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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
In light of the economic downturn, consumers have been scaling back on food that's actually good for them. Sales of potato chips and other quick-payoff snacks are way up, and even though people are cooking at home rather than dining out to save money, what they're preparing in the kitchen ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Democrats and Republicans are jostling to glean messages from voters in a race for a U.S. House seat in far northern New York, as well as from contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. Republicans, increasingly optimistic, say the contests foreshadow trouble for President Barack Obama and the Democratic ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Policies that would direct federal money to Al Gore’s investments in green technology have drawn accusations of profiteering.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Lynsee, a 23-year-old teacher in Minneapolis, is expecting her first child any day now. And she's decided to share the whole experience, from the first labor pain to that final awesome push, with the internet.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The footwear giant in trouble for bombarding customers' cell phones with Spam text-messages hawking their wares.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The latest and strongest sign of the automaker's comeback comes as it pays down debt and adds to U.S. market share
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Soon conservatives across the country were pouring money into Hoffman’s race and scorn onto Scozzafava. Newt Gingrich and others who are Republicans before they are conservatives tried to prop her up, warning that the party must be respected and that liberal Republicans were still better than Democrats.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
A federal judge ruled that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.The first-of-its-kind lawsuit claims that the patents violate free speech by restricting research...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Confronted by an impassioned rape survivor at a town hall Saturday night, Sen. David Vitter tried everything from sympathizing to deflecting blame onto the Obama administration for his decision to vote against an anti-rape amendment.
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