WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel is poised to take the first step toward ending a decades-old U.S. ban on travel to Cuba and removing other hurdles to food sales to the Caribbean island...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S61420100629?type=politicsNews
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow angrily rejected U.S. accusations Tuesday that Washington had cracked an undercover Russian spy ring, and said the Cold War-style cloak and dagger saga seemed timed to wreck a recent thaw in relations.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/7486438/putin-says-u-s-police-out-of-control-in-spy-case/
By Guy Faulconbridge||MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian activists eluded Russian security services in a five-hour game of cat and mouse on Saturday to hold the first gay protest in Moscow not to be broken up by riot police.
After luring hundreds of riot police and undercover officers to a different location,,,
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64S0Y220100529?rpc=64
By Ross Colvin and Jeff Mason||WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will unveil its latest healthcare reform proposals on Monday ahead of a bipartisan summit that President Barack Obama hopes will advance the stalled legislation, a senior...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1913022820100220?rpc=64
No, this isn't a call to arms (yet), the US is simply evaluating its airborne laser weapon again.
According to Reuters, this latest test was
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/boeing-747-destroys-ballistic-missile-with-laser/
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday said insurer AIG's contracts to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses were "outrageous" and appealed to Congress to help recoup the payments.Geithner said Congress could help recover the "deeply irresponsible" bonuses by passing an Obama...
NEW YORK (Reuters.com) --The Obama administrations plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/bs_nm/us_budget_backdoortaxes
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A shipment of weapons from North Korea seized by Thai authorities last month were headed for Iran, according to a confidential report the Thai government sent to a U.N.
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Renewable seems to be the main tag of the new energy economy.
In spite of the fact that funding seems to be drying up for green businesses (Reuters), the new energy economy is showing remarkable signs of progress.
As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging in the United States,� says Lester R. Brown, President of t
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http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/27/a-new-energy-economy-is-emerging-in-the-usa/
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for U.S. president on Thursday, saying he had ''met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change.'' The Times...
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U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co and its striking machinists union held talks over the weekend with the assistance of a federal mediator, The Wall Street Journal said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/081013/business_us_boeing_talks.html?.v=2
Reuters - The United States is developing plans to buy equity stakes in financial institutions, providing another weapon in its war against financial market turmoil, U.S.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081011/bs_nm/us_financial_g7_paulson
