The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation's food-safety system in more than 70 years, proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food manufacturers.
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FIRST STEP: A utility worker marks a gas line in front of homes damaged by superstorm Sandy on Staten Island. Congress voted during the week to increase the borrowing authority for a federal flood-insurance program.
ABC7Chicago.comProsecutors drop escape charges for inmate who broke out of MCC
ABC7Chicago.com - Jan 3, 2013
January 1, 2013 (CHICAGO) -- Prosecutors have dropped escape charges against a man who broke out of a jail in the Loop in December.
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Venezuela VP: Chavez can delay oath and stay in power
BBC News - 40 minutes ago
The Venezuelan government has said President Hugo Chavez can begin his new six-year term in office on Thursday, even if he is too ill to attend a swearing-in ceremony.
TIME
On Google, FTC Set Rules of War Over Patents
New York Times - 2 hours ago
The Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigation of Google focused mainly on the company's lucrative search business, while its inquiry into the tech giant's handling of patents seemed an afterthought.
E! Online
5 Things to Know About the Downton Abbey Premiere
E! Online - 2 hours ago
Season three of Downton Abbey finally gets its U.S. premiere on this Sunday, and there are plenty of can't-miss twists and turns in store.
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Friend of India Rape Victim Criticizes Police Response
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
NEW DELHI—A man who was present at a brutal gang rape that led to the death of the 23-year-old victim spoke publicly for the first time with details of the attack and harsh words for police, who he said wasted time fighting over jurisdiction before taking the ...
New York Times
Girl Shot by Pakistani Taliban Is Discharged From Hospital
New York Times - 1 hour ago
LONDON - Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head three months ago by the Taliban for advocating the education of girls, has been discharged from a British hospital.
The Nation
Rally Signals Fatah's Rift With Hamas May Ease
New York Times - 1 hour ago
JERUSALEM - Turning the streets of Gaza City into a swarm of sunshine-yellow flags, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians celebrated the anniversary of the Fatah faction on Friday in the heartland of its militant Islamist rival, Hamas, the latest in a series of ...
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Barney Frank says he would like to be interim senator to conclude 'fiscal cliff' fights
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Budget Agency: Sandy Cost NYC $154M in...
ABC News - 56 minutes ago
A new tally shows New York City has been working overtime on Superstorm Sandy recovery - more than $150 million of it. The city's Independent Budget Office reported Friday city agencies have spent more than $154 million on overtime related to the late ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Gabrielle Giffords visits Newtown
CNN - 46 minutes ago
(CNN) -- The former Arizona congresswoman who survived a mass shooting in her district roughly two years ago paid a visit Friday to Newtown, Connecticut, where last month a gunman killed 27 people and himself in one of the deadliest mass shootings in ...
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AT&T, Microsoft among donors to Obama's second inauguration
Reuters - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 4, 2013 9:37pm EST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 400 donors, including AT&T Inc and Microsoft, have contributed money to help pay for the festivities to mark President Barack Obama's inauguration to a second term, ...
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Peering Into Fed's Jobless Rate Ball
Wall Street Journal
3 hours ago
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Justin Lahart
The Federal Reserve has set 6.5% as the threshold the unemployment rate must reach before it considers raising its target interest rate.
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S&P 500 at 5-year high: How long will bull run?
USA TODAY - 1 hour ago
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP). Story Highlights. S&P 500 races to five-year high, the first major U.S.
Kansas City Star
Selloff Slows in Treasury Bonds; Still Big Loss for Week
Wall Street Journal - 6 hours ago
A disappointing jobs report Friday diluted the week-long price slide in Treasury bonds, but the world's go-to safe-haven market still suffered the biggest weekly selloff in nearly four months.
Economic Times
Fed's Bullard: New Threshold Policy Tailored To Zero-Rate Environment
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
SAN DIEGO--The Federal Reserve's newly adopted policy of offering more guidance on the factors that drive monetary policy will likely end when short-term interest rates start to rise.
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CES preview -- Latest trend in TVs: Ultra-high-definition
San Jose Mercury News
1 hour ago
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Troy Wolverton
A revolutionary television technology that promises pictures four times sharper than high definition is expected to take top billing this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the nation's biggest annual showcase of tech gadgets and products ...
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Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Headed Out the Door
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2 hours ago
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Damon Poeter
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is resigning from the company in the first quarter of this year, he said in a post published Friday on the company's official blog.
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Library of Congress digs in to full archive of 170 billion tweets
CNET - 1 hour ago
It took four years to hit 21 billion tweets. Now Twitter users generate nearly half a billion a day, and the Library of Congress will be archiving and indexing all of them.
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HBO's Liberace film aims to humanize through love story
Reuters - 22 minutes ago
By Lisa Richwine. PASADENA, California | Fri Jan 4, 2013 10:24pm EST. PASADENA, California (Reuters) - Michael Douglas takes on larger-than-life entertainer Liberace as he plays the singer in an HBO film about a secret love affair in the 1970s that ...
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'Evil Dead' red band trailer: A deep dive
Entertainment Weekly - 8 hours ago
Like a woodland-trapped demon waiting for someone to read the appropriate, evil-corporealizing incantation, the Evil Dead movie franchise has been quiet since 1992′s Army of Darkness.
E! Online
'Cougar Town' team promise gobs of nudity in season 4
Entertainment Weekly
7 hours ago
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James Hibberd
The Cougar Town team kicked off the winter Television Critics Association press tour by serving mimosas to a ballroom of bleary-eyed critics.
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Wilson considers Kelly, NFL rumors
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1 hour ago
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Corey Long
ESPN 150 athlete and Ducks commit Dontre Wilson (DeSoto, Texas/DeSoto) is ready to close the book on his recruitment and is fully committed to Oregon, whether or not Chip Kelly remains the coach of the program.
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Heisman winner Manziel 4th FBS quarterback with 20 rushing, 20 passing TDs ...
Washington Post - 18 minutes ago
ARLINGTON, Texas - Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M has become the fourth FBS quarterback with 20 touchdowns passing and 20 touchdowns rushing in the same season.
New York Times
In Reversal, Armstrong Is Said To Weigh Admitting Doping
New York Times - 35 minutes ago
Lance Armstrong, who this fall was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping and barred for life from competing in all Olympic sports, has told associates and antidoping officials that he is considering publicly admitting that he used banned ...
Los Angeles Times
Reid, Chiefs agree
Boston.com - 50 minutes ago
Andy Reid pulled up to Arrowhead Stadium in a black SUV on Friday and walked briskly toward the doors of the Kansas City Chiefs' home.
Kansas City Star
Nick Saban Conversation
ESPN - 10 minutes ago
A source familiar with the situation confirmed to ESPN that the suspended players are freshman linebackers Dillon Lee and Ryan Anderson, who weren't expected to play much of a role for the No.
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'Black Beauty' could yield Martian secrets
The Nation - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON - A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed “Black Beauty” could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, Nasa said.
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Crater on Huge Asteroid Vesta Gets 3D Treatment
Space.com - 4 hours ago
A new 3D photo from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveals a stunning glimpse inside a massive crater on the huge asteroid Vesta. The new image shows dark streaks of carbon-rich material radiating out from the 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) Cornelia Crater.
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More states cleared to operate health insurance exchanges
Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has cleared what could be the final group of states to open their own health insurance exchanges this fall, advancing a key goal of the 2010 healthcare law to provide Americans with new options to shop for ...
New York Daily News
Being moderately overweight might not pose health risk
Los Angeles Times
Jan 1, 2013
It's a common medical refrain: Carrying extra pounds raises the risk of ills such as heart disease and diabetes and therefore the risk of a premature death.
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