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| Tight gov's race brewing in Democratic Maryland
(AP)
| Fri, Sep 10 12:53 AM |
 AP - Four years of budget woes, tax increases in 2007 and the national antiestablishment mood have given Republican Robert Ehrlich a shot at winning his old job back against Gov. Martin O'Malley in one of the most Democratic states in the country.
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| Obama to tout economic strategy in press conference
(AFP)
| Fri, Sep 10 12:48 AM |
 AFP - US President Barack Obama will Friday step up his mid-term election campaign and appeal to voters dismayed by the stuttering economy with his first White House press conference since May.
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| Judge: Military's ban on gays is unconstitutional
(AP)
| Fri, Sep 10 12:41 AM |
 AP - A federal judge on Thursday declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional and said she will issue an order to stop the government from enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy nationwide.
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| Gas blast engulfs neighborhood near San Francisco | Fri, Sep 10 12:36 AM |
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A fiery natural gas explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in a San Francisco suburb on Thursday, ravaging some 50 homes and killing at least one person, officials said.
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| POLITICAL INSIDER: John Bolton weighs a WH run
(AP)
| Fri, Sep 10 12:32 AM |
 AP - Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says he's considering a White House run.
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| Sen. Scott Brown showing a more moderate face
(AP)
| Fri, Sep 10 12:24 AM |
 AP - Sen. Scott Brown, once celebrated by tea partiers, has pulled the political equivalent of knocking over the china: He's displayed a moderate streak.
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| Japan PM has edge in party race, outcome unclear | Fri, Sep 10 12:06 AM |
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has a slight edge over powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ahead of a party leadership vote next week, NHK public TV said on Friday, but with many party lawmakers undecided the outcome is too close to call.
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| Florida pastor cancels Koran-burning plan | Thu, Sep 9 11:55 PM |
| GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - A Christian pastor on Thursday canceled a plan to burn copies of the Koran at his obscure Florida church, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning from President Barack Obama that it could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings.
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| FAA to unveil new pilot fatigue rules: report | Thu, Sep 9 10:42 PM |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal aviation regulators are expected to unveil long-awaited proposals to combat pilot fatigue on Friday, replacing decades-old work rules, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Obama taps Goolsbee as top White House economist | Thu, Sep 9 10:05 PM |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has chosen Austan Goolsbee as the new head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. administration officials said on Thursday, promoting a longtime adviser from his inner policy circle.
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| Obama taps Goolsbee as top White House economist
(Reuters)
| Thu, Sep 9 10:05 PM |
 Reuters - President Barack Obama has chosen Austan Goolsbee as the new head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. administration officials said on Thursday, promoting a longtime adviser from his inner policy circle.
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| Judge: AZ Green Party candidates to stay on ballot
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 9 08:57 PM |
| AP - Nine disputed Arizona Green Party nominees, labeled "sham candidates" because they were allegedly recruited by Republicans to syphon away support for Democrats, can stay on the November ballot, a federal judge ruled late Thursday. | Yahoo! News: Elections |
| U.S. judge rules ban on gays in military unconstitutional | Thu, Sep 9 08:43 PM |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military rule banning openly gay people from serving in the armed forces violates constitutional rights to free speech and due process, a federal judge in southern California ruled Thursday.
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| Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 9 08:05 PM |
 AP - An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York's ground zero. The imam planning the center denied there was ever such a deal.
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| Emanuel would be best-known mayoral candidate
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 9 08:00 PM |
 AP - If Rahm Emanuel decides to run for Chicago mayor, the White House chief of staff would easily be the best-known figure in the race, with national name recognition that few others could match and invaluable experience from helping engineer the Democrats' takeover of the House in 2006.
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| Gulf compensation chief retreats from promises to speed claims process
(Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
| Thu, Sep 9 07:45 PM |
 Exclusive to Yahoo! News - Just over two weeks ago, Kenneth Feinberg took over the process for handling damage claims from the Gulf oil spill, pledging to cut down the response time from BP’s widely criticized system to two days for individuals and seven days for businesses that file fully documented claims.
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| U.S. troops charged with murder of Afghan civilians | Thu, Sep 9 05:58 PM |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world.
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| Feingold labels himself underdog against newcomer
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 9 04:12 PM |
 AP - Sen. Russ Feingold calls himself the underdog in his re-election bid against a Republican challenger no one had heard of six months ago but who, like other GOP newcomers this year, is tapping his own fortune to start a political career at the top.
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| Angle courts wary Hispanics in Nevada Senate race
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 9 03:17 PM |
 AP - Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle's conservative views on illegal immigration and her limited outreach to Hispanics have done little to endear her to Nevada's largest minority group.
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| N.H. could be next GOP trouble spot
(CQPolitics.com)
| Thu, Sep 9 01:59 PM |
| CQPolitics.com - The nation's most competitive Senate primary Tuesday may be 400 miles north of Delaware. | Yahoo! News: Politics News |
| Analysis: Obama has tenuous grip on Democrats over taxes
(Reuters)
| Thu, Sep 9 01:51 PM |
 Reuters - Democrats in Congress are distancing themselves from President Barack Obama's push to let taxes rise for the wealthiest Americans, fearing it will further harm them in November's mid-term elections.
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| DTC Perspectives Names 2010 DTC Hall of Fame Class | |
| Induction Ceremony Set for Nov. 10 in conjunction with the 2010 DTC Perspectives’ Fall Conference (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4473374.htm |
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| MPMsoft Selects PracticeSuite® Free EHR as its Electronic Medical... | |
| Maker of the popular desktop medical billing software and practice management system, MPM has recently chosen as its EMR partner PracticeSuite who provides an EMR free to all licensed healthcare... (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/medical/billing/prweb4481634.htm |
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| TerraGo Technologies® Enhances Mobile Solution for Advanced... | |
| TerraGo Mobile™ Enables Field Intelligence Gathering with TerraGo GeoPDF® on Smartphones and Rugged GPS Handheld Devices. (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4482364.htm |
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| Metro Detroit Inter-Faith Prayer Service in Detroit on Eve of 9.11... | |
| Eve of Ninth Anniversary of 9/11
Inter-faith Prayer Service for Peace, Respect & Civility on September 10
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron, Imam Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini, Pastor Oscar King and others join... (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4482644.htm |
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| Huawei Symantec Has Selected Condre Storage as a Strategic Storage... | |
| Huawei Symantec (HS) today announced that Condre Storage Inc., a leading enterprise IT distributor, has been selected as an authorized distributor for Huawei Symantec (HS) network storage products in... (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4484074.htm |
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| Online Payday Lenders Turning to the U.K. to Secure the Future of... | |
| payday loans booming in the U.K., many US lenders are turning to the U.K. in order to secure the future of their lending business. (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4481024.htm |
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| State Net Poised For Growth with New CEO Appointment | |
| Nation's leading legislative and regulatory reporting service, State Net, appoints new CEO. (PRWeb September 09, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4475294.htm |
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| Practical Debt Relief Becomes BSI Accredited | |
| The recent FTC ruling regulating debt settlement companies is causing many companies to close down or sell their customer portfolio. Practical Debt Relief just completed BSI Accreditation, showing... (PRWeb September 08, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4473264.htm |
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| DMB Financial Applauds FTC’s Final Ruling on Debt Relief Services | |
| Having offered performance-based debt settlement since 2003, DMB views the FTC’s recent debt relief rule as legitimizing the debt settlement industry (PRWeb September 08, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/DMBFinancial/FTCRuling/prweb4473934.htm |
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| US Department of Veterans Affairs Awards $2.5 Million Contract for... | |
| HiSoftware to provide governance solution for multiple VA Microsoft SharePoint Server farms (PRWeb September 08, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4475004.htm |
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