Dow falls below 8000, S&P at 5-year low - Philadelphia Inquirer
Dow falls below 8000, S&P at 5-year low
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AP NEW YORK - Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling below the 8000 mark, as the fate of Detroit's Big Three automakers and the economy disheartened investors.
AP Top News at 5:17 pm EST
Lay-offs spark Wall Street drop
Obama signals priority with Daschle pick - Reuters
Obama signals priority with Daschle pick
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By Jeff Mason and Caren Bohan CHICAGO (Reuters) - US President-elect Barack Obama selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary on Wednesday, while former President Bill Clinton took steps to help secure his wife the ...
Video: Dem Officials: Daschle Accepts Cabinet Post
Daschle Tapped for HHS Secretary
Spate of piracy draws Indian counterattack - International Herald Tribune
Spate of piracy draws Indian counterattack
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By Hari Kumar, Alan Cowell and Caroline Brothers NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy reported Wednesday that it had sunk a pirate ship in a fierce overnight battle, punctuating a two-week stretch in which at least eight ships have been hijacked around the ...
India leads fight against Somali pirates
Indian navy destroys pirate ship as super-tanker ransom demanded
Chinese president arrives in Peru for state visit, APEC meeting - Xinhua
Chinese president arrives in Peru for state visit, APEC meeting
Seattle Post Intelligencer
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LIMA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Lima on Wednesday for a state visit to Peru and the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting scheduled for Nov. 22-23 in the Peruvian capital.
Climate change momentum fading: Asia-Pacific survey
Peru bets on China's economic muscle
Missiles and Messages - Newsweek
Missiles and Messages
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In the latest example of a sharp escalation of US air strikes inside Pakistan, an unmanned US drone was killed an alleged Al Qaeda fixer and four associates along the Afghan-Pakistani border, according to reports from the region and a Western ...
Suspected US missile strike kills at least 6 in Pakistan
Al-Qaeda leader killed in US missile strike
Al Qaeda No. 2 insults Obama with racial slur in new video - Christian Science Monitor
Al Qaeda No. 2 insults Obama with racial slur in new video
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In what terrorism analysts say is an attempt to show that the president-elect may not meet Muslims expectations for change in the Middle East, Ayman al-Zawahiri called Obama 'dishonorable.
Video: Al-Qaida No. 2 Insults Obama in New Tape
Qaeda Deputy Notes Obama Victory, With Insult
Recount Begins in Minnesota Senate Race - New York Times
Recount Begins in Minnesota Senate Race
Los Angeles Times
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI and ANAHAD O’CONNOR After two weeks of back-and-forth sniping, the recount in the Minnesota Senate race between the incumbent Republican, Norm Coleman, and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, has begun.
Minnesota Senate race recount could get ugly
Recount begins in Minnesota for US Senate seat
Axelrod Named Senior Obama Adviser, Greg Craig as Chief Counsel - FOXNews
Axelrod Named Senior Obama Adviser, Greg Craig as Chief Counsel
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President-elect Barack Obama has named his chief strategist during the campaign to be his top adviser at the White House. President-elect Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he was putting David Axelrod, his chief campaign strategist, to work in the ...
Obama fills West Wing offices
Close Obama adviser Axelrod to go to White House
WRAPUP 3-US consumer prices, home starts plunge in October - Reuters
WRAPUP 3-US consumer prices, home starts plunge in October
Seattle Post Intelligencer
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By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - US consumer prices fell at a record pace in October and new-home building slumped to fresh lows, according to government reports on Wednesday that suggested the economy likely is already in a recession ...
US Economy: Consumer Prices Fall as Deflation Looms (Update2)
Meltdown 101: How is the CPI calculated, and why?
Hopes Dim for Quick Bailout for Automakers - New York Times
Hopes Dim for Quick Bailout for Automakers
Voice of America
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Reserved seats for the chief executives of General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler at the hearings on Tuesday. By BILL VLASIC and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON - Detroit automakers will probably leave Washington on Wednesday without the $25 ...
Automakers Press High-Stakes Plea for Aid
GM Chief Signals He'd Step Aside If Asked to Resign (Update1)
UPDATE 1-Sara Lee to close and sell plant, cut 185 jobs - Reuters
UPDATE 1-Sara Lee to close and sell plant, cut 185 jobs
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ATLANTA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Sara Lee Corp (SLE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Wednesday it would close and sell a kosher hot dog and meat processing facility, and idle about 185 workers on or before Jan. 30, 2009.
Sara Lee to close South Side plant, cut 185 jobs
Sara Lee to lay off 185 in Chicago
The Story Of Yahoo's Decline - CRN
The Story Of Yahoo's Decline
Washington Post
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By Brian Kraemer, ChannelWeb You know you're having a bad month when you're forced to blog your resignation as CEO of a major internet player only to see the company's stock price jump at the news.
Yahoo Investors Lose Sight Of Company's Cash Holdings
Yahoo hits new bottom
The 'Morro' of the story - CNET News
The 'Morro' of the story
BBC News
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Microsoft shocked the security industry on Tuesday by announcing that it will stop selling its consumer-focused Microsoft OneCare security software.
Microsoft: New software not Symantec, McAfee rival
Microsoft Kills OneCare to Offer Freebie; So Long, Norton
Woolly mammoth task: Extinct critter's DNA mapped - The Associated Press
Woolly mammoth task: Extinct critter's DNA mapped
The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists for the first time have unraveled much of the genetic code of an extinct animal, the ice age's woolly mammoth, and with it they are thawing Jurassic Park dreams.
Scientists Reconstruct Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome
Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million
Hugh Jackman is the Sexiest Man Alive (unless you look at Jon Hamm) - Entertainment Weekly
Hugh Jackman is the Sexiest Man Alive (unless you look at Jon Hamm)
Washington Post
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People's Sexiest Man Alive issue hits stands Friday, with Australia's Hugh Jackman taking this year's title. I was in complete agreement...until I flipped through the gallery teasing 15 of People's picks, saw a photo of Mad Men's Jon Hamm (pictured, ...
Hugh Jackman Named Sexiest Man Alive
Hugh Jackman Named People's Sexiest Man Alive
'Twilight' Countdown: The critics weigh in - Los Angeles Times
'Twilight' Countdown: The critics weigh in
Los Angeles Times -
Excited? I'm sure many of you are going to Thursday's midnight screenings of "Twilight," and I can't wait to hear the reviews.
Movie review: Dreamy undead in 'Twilight'
'Twilight': Early reviews not dazzling
Paris Hilton and Benji Madden Split Up - People Magazine
Paris Hilton and Benji Madden Split Up
E! Online
People Magazine -
By Kimberly Lansing The pair split a few days ago after more than nine months of dating, a source close to Hilton tells PEOPLE. "She is saddened by the breakup but they're just too different and they wanted different things in life," says a source ...
Paris Hilton & Benji Madden Split
Paris Phones It In While Ducking Stavros & Benji Q's
Sox ship Crisp to KC for Ramirez - MLB.com
Sox ship Crisp to KC for Ramirez
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By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- For more than a year, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said that he did not feel any urgency to deal center fielder Coco Crisp and that he would only do so if it improved the team.
Red Sox acquire Ramon Ramirez for Coco Crisp
Analyzing the Coco Crisp/Ramon Ramirez trade
Wakamatsu named Mariners manager - MLB.com
Wakamatsu named Mariners manager
Washington Post
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SEATTLE -- Don Wakamatsu is the new manager of the Mariners, and he'll be introduced at Safeco Field at 1:30 pm PT on Wednesday.
Mariners make front office changes
Don Wakamatsu introduced as Mariners manager
Detroit denied bid to host Final Four through 2016, but will get ... - Detroit Free Press
Detroit denied bid to host Final Four through 2016, but will get ...
Houstonist
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By KRISTA JAHNKE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • November 19, 2008 Detroit lost its bid today to host an NCAA men’s Final Four from 2012 to 2016.
NCAA sets Final Four destinations through 2016
NCAA announces future Final Four sites
US opens food safety office in China - CNN
US opens food safety office in China
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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The first foreign office of the US Food and Drug Administration opened Wednesday in Beijing after an influx of contaminated Chinese food and drug imports to the United States.
In China, the US opens food-inspection office
US says food, drug inspection access in China improving
Genetic Testing No Real Help in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes - U.S. News & World Report
Genetic Testing No Real Help in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
TVNZ
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By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for 18 different gene variations associated with type 2 diabetes was no better at predicting a person's risk for the blood sugar disease than a doctor's assessment, researchers report.
Genetic Screening May ID Diabetes Risk
Genes Only Slightly Helpful For Predicting Diabetes
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find - New York Times
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find
New York Times
New York Times -
By RONI CARYN RABIN The largest and longest independent clinical trial to assess ginkgo biloba’s ability to prevent memory loss has found that the supplement does not prevent or delay dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are reporting.
Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesn't stop Alzheimer's
Ginkgo biloba doesn't prevent dementia, study finds
Prop. 8 gay marriage ban goes to Supreme Court - Los Angeles Times
Prop. 8 gay marriage ban goes to Supreme Court
WNCT
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The California high court will review legal challenges to Prop. 8. A hearing is set for March. Prior to a ruling, gay weddings will not be allowed to resume.
State Supreme Court to hear challenges to Prop. 8
Calif. Supreme Court to take up gay marriage ban
Alaska's Sen. Stevens loses reelection bid - Los Angeles Times
Alaska's Sen. Stevens loses reelection bid
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By Kim Murphy Reporting from Seattle -- Ted Stevens, the powerful and irascible politician who became an institution in the US Senate while helping to transform Alaska from a rough territory into a modern state, lost his bid for reelection Tuesday, ...
Video: Ted Stevens Defeated
Alaska Sen. Stevens concedes in re-election race
Holder: Obama’s seasoned pick for attorney general - Christian Science Monitor
Holder: Obama’s seasoned pick for attorney general
BBC News
Christian Science Monitor -
By Warren Richey | Staff writer / November 19, 2008 edition Reporter Warren Richey talks with CSMonitor.com's Pat Murphy about the possible nomination of Washington lawyer Eric Holder as US attorney general.
Video: Obama Taps Holder For AG
Daschle to Be Nominee for Health Post in Obama Cabinet
