
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US declassifies attacks in Yemen, Somalia

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is partially lifting the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia by formally acknowledging for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks in those countries....
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US declassifies attacks in Yemen, Somalia

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is partially lifting the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia by formally acknowledging for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks in those countries....
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Burger King eyes China expansion

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
Fast-food giant Burger King says it will open 1,000 restaurants in China over the next five to seven years.
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California lawmakers pass budget on $15.7B deficit

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Democratic lawmakers have approved a plan to balance California's $15.7 billion deficit without Gov. Jerry Brown's endorsement so they can keep collecting their paychecks....
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Ice-T: Men love 'cars, gadgets and guns'

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
Actor, rapper Ice-T talks hip-hop, guns and takes your iReporter questions.
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Obama acts to spare many youths from deportation

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama suddenly eased enforcement of the nation's immigration laws Friday, an extraordinary step offering a chance for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work. Embraced by Hispanics, his action touched off an election-year confrontation with many Republicans....

Will elephants still exist in 20 years?

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
At the start of the 1980s there were over a million elephants, during that decade 600,000 were destroyed for ivory products. Today perhaps no more than 400,000 remain across Africa, according to Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington, who is widely recognized as an authority on the subject. It is a tragedy beyond reckoning and humanity needs to pay attention to the plight of the elephants before it is too late.
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Romney: Obama denying middle class a 'fair shot'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney launched a multistate bus tour through small-town America on Friday, charging that President Barack Obama hasn't given the middle class "a fair shot."...

Obama holds gay pride reception at White House

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling gay supporters that they will have a friend and "fellow advocate" in the White House as long as he is president....
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Obama holds gay pride reception at White House

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling gay supporters that they will have a friend and "fellow advocate" in the White House as long as he is president....
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Obama holds gay pride reception at White House

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling gay supporters that they will have a friend and "fellow advocate" in the White House as long as he is president....
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Is obligation gobbling up your vacation?

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
Leza Dabit spent more than $2,000 recently to attend a friend's wedding in Jamaica with her boyfriend. The weekend before, she was in Columbus, Georgia, celebrating nuptials, and the weekend after was spent feting another couple's marriage on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
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Obama hits reset with LGBTs

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
President Obama's reception in honor of Gay Pride Month brings him full circle with a community whose support helped launch him into the Oval Office.
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Spanish miners clash with police

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
Seven people are injured after striking coal miners clash with riot police outside a mine in northern Spain, officials say.
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In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....
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In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 08:41
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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