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Washington PostDemocrats muscle in stimulusAlbany Times Union - 1 hour agoBy DAVID LIGHTMAN, McClatchy WASHINGTON - Congress, voting largely along party lines, Friday voted to jolt the nation's struggling economy with a $787 billion stimulus package designed to provide quick tax relief and create or save 3.5 million jobs.
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Congress approves $787 billion stimulus package San Francisco ChronicleBoston Globe - USA Today - Los Angeles Times - InternetNews.comall 16,531 news articles »
The AgeIce eyed as possible cause of fatal plane crashThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoBUFFALO, NY (AP) - Investigators pored over instrument data and listened to the last words of the doomed pilot and co-pilot of a commuter plane in the hopes of determining whether ice on its wings caused the fiery crash that took 50 lives.
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Video: Raw Video: Plane Crash Site Still SmolderingVideo: Raw Video: Plane Crash Site Still Smoldering AssociatedPress
First Fatalities for Model of Plane That Crashed New York TimesSan Francisco Chronicle - Detroit Free Press - New York Daily News - Philadelphia Inquirerall 7,715 news articles »
CBC.caClinton Seeks a Shift on ChinaNew York Times - 3 hours agoBy MARK LANDLER Signaling a new, more vigorous approach to China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Friday that the United States had nothing to fear from an economically ascendant Beijing and that it would press Chinese leaders on ...Clinton vows a foreign policy 'neither impulsive nor ideological' Los Angeles TimesHillary Clinton warns, woos North Korea CNN InternationalBloomberg - BBC News - Deutsche Welle - International Herald Tribuneall 820 news articles »

A Stress Test for the Latest Bailout PlanNew York Times - 6 hours ago - all 7,256 articles »
Microsoft to launch its own retail storesLos Angeles Times - 3 hours ago - all 611 articles »
Rihanna beau Chris Brown 'remorseful,' his dad sezNew York Daily News - 5 hours ago - all 6,060 articles »
Pettitte can relate to A-Rod's travailsNew York Daily News - 2 hours ago - all 731 articles »
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Israel hits gunmen in Gaza, kills youth in West BankReuters - 2 hours agoGAZA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Israeli military aircraft on Friday struck two Palestinian militants on a motorcycle in the Gaza Strip, seriously wounding both, after Islamists in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel.New Attacks Strain Truce Washington PostPalestinians: Israelis kill teenager United Press InternationalVoice of America - Xinhua - Al-Ahram Weekly - The Associated Pressall 4,265 news articles »
ABC NewsIsraeli Election Reflects Resurgence of the RightWashington Post - 8 hours agoBinyamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party each try to build a coalition government after general elections, in which neither obtained the 61-seat bloc necessary to gain control of the parliament and become ...Final Israeli Election Results Bring Political Uncertainty Voice of AmericaSenior Kadima members push for national unity government Jerusalem PostChristian Science Monitor - AFP - Ha'aretz - The Associated Pressall 7,097 news articles »
USA TodayProving murder in case of wildfire arson difficultInternational Herald Tribune - 4 hours agoAP SYDNEY: The outrage following police suspicions that some of the deadly blazes that killed more than 180 people in Australia last week was white hot.
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Video: Suspected Arsonist Charged in Aussie WildfiresVideo: Suspected Arsonist Charged in Aussie Wildfires AssociatedPress
Australian Bushfires Burn as US Sends Assistance BloombergReuters UK - The Associated Press - Voice of America - CNN Internationalall 3,886 news articles »

The Miami HeraldA Stress Test for the Latest Bailout PlanNew York Times - 6 hours agoSolving a financial crisis amounts to a high-stakes guessing game. Proposed solutions have the potential to backfire. By JOE NOCERA First of all, let’s give the guy a break.Geithner seeks to sell US crisis approach The Associated PressThe Obama-Geithner Bear Market ForbesBusinessWeek - Bloomberg - Reuters - MarketWatchall 7,256 news articles »
Scientific AmericanJohnny Steele: On hearts and flower and all that wussy stuffInside Bay Area - 2 hours agoBy Johnny Steele In honor of St. Valentine, we invited East Bay comedian Johnny Steele to give us his quick take on the day. Steele will be headlining Cupid's Comedy Cavalcade tonight in Danville.Will Valentine's Day be rosy for florists? Orlando SentinelRoses: a labor for love Anchorage Daily NewsHi-Desert Star - Cherry Hill Courier Post - Sacramento Bee - San Francisco Chronicleall 426 news articles »
WCBDWal-Mart Wins Request in Bias CaseWashington Post - 4 hours agoBy Karen Gullo and Margaret Cronin Fisk Wal-Mart Stores won its request for a review of a court ruling that allowed as many as 2 million current and former female workers to proceed with the biggest sex-discrimination case in the nation's history.US court to rehear sex discrimination lawsuit vs. Wal-Mart ReutersWal-Mart Stores promotes Tom Mars to CAO position BusinessWeekCNNMoney.com - Patterson Irrigator - Forbes - The Morning Newsall 312 news articles » WMT - OTC:WMMVY - COST