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Obama hits new low in key poll

By doris | Published: July 31, 2011

Full Story a tnews.Yahoo.com US President Barack Obama’s job approval rating slumped to a personal low of 40 percent in a public opinion survey out Friday, a possible reflection of the political war over US debt. The respected Gallup polling organization said Obama had previously slipped to 41 percent several times since taking office in [...]

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Survivors tell of dread, loss after Missouri tornado

By doris | Published: May 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com JOPLIN, Mo. — From heroism, to disbelief to shock. Those were some of the stories being told by survivors of the Joplin twister. Below are some of those initial reactions to the tragedy.‘Felt like the building was breathing’Rod Pace, Med Flight manager at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, watched the tornado [...]

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Union approval low, but more still side with labor over gov’t

By doris | Published: February 18, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Carrie Dann writes:With tens of thousands of public sector workers jamming the halls of the Wisconsin statehouse – and similar labor battles brewing in Ohio and Michigan – Republican governors and Americans around the country are contemplating the state of the unions. The fracas in Madison has emphasized the divide between [...]

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Gas pipeline to Jordan set ablaze in Egypt

By doris | Published: February 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A pipeline that sends natural gas to Jordan was set on fire in the Egyptian Sinai town of El Arish on Saturday, and the suspected act of sabotage has forced its temporary closing, officials said. Ghaleb Al Maabreh, head of Jordan’s national electricity company, confirmed the closing. He said [...]

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Solar-powered plane completes 26-hour flight

By doris | Published: July 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — A solar-powered aircraft, which a team hopes will one day circle the globe, completed a 26-hour test flight in Switzerland at 9 a.m. (3 a.m. ET) Thursday. Solar Impulse took off shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday from an airfield in Payerne, 80 miles northeast of Geneva. The [...]

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Mexican violence scaring off American tourists

By doris | Published: March 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) — On Tijuana’s Avenue de la Revolucion, street vendor and sidewalk philosopher Juan Ramon Rocha leaned on his coin and jewelry cart and waited. But the tourists from across the border never rushed into the streets of T.J., as it’s often called. Rocha made one sale, to a [...]

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Tiger Woods says, ‘I am so sorry’ in public apology

By doris | Published: February 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (CNN) — In a tightly controlled televised statement, golfer Tiger Woods gave an apology Friday for his “irresponsible and selfish” behavior, which he said included infidelity. “I know I have bitterly disappointed all of you,” said the golfer, dressed in a blue shirt and a blazer. “For [...]

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Snow-weary region expects second wallop

By doris | Published: February 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The mid-Atlantic region continued digging out Monday from the weekend’s record blizzard, but snow-weary residents learned of a new winter storm due in the area on Tuesday. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning, with predictions of another 10 to 20 inches of snow, for northern Virginia [...]

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Official: Dad warned U.S. of son but ‘no suggestion’ of terrorist act

By doris | Published: December 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — When the father of suspected terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab visited the U.S. embassy in Nigeria in November, he told officials he believed his son was under the influence of religious extremists and had traveled from London, England, to Yemen, a senior administration official said Monday. Revealing new details, [...]

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Hurricane Ida moves into U.S. Gulf Coast

By doris | Published: November 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Hurricane Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm regained hurricane intensity overnight Saturday, becoming a Category 2 hurricane, but forecasters said it is expected to weaken as it moves north. Ida [...]

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Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn

By doris | Published: October 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The ring’s orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet’s main ring plane. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends outward another 7.4 million miles (12 million km). Its diameter is equivalent to 300 Saturns lined up side to side. [...]

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Telescope witnesses Milky Way starbirth

By doris | Published: October 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The recently launched Herschel Space Telescope has just returned glowing pictures of our own Milky Way galaxy in infrared light. The European Space Agency mission (with contributions from NASA) lifted off in May on a quest to observe the universe in long-wavelength infrared light. The telescope used two instruments simultaneously to [...]

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South Korea sends first rocket into space

By doris | Published: August 25, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com GOHEUNG, South Korea – South Korea’s first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. The launch of the two-stage Naro rocket could boost the country’s space ambition but the North warned [...]

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Federal water may be cut off from Calif. farms

By doris | Published: February 21, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com SACRAMENTO – Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials said parched reservoirs and patchy rainfall this year were forcing them to completely stop [...]

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84 killed in deadliest-ever Australian wildfires

By doris | Published: February 8, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News HEALESVILLE, Australia – Towering flames razed entire towns in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 84 on Sunday, making it the country’s deadliest fire disaster. At least 700 homes were destroyed in Saturday’s inferno when searing temperatures and wind blasts produced [...]

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Mixed Reviews For FEMA’s Kentucky Response

By doris | Published: February 3, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) In the first real test of the Obama administration’s ability to respond to a disaster, senior Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm. Yet more than 300,000 residents remained without power Monday and some areas had yet to see [...]

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Western governments working to extract their citizens from Gaza

By doris | Published: January 7, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Western governments stepped up efforts to rescue their citizens from Gaza Wednesday as violence swept the area for the 12th day in a row.The International Committee of the Red Cross was unable to rescue foreigners due to security concerns. The International Committee of the Red Cross was unable [...]

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Diplomats say US blocks UN statement on Gaza

By doris | Published: January 4, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News UNITED NATIONS – The United States has blocked approval of a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, diplomats said. French U.N. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, the council president, said the 15 council members could not agree on a statement in closed discussions [...]

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Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city

By doris | Published: January 4, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas gained momentum. Thousands of soldiers in three brigade-size formations pushed into Gaza after [...]

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Israel mulls halting strikes on Gaza, official says

By doris | Published: December 30, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop their rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday. Any offer would be coupled with a threat to [...]

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