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Distracted Driving Rules: Transportation Department Proposes Guidelines Limiting Technology Built Into Cars

Distracted Driving Rules: Transportation Department Proposes Guidelines Limiting Technology Built Into Cars

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration wants automakers to put limits on vehicle technologies that permit texting and cellphone calling when a car is moving, as part of a broader effort to stop driving behaviors that could be distracting and cause crashes. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood proposed voluntary steps on Thursday that would establish new [...]

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Iraq withdrawal: U.S. abandoning plans to keep troops in country

Iraq withdrawal: U.S. abandoning plans to keep troops in country

BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Obama Weekly Address: President Renews Jobs Bill Efforts

Obama Weekly Address: President Renews Jobs Bill Efforts

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he’s going to travel the country telling lawmakers to do their jobs and vote in favor of his economic proposals, and he says congressional Republicans should stop picking partisan fights and act. Coming off a week when his nearly $450 billion jobs bill died in the Senate, Obama made [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Is U.S. Abandoning Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq

Is U.S. Abandoning Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq

BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Ther first ever wrist replacement that even lets you throw darts

Ther first ever wrist replacement that even lets you throw darts

A British man has become the first patient in the world to benefit from a new form of wrist replacement that preserves natural wrist movement. Tim Ablethorpe, an insurance manager from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was given a hemi-wrist arthroplasty – a half-wrist replacement – earlier this year. The procedure involves inserting an implant into the wrist [...]

October 16, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Obama Sends 100 Military Advisers To Fight Africa Rebels

Obama Sends 100 Military Advisers To Fight Africa Rebels

WASHINGTON — Intervening in a volatile and brutal crisis, President Barack Obama said Friday he has dispatched 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to support a years-long fight against a guerrilla group accused of horrific atrocities. Obama said they were sent to advise, not engage in combat, unless forced to defend themselves. In a letter [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Ugandans Welcome U.S. Troop Plan To Fight Rebels

Ugandans Welcome U.S. Troop Plan To Fight Rebels

NAIROBI, Kenya — Why is the U.S. sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters in the middle of Africa? Political payback for the quiet sacrifices of Uganda’s troops in Somalia could be one reason. President Barack Obama announced Friday he is dispatching about 100 U.S. troops – mostly special operations [...]

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U.S. Said To Have Abandoned Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq Next Year

U.S. Said To Have Abandoned Plans To Keep Troops In Iraq Next Year

BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]

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Legendary Comedian Professor Irwin Corey begs for money on work New York despite living in $3.5m home (but it’s all for charity)

Legendary Comedian Professor Irwin Corey begs for money on work New York despite living in $3.5m home (but it’s all for charity)

Hobbling along between cars in his walker, asking for change and proffering free newspapers in return, it is hard to believe he was once known as ‘The World’s Foremost Authority’. Professor Irwin Corey, comedian, actor and left-wing political activist, strolls along Manhattan’s East 35th Street pan-handling every day, seven days a week, for the last [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
‘It was an act of war’:Senators demand action after murder plot,urging Obama to crush Iran’s central bank

‘It was an act of war’:Senators demand action after murder plot,urging Obama to crush Iran’s central bank

President Obama today declared Iran will be isolated from the rest of the world and ‘pay a price’ for its alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington D.C. His comments follow Saudi Arabia’s own stark warning to Iran that ‘somebody will have to pay the price’ and a U.S. [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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