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Australia’s Julia Gillard Has Support of Labor Caucus, Swan Says
5 Feb 2012, 3:10 am

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has the “strong support” of the Labor caucus, Treasurer Wayne Swan said in an interview aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. today.

Sauli Niinistoe Favored to Win Finland’s Presidential Election
5 Feb 2012, 3:09 am

Sauli Niinistoe, the candidate of the ruling National Coalition Party, is favored to win today’s Finnish presidential run-off election as the Nordic nation shows its support for his group’s pro-Europe policies.

Italy Crippled by Winter Storm With Snow as Far South as Naples
5 Feb 2012, 3:09 am

A winter storm battered much of Italy, bringing arctic temperatures to the north and snow as far south as Naples, disrupting transport and commerce across the country.

Hacker Group Anonymous Intercepted U.S. Call Over Investigation
5 Feb 2012, 3:09 am

The U.S. government said the online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group.

Heathrow to Reduce Flights Tomorrow on U.K. Snow, BA Says
5 Feb 2012, 3:09 am

London’s Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, is cutting flights tomorrow because of “adverse weather conditions,” according to International Consolidated Airlines Group SA’s British Airways unit.

Putin, Opponents Gather 175,000 in Subzero Weather as Vote Nears
5 Feb 2012, 3:09 am

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s supporters mobilized thousands for the biggest demonstration in Moscow in two decades as they sought to steal the spotlight from rival protests against electoral fraud.

Russia’s UN Veto on Syria Gives Assad ‘License to Kill’
5 Feb 2012, 3:09 am

Failure by the United Nations Security Council to deliver global condemnation of Syria gives President Bashar al-Assad room to continue his 11-month crackdown on protesters.

The nation's weather (AP)
5 Feb 2012, 2:56 am

AP - Wet weather will ease Sunday across the Midwest as a winter storm treks eastward. The system will also advance southeastward from the mid-Mississippi River Valley, moving over the Tennessee Valley and into the Appalachians.

Marine wife killed in Ca. explosion was Iowan, 31 (AP)
5 Feb 2012, 12:23 am

AP - Military officials say a Marine's wife and mother of two killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was a 31-year-old from Hudson, Iowa.

11 injured in massive crowd for band LMFAO (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 8:28 pm

AP - Overwhelming "human gridlock" in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village was causing police to rethink crowd control Saturday on the eve of the big game.

Navy says 8 sailors discharged for hazing (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 6:40 pm

AP - The Navy says eight sailors have been discharged after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship.

Ore. mushroom pickers found alive after 6 days (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 5:04 pm

This undated photo provided by the Curry County Sheriff's Office shows missing mushroom pickers Daniel and Belinda Conne.  Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael, were last seen Sunday at the Huntley Park campground on the Rogue River about eight miles northeast of Gold Beach, Ore., where they had been living the past eight months since moving from Oklahama, Bishop said. They supported themselves with working odd jobs, glass blowing and picking mushrooms. Searchers were mystified that four days of searching has failed to turn up the three family members. (AP Photo/Curry County Sheriff's Office)AP - A couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday after they got lost while picking mushrooms and survived six days deep in the Oregon coastal forest, taking shelter part of the time in a hollowed-out tree.


Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school (Reuters)
4 Feb 2012, 3:52 pm

Reuters - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe.

Private-Equity Rallies Around Mitt Romney’s Dodd-Frank Cure
4 Feb 2012, 3:45 pm

The Dodd-Frank banking overhaul signed by President Obama has sent campaign cash flowing to Romney, who says he would repeal the law

Jury convicts Indiana elections chief (Reuters)
4 Feb 2012, 3:24 pm

Reuters - An Indiana jury convicted embattled Republican Secretary of State Charlie White in the early hours of Saturday on six out of seven felony charges including perjury, theft and voter fraud.

Ore. mushroom pickers found alive after 6 days (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 2:37 pm

This undated photo provided by the Curry County Sheriff's Office shows missing mushroom pickers Daniel and Belinda Conne.  Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael, were last seen Sunday at the Huntley Park campground on the Rogue River about eight miles northeast of Gold Beach, Ore., where they had been living the past eight months since moving from Oklahama, Bishop said. They supported themselves with working odd jobs, glass blowing and picking mushrooms. Searchers were mystified that four days of searching has failed to turn up the three family members. (AP Photo/Curry County Sheriff's Office)AP - A couple and their adult son have been found injured but alive in Southern Oregon, six days after they disappeared from their campsite to go mushroom picking.


Arizona candidate says English challenge an abuse of power (Reuters)
4 Feb 2012, 1:51 pm

Reuters - An Arizona city council candidate struck from the ballot over her limited English skills concedes she isn't fluent in the language but called the legal challenge an abuse of power that could keep her from serving a poor border community where most residents speak only Spanish.

Father: Beheading plot suspect a dedicated teacher (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 12:08 pm

AP - Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket.

Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 11:58 am

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 file photo, some of an estimated 45,000 people participate in the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in Little Rock, Ark. After watching The Susan G. Komen for the Cure announce plans to cut funding to Planned Parenthood on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, then abandon those plans days later amid a public furor, many longtime Komen supporters were feeling conflicted at week's end. (AP Photo/Brian Chilson)AP - When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so moved she sat in her car and wept.


Major snowstorm barrels down on Central Plains (Reuters)
4 Feb 2012, 11:43 am

Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.

11 injured in massive crowd for band LMFAO (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 11:38 am

AP - Overwhelming crowds and reports of injuries and arrests in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village are causing police to rethink crowd control before the game.

Charges dropped against U.S. soldier in Afghan murder (Reuters)
4 Feb 2012, 9:35 am

Reuters - The U.S. Army has dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face a court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, officials from their home base near Tacoma, Washington, said on Friday.

In Miramonte, questions amid a sense of betrayal (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 9:26 am

In this undated police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shows former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who was arrested for felony molestation of 23 kids after photos surfaced.  Berndt been charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys and girls ages 7 to 10.  AP Photo/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Department)AP - Mr. Berndt's third-grade classroom was up on the second floor, tucked away at the rear of Miramonte Elementary School, its windows looking out onto a playground.


Lives intersect on deadly stretch of Fla. highway (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 8:59 am

AP - There was a single mom who loved to dance, in the car with a boyfriend who had moved from Virginia to be with her. A pastor and members of his family, originally from Brazil, returning home to Georgia from an Orlando church retreat. A father, his wife and his daughter headed south from the Panhandle for a family funeral. A young man coming home from bowling.

AP Analysis: Border Patrol OT up as arrests drop (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 7:47 am

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2011, file photo Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, tours the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol agent Steve Venditouli in the Coronado National Forest near Nogales, Ariz. Most illegal border crossers are apprehended along the 2,000-mile long Mexican border in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Since the 2006 budget year, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has spent more than $1.4 billion on what is described as “administrative uncontrollable overtime,” according to the data provided by the Border Patrol. In practical terms, agents average two hours a day in overtime. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow)  MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP - Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds.


US Army: Brigadier general has died in Afghanistan (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 7:22 am

AP - The U.S. Army says a 49-year-old brigadier general has died in Afghanistan.

Clinton presses Ukraine on former PM's legal case (AP)
4 Feb 2012, 7:02 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right,  and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pose for photographers during the 48th Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday Feb. 4, 2012. The Security Conference is a three-day event bringing together top defense and diplomacy officials from around the world discussing the winding down of the NATO engagement in Afghanistan and other looming challenges.  (AP Photo/jim Watson,Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Ukrainian authorities to quickly resolve the criminal case brought against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (YOOL'-yah tee-moh-SHEN'-koh).


Police mass at scene of Occupy protest in Washington (Reuters)
4 Feb 2012, 4:58 am

Reuters - Police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields arrived at the site where protesters with the "Occupy" movement have been staging a demonstration since October, but it was not immediately clear whether they would evict the protesters.

Payrolls Jump Casts Doubt on Fed's Pledge
3 Feb 2012, 4:10 pm

Employment climbed more than forecast in January and the U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest in three years, casting doubt on the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates low until late 2014.

Google Sponsors Conservative Conference CPAC
3 Feb 2012, 2:46 pm

Google Inc., whose chairman has served as an adviser to President Barack Obama, is a sponsor of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, co-hosted by the Tea Party.

A Tale of Two Election Year Recoveries
2 Feb 2012, 4:00 pm

Obama’s critics call for a return to Reaganomics, but the Gipper’s downturn was no match for this one

Operation Hollywood: SEALs in the Spotlight
2 Feb 2012, 4:00 pm

Stand aside, Mark Wahlberg: The active-duty Navy SEALs who star in "Act of Valor" are taking your job

It’s a Beautiful Day for a Bad Deal
2 Feb 2012, 10:41 am

Businessweek’s Roben Farzad talks about the list of suitors bidding for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He spoke in NY on Jan. 31

Nintendo Needs a Hit in a Hurry
2 Feb 2012, 8:55 am

The gaming company faces big losses amid a two-year sales slump

Why Estonia Loves the Euro
2 Feb 2012, 8:55 am

Moving away from the kroon boosted growth, raised trade, and lowered interest rates

The Dodgers' All-Star Lineup of Suitors
1 Feb 2012, 9:00 pm

Big players swing for the fences in a wild battle to overpay for the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers

Would-Be Dodgers Owners
1 Feb 2012, 4:10 pm

Players in the Dodgers Ownership Contest

Tech Employers Ignore Slump
29 Jan 2012, 10:01 pm

Dozens of technology companies boosted payroll by at least 50% in the past two years

China Unicom's Smart Call on Cheap Phones
26 Jan 2012, 5:00 pm

Low-end handsets have set off a smartphone boom in China

Australia's Strong Dollar Puts a Cork in Its Wine Sales
26 Jan 2012, 5:00 pm

A soaring currency hits Aussie winemakers on two fronts: Higher prices hurt their exports, and lower prices on imports shrink sales at home

Having Thrived in America, Hyundai Takes On Europe
26 Jan 2012, 5:00 pm

The Korean automaker uses its high-quality, low-price strategy to compete with Volkswagen

B-Schools Recruit More Veterans
25 Jan 2012, 8:02 pm

As federal aid piles up, MBA programs like the experience soldiers bring to the study of corporate leadership

New RIM CEO Won't Revive Shares, Say Analysts
23 Jan 2012, 5:37 pm

The promotion of Thorsten Heins from chief operating officer to chief executive at Research in Motion is viewed on Wall Street as "cosmetic" change