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• New sanctions urged over Iran move - Aljazeera.net - 3 mins
   

  Aljazeera.netThe United States and France have called for fresh sanctions against Iran after Tehran formally said it would begin enriching higher-grade nuclear fuel to a level of 20 per cent. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Robert Gates, the US defence ...Jerusalem PostMiamiHerald.comPress TV - -

• Rep. Murtha Dead at 77 - FOXNews - 24 mins
   

  FOXNewsPennsylvania Democratic Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam war to enter Congress and one of the House's most powerful lawmakers, died Monday afternoon at Virginia Hospital Center after complications from gallbladder ...San Francisco ChronicleUSA TodayWall Street Journal - -

• Blast Probe Looks at Gas-Line Clearing - Wall Street Journal - 24 mins
   

  Wall Street JournalMIDDLETOWN, Conn.—Investigators are looking at a range of possibilities, including a procedure that uses natural gas to purge pipes, as the cause of an explosion at a power plant here Sunday. ...BloombergHartford CourantABC News - -

• Rumors swirl about New York governor - Seattle Times - 28 mins
   

  Seattle TimesPeople across New York state are gobbling up ugly rumors about the governor involving sex and drugs that the blogosphere is reporting will appear in a newspaper article that has yet to be published — and may never be published, for all anyone knows. ...Wall Street JournalFOXNewsamNY - -

• US House Will Not Vote On Tuesday, Senate Uncertain - Wall Street Journal - 33 mins
   

  Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said that votes expected Tuesday in the House will be postponed due to inclement weather that has snarled travelers in the mid-Atlantic region. ...USA TodayNew York Times (blog)Washington Post (blog) - -

• British soldier deaths push Afghanistan toll ahead of Falklands - Times Online - 46 mins
   

  Times OnlineThree British soldiers have been killed by bombs in Afghanistan during the past two days. The deaths bring the number of British Service personnel who have died in the conflict to 256 — one more than died in the Falkland islands in 1982. ...Los Angeles TimesWall Street JournalVoice of America - -

• ACLU Accuses Calif. Instructor of Religion Lessons - New York Times - 49 mins
   

  New York TimesBy AP FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union says a science instructor at a public community college in California is improperly teaching religious views on homosexuality and abortion as fact. ACLU staff attorney Elizabeth Gill sent ...KMPH Fox 26KMJ NowFresno Bee

• Court frees activists, raps West Bank crackdown - Ha'aretz - 1 hours, 7 mins
   

  Ha'aretzThe High Court of Justice yesterday ordered two pro-Palestinian foreign activists to be freed on bail, and said immigration officers had overstepped their authority by arresting them in the West Bank. ...Jerusalem PostVoice of AmericaWashington Post - -

• Woman chasing dog falls to death off Calif. cliff - WHEC TV-10 - 1 hours, 29 mins
   

  (AP) MENDOCINO, Calif. - Authorities in California say a woman fell about 60 feet to her death after she chased her dog off a cliff in the Mendocino headlands. The chief of the Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department says witnesses on Sunday saw the woman disappear over the cliff while running after her ...

• Factbox: Republican healthcare reform proposals - Reuters - 1 hours, 30 mins
   

  Reuters(Reuters) - US President Barack Obama has asked Republicans to bring their best ideas on healthcare reform to a televised bipartisan meeting later this month that Democrats hope will help restart the stalled healthcare overhaul drive. ...FOXNewsBaltimore SunABC News - -

• Ex-Boeing engineer gets 15 years in US spy case - Reuters - 2 hours, 33 mins
   

  ReutersLOS ANGELES, Feb 8 (Reuters) - An ex-Boeing Co BA.N engineer, found guilty last year of passing space shuttle secrets to China in America's first conviction under a 1996 espionage law, was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison. ...New York TimesWall Street JournalBusinessWeek - -

• Dow closes below 10,000 for first time in 3 months - Chicago Sun-Times - 2 hours, 44 mins
   

  NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months Monday on nagging concerns about debt loads in Europe. The Dow, down almost 104 points, had its 10th triple-digit move in 16 trading days. Shares of big banks pulled the market lower, extending a ...

• Browns release receiver Stallworth - Houston Chronicle - 2 hours, 51 mins
   

  CLEVELAND — Donte' Stallworth will get the chance to resurrect his NFL career, but it won't happen in Cleveland. The Browns released the troubled wide receiver on Monday, wasting little time after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that Stallworth would be reinstated following the Super ...

• Paperwork Hinders Airlifts of Ill Haitian Children - New York Times - 2 hours, 56 mins
   

  New York TimesAn Air Force medical team prepared 16-month-old Pierre Richard Janvier for a medical evacuation from Port-au-Prince. By IAN URBINA PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Private medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian children to the United States for ...ReutersCNN InternationalAFP - -

• Buffalo man accused of imprisoning 13-year-old - MSNBC - 2 hours, 58 mins
   

  BUFFALO, N.Y. - A 26-year-old Buffalo man remained jailed Monday on charges of holding a 13-year-old runaway in his house for six months, having sex with her more than 100 times and making her baby-sit his 1-year-old son. Michael Abdallah pleaded not guilty in Buffalo City Court to second-degree ...

• Quinn: Ill. lt. governor hopefuls should speak up - Washington Post - 3 hours, 58 mins
   

  Washington PostAP CHICAGO -- Democrats in Illinois are getting a political do-over: the chance to pick a new lieutenant governor nominee themselves now that the primary winner dropped out of the race because of revelations about his checkered past. ...New York TimesChristian Science MonitorChicago Defender - -

• Michael Jackson's Doctor, Conrad Murray, Charged in Singer's Death - ABC News - 3 hours, 2 mins
   

  Michael Jackson's physician appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom today where he pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer's death, capping an eight-month investigation and kicking off what is expected to be a closely watched celebrity trial. Authorities step up ...

• Decision time for Ukraine's Tymoshenko - BBC News - 3 hours, 11 mins
   

  BBC NewsWill she or won't she pursue her political ambitions through the courts or in protest action on the streets? It is not often that the woman with the famous golden braid, whose glamour permeated the Orange Revolution five years ago, ...Wall Street JournalReutersTimes Online - -

• Tea Party: Life imitating art in Nashville - Los Angeles Times - 3 hours, 13 mins
   

  Los Angeles TimesAm I the only one to notice the coincidence that the Tea Party Convention met in Nashville, which is also the title of a 1975 Robert Altman movie about (among other things) an anti-establishment presidential candidate? ...Seattle TimesUSA TodayKansas City Star - -

• Elizabeth Smart kidnapper pleads guilty to trying to abduct cousin - CNN - 3 hours, 17 mins
   

  CNNWanda Barzee, shown here at a 2006 court hearing, will cooperate with cases against her husband, prosecutors say. (CNN) -- A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's ...New York TimesSalt Lake TribuneDeseret News - -

• Toyota Is Expected to Add 2010 Prius to Recalls - New York Times - 4 hours, 7 mins
   

  The decision is to be announced early this week, this person said. It comes after Toyota’s recall of about eight million cars worldwide over gas pedals that could stick or become caught on floor mats. The size of the recalls and questions about Toyota’s slow response to safety concerns have ...

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• ACLU Accuses Calif. Instructor of Religion Lessons - New York Times - 49 mins
   

  New York TimesBy AP FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union says a science instructor at a public community college in California is improperly teaching religious views on homosexuality and abortion as fact. ACLU staff attorney Elizabeth Gill sent ...KMPH Fox 26

• Couple stranded 10 hours in flooded car - 1 hours, 22 mins
   

  SANFORD (WTVD) -- A Sanford couple was rescued from their flooded car Monday morning, nearly 10 hours after getting stuck. Masie Saulter,77, picked up her husband from church Sunday night and despite a high water warning sign, tried to drive down R ...

• Fixed Mobile Convergence - 1 hours, 15 mins
   

  SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 08, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. Revenues ...

• 'Iran aims to stockpile uranium' - Jerusalem Post - 60 mins
   

  Jerusalem PostIran will make the political decision to enrich uranium to military-grade levels once it has accumulated enough fissionable material for a small arsenal of three to four nuclear devices, according to latest intelligence assessments. ...Press TVXinhuaWall Street Journal -

• Private-Equity Firm Acquired Plant in 2008 - Wall Street Journal - 1 hours, 12 mins
   

  Wall Street JournalThe private-equity firm that owns the Connecticut natural-gas power plant rocked by an explosion Sunday said it was cooperating with investigators. Energy Investors Funds, a Boston-based energy-focused investment firm, acquired 80% of ...ABC NewsHartford CourantChristian Science Monitor - -

• US Asian carp remedies unsatisfactory-governors - Reuters - 1 hours, 10 mins
   

  ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration is proposing a partial closing of locks to the Great Lakes as part of a $78 million plan to keep invasive Asian carp from moving into the lakes from rivers and canals, but the region's governors on Monday ...AFPChicago TribuneDetroit Free Press - -

• Paterson to Announce Campaign for Governor - Wall Street Journal - 1 hours, 12 mins
   

  Wall Street JournalAmid churning doubts over his political future, New York Gov. David Paterson has told one of his closest advisers that he will officially announce his campaign for governor next week. William Lynch, a Harlem lobbyist and political ...ForbesFOXNewsReuters - -

• Court frees activists, raps West Bank crackdown - Ha'aretz - 1 hours, 7 mins
   

  Ha'aretzThe High Court of Justice yesterday ordered two pro-Palestinian foreign activists to be freed on bail, and said immigration officers had overstepped their authority by arresting them in the West Bank. ...Jewish Telegraphic AgencyABC OnlineWashington Post - -

• British soldier deaths push Afghanistan toll ahead of Falklands - Times Online - 46 mins
   

  Times OnlineThree British soldiers have been killed by bombs in Afghanistan during the past two days. The deaths bring the number of British Service personnel who have died in the conflict to 256 — one more than died in the Falkland islands in 1982. ...Los Angeles TimesVoice of AmericaAFP - -

• Rep. John Murtha dies after surgery complications - CNN - 44 mins
   

  CNN(CNN) -- Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a longtime fixture on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending, died after complications from recent gallbladder surgery, according to his office. He was 77. The complications arose from doctors ...ReutersUSA TodaySeattle Post Intelligencer -

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• Couple stranded 10 hours in flooded car - 1 hours, 22 mins
   

  SANFORD (WTVD) -- A Sanford couple was rescued from their flooded car Monday morning, nearly 10 hours after getting stuck. Masie Saulter,77, picked up her husband from church Sunday night and despite a high water warning sign, tried to drive down R ...

• Fixed Mobile Convergence - 1 hours, 15 mins
   

  SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 08, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. Revenues ...

• 'Iran aims to stockpile uranium' - Jerusalem Post - 60 mins
   

  Jerusalem PostIran will make the political decision to enrich uranium to military-grade levels once it has accumulated enough fissionable material for a small arsenal of three to four nuclear devices, according to latest intelligence assessments. ...Press TVXinhuaWall Street Journal -

• Private-Equity Firm Acquired Plant in 2008 - Wall Street Journal - 1 hours, 12 mins
   

  Wall Street JournalThe private-equity firm that owns the Connecticut natural-gas power plant rocked by an explosion Sunday said it was cooperating with investigators. Energy Investors Funds, a Boston-based energy-focused investment firm, acquired 80% of ...ABC NewsHartford CourantChristian Science Monitor - -

• US Asian carp remedies unsatisfactory-governors - Reuters - 1 hours, 10 mins
   

  ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration is proposing a partial closing of locks to the Great Lakes as part of a $78 million plan to keep invasive Asian carp from moving into the lakes from rivers and canals, but the region's governors on Monday ...AFPChicago TribuneDetroit Free Press - -

• Paterson to Announce Campaign for Governor - Wall Street Journal - 1 hours, 12 mins
   

  Wall Street JournalAmid churning doubts over his political future, New York Gov. David Paterson has told one of his closest advisers that he will officially announce his campaign for governor next week. William Lynch, a Harlem lobbyist and political ...ForbesFOXNewsReuters - -

• Court frees activists, raps West Bank crackdown - Ha'aretz - 1 hours, 7 mins
   

  Ha'aretzThe High Court of Justice yesterday ordered two pro-Palestinian foreign activists to be freed on bail, and said immigration officers had overstepped their authority by arresting them in the West Bank. ...Jewish Telegraphic AgencyABC OnlineWashington Post - -

• Drillgate: Secretary Salazar's Cover-Up - 1 hours, 15 mins
   

  Energy: The administration asked for public comments on a plan to expand offshore drilling. When they came in 2-to-1 in favor, the Interior Department sat on the news. Time for a "Texas tea" party? When you ask for public comment on a major policy ...

• OPM: Federal government closed Tuesday - 1 hours, 8 mins
   

  The Office of Personnel Management has closed the federal government in the D.C. region for Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Director John Berry told Federal News Radio Monday he relies on information from the Washington region's Council of Governments (COG ...

• Shallow 'Studies' on the Internet are Depressing - 1 hours, 22 mins
   

  Some people are addicted to scare reports in the media. Industry observer Paul McNamara writes on a recent “study” finding “a strong link between heavy Internet use and depression” conducted by U.K. psychologists: “The Journal ...