| Obama to pitch trio of economic proposals in Ohio
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 AP - Seeking to give anxious Democrats a boost ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama is pitching a trio of economic initiatives Wednesday and voicing unwavering opposition to Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy.
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| BP report blames itself, others for oil spill
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 AP - Oil giant BP PLC laid much of the blame for the rig explosion and the massive Gulf of Mexico spill on itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures in an internal report released Wednesday before a key piece of evidence has been fully analyzed.
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| Fla. minister: Sept. 11 Quran burn still planned
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 AP - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.
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| GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending
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 AP - House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.
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| FBI: Aircraft searched, no credible threat found
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 AP - Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday.
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| Oracle plans to give Hurd $950,000 annual salary
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| AP - Oracle plans to pay newly appointed President Mark Hurd a base salary of $950,000 a year. The company also says the former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO, who was ousted by that company last month, is eligible for a fiscal 2011 bonus of as much as $10 million. |
| AP Exclusive: Back to work after salmonella case
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 AP - The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business.
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| Suspected US missile attacks rock NW Pakistan
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 AP - Two suspected U.S. missile strikes hit militant targets in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, bringing to six the number of such attacks in the region in less than a week. At least 10 suspected members of a group attacking NATO forces in Afghanistan were killed.
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| Bob Marley's daughter pleads guilty to drug charge
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| AP - The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley has admitted growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home. |
| Clijsters, Venus win to set up marquee semifinal
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 AP - Nobody can say Kim Clijsters took an easy path to her U.S. Open title last year. She played both Williams sisters.
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| BP shifts U.S. oil spill blame onto contractors
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| Reuters - BP shifted much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill onto its contractors Transocean and Halliburton. |
| Obama pitches road spending, tax incentives in Ohio
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 Reuters - President Barack Obama will push billions of dollars in new business tax incentives and spending on big construction projects on Wednesday, as he tries to convince a balky Congress to pass measures intended to spur the economy and create jobs.
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| U.S. religious leaders condemn "anti-Muslim" frenzy
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 Reuters - U.S. religious leaders on Tuesday condemned an "anti-Muslim frenzy" in the United States, including plans by a Florida church to burn a Koran on September 11, an act a top general said could endanger American troops abroad.
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| Special Report: The Tea Party goes to school
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 Reuters - Some Tea Partiers admit mistakes were made. Others are quick to describe the movement's recent efforts in the political arena as not quite ready for prime time.
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| U.S. says not considering NATO Afghan troop request
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 Reuters - The United States does not plan to contribute to a NATO request for 2,000 troops for the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, even as the head of the alliance held out the possibility of U.S. participation.
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| China-U.S. ties improving, Hu tells White House team
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 Reuters - China and the United States said on Wednesday that their sometimes rocky relationship is sounder after talks in Beijing, with both putting an optimistic face on ties that have been jolted by economic and security tensions.
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| Judge refuses to lift ban on government stem cell funds
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| Reuters - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs. |
| U.S. team to discuss North Korea in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing
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 Reuters - A U.S. government team will travel to Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing next week to discuss North Korea but has no plans to visit the poor, isolated state or meet its officials, the State Department said Tuesday.
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| Several sides to blame for Gulf of Mexico spill: BP
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 AFP - Failures by several parties led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, British energy group BP concluded in the results of an internal inquiry published on Wednesday, accepting some of the blame.
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| Pastor defiant as Clinton slams Koran-burning
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 AFP - An evangelical pastor insisted his plans to torch the Koran would go ahead after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the "disgraceful" burning ceremony in Florida.
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Well - three days of intense work but I was able to migrate the web portals to the new server (with a minimum of problems). I am still looking for any residual after effects, but everything appears to be stable and funcioning normally. I haven't had time for anything else over the last three days - but this should have the web portals on a permanent stable platform.