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Obama outlines rebuilding plans to create jobs (AP)
04:11 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in coming years to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.
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Obama moves quickly to fill Cabinet positions (AP)
02:52 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday.
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Is Alaska big enough for celebrity Palin? (AP)
03:39 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - Oprah wants her, and so do Letterman and Leno. Fresh from her political defeat, Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate that would be astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.
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Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience (AP)
02:39 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home — a scene also captured on the Internet — it was too late. |
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Bush urges countries to avoid protectionism (AP)
02:04 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - President George W. Bush, faced with a dwindling number of days in office, was using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism.
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US: Financial woes no excuse in funding Afghan war (AP)
03:30 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - Even in a global financial crisis, the world cannot afford to skimp on its obligations to Afghanistan, which wants to double the size of its army but will never be able to pay for it, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says.
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Year later, baby ordered back to adoptive parents (AP)
02:58 AM, 11.22.2008
AP - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered a year-old boy back into the home of an adoptive couple who had to give him up months ago after not telling the biological family the woman was pregnant. |
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