Archive for January, 2010
US to resume Haiti victim airlift
The US is to resume within hours medical evacuation flights for badly injured Haiti quake victims, after a delay of several days.
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Toyota to Unveil Plan to Fix Millions of Gas Pedals
Toyota Motor Corp. will give details early Monday in the U.S. on how it plans to fix gas pedals in millions of vehicles being recalled there.
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Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law
The changes would affect how schools are judged to be passing or failing, and would eliminate a deadline for academic proficiency.
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U.S. Examines Whether Blackwater Tried Bribery
An inquiry will determine whether Blackwater officials tried to influence Iraqi officials in hopes of retaining work after a deadly shooting in 2007.
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Detained Americans Say They Tried to Do Right Thing
Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
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U.S. to Resume Military Airlift of Injured Haitians
The humanitarian effort was suspended five days ago following complaints from the state of Florida that its hospitals were overwhelmed.
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News Analysis: U.S. Starts to Push Back Against China in Growing Rift
In announcing an arms sales package to Taiwan, the U.S. leveled a direct strike at the heart of the most sensitive issue between the two countries.
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Transcript: Senator-Elect Scott Brown Interviewed on ABC’s ‘This Week"
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BARBARA WALTERS: Welcome to “This Week.”
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
WALTERS (voice over): He is the freshest face in politics, who has turned the political world upside down, (inaudible), and he’s with us this morning in his first Sunday interview, Scott Brown, on his passion, his ambition.
(on camera): President, 2012. Do you rule out?
(voice over): And his [...]
Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama’s proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion.
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Medical evacuations of Haitians to U.S. to resume
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday.
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