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Perry Abandons Presidential Bid

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By CAROL E. LEE And NEIL KING JR. COLUMBIA, SC—Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race Thursday and threw his support behind Newt Gingrich for the Republican nomination.
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Costa Concordia captain reportedly seen dining with mystery woman before ...

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The search for 21 people still missing in the Costa Concordia shipwreck resumed Thursday amid reports the captain was seen dining with a mystery woman -- who may have been on board illegally -- shortly before the liner crashed off the Italian coast.

In Keystone wake, Obama campaign touts energy in first ad

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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign sought to manage fallout on Thursday from his decision to nix a new oil pipeline, putting up its first television ad of 2012 to promote his energy record.

Apple brings textbooks to iPad

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By Ed Baig, USA TODAY Jeff Chiu, AP Jeff Chiu, AP At New York's Guggenheim Museum, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide marketing Phil Schiller unveiled iBook's 2, an interactive, full-screen digital textbooks experience that makes liberal use ...

Focus on past glory kept Kodak from digital win

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By Ernest Scheyder | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co's long decline that culminated in a bankruptcy filing on Thursday can be traced back to one source: the former king of photography's failure to reinvent itself in the digital age.

SOPA protests by Google and Facebook upend traditional lobbying

Washington Post -
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- An online protest led by Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. against US anti-piracy bills illustrates how Internet companies are changing legislative debate in Washington.

Phone hacking: News International to pay out to 37 victims

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News International has agreed to pay out to 37 victims of News of the World phone hacking, including Jude Law, Lord Prescott and Ashley Cole, in a series of settlements likely to land the publisher with a bill of well over £1m.

Iran warns region against "dangerous" stance on Hormuz

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By Tulay Karadeniz | ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a "dangerous position" by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's nuclear ...

Arabs running out of options on Syria violence

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By Ayman Samir and Yasmine Saleh | CAIRO (Reuters)- Arab states are worlds apart on Syria as they haggle over whether to keep peace monitors in the country as their month-long mandate expires without a halt to President Bashar al-Assad's bloody ...

Power out, snowfall records smashed in Seattle

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By Laura L. Myers | SEATTLE (Reuters) - A historic snow and ice storm paralyzed Seattle on Thursday, shutting the airport and schools, causing car crashes, downing trees and cutting power to at least 90000 households as blown-out transformers lit up ...

Colbert's Super PAC ad attacks ... Colbert

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By Chiderah Monde and Randee Dawn The 2012 presidential campaign: It just keeps getting better and better. Or, depending on your perspective, weirder and weirder.

Severed feet found in shallow grave in Hollywood Hills

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Los Angeles police detectives searching for body parts in the Hollywood Hills said that two feet recovered Wednesday afternoon had been buried in a shallow grave.

Financials, Europe debt auctions lift Wall Street

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By Chuck Mikolajczak | NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks rose early Thursday, putting the S&P on track for its third straight advance after Bank of America and Morgan Stanley earnings lifted financials and strong demand at European bond auctions eased ...

Bank of America Swings To Black Amid Heavy One-Time Items

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By David Benoit and Mia Lamar Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Bank of America Corp. (BAC) closed out the turbulent 2011 year with better-than-expected revenue in the final three months, driving the bank to a fourth-quarter profit compared ...

US Jobless Claims Plunge; Consumer Prices Hold Steady

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(Update wraps jobless claims, consumer price index and housing starts reports. Adds comments from analysts starting in fifth paragraph.

Santorum finished 34 votes ahead of Romney in new Iowa tally; votes from 8 ...

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum beat Republican front-runner Mitt Romney in Iowa caucuses by 34 votes, according to an official tally release Thursday, a reversal of preliminary tallies that showed Romney winning the contest by just eight votes.

Obama in Florida to unveil plan to boost tourism

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AP WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is pitching a plan for boosting tourism to the US by speeding visa processing, choosing a Walt Disney World theme park for the announcement just as Republicans prepare to blanket Florida ahead of the state's Jan.

Nike unveils its FuelBand activity-tracking device

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by Roger Cheng January 19, 2012 9:01 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng Nike today introduced its FuelBand wristband device, which is designed to measure a person's daily movement and drive the athletic gear company further into the technology world.

Facebook Timeline Apps: Should You Use It?

PC Magazine -
By Jill Duffy Facebook yesterday officially relaunched Timeline with Timeline Apps. Timeline is an opt-in feature on Facebook that replaces a user's wall and profile with a graphical and chronological timeline of events of his or her life on Facebook, ...

ATandT Offers More Data for the Buck, a Possible Win-Win-Win Strategy

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AT&T will launch pricier but more data-rich plans Jan. 22, which could improve its bottom line, its image and its LTE agenda. AT&T officials plan to offer a bit more data for the dollar, announcing that on Jan. 22 they will begin offering new ...

'American Idol' premiere ratings: Biggest drop ever

Entertainment Weekly -
by James Hibberd The 11th season debut of Fox's American Idol had the biggest year-over-year ratings drop for a premiere episode in the show's decade-long history.

Sundance 2012 will be biggest buyer's market ever

Baltimore Sun -
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - This year's Sundance Film Festival will be the biggest buyer's market ever. But will any of the movies picked up there become a breakout hit?

Soderbergh's 'Haywire' lands a haymaker with fight star Carano

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Former martial arts fighter and new Hollywood star Gina Carano springs into action in Steven Soderbergh's 'Haywire. Early in “Haywire,” a government operative played by Michael Douglas says the black ops agent Mallory Tate is “value added” for an ...

Roddick out of Australian Open With Leg Injury

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Andy Roddick's bid to win another Grand Slam singles title nearly a decade after his first hit a roadblock Thursday when a hamstring injury forced him out of the Australian Open.

No sweat for Djokovic as he strolls thro

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World No.1 Novak Djokovic put in a comprehensive display of tennis to launch his title defence in Melbourne with a bang, dropping only two games in his first round match against Italian Paolo Lorenzi on Tuesday.

Rob Lowe on Peyton Manning's future: Isn't that tweet?

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This just in: Rob Lowe says “his people” meant Peyton Manning was retiring from fantasy football. I love that appearing on - not starring in, but appearing on - a TV show set in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, makes Lowe an expert on Indiana.

Joe Flacco talks about Ed Reed's comments, riding skateboard

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By Nate Davis, USA TODAY Ravens QB Joe Flacco didn't seem thrilled with Baltimore S Ed Reed's assertion during a radio interview that he was "rattled" during Sunday's divisional playoff win vs.

Scientists: Mysterious galaxy may be made of mostly dark matter

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A team of astronomers has identified a new galaxy that may be made completely of dark matter, the second of its kind. In a discovery announced earlier this month, an international team of researchers has found a dark dwarf galaxy about 10 billion light ...

Helix Nebula Gleams Like a Golden Eye in New Photo

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A nearby planetary nebula shines like a huge golden eye in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile. The image shows the Helix Nebula, which lies about 700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius (The Water Bearer).

Paula Deen's foodie flap is a tempest in a crockpot

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Paula Deen recently divulged that she has diabetes, and that she's a paid spokeswoman for a diabetes medication. For the past two days the world has been in an uproar over Paula Deen's admission she's got Type 2 diabetes and that she's now a paid ...

Abortions Are More Common in Countries that Outlaw Them

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By Maria Cheng | AP | January 19, 2012 | + Abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries, a new study concludes.

States Failing in Fight Against Big Tobacco

MedPage Today -
By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today States still aren't doing enough in the war against tobacco, according to a new report card from the American Lung Association (ALA).

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