September 2011
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ABC News Radio →
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2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced →
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Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan: Buy Less, Pay Less →
Call him the “9-9-9 candidate.” That’s his economic plan, and he touts the digits every time he gets a chance to speak at a debate or during an interview, drilling it in like an ad jingle. His plan is simple and easily understood, which might be a plus among voters. Praised by supporters for both its simplicity and its specificity, Cain’s plan drops the current 35 percent corporate tax...
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Obama to Wrap Up West Coast Trip Pitching Jobs... →
The president will claim, “The American Jobs Act proposes a $25 billion investment in school infrastructure that will modernize at least 35,000 public schools — investments that will create jobs while improving classrooms and upgrading our schools to meet 21st century needs,” according to the White House.
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Poll: Rick Perry Still Leads GOP Field... →
In a CNN/ORC International Poll conducted between Friday and Sunday, Perry came out on top, with 28 percent of Republicans and independents saying they support the Texas governor. Perry was followed by Mitt Romney at 21 percent. Newt Gingrich rose to third in the poll, garnering 10 percent while Ron Paul, Herman Cain and Sarah Palin each received 7 percent. Rounding out the bottom of the pack were...
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Freed American Hikers Say They 'Were Held Hostage' →
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Could Sarah Palin Get in the Race This Week? -... →
(WASHINGTON) — This is the week Sarah Palin will tell the world her intentions whether or not she’ll run for president in 2012 — or at least that’s what she indicated to ABC News’ Jake Tapper at the Iowa State Fair last month, telling him September was “practically speaking…kind of a drop-dead timeline” when it comes to “jumping in the ring.” With...
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Facebook: New Timeline Feature Makes It Easier to... →
ABC News Radio’s @cohanjosh and Mashable’s @PetersMeg discuss the recent changes to Facebook profiles.
ABC News’ Josh Cohan reports:
If Facebook’s recent changes have left you angry and perplexed, brace yourself for some more unsettling news.
When Facebook fully rolls out its latest overhaul in the coming weeks, anonymous “defriending” – or the simple act of removing someone...
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NYPD Can Shoot Down Planes, but with What? →
“The NYPD has lots of capabilities that you don’t know about and you won’t know about,” Bloomberg told reporters Monday, echoing recent comments by police commissioner Ray Kelly. “Do you mean to say that the NYPD has the means to take down an aircraft?” Kelly was asked by 60 Minutes on Sunday. “Yes,” he replied, “I prefer not to get into...
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Hells Angels Leader Dead, Two Hurt in Nevada... →
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Is a Government Shutdown Looming? - Politics News... →
(WASHINGTON) — Once again Congress is tied up in knots over how to fund the government — complete with dire warnings that a critical agency, in this case FEMA, is about to run out of money and that the entire government could shut down by week’s end. Congress can’t seem to do anything anymore without going into crisis mode, but top Democrats and Republicans in Congress tell ABC News...
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Another Choppy Week in the Works for... →
U.S. stock futures are up Monday morning following reports that eurozone ministers are working on a new and much larger bailout plan for Greece and other nations that could face a potential default. Discussions involve a sizeable write down of Greek debt. Last week, U.S. stock averages lost between 5.5 and 6.5 percent, marking the biggest weekly losses since October 2008.
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Lovestruck Brazilian Hitman Fakes Photo of... →
(BAHIA, Brazil) — A tender hearted hitman used lots of ketchup to fake a photo of his target’s death in order to collect the kill money without any bloodshed, according to police.
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Movie Review: ‘Moneyball’ →
The film isn’t the traditional underdog story we’re used to seeing — especially when you have somebody like Brad Pitt playing the underdog — but under the guidance of director Bennett Miller, Pitt delivers one of his better performances … earnest, filled with nuance, subtext, charm and one of cinema’s easiest emotions to overplay, regret. But Pitt never overplays it,...
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Getting Big Pharma to Treat Childhood Cancers →
(WASHINGTON) — At age five, some kids have won pee-wee sports championships or perhaps a class spelling bee, but for Luke Fochtman of Okemos, Mich., his fifth birthday marked his victory over a much larger foe — cancer. “Through 72 weeks of treatment, chemotherapy, 105 fevers, he never said ‘no’ to us,” says Luke’s mom Monica Fochtman, 36. “That to...
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HPV Vaccine Fact Check: Perry Misstated... →
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Alec Baldwin Goes On Twitter Tirade →
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Ahmadinejad's UN Speech Triggers Massive Walkout →
(NEW YORK) — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad triggered a massive walkout of his speech to the United Nations General Assembly Thursday when he reiterated his suspicion that the Sept. 11 attacks were a conspiracy and criticized Israel. The American delegation led the path to the exits as soon as Ahmadinejad spoke about “the mysterious September 11 incident.” He reiterated his call for an...
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Steve Jobs' Words Rushed Into Print →
(EVANSTON, Ill) — Steve Jobs, who brought the world the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod and so much more, has left a rich history, both of technological innovations and of thoughts about what people want from them. Agate Publishing of Evanston, Ill., has assembled a 160-page volume of Jobs’ quotations, culled from interviews, public appearances and writings after he co-founded Apple Inc....
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Debate Day: GOP Readies for Showdown in... →
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Nearly the entire Republican presidential field descends on Florida Thursday for their third debate in as many weeks, and a new poll in the pivotal primary state shows a familiar story line.
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ISAF Kills Afghan Taliban Leader Linked to Downed... →
“Tahir was the Taliban’s top leader in Tangi Valley and was the target of a previous combined operation on Aug. 5, 2011, that resulted in the loss of the CH-47 Chinook last month. He led a group of insurgent fighters throughout the valley and was known to use roadside bombs and rockets to intimidate the local populace,” the ISAF said in a statement.
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Troy Davis Pleaded Innocence before Execution →
(JACKSON, Ga.) — Troy Davis was executed Wednesday evening for the murder of an off-duty policeman after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay of execution amid widespread public doubts about his guilt.
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New Details: How Bomber Killed Former... →
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The man who assassinated Afghanistan’s former president turned peacemaker used an audio recording of a Taliban representative and the promise of a letter from Taliban leaders to set up the meeting in which he killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, according to Afghan officials.
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'Forbes' Lists the Richest People in America →
Here’s a look of the top ten wealthiest Americans:
1. Bill Gates, $59 billion 2. Warren Buffett, $39 billion 3. Larry Ellison, $33 billion 4. Charles Koch, $25 billion 5. David Koch, $25 billion 6. Christy Walton, $24.5 billion 7. Jim C. Walton $21.1 billion 8. Alice Walton $20.9 billion 9. George Soros $22 billion 10. Sheldon Adelson, $21.5 billion
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Troy Davis Execution Incites Outrage, Protests →
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STD Testing Hits L.A. Streets, Free for Women →
(LOS ANGELES) — Sexual health clinics are hitting the streets in South Los Angeles, where women can now pick up home tests for chlamydia and gonorrhea from kiosks and a mobile health van. The program, launched by L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, aims to curb the city’s troubling rise in sexually transmitted diseases. L.A. leads the nation in the number of chlamydia cases, and has...
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Bill Clinton Was Almost on 'Dancing With... →
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R.E.M. Announces They're Calling It Quits →
“To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.” R.E.M.
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Perry Calls Obama ‘President Zero’ in New... →
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Watch Live: President Obama Addresses the United... →
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American Hikers Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal Released... →
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Billionaire Mark Cuban: Paying Taxes "Most... →
“We need funding to help this country, to help pull it out of the economic doldrums. I’m always looking for new opportunities, and you know, contributing to the U.S., I think, creates opportunity.” He closes his blog, “Get out there and make a boatload of money. Enjoy the sh*t out your money. Pay your taxes. It’s the most Patriotic thing you can do.”
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Dead on Arrival? Congress Divided on Obama’s Plan... →
(WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans lashed out against President Obama’s revamped plan to reduce the nation’s deficit, criticizing him for “political posturing” and “undermining” bipartisan negotiations on deficit reduction with a “partisan” proposal, while Democratic lawmakers commended the president for offering “a serious approach” that creates jobs “in a fiscally responsible way.”
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Does Sexism Pervade the White House? →
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American Hikers Fail to Get Needed Signature from... →
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Obama in New York City for UN General Assembly →
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Doctors Use Dye to Light Up Ovarian Cancer Cells →
“Ovarian cancer is notoriously difficult to see, and this technique allowed surgeons to spot a tumor 30 times smaller than the smallest they could detect using standard techniques,” Philip Low, the Purdue University chemistry professor who invented the dye, said in a statement. “By dramatically improving the detection of the cancer — by literally lighting it up — cancer removal is...
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Dems, GOP Clash Over Proposed Changes to PA... →
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Obama Details His ‘Balanced Plan’ to Reduce... →
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Guys Take Dead Friend Out for Night on the Town →
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Buyer’s Remorse? Clinton’s Popularity Waxes as... →
(NEW YORK) — There’s a growing case of presidential buyer’s remorse for some Americans, according to a new Bloomberg National Poll. Back in July when Bloomberg’s poll asked whether the country would be better off under a President Hillary Clinton, only a quarter of those polled said yes. That number has jumped to a third — 34 percent — in a poll out Friday. While a growing...
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Poison-Needle Assassination Plot Busted in... →
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Elizabeth Warren Runs for Senate as Democrat,... →
(WASHINGTON) — Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law school professor and consumer advocate, has officially entered the Massachusetts Senate race. She’d been testing the waters for weeks and now faces the ultimate test: Can she connect with Massachusetts voters and withstand a long primary to take the Senate seat held by Republican Scott Brown?
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Social Network for Gut Bacteria? →
(NEW YORK) — Finally, you can share the status of your gut bacteria with your friends. In exchange for $2,100 and a bit of “poop,” My.Microbes will sequence your gut microbiome, the genetic blueprints for the throng of organisms lining your digestive tract.
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Al Qaeda Chief of Operations in Pakistan Killed →
(WASHINGTON) — Al Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan was killed earlier this week, senior administration officials said Thursday. Abu Hafs al-Shahri, killed in Pakistan’s Waziristan region, “played a key operational and administrative role for the group,” a senior official told ABC News.
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Nicolas Cage Recalls Encounter with Naked Man... →
The Toronto Sun quotes the actor telling reporters, “It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife [Alice]…I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed.”
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Boehner to Present GOP’s Alternative Strategy for... →
(WASHINGTON) — As President Obama continues to drum up support for his $447 billion jobs plan, House Speaker John Boehner will deliver an alternative path for job creation in an address to the Economic Club of Washington Thursday, focusing chiefly on tax reform by broadening the base of the tax structure without raising taxes and continuing the GOP’s quest to cut red tape from Washington’s...
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Rick Perry to Meet With Donald Trump in New York →
After speaking to a conservative Christian audience in Virginia at Liberty University, Perry will attend fundraisers in Virginia, before heading to New York for his private sit down with The Donald and more fundraisers, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
