Automakers plead for aid, but Senate votes lacking
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:39:47 GMT
AP - Imperiled automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring. The Senate's Democratic leader said there still weren't enough votes to tap the $700 billion federal bailout fund to prop up the foundering Big Three.
Obama is delivering diversity, but some seek more
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:46:06 GMT
AP - Barack Obama, soon to be the first black U.S. president, is on the road to making good his pledge to have a Cabinet and White House staff that are among most diverse ever, although some supporters are asking him to go even further. He added to the minority representation at the top of his administration Wednesday when he named New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Hispanic, as Commerce Secretary.
Palin files late disclosure for free 2007 trips
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:44:45 GMT
AP - Gov. Sarah Palin has added to her financial disclosure forms two free trips that she took nearly two years ago but failed to report. Palin, who was Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, made the disclosures last month, but after Election Day when she and McCain lost to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The trips were first revealed in a story by The Associated Press in October.
Conservatives form rival group to Episcopal Church
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:08:51 GMT
AP - Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.
Bombs found in Mumbai train station a week later
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:33:50 GMT
AP - Police searching a mound of baggage abandoned amid the carnage of the attack on Mumbai's main train station found two bombs Wednesday nearly a week after they were left there by gunmen in a stunning new example of the botched security that has become a major issue in India since the three-day siege.
Police: Shackled Calif. boy jumped fence to escape
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:54:01 GMT
AP - After being held captive for about a year, an emaciated and shackled 17-year-old boy climbed out a window in the home of his captors and walked into a nearby gym in search of help, police said Wednesday.
Study illuminates star explosion from 16th century
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:31:53 GMT
AP - More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw.
Actor Mark Ruffalo's brother shot in Beverly Hills
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:25 GMT
AP - A publicist for Mark Ruffalo says the actor's brother is fighting for his life after being shot in Beverly Hills.
The one that didn't get away yields long-lost ring
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:20:56 GMT
AP - The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn.
Stars' Avery apologizes for ex-girlfriends remarks
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:59:27 GMT
AP - Dallas Stars instigator Sean Avery apologized Wednesday for comments about his former girlfriends that led to an indefinite NHL suspension. "I would like to sincerely apologize for my off-color remarks to the press yesterday from Calgary," Avery said in a statement obtained by SportingNews.com.