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Clinton appears before Congress over Benghazi attack

Washington Post - ‎8 minutes ago‎
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, testifying Wednesday in a Senate hearing that was politically charged and at times emotional, defended the Obama administration's response to last year's deadly assault on a diplomatic post in Libya and challenged ...
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Debt limit extension bill moves to vote in House

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
By David Lawder. WASHINGTON | Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:01pm EST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Wednesday began considering a Republican measure to extend the U.S.
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US alarm bells over Cameron's EU speech

BBC News - ‎7 minutes ago‎
The Obama administration has made no bones about it - it wants a strong Britain within a strong Europe. The President's press secretary, Jay Carney, has said that he welcomed the Prime Minister's call for Britain to remain in the European Union, adding that ...
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Super Bowl 2013: Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh to hold joint news conference

San Jose Mercury News
10 minutes ago
Written by
Cam Inman
SANTA CLARA -- The first Super Bowl featuring brothers as head coaches will offer another first: a joint news conference with them on Feb. 1. The 49ers' Jim Harbaugh will speak with older brother John, the Baltimore Ravens coach, at 8:30 a.m.
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Google rises after earnings, Apple gains ahead of highly anticipated report

San Jose Mercury News
28 minutes ago
Written by
Jeremy Owens
In the middle of Silicon Valley's most important week of the current earnings season in, Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) gained on Wall Street as Tuesday's encouraging tech earnings gave investors hope that Wednesday's highly anticipated reports would ...
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Palestinian student shot by Israeli troops, witnesses say

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- An Israeli soldier driving a civilian car shot and killed a 21-year-old Palestinian woman Wednesday near a refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Hebron, according to Palestinian witnesses and medical sources.
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Clinton demands US takes lead to combat 'jihadist threat' in north Africa

The Guardian - ‎9 minutes ago‎
Link to video: Hillary Clinton questioned by Congress on Algeria and Mali · Hillary Clinton has called for increased US military and political intervention in north Africa, and warned of a long, difficult but necessary struggle against a "spreading jihadist threat" in ...
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Suicide Blast at Funeral Kills 25 in Iraq

ABC News - ‎43 minutes ago‎
A suicide bomber struck a packed funeral ceremony at a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens in an attack likely to further deepen the country's ethnic and sectarian rifts.
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Syrian civil war devastates farming, UN says

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
By Catherine Hornby and Alexander Dziadosz. ROME/BEIRUT | Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:19pm EST. ROME/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's 22-month civil war has ravaged vital infrastructure and halved the output of staple crops, the United Nations said on ...
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Indian report on gang rape receives guarded welcome from campaigners

The Guardian - ‎59 minutes ago‎
Campaigners in India have given a guarded welcome to a 630-page report recommending wide-ranging legal and other reforms in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi last month.
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Sandy helps shore town reach deal on bar closings

The Associated Press - ‎13 minutes ago‎
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) - A nasty dispute over how much responsibility bars in a popular Jersey shore town have to keep their patrons quiet and well-behaved after last call has been largely laid to rest - thanks in part to Superstorm Sandy.
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Sheriff: New Mexico teen planned family's killing

USA TODAY - ‎32 minutes ago‎
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The New Mexico teen accused of killing his parents and three siblings is portrayed in charging documents as a teen haunted by homicidal and suicidal thoughts that included fantasies of killing his girlfriend's parents and ...
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Oil Drops From 4-Month High as IMF Cuts Growth Outlook

Bloomberg
43 minutes ago
Written by
Moming Zhou
Oil declined from a four-month high as the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts and on speculation that U.S.
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IBM Carries the Dow

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
The Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed higher ahead of the House of Representatives' vote on the debt ceiling, as technology stocks put the Dow Jones Industrial Average on pace for its ninth gain in 10 days.
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Google Government data requests leap up in late 2012

SlashGear
33 minutes ago
Written by
Chris Burns
This week Google is releasing an new report on what they're able to share about official Government requests for data across the second half of the year 2012.
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Apple earnings report could shed light on iPhone demand

USA TODAY - ‎2 hours ago‎
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple today will report first-quarter earnings, drawing close scrutiny of iPhone sales, in a widely watched reading of the company's health.
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A piano and a voice: Top 5 stripped-down Lady Gaga performances

Dallas Morning News (blog)
42 minutes ago
Written by
Rand Duren
Lady Gaga has been a polarizing figure since she hit the spotlight. Her fans follow her in complete adoration as their “Mother Monster,” while her detractors have no qualms bashing her, mainly because of her eccentricity and style.
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Shia LaBeouf's "Charlie Countryman" finds love in gritty Romania

Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
By Piya Sinha-Roy. Park City, Utah | Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:26am EST. Park City, Utah (Reuters) - Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood spin a twist on classic fairytales in their new film "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," a modern day love story ...
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Sundance 2013: James Franco explains how porn imitates art [Video]

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
PARK CITY, UTAH -- James Franco is never shy about pushing a few buttons with his filmmaking, and at this year's Sundance Film Festival, he has his thumb exactly where you'd expect.
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Celluloid Ceiling? Only 18 percent of jobs on top Hollywood films go to women ...

Fox News - ‎1 hour ago‎
LOS ANGELES - Last year an array of Hollywood stars urged Americans not to vote for the GOP in the Presidential election, claiming that the party was “waging a war on women.
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Australian Open 2013: Serena Williams laments 'worst two weeks' after quarter ...

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎1 hour ago‎
The hugely dramatic match between the two on Wednesday ended in the biggest surprise of the tennis season to date. Struggling with back and ankle injuries as well as Stephens's deft all-court game, Williams went down to only her second defeat since last ...
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DNA 'perfect for digital storage'

BBC News - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Scientists have given another eloquent demonstration of how DNA could be used to archive digital data. The UK team encoded a scholarly paper, a photo, Shakespeare's sonnets and a portion of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech in artificially ...
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US Govt Scientists Say Retire Most Research Chimps

ABC News - ‎19 minutes ago‎
Government scientists have agreed that all but 50 of hundreds of chimpanzees kept for federally funded research should be retired from labs and sent to a national sanctuary.
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PET Scan Detects Brain Damage in Retired NFL Players

ABC News - ‎4 minutes ago‎
A new imaging technique has allowed the detection of protein abnormalities in the concussed brains of living retired football players that are identical to the autopsy findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in deceased athletes, researchers ...
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Controversial bird flu work resumes

BBC News - ‎21 minutes ago‎
Controversial research into making bird flu easier to spread in people is to resume after a year-long pause. Some argue the research is essential for understanding how viruses spread and could be used to prevent deadly pandemics killing millions of people.
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Seeking a more effective flu vaccine

Boston Globe - ‎47 minutes ago‎
With a flu season that arrived earlier and more harshly than usual, government health officials have been loudly sounding the call for everyone to be immunized, while more quietly encouraging efforts to develop a better flu vaccine.
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Beverage attorney: NYC drinks limit bad for public

USA TODAY - ‎48 minutes ago‎
Critics say the limit on the size of sugary drinks is an inconsistent regulation. Sugary drinks. Opponents of New York City's limit on the size of sugary drinks are raising questions of racial fairness alongside other complaints as the novel restriction faces a court ...
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