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Stevens loses Alaska Senate seat to Democrat
WASHINGTON - Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich on Tuesday after the last large batch of votes was counted. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count of about 24,000 absentee and contested ballots. That's an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
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India 'sinks Somali pirate ship'
12 minutes ago · An Indian navy warship has destroyed a suspected Somali pirate vessel after it came under attack in the Gulf of Aden. The INS Tabar sunk the pirate "mother ship" after it failed to stop for investigation and opened fire instead, an Indian navy statement said. There has been a surge in piracy incidents off the coast of Somalia. The latest incident came days after the Saudi-owned Sirius Star supertanker and its 25 crew were seized by pirates and anchored point off the Somali coast.
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Officials report US missile strike in Pakistan
2 hours ago · ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a village well inside Pakistani territory Wednesday, killing at least six alleged militants in an attack that could raise tensions between the anti-terror allies, officials said. The missile struck a house in Bannu district, which is a part of northwest Pakistan where al-Qaida and Taliban have found refuge, but does not directly border Afghanistan. Two Pakistani intelligence officials said their agents reported foreigners from
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Company bankruptcy puts rebates at risk
4 hours ago · If you're expecting a rebate check or have one that hasn't been cashed yet you should listen up. Many people don't realize that when a company offers a rebate, the check actually comes from a third-party known as a rebate fulfillment center. One of the largest fulfillment centers has filed for bankruptcy and some rebate checks out there could bounce. CPG Marketing in Tampa Bay has laid off most of its staff and filed for bankruptcy. The company is contracted to process rebates for dozen
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Bank CEO who took bailout opposes aid for automakers
5 hours ago · DETROIT — The chief executive of a major U.S. bank that received $25 billion from the government's financial bailout package said Tuesday that federal aid shouldn't be dispensed to the ailing Detroit Three automakers — unless they become the Detroit Two. "I think there's one too many" automakers, Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis told the Detroit Economic Club during a meeting in Cobo Center, the downtown convention center that's home to the North American International Auto Show each January
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Windpipe Transplant Breakthrough
5 hours ago · Scientists in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - a windpipe - made with a patient's own stem cells. The groundbreaking technology also means for the first time tissue transplants can be carried out without the need for anti-rejection drugs. Five months on the patient is in perfect health, The Lancet reports. Tailor-made organs like this could become the norm, the European team of experts believe.
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Clinton lawyers vetting her for secretary of state
5 hours ago · CHICAGO – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has engaged a team of prominent lawyers to help President-elect Barack Obama vet her candidacy for secretary of state even as some insiders criticized the pick and advisers to the former first lady said she was weighing whether to take the job if Obama offered it. Attorneys Cheryl Mills, David Kendall and Robert Barnett are working with the Obama transition team to review information about the Clintons' background and finances, including Bill Clinton's po
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Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website
5 hours ago · The conservative website HowObamaGotElected.com reports that it has commissioned Zogby International to conduct a poll of 512 Barack Obama voters as part of what can best be described as a viral marketing effort to discredit the intelligence of Obama supporters. The website, created by former radio talk show host John Ziegler to promote a forthcoming documentary, features a YouTube clip of interviews with 12 Obama voters who "were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and wi
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Bonfire blamed for sparking Santa Barbara wildfire
7 hours ago · A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities said Tuesday. An anonymous tip led to the discovery that 10 college students had gathered for a late night hangout at an abandoned property where the fire originated, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said. He declined to say which college the students attended. "It appears this fire
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NASA tests "deep space Internet"
7 hours ago · WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency NASA said it successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. "This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet," Adrian Hooke, NASA's manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards, said in a statement. The US space agency said Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN,
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Begich beats Stevens in bid for Senate seat
7 hours ago · ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mark Begich, the Democratic Anchorage mayor, has defeated Sen. Ted Stevens in a closely contested, see-saw race for the United States Senate, according to Associated Press projections. The Division of Elections has almost concluded an initial count of absentee, early in-person and questioned ballots Tuesday. That, coupled with the numbers culled from Election Day, gave Begich a 3,724-vote lead over Stevens, the 40-year Republican incumbent, with about 2,500 ballots left t
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Nov 18 · The Big Heist by: David Sirota Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 10:24 In the slapstick classic Funny Farm, Chevy Chase ends up writing a novel called The Big Heist which is so bad - so painfully, terribly awful - that he ends up going insane and burning it in front of his horrified wife. With that in mind, here's my question after reading this little-noticed two-week-old story: Are we all living on a funny farm, and does this story prove that we've just experienced the big heist - ie. a pathetically unf
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Nov 18 · I think back a lot into Joe Lieberman's run against Ned Lamont. I was amazed at the number of power Democrats who came to his aid. I was amazed that even when he made up his own party to run against Lamont...many power Democrats still supported him instead of the Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont. There was a group called Dems for Joe which contained many well-known names. It was really eye-opening. Joe Lieberman lost the primary. He flat out lost. Yet he still won his seat back. He went
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Nov 18 · Marc Cuban painted a big red kick me sign on himself when he hired Dan Rather. Here is what the former CBS anchor had to say about his current employer, Marc Cuban recently: Later, Rather, who now works for HDNet, suggested that the cable channel's owner, Mark Cuban, will prove to be a savior of independent journalism. "So much depends on whether, at the very top, particularly the ownership goes back to at least some semblance of seeing news as a public trust and has some commitm
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Nov 18 · Half the story has been told. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that Bush is creating civil service positions for loyal appointees, in order to make it hard for Obama to get rid of them. Bush has also, for some time now, been terminating large numbers of employees in the federal government, people known as whistleblowers, people suspected of disloyalty. Some of the higher profile cases are well known. But there is more to the story. And it follows the strategy described in Thomas
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Nov 17 · Yes, I posted this last year. But I was reading it over again in the light of the transition team, in the light of Obama's staff picks. We are still in waiting mode, but never too early to be on guard. As an aside: I think we are very lucky to have Obama as our President Elect. If I question, it is the people around him I mean. I see the I feel like many of us who worked for and donated to the DNC are not going to be needed again for the next four years. I did not think it would be that
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Nov 17 · George Bush, with his "war on terror" project, has transformed the middle east and Afghanistan into an inflamed bomb ready to explode, but has not found out anything about his beloved lost Usamah Bin-Ladin so far. Monday, November 17, 2008 Afghan article says US Bin-Ladin hunt phoney The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stoppe
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Nov 17 · THE entire effort to get the Iraqis to agree with the Bush White House on the future of the occupation of their country by U.S. forces is a cynical one in which Bush intends to commit the next administration to continuing his Iraq folly. Although it's certainly notable that the Iraqi regime is coming around to the idea that there will need to be an end point to the U.S. protection of their propped-up, autocratic rule, barring some immediate rejection of the presence of forces, the decision o
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Nov 14 · I needed to hear from Al From today like I needed this head-ache I have. Al even reminds Barack how hard it will be to be "post-partisan" with a Democratic congress. He says it will be harder to not let our "partisanship" show. I knew I had heard that word a lot lately. I have heard it on TV a lot, I have read it a lot. It is front and center at the for our party. I heard it used a lot on C-Span yesterday in a forum called It featured: Garin, Geoffrey Pollster, Democratic Party
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Nov 16 · Last week I had a discussion of the recent election with a friend of mine who considers herself a moderate. She complained to me that Obama won because African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for him because of his race, and she didn’t think that was right. I disagreed with her. In the first place, I explained, African-Americans in recent decades always vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate for President (although not quite as much as they did for Obama). They have a very good
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Nov 16 · I. Forget Health. The FDA’s Job is to Decide How Much Melamine the Market Will Allow It is hard not to think the worst of the Bush administration. They took an outbreak of food poisoning this summer and botched it so badly that they just about killed the Mexican tomato industry---while doing a big favor for the greenhouse tomato industry, which should have seen prices fall as summer crops came in. It took local public health officials to locate the true source---peppers. Score another one f
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Nov 16 · I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around the "gay marriage threatens 'traditional' marriage" meme. OK, I confess...I AM divorced. From Husband #1. But that divorce was in 1981, long before same-sex marriage was legalized anywhere in the United States. So golly, what happened? I'll tell you what: physical abuse threatens marriage. Emotional and psychological abuse threatens marriage. That's what happened to me. Abuse that was never acknowledged by my ex; never dealt with, admitted, ap
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Nov 16 · During the Bush years, especially from 2001 through 2005 there were many people who stood up and told the truth about what was happening in our country. These people risked public scorn, career set backs and sometimes even their own safety to help the country the best way they knew how, and we own them a debt of gratitude. After 2005 it was mainstream to oppose Bush and his polices, so no courage was needed; but during the few years after 9/11/2001, courage is exactly what it took. Please feel f
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