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WASHINGTON – The City Council passed a measure Tuesday legalizing same-sex marriage , making the nation’s capital the first jurisdiction below the Mason-Dixon Line to allow such unions. The bill, which passed by an 11-2 vote, may still face obstacles in Congress, among city voters and in the …
New York Times · December 15, 2009, 1:10 PM (PST)
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WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama met privately with Senate Democrats on Tuesday and then declared they were "on the precipice" of enacting health care legislation that has eluded administrations and lawmakers for decades. Flanked by the senators, the president said differences still remain over …
Boston Globe · December 15, 2009, 1:17 PM (PST)
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EVERETT, Wash. — Boeing Co.’s new 787 jetliner finally took to the skies Tuesday, more than two years later than the company had planned. Pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville lifted off in the big blue and white jet shortly after 10 a.m. PST from Everett’s Paine Field on a four-hour flight …
Forbes · December 15, 2009, 1:17 PM (PST)
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TULSA, Okla. – Oral Roberts, the evangelist who rose from humble tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university bearing his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The …
Minneapolis Star Tribune · December 15, 2009, 1:38 PM (PST)
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The federal government will acquire Thomson …
Minneapolis Star Tribune · December 15, 2009, 12:55 PM (PST)
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ATLANTA – Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday. The shots, made by Sanofi Pasteur, were distributed across the country last month and most have already been used …
MSNBC · December 15, 2009, 1:31 PM (PST)
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ROME – The man who attacked Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi apologized to him for his "superficial, cowardly and uncontrolled" attack as a judge considered whether he should be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Massimo Tartaglia, a 42-year-old with a history of psychological problems, wrote a …
WJLA · December 15, 2009, 12:41 PM (PST)
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ATLANTA — Embattled Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux was smoking marijuana as he and a friend were driving through the northeast Atlanta suburbs, according to a police report. The Gwinnett County police report, released Tuesday, says Babineaux told a police officer he had not …
Forbes · December 15, 2009, 1:31 PM (PST)
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Posted: Today at 12:05 a.m. Updated: 4 minutes ago NEW YORK – The last two major national banks are returning $45 billion in aid to taxpayers, marking the latest step toward recovery for the U.S. financial system. Citigroup Inc., whose future looked uncertain at the beginning of this year, will …
WRAL · December 15, 2009, 8:16 AM (PST)
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The 67th annual Golden Globe nominations for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Holl
ywood Foreign Press Association. The category’s five nominees announced Tuesday morning included …
Columbia Missourian · December 15, 2009, 1:10 PM (PST)
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