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  ‘Glitch’ could cut jobless benefits for a million Erik Eckholm The New York Times November 19, 2009   About one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress acts quickly to renew existing federally paid extensions, according to a new report and legislators and state officials. The record-long extension of emergency benefits that was signed ...

  Largest Banks Reported Funding Production Of Internationally Banned Weapons Olesya Dmitracova Reuters October 31, 2009   Leading banks have funded arms manufacturers, whose products include cluster bombs, to the tune of $5 billion in the past two years, despite an international accord to ban such weapons, a study said Thursday.   The report by Profundo consultancy and several NGOs said ...

  The GOP Should Dump the Neocons Edward H. Crane CATO Institute November 9, 2009   The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th ...

  ‘Something may come through’ dimensional ‘doors’ at LHC Lewis Page The Register November 17, 2009   A top boffin says that the machine may create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” – for instance “an extra dimension”.  “Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it,” said Sergio Bertolucci The LHC,functions like ...

The number of political appointees converting-or burrowing-into career positions is minute, according to the Office of Personnel Management. In 2008, OPM says it reviewed 58 conversions and found only two of the required further evaluation. This is out of more than 1,600 political positions. The minority staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reported in 2005 that the Bush ...

BEIJING – China's top bank regulator said Sunday the weakening U.S. dollar and low interest rates are spurring speculation in stocks and property, distorting global asset prices and threatening the global economic recovery.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A civilian pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed shortly before he was to participate in an air show in South Africa Saturday, an air force official said.

LONDON (AFP) – West Ham have warned Manchester United that England striker Carlton Cole is not for sale at any price.

LOS ANGELES – The largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history raged out of control because it jumped into inaccessible terrain, not because the U.S. Forest Service scaled back firefighters and aircraft attacking the flames, a federal review found Friday.

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Even as the President weighs how to fight the wars he inherited, he and the entire U.S. security apparatus will have to figure out how you fight a war against an enemy you can't recognize, much less understand. In that sense, the war on terrorism has left the battlefield and moved to the realm of the mind. The good news is ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S.

Oil prices climbed toward $80 a barrel Friday, catching up with a surge in global stock markets and assisted by a slightly weaker dollar which made crude more attractive to international investors.

02/24/09 Recent events indicate a new and troubling development has occurred in the current terrorism environment. As spoken to by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the former head of the Egyptian Security Services, the threat posed by, “Home Grown”, terrorists has increased significantly. What both of these gentlemen have identified, as the result of current terrorist activity, is that ...

SHANGHAI – Making the first of two trips to China this month, Nick Watney made an immediate impression Thursday in the HSBC Champions by tying the course record with an 8-under 64 to build a two-shot lead.

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