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Palestinian President Says He Won’t Seek Re-election

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ethan Bronner, Mark Landler - Nov. 06 (News Report) - The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Thursday that he would not seek re-election, the latest sign that the Obama administration’s drive to broker a Middle East peace accord, one of President Obama’s key foreign policy goals, has fallen into disarray.

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Hasan Was ‘Mortified’ About Deployment to War

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By James Dao - Nov. 06 (News Report) - Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist.

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Budget Monitor Says G.O.P. Bill Leaves Many Uninsured

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Herszenhorn - Nov. 05 (News) - The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans. The Congressional Budget

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A Made-Over Mickey. Why? To Make Us Like Him.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brooks Barnes - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - Disney executives are treading carefully, and trying to keep a low profile, as they discuss how much they dare tweak one of the most durable characters in pop culture history to induce new generations of texting, tech-savvy children to embrace him. Disney executives will keenly watch how Epic Mickey is received, to inform the broader overhaul.

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Energized G.O.P. Looking to Avoid an Intraparty Feud

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Adam Nagourney - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Republicans emerged from Tuesday’s elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began maneuvering to avoid a prolonged battle with conservative activists over what the party stands for and how to regain power.

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Maine Voters Repeal Law Allowing Gay Marriage

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Maine Voters Repeal Law Allowing Gay Marriage

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Christie Unseats Corzine in New Jersey; Bloomberg Wins a Third Term as Mayor

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael M. Grynbaum - Nov. 04 (News Report) - Christopher J. Christie, a Republican former United States attorney who said he would vanquish corruption from the halls of New Jersey government, won the New Jersey governor’s race on Tuesday, defeating the incumbent, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, and striking a blow against the Democratic party on a national stage. Mr. Christie, who accused Mr. Corzine of leading the state into economic turmoil, had nearly half of the vote to Mr. Corzine’s 44 percent, with more than 80 percent of precincts reporting. Mr. Christie’s victory ended a bruising and bitterly fought race that often descended into personal attacks by both candidates. Although the campaign focused mainly on local issues, including a statewide corruption scandal, Republicans across the country were quick to portray Mr. Christie’s win as a defeat for President Obama. The White House invested heavily in the New Jersey contest, a tacit acknowledgment that a defeat for Mr. Corzine would be interpreted as a rebuke of Mr. Obama, potentially affecting the president’s ability to pass major legislation and the public’s perceptions of the Democratic influence. Republicans already captured the night’s other major gubernatorial race in Virginia, where Robert F. McDonnell, a former state attorney general, defeated the Democratic candidate, R. Creigh Deeds, a stark reversal of fortune for Democrats who have held control in Richmond for the past eight years.

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Conservative Loses Upstate House Race in Blow to Right

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeremy W. Peters - Nov. 04 (News Report) - this is probably the most amazing coalition-building i've seen in...probably decades,' said marilyn musgrave, ....who came to new york to campaign for mr. hoffman.

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N. Korea Says It Has More Bomb-Grade Plutonium

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Choe Sang Hun - Nov. 04 (News Report) - North Korea put further pressure on the United States to start bilateral talks by declaring on Tuesday that it had completed reprocessing its spent nuclear fuel for use in a bomb.

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Buffett Bigs Big on Railroads, Buying Burlington Northern

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael J. del la Merced, Andrew Ross Sorkin - Nov. 04 (News Report) - America’s best-known investor, Warren E. Buffett, is making his biggest bet yet on the nation’s economic future by buying, of all things, a railroad.

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Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

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Three Contests on Election Day Could Signal Political Winds

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Adam Nagourney - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - In this supposedly quiet off-year election, three contests taking place Tuesday are filling the void. Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors, while voters in upstate New York are fillinga vacant House seat in a race with national implications.

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Obama Strategy on Health Care Legislation Appears to Be Paying Off

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert Pear, Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama’s arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans.

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In Manhattan, Immigrant Jail Draws Scrutiny

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nina Bernstein - Nov. 02 (News Report) - To federal officials, the Varick Street Detention Facility is a model. To detainee advocates, it is a case study in denying legal representation.

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Good Dog, Smart Dog

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sarah Kershaw - Oct. 31 - The increasingly complicated work of service dogs suggests there’s more to the canine brain than a good nose and an instinct to please.

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Senate Climate Markup Set for Tuesday but Will Any Republicans Show?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Darren Samuelson - Oct. 30 (News) - But Boxer cannot hold the markup unless at least two Republicans show up, and EPW ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) signaled that he has unanimous support among the panel's minority members to boycott the session until they get more data on the legislation from U.S. EPA and the Congressional Budget Office.

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Economy Expands in 3rd Quarter, First Time in a Year

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Catherine Rampell - Oct. 29 (News Report) - thursday's report will likely provide ammuntion to both advocates and opponents of additional federal spending to stimulate certain parts of the economy, as mutually reinforcing pessimism among consumer and employers continues to fester

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Victory for Obama Over Military Lobby

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Christopher Drew - Oct. 29 - With President Obama’s signing of a $680 billion bill, he pared more weapons systems than any president has in decades.

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Iran Delivers Response to U.N. Nuclear Watchdog

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Sanger, Steven Erlanger, Robert F. Worth - Oct. 29 (News Report) - Iran will not retreat “one iota” on its nuclear rights, but is ready to cooperate on issues regarding atomic fuel, power plants and technology, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.

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Anxious Crowds Meet Ad Hoc Swine Flu Police

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer - Oct. 28 (News Report) - The top public health official in Los Angeles County stood at a swine flu vaccination site in Compton, Calif., on Tuesday and gently told elderly residents that they really ought to go home.

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White House Memo: Obama’s Fund-Raising, in His Best Interest

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeff Zeleny - Oct. 27 - Things have changed since the president, as a candidate, promised to do things differently in the fund-raising arena.

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Basics: A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Natalie Angier - Oct. 27 (Research) - A view has emerged to counter the image that a neurotransmitter is the little Bacchus of our brain.

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States Pressed Into New Role on Marijuana

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:39:47 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 26 - Plain DealerStates Pressed Into New Role on MarijuanaNew York TimesStephen Pfankuch, left, with Max Eisler, an employee at In Harmony Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary in Windsor, Colo. By KIRK JOHNSON GREELEY, Colo. — Health and law enforcement officials around the nation are scrambling to figure out how to ...Lafayette, Louisville council candidates support medical-marijuana dispensariesDaily CameraCity Council To Consider Medical Marijuana RegulationsKRDOGrowth of medical-marijuana demand fuels Colorado land rushDenver PostContra Costa Times?-YourHub.com?-Visit Bulgariaall 12 news articles??

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Trying to Rein In ‘Too Big to Fail’ Institutions

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephen Labaton - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Congress and the Obama administration are about to take up one of the most fundamental issues stemming from the near collapse of the financial system last year — how to deal with institutions that are so big that the government has no choice but to rescue them when they get in trouble.

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Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By JACKIE CALMES, DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - Oct. 25 (News Report) - President Obama’s declaration allows hospitals and local governments to speedily set up alternate sites and procedures if needed to handle any surge of patients.

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