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Tom Daschle accepts Obama offer to lead Health and Human Services - Los Angeles Times
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Ron Edmonds / AP Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, would head the agency that will handle the incoming administration's efforts to expand health insurance coverage, a Democratic source says.
Daschle to Become Health and Human Services Secretary
Obama picks Daschle as health secretary: CNN
Indian navy destroys pirate ship after coming under fire - guardian.co.uk
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Somali bandits terrorising the busy shipping routes around the Horn of Africa suffered a rare setback when an Indian warship destroyed a pirate "mothership" after coming under fire in the Gulf of Aden.
Indian navy sinks suspected pirate 'mother ship'
Ransom call as Indian navy sinks pirate ship
US Drone Strikes With Deadly Accuracy - ABC News
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By NICK SCHIFRIN Two missiles destroyed a militant hideout and killed an al Qaeda commander today in one of the deepest US strikes into Pakistan, underscoring the lethal and effective link between intelligence and technology that is helping the United ...
Suspected US missiles strike deep inside Pakistan
Major Al-Qaeda operative killed in US drone strike: Pakistan security
Gazans describe life under blockade - BBC News
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Four of the Gaza Strip's 1.5m residents describe how they have been affected by Israel's renewed blockade of the territory.
Rattling the Cage: Clueless in Gaza
Israel rebuffs UN calls to open Gaza crossings
Peru bets on China's economic muscle - BBC News
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By Dan Collyns Ever since its independence 184 years ago, Peru has gone through periods of boom and bust. The wealthy periods came from guano - sea bird droppings used for fertiliser - in the mid-19th Century, rubber came shortly afterwards, ...
Foreign ministers prepare APEC summit in Peru
APEC to urge deeper trade ties
County Judge Leans Toward Franken Position on Exposing Voter ... - FOXNews
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Minnesota Judge Dale Lindman voices concerns about election workers withholding from Al Franken's campaign data on voters with rejected absentee ballots.
Recount begins in Minnesota for US Senate seat
Minnesota starts recount for US Senate seat
Qaeda Deputy Notes Obama Victory, With Insult - New York Times
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By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON - In Al Qaeda’s first response to an American election that drew an enthusiastic response from Muslims worldwide, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who ...
Video: Al-Qaida No. 2 Insults Obama in New Tape
Qaeda scorns Obama, urges attacks on United States
UPDATE 1-US House panel backs Waxman as energy chairman - Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Rep. Henry Waxman of California narrowly won a preliminary contest on Wednesday to replace Rep. John Dingell of Michigan as chairman of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.
Waxman Wins First Round of Fight With Dingell for Energy Panel
Comment by Frank O'Donnell President, Clean Air WatchStocks dip after report on consumer prices - The Associated Press
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are moderately lower in early trading as investors, nervous about the fate of the nation's top automakers, scour more economic data.
AP Top News at 2:30 pm EST
Stocks head to lower open after dour economic data
Fed Officials Saw Economy Shrinking Through Mid-2009 Last Month - Bloomberg
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By Steve Matthews Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve policy makers last month predicted the US economy will contract through the middle of 2009, with some prepared to cut interest rates further in response, according to a record of their meeting.
FOMC Minutes Signal Fed Open to More Rate Cuts
FOMC sees yearlong recession, minutes show
US Economy: Consumer Prices Fall as Deflation Looms (Update1) - Bloomberg
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By Bob Willis and Timothy R. Homan Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of living in the US fell by the most on record and construction began on the fewest homes ever last month, evidence the economy is in the worst recession in at least a quarter century.
Cheaper gas fuels biggest drop in consumer prices in 61 years
Dollar trades mixed as consumer prices plummet
Yahoo Shares Plunge As Microsoft Says No Deal - InformationWeek
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By KC Jones Yahoo shares plummeted nearly 20% in midday trading Wednesday after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he was done with acquisition talks.
UPDATE: Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Yahoo Talks Are 'Finished'
CEO Search: Can Anyone Save Yahoo?
Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million - New York Times
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By NICHOLAS WADE Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this long time staple of science fiction were a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as ...
Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction
Mammoth's genome pieced together
Tool Bag Is Lost During Spacewalk - New York Times
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ Astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do repair work, but lost a bag of tools they had taken along.
Lost tool bag forces changes to mission spacewalks
Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks
Hugh Jackman Named Sexiest Man Alive - FOXNews
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He has played an action hero in blockbuster films, won a Tony award for his turn on Broadway and is a proud dad of two - but hunky actor Hugh Jackman now has another title to be proud of –People magazine’s 2008 Sexiest Man Alive.
Hugh Jackman Named People's Sexiest Man Alive
Hugh Jackman crowned People's `Sexiest Man Alive'
Review: 'Twilight' stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart - Chicago Tribune
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By Michael Phillips | Tribune critic "Low-key" is not the adjective you'd expect to describe a highly anticipated vampire movie, but there it is.
'Twilight' fan confessions from across the Hudson Valley - with audio
Ellen Gives Robert Pattinson 'Bite Me' Briefs
Ashley Dupre Exclusive: 'My Side of the Story' - ABC News
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By KIMBERLY LAUNIER and KATIE ESCHERICH The young woman at the center of the historic downfall of the governor of New York is finally speaking out.
Prostitute to wife of former NY gov.: `I'm sorry'
Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Alexandra Dupre: 'I'ma normal girl'
Sox ship Crisp to KC for Ramirez - MLB.com
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By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- For more than a year, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said that he did not feel any urgency to deal center fielder Coco Crisp and that he would only do so if it improved the team.
Red Sox trade Coco Crisp to Royals for reliever
Coco Crisp: An analysis
Seattle Mariners name Don Wakamatsu as manager - The Associated Press
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SEATTLE (AP) - Don Wakamatsu became the first Asian-American manager in major league baseball history when he was hired Wednesday by the Seattle Mariners.
Mariners name Wakamatsu manager
Wakamatsu named Mariners manager
NCAA sets Final Four destinations through 2016 - Los Angeles Times
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New Orleans, Atlanta, Arlington/Dallas/Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Houston will be added to the rotation starting in 2012. By Chris Dufresne The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee finalized Final Four sites through 2016 today when it announced ...
NCAA announces future Final Four sites
NCAA Final Four returns to Atlanta in 2013
Pioneering Stem Cell Surgery Announced - New York Times
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By ALAN COWELL PARIS -- Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system, ...
1st Trachea Transplant From Stem Cells
Doctors Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find - New York Times
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By RONI CARYN RABIN The largest and longest independent clinical trial to assess ginkgo biloba’s ability to prevent memory loss has found that the supplement does not prevent or delay dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are reporting.
Ginkgo biloba doesn't prevent dementia, study finds
Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesn't stop Alzheimer's
Genentech's Avastin linked to vein-clotting risk in analysis - San Jose Mercury News
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By John Lauerman Genentech's Avastin, widely prescribed for colon cancer and some lung tumors, was linked to significantly higher rates of vein clotting in an analysis of earlier studies.
Genentech disputes new Avastin research data
Avastin More Likely to Cause Blood Clots in Veins, Study Says
Chrysler Assessed, Dropped Bankruptcy Before Aid Push (Update1) - Bloomberg
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By Jeff Green Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli told Congress his automaker studied a prearranged bankruptcy before dismissing the idea as unworkable and approaching the US government for money to survive.
Auto companies fall as executives press for aid
GM shares at 66-yr low amid bailout doubt
Daschle to Be Nominee for Health Post in Obama Cabinet - New York Times
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By HELENE COOPER and PETER BAKER WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate former Senator Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota as secretary of health and human services, and is leaning toward former Deputy Attorney General Eric H.
Video: Obama Taps Holder For AG
Obama AG selection prosecuted Joe Waldholtz
Obama's staff picks cause critics to question his call for change - CNN International
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Barack Obama pledged to bring "fundamental change to Washington" as he campaigned for the White House -- but as the president-elect fills out his administration, critics say they're seeing just more of the same.
Lobbyists in the Transition
White House Memo Obama Team Anything but Shy and Retiring
