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CNN Live - US 

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US and World news from the cable news network

Bush to praise McCain as 'ready to lead'
In comments to be shown at the Republican National Convention tonight, President Bush calls presumpt...
Lawmaker: Palin due to face investigators
As she takes part in the Republican National Convention with Sen. John McCain, the abuse of power pr...
Anti-abortion group says Palin 'walks her talk'
Sarah Palin's announcement that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant -- and she supports her daughte...
Leslie Sanchez: Obama's high-tech advantage
In 1840, a young Whig organizer named Abraham Lincoln wrote the guidebook on political field work. H...
Papers suggest Olympians got banned drugs
Two members of the 2008 Jamaican Olympic track team received shipments of performance-enhancing drug...

BBC News - UK 

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British and World news from the TV and Radio programming networks

Bush urges joint crisis response
US President George W Bush calls for co-ordinated action by industrialised countries to tackle the w...
Race turns bitter as debate looms
The US presidential candidates exchange barbs as they prepare for their second debate in Nashville,...
Hijacked tanks 'for South Sudan'
The BBC sees evidence suggesting a Ukrainian ship held by pirates off Somalia is carrying tanks boun...
Guantanamo Uighurs 'to be freed'
A US judge orders that 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay be released into the US.
Troops confront Bangkok protests
Thai troops are deployed in the capital after police fail for a second time to disperse anti-governm...

Politics Today - NBC News - US 

Political commentary and news from the US news network company

Washington Post - US 

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Local, US and World news from the Washington, D.C., U.S.A newspaper

U.S. Stocks Plunge After Fed Chairman's Forecast
Bernanke's comments today that the Fed would consider an interest rate cut paint a grim economic pic...
After Bailout, AIG Execs Relaxed
Less than a week after an $85B bailout, insurance giant holds luxury retreat with a tab of $440,000.
McCain's Rock and a Hard Place
The Trail | As economy dominates race, McCain can't easily interject anything else into debate.
Judge Orders Uighurs' Release
Chinese Muslims are first detainees ever ordered to be released from Guantanamo Bay prison.

Guardian Unlimited - UK 

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Local, UK and World news from the London, England newspaper

Government's £50bn bid to save UK banks
PM to announce plans tomorrow to use up to £50bn of taxpayers' money to take stakes in high street...
Financial crisis: Fed chairman hints of imminent rate cut
In remarks which aggravated another sharp decline in Wall Street share prices, Ben Bernanke painted...
Icesave bank Landsbanki taken over by Icelandic government
Icelandic government steps in to rescue Icesave parent company Landsbanki
Football: English football facing debts of £3bn, says Triesman
FA chairman Lord Triesman says the game is facing 'toxic debt' and has warned it must take action
Google Mail Goggles aims to end drunken email embarrassment
System will block ? or at least make people reconsider sending ? the type of message they will r...

Christian Science Monitor 

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Local, National and World news from the Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. newspaper

Markets foresee global contraction
France, Ireland, and Denmark are in recession. Others teeter on the edge.
New tests: Chinese milk melamine-free
South Korean officials recall M&M's and Snickers, as China's production standards improve.
In Israel, a first attempt at high school integration
Fourteen students in Israel are taking part in an educational experiment that aims to teach Jewish a...
High court case: If harassed workers talk, can they be fired?
A Tennessee woman lost her job after she cooperated in a company investigation.
Supreme Court lets stand death sentence after Bible reading
A death-row inmate claimed the jury foreman violated his fair-trial rights by reading out loud from...

CNet News 

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Technology news from the technology news website

CNET News Daily Podcast: Subway cards now easily hackable
Protecting yourself from subway card hacks; a possible battery change for Apple's iPhone; and corpor...
Firefox Geode: Web sites know where you are
The Internet is international, but increasingly local, too: Mozilla Labs' new Firefox plug-in lets W...
HP to offer printing on MySpace
MySpace members will be able to print out photos, blog entries, and other stuff from their profiles...
Army plans 500-megawatt solar thermal farm
A new Army energy strategy includes plans for what could become the world's largest solar thermal fa...
Microsoft search results land inside Facebook
As part of a deal announced in July that resulted from an investment, users can now do Web searches...

PoliticsCentral.com 

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US and World politics from the politics/government news website

The Glenn and Helen Show: Adam Shepard on Making it from Scratch
Can you still make it from scratch in America? That's the question that Adam Shepard asked himself i...
The Glenn and Helen Show: T. Boone Pickens on Wind Energy
T. Boone Pickens is an oilman, a takeover expert, and a longtime observer of the American scene. He'...
The Glenn and Helen Show: Carla Howell on Ending the Income Tax in Massachusetts
Like many states, Massachusetts has an income tax. But in Massachusetts, people are trying to do som...
The Glenn and Helen Show: Kathleen Parker on Why Men Matter
They used to say that it was a man's world, but you don't hear that much any more. Women outnumber m...
The Glenn and Helen Show: Doug Feith on War and Decision
Douglas J. Feith served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2001 through 2005. His new book...

Scientific American 

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News and articles from the technology and science magazine and website

Economic woes may give planet a breather
By Michele Kambas [More]
Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa Win Physics Nobel
Three researchers in so-called broken symmetry, which helps to explain the intricate workings of the...
Nobel Prize in Physics
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] The 2008 Nobel Prize in physics goes to an A...
Hypnosis, Memory and the Brain
Hypnosis has long been considered a valuable technique for recreating and then studying puzzling psy...
Cylindrical Solar Cells Give a Whole New Meaning to Sunroof
There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs...

Wired News 

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World news and technology articles from the news website

Video: Neil Gaiman Gives Away 'The Graveyard'
The Sandman author reads from his new book, about a boy who hangs out with dead people, and posts th...
Solar Goes From Gardens to Gigabucks
A California company has a billion dollars worth of orders in hand for a new solar product that coul...
Pimp My Pony: Gear for the Equestrian Commute
Gas gas hovers around $4 a gallon, your Prius-driving neighbors are cruising smugly all the way to W...
Oct. 7, 1959: Luna 3's Images From the Dark Side
1959: The space probe Luna 3 takes the first photographs of the dark side of the moon.

The radio-co...
Gallery: Inside Secretive New Solar-Tech Factory
: Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
FREMONT, California -- Solar photovoltaics make up a tiny percentage o...

Salon 

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World news from the news website

The low road to the White House
As the gloves come off in the presidential race, John McCain seems ever more willing to dispense wit...
A suicide in the family
Two gripping memoirs explore the guilt and confusion left behind when a relative kills himself.
The GOP goes back to its ugly roots
McCain is resurrecting the GOP's oldest tactic: Smearing Obama as a scary black terrorist sympathize...
Bear facts about John McCain
Despite his lip service to science, the GOP candidate continues to ridicule a major study of America...
I'm 17 and I can't figure things out
I don't know what my friends are talking about, and I don't know what my problem is.

Access Hollywood Gossip News! 

Snippets of celebrity rumors and stories from around the world

New Weather Widget 

Select your location for forecasts, radar maps and more

Digg: Frontpage News 

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Cool webpages and breaking news from the social networking website

More Bogus Obama Donors Surface
CBS News has learned that two donors to the Obama campaign that gave a total of $7,722 appear to hav...
'Deepest ever' living fish filmed [VIDEO]
A UK-Japan team found the 17-strong shoal at depths of 7.7km (4.8 miles) in the Japan Trench in the...
Boxer Steals WBC Belt From Opponent Pre-Fight & Storms Off
Samuel Peter ripped the WBC belt from Vitali Klitschko's hands and stormed off the stage Monday at a...
The 26 Hottest Star Trek Babes (PICS)
They are the babes we'd all like to boldly go with ? the hottest women to ever appear in Star Tr...
Supreme Court opens term with cigarette marketing case
Justices hear arguments on whether cigarette makers defrauded smokers with claims about light and lo...

Motley Fool 

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Finance/Investing advice and information from the finance and investing website

TiVo Ain't Done With This Dish Yet
This was just another small, expected victory. The big jump should come later.
The Wind Beneath Your Portfolio
New wind-farm projects could jumpstart an offshore industry.
The Stocks You Should Own
Great investing wisdom comes in small, bald packages.
A Guidebook for Investing in Down Markets
Follow these rules and laugh in the face of market downturns.
Smart Phone, Dumb Idea
HP is just jealous. Really.

PR Newswire Business News & Video 

News stories as they happen on the newswire, from the press release website

Wonkette 

Washinton D.C. news and political gossip, news and opinion from the political blog

Sarah Palin Still Making People Shout Things About Obama
Here's the latest Sarah Palin KKK rally clip from today, in Jacksonville. she mentions that Barack O...
http://wonkette.com/403331/403331
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST: Dow drops 300 … 400 … 450 … 500. Closes down 5.1%, 508 point...
Bill Ayers' Best Friend Continues To Win, With Bombs
Here are more of your fancy "math numbers" showing that Obama is not only still ahead in mostly ever...
Nazis, Racists, and Terrorists (Not Just Bill Ayers! But Also, Bill Ayers!)
One of Palin's antebellum friends, an Authentic American, told a black sound guy to "Sit down, boy!"...
Who Is Keeping Those Nine Wingnuts From Seeing ‘An American Carol'?
Have you heard about the great new hilarious comedy about how libtards are communists? No? Well, tha...

The Onion 

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