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Hybrid Sports Car Maker Gets Government Loan

2009-09-26T16:49:00.000-05:00

A tiny California car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.

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Heavyweight Champ 7-Foot-2, 320 Pounds

2009-09-26T16:45:00.002-05:00

The pre-match photo of World Boxing Association champion Nikolai Valuev and challenger David Haye shows the enormous task ahead of Haye, who is 11 inches shorter and 103 pounds lighter than the 7-foot-tall, 320-pound Russian. But Haye has a bigger mouth. "He is the ugliest person I have ever seen!" Haye told Bild. "I have seen the Lord of the Rings films and there are some characters in those movies who look quite strange. But for a human being to look like him is really shocking." They fight Nov. 7.

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Clones

2009-09-26T16:44:00.001-05:00

Greenwald: Welcome to Bush's Third Term

2009-09-26T16:41:00.001-05:00

Glenn Greenwald: When it comes to uprooting ("changing") the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and civil liberties -- the issue which generated as much opposition to the last presidency as anything else -- the Obama administration has proven rather conclusively that tiny and cosmetic adjustments are the most it is willing to do. They love announcing new policies that cast the appearance of change but which have no effect whatsoever on presidential powers.

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Birthers Run Infomercial in 8 States

2009-09-26T16:38:00.002-05:00

A new 28-minute infomercial run in 13 cities across the South by attorney Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, "Where Was Obama Born?", urges viewers to give $30 to have faxes sent to all 50 attorneys general demanding Obama produce his birth certificate.

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Poll: 65% Favor Public Option

2009-09-26T16:35:00.002-05:00

A New York Times/CBS poll found that 65% of respondents want a public health care option, while only 26% opposed such a plan.

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Fox News channel

2009-09-26T16:34:00.001-05:00

China Freaks Over Mixed-Race Singing Contestant

2009-09-26T16:31:00.002-05:00

Lou Jing, a Chinese girl born to a Chinese mother and an African-American father she never met, has sparked a national furor after appearing on the TV singing competition Go! Oriental Angel. "I can't believe she's so shameless that she would go on TV," a poster commented on a web forum.

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'High-Cost' Health Insurance May Be Taxed

2009-09-26T16:29:00.002-05:00

House Democrats are considering a tax on high-cost insurance plans to help pay for health care overhaul. Proponents of the insurance tax, which President Obama has endorsed, say it would help to lower health care costs by encouraging people to become more cost-conscious health care consumers. Some of the high-cost plans are so expensive because they come with no co-payments or deductibles and cover every dollar spent for health care.

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GOP Senators Boycott Torture Probe

2009-09-26T16:25:00.001-05:00

Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation policies. Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. appointed a prosecutor to review allegations of detainee abuse by CIA operatives.

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Health Care Reform

2009-09-26T16:24:00.000-05:00

16 Dead in Pakistan Bombings

2009-09-26T16:22:00.000-05:00

At least 16 people have been killed in two suicide car bomb attacks in north-western Pakistan -- 10 in a commercial area in Peshawar and six outside a police station in Bannu. The attacks show the Taliban appear to be reasserting themselves, reported the BBC's Aleem Maqbool.

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Runner Survives 3 Days with No Water, One Kidney

2009-09-26T16:19:00.002-05:00

After becoming lost, California ultramarathon runner Gina Natero-Armento, 36, survived 72 hours without water and one functioning kidney. "I am very careful usually, but that particular day, I was not," she said after being rescued. "I had nothing ready, and it was just a mistake."

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Biden: We Need Blue Dogs

2009-09-26T16:16:00.001-05:00

Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama's agenda. "If they take them back, this the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do," Biden said. There are 49 seats currently held by Democrats in districts that Sen. John McCain won in last year's presidential election.

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Troops

2009-09-26T16:15:00.000-05:00

Judge Drops Cow-Abuse Charges Against Cop

2009-09-26T16:12:00.002-05:00

A Pennsylvania judge dismissed animal-cruelty charges against a Moorestown police officer accused of sticking his penis into the mouths of five calves in 2006, claiming a grand jury couldn't infer whether the cows had been "tormented" or "puzzled" by the situation or even irritated that they'd been duped out of a meal.

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American Caught in Fake-Bomb Terror Sting

2009-09-26T16:07:00.001-05:00

A Decatur, Ill., man has been arrested on charges of trying to blow up the federal courthouse in Springfield. Michael Finton, who also went by the name Talib Islam, has been arrested on charges of allegedly trying to set off a car bomb outside an Illinois courthouse. Undercover agents provided him with the fake bomb.

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Mao's Grandson Rises in Chinese Military

2009-09-26T16:04:00.001-05:00

Mao Xinyu, Mao Zedong's grandson and only surviving male heir, has become the youngest major-general in the People's Liberation Army.

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Public Option

2009-09-26T16:02:00.001-05:00

G20 2009: Police Attack Students at University of Pittsburgh

2009-09-26T16:01:00.000-05:00

Glenn Beck refuses to define 'white culture'

2009-09-26T15:59:00.001-05:00

Boehner Constituent May Have Died Of Swine Flu Because She Lacked Insurance

2009-09-26T15:54:00.002-05:00

Kimberly Young of Oxford, Ohio, died Wednesday morning a few days short of her 23rd birthday. Hospital officials have said she appeared to have the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

But here's why Young's death is news beyond her southwest Ohio community: people who knew her are saying she resisted treatment that could have saved her life -- because she didn't have health insurance.

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Target Audience

2009-09-26T15:53:00.000-05:00

Best Friend Dresses Up for Soldier's Funeral

2009-09-16T16:22:00.002-05:00

Barry Delaney made a promise to his best friend Kevin Elliott, a Black Watch soldier killed in Afghanistan, that one would wear a flourescent yellow dress to the other's funeral. After Elliott was killed while on foot patrol in the southern province of Helmand on August 31, Delaney kept his promise.

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Blockbuster Closing Up to 960 Stores

2009-09-16T16:20:00.002-05:00

The video rental chain Blockbuster may close as many as 960 stores by the end of next year, faced with losses and growing competition from Netflix and Redbox.

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