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Job growth cools slightly, recovery grinds on

Reuters - ‎14 minutes ago‎
By Jason Lange. WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 4, 2013 10:42am EST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers kept their pace of hiring virtually steady in December, falling short of the levels needed to bring down the country's lofty unemployment rate and pointing to ...
Job creation steady in December, unemployment at 7.8%
US Economy Added 155000 Jobs
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Video of Malala Yousafzai shyly smiling as she finally leaves the hospital

Washington Post (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who in early October was shot in the head by Taliban militants in retribution for her efforts promoting girls' education, has been discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England.
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First Thoughts: The negotiators

NBCNews.com - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Top Talkers: The Morning Joe panel - including NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, Bloomberg News' Al Hunt and former RNC Chair Michael Steele -- discusses the tense New Year's week that resulted in a last-minute House passage of a deal to avert the fiscal cliff ...
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Chiefs, GM Pioli Split After 4 Seasons in KC

ABC News - ‎36 minutes ago‎
Scott Pioli is out as general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs. The team announced in a statement Friday that the two sides have "mutually parted ways" after four seasons marked by poor personnel decisions and failed coaching hires.
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Google Antitrust Ruling; Samsung Tops Mobile Market; Apple Eyeing Wearable ...

PC Magazine
1 hour ago
Written by
Angela Moscaritolo
Going forward, Google's Motorola subsidiary must license its standard-essential patents on a fair and reasonable basis, while Google has also agreed to stop certain practices that unfairly burden its rivals.
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FAA says plane in deadly New Year's crash was not registered

Fox News - ‎57 minutes ago‎
JASPER, Ala. - Federal Aviation Administration records show that a plane that crashed in Jasper killing three teenagers wasn't currently registered to fly.
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Hugo Chavez's illness 'may cause political turmoil' in Venezuela

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎34 minutes ago‎
According to the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chavez is suffering breathing difficulties caused by a severe lung infection. Reports have claimed the Socialist leader, who has been in power for 14 years, was being kept alive by life support machines and ...
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Fatah party stages 1st rally in Gaza since 2007, reflecting warming ties with rival ...

Fox News - ‎59 minutes ago‎
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Leaders of the Palestinian Fatah party led tens of thousands of supporters Friday in a mass rally in the Gaza Strip, the first such gathering for the largely secular party in the territory since the rival Islamist Hamas seized power there in ...
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Syrian warplanes bomb suburbs of the capital as rebels bomb military post

Fox News - ‎1 hour ago‎
BEIRUT - Syrian ground and air forces bombarded rebel strongholds on the outskirts of Damascus and other areas around the country Friday while anti-government forces targeted a military post near the capital with a car bomb, activists said.
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What does Google want with North Korea?

Christian Science Monitor - ‎1 hour ago‎
Google chairman Eric Schmidt plans to visit North Korea as early as next week in what analysts see as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's drive to give an appearance of closing the vast digital divide between his isolated country and the rest of the ...
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Michael Crapo pleads guilty to DWI charge

Politico - ‎50 minutes ago‎
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Idaho Republican Sen. Michael Crapo has pleaded guilty to drunken driving charge in a Virginia court. Crapo pleaded guilty to a first-offense DWI on Friday.
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Obama Learns About Sandy Hook Shooting (PHOTO)

Huffington Post - ‎51 minutes ago‎
A photo released Thursday by the White House shows President Barack Obama in the middle of what he later called "the worst day of my presidency.
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Global stocks tick up, dollar pares gains after US payrolls

Reuters
33 minutes ago
Written by
Rodrigo Campos
By Rodrigo Campos. NEW YORK | Fri Jan 4, 2013 10:22am EST. NEW YORK (Reuters) - World shares rose and the U.S. dollar pared gains on Friday after a payrolls report scaled back expectations of a change in U.S.
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Patrick Dempsey Outbids Starbucks for Seattle Coffee Chain; Grey's Anatomy ...

E! Online - ‎16 minutes ago‎
Patrick Dempsey has successfully saved a Seattle coffee chain from financial life support. The Grey's Anatomy star has won out in his bid to purchase the previously failing but now McDreamy-owned (buy stock now, is what we're saying) Tully's franchise.
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Six gadget trends to look for at CES

CNN
1 hour ago
Written by
Heather Kelly
Editor's note: Follow @cnntech and @kelly_heather on Twitter and CNNTech on Instagram for updates from the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Samsung, LG fined for LCD panel price-rigging

Xinhua - ‎11 minutes ago‎
BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Samsung, LG and four Taiwanese firms have been fined heavily for price-fixing of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels on the Chinese mainland.
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Analysts offer 'iPhone mini' antidote to Apple's Samsung problem

Computerworld (blog)
20 minutes ago
Written by
Jonny Evans
If nothing really changes, Samsung is expected to widen its lead against Apple [AAPL] this year, according to Strategy Analytics. But will things stay the same, or will 2013 be the year the iPhone company changes the rules with an iPhone mini and more ...
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Samsung rolls out Exynos patch to Galaxy S3 handsets

ZDNet - ‎1 hour ago‎
Summary: Samsung has started rolling out a fix for Galaxy SIII handsets that closes a vulnerability that would allow a malicious app access to crucial parts of the operating system, according to reports.
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“I Must Have Said It Wrong”: Decoding Downton Abbey's Television DNA

TIME - ‎8 minutes ago‎
Ok, there are more than four people involved in Downton, and their harmonies really aren't that great just yet, let's be honest - but there is something to the comparison.
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'Buckwild': Real-life 'Beavis & Butt-head'

Boston Herald - ‎45 minutes ago‎
MTV's much-criticized "Buckwild" debuted last night, and after its first hour, it's clear we as a nation will survive this horrible, over-hyped show.
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CIA Official Who Destroyed Torture Tapes Squirms at Zero Dark Thirty Abuse

Wired
1 hour ago
Written by
Spencer Ackerman
Actors Kyle Chandler, left, and Jason Clarke portray CIA officials involved in torturing detainees in Zero Dark Thirty. A retired agency officer who destroyed actual video footage of the torture has a beef with the film's portrayal of interrogations.
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Rex Ryan tattoo: woman wearing Sanchez jersey, possibly 'Tebowing'

Los Angeles Times - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Rex Ryan has a tattoo. Well, we already knew that. Remember that lower leg art proudly displayed by the New York Jets coach during training camp last year?
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Cotton Bowl keys 2012

ESPN (blog) - ‎26 minutes ago‎
Here's a look at three keys for No. 9 Texas A&M's matchup with No. 11 Oklahoma in the AT&T Cotton Bowl: 1. Don't change the script: Offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury might be gone, but all those athletes who made the Aggies' offense so potent in 2012 ...
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Dinosaurs May Have Shaken Their Tail Feathers to Woo Mates

Wired - ‎1 hour ago‎
Visiting Mongolia during the Cretaceous might have revealed a variety of birdlike dinosaurs strutting their stuff and using a spectacular fan of tail feathers to woo potential mates.
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Mars meteorite 'Black Beauty' is in a class of its own

BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
A dark lump of rock found in the Moroccan desert in 2011 is a new type of Martian meteorite, say scientists. Weighing 320g, the stone has been given the formal name Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 - but is nicknamed "Black Beauty".
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Flu outbreak crowding Canadian emergency rooms

CBC.ca - ‎1 hour ago‎
Thousands of Canadians celebrated the holiday season feeling a bit feverish, knocked off their feet by a strain of influenza that's hurried across the country earlier than in years past.
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: 7 Celebrities Touched By The Disease

Huffington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
While many of us are shaking off the post-holiday blues and getting cracking on our resolutions, January also marks Cervical Health Awareness Month, a month designated to shining a spotlight on a wide range of cervical health issues, including human ...

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