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Top Democrats optimistic Congress will pass gun control legislation, with outside ...

Fox News - ‎18 minutes ago‎
Top Democrats expressed confidence Sunday that Congress will pass significant gun-control legislation, with the backing of Washington lawmakers and pressure from Americans across the country.
A closer look at the official events for the second Inaugural of President Obama ...
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Details Still Sketchy After Algerian Raid

New York Times - ‎31 minutes ago‎
BAMAKO, Mali - A day after the four-day hostage crisis in the Sahara reached a bloody conclusion, Algerian officials on Sunday sifted through charred bodies and scattered weaponry in search of explanations, as world powers began calculating the costs ...
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Inaugural Corporate Donors Include Bank Of America, Coca-Cola, Microsoft

Huffington Post - ‎51 minutes ago‎
President Obama's second welcome into office will be brought to you by Bank Of America, Coca-Cola and Microsoft. Those three companies are among the many backers of Obama's inaugural festivities, according to a list posted by the Presidential Inaugural ...
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French Soldiers Hold Gains in Mali

Wall Street Journal - ‎7 minutes ago‎
French soldiers massed Sunday in Mali's small towns to hold tentative gains against al Qaeda-backed militants, as officials in Paris awaited troop reinforcements from African nations and assessed the potential duration of what could be a drawn-out military ...
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Chastain films take top 2 spots at box office

Businessweek - ‎9 minutes ago‎
NEW YORK (AP) - Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg over the weekend, topping the box office with both her supernatural horror film "Mama" and the Oscar-nominated Osama bin Laden hunt thriller "Zero Dark ...
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Australian Open, Day 7: Djokovic survives epic match against Wawrinka

Yahoo! Sports (blog)
54 minutes ago
Written by
Shane Bacon
Novak Djokovic - Getty ImagesIt seems any match these days that goes the distance is automatically considered "a classic." A top champion gets shoved to the ropes and critics are quick to glorify what happened, win or lose, but on Sunday at Melbourne ...
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Ultra-Orthodox clout may ebb after Israel election

The Associated Press - ‎20 minutes ago‎
JERUSALEM (AP) - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties, long the power brokers in Israeli politics, could see their influence drop after Tuesday's parliamentary election.
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Merkel coalition takes wafer-thin majority in poll

Financial Times - ‎37 minutes ago‎
Germany's ruling centre-right coalition, headed by Angela Merkel, was clinging to power with a wafer-thin majority in a vital state election in Lower Saxony on Sunday, in a cliff-hanger poll that could herald a similar result in the national election in September.
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Palestinian ghettos were always the plan

Haaretz - ‎1 hour ago‎
Right-wing politician Naftali Bennett's plan to annex Israeli-controlled parts of the West Bank is just the logical next step in Israel's historic effort to ghettoize the Palestinians.
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Cameron's Europe speech delayed again

Financial Times - ‎10 minutes ago‎
David Cameron has been forced to delay his long-awaited speech on Britain's membership of the EU again, after a weekend spent struggling to get clear information about the resolution of the Algeria hostage crisis.
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Albuquerque Shooting: Teenager Kills 5 People, Including 3 Children

Huffington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children inside an Albuquerque home, authorities said Sunday.
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Arizona to Tax Hospitals to Pay for Medicaid

ABC News - ‎56 minutes ago‎
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has built a political career in standing up to the federal government over everything from immigration to health care.
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Why Republicans defy public opinion in gun-control fight (+video)

Christian Science Monitor - ‎38 minutes ago‎
To the surprise of precisely no one within the Beltway, the Senate's top Republican on Saturday told people across his home state of Kentucky that - if he has his way - President Obama's gun-control proposals won't go anywhere.
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Massachusetts crime lab chemist charged with evidence tampering

Reuters - ‎40 minutes ago‎
By Zach Howard. CONWAY, Mass | Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:45pm EST. CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - A chemist at a western Massachusetts drug laboratory has been charged with tampering with drug evidence, the second such allegation at a crime lab in the state ...
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Legal Fight Over Calming Technique Lacks...

ABC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
The followers of a meditation practice that has roots in ancient India say it's simple: Close your eyes, silently repeat a mantra and relax.
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BOJ Should Slow Easing If Yen Weakens Too Much, Abe Adviser Says

Bloomberg - ‎4 hours ago‎
The Bank of Japan (8301) will need to slow monetary easing if the effects on prices and the yen go too far, said Koichi Hamada, who's advising Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on choosing a new central bank chief.
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Battery finding may delay Dreamliner

Financial Times - ‎26 minutes ago‎
The resumption of Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights could be further delayed after a top US investigator ruled out excessive voltage as the cause of a battery fire that led to the grounding of the aircraft around the world.
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Mega spectacle at launch of Kim Dotcom's new file-sharing site

The Guardian
36 minutes ago
Written by
Toby Manhire
The internet entrepeneur Kim Dotcom boasted on Sunday that his new file-sharing service, Mega, was the fastest-growing startup in internet history.
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Oracle's Latest Java Update Comes With Security Holes, Researchers Say

eWeek - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Security Explorations has found two bugs in the latest version of Java that can be combined to bypass its sandbox—a finding that comes on the heels of reports earlier this week that Oracle's recent update did not fully address a security flaw.
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Honda GEAR concept previews trendy city car ambitions

SlashGear
2 hours ago
Written by
Chris Davies
Honda's eye-catching NSX concept unsurprisingly caught the most attention last week, but the Japanese car company also had a fetching urban alternative in the shape of the Honda GEAR concept.
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Google expands encryption protection in Chrome browser

PCWorld - ‎43 minutes ago‎
Google will beef up security in the next release of its Chrome browser (version 25) by encrypting all search queries sent from the software.
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Jennifer Lawrence Spoofs Hunger Games, Disses Fellow Oscar Nominees on ...

E! Online - ‎1 hour ago‎
Following her Golden Globes win (and acceptance speech controversy) last Sunday, Jennifer Lawrence hit Saturday Night Live this week to show off her comedy chops.
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Justin Bieber Flashes Bare Butt In Instagram Photo

Access Hollywood - ‎1 hour ago‎
Following a rough spell for the pop superstar (he and girlfriend Selena Gomez recently split, then there was the alleged pot-smoking photo scandal, followed by the paparazzo killed while trying to shoot picture's of the singer's car), Justin posted a photo of ...
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Michael Crabtree expected to start for San Francisco 49ers

USA TODAY - ‎23 minutes ago‎
ATLANTA - San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree is expected to start in today's NFC Championship game against the Falcons, several days after he was interviewed by police in San Francisco about a sex assault case.
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Hall of Famer Stan Musial Dies at Age 92

ABC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
No last name necessary. A slew of batting titles. Corkscrew stance. Humble. A gentleman. All-around good guy. Stan the Man. Stanley Frank Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals star who was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, died Saturday.
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White Veins of Mars: Curiosity Hits 'A Jackpot' in Quest for Wetter Past

ABC News - ‎23 minutes ago‎
White veins of minerals coursing through rocks on the floor of Mars's Gale Crater are providing some of the strongest evidence yet that the rover Curiosity's landing site once was a wetter, warmer place.
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Obama must make up for his carbon omissions

Financial Times - ‎20 minutes ago‎
With its references to raging storms, icy currents and gathering clouds, the weather featured heavily in Barack Obama's first inaugural address.
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Apps Aim to Detect Skin Cancer

Wall Street Journal - ‎Jan 16, 2013‎
Smartphone apps are inching onto the turf of doctors and medical-device makers, promising to measure heart rates, display X-ray images and detect skin cancer.
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