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Starting Wednesday, Florida hopes to stoke its real-estate market by becoming one of the few states to offer $8,000 in down-payment assistance to qualified homebuyers so they can benefit upfront from a new federal tax credit....
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MANATEE — Drivers might start seeing along Florida highways those “click it, or ticket signs” that are so ubiquitous in many other states....
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A Yemeni airliner has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Comoros, with 153 people on board....
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WASHINGTON - Countering criticism that he has done little to advance gay rights, President Obama commemorated the 40th anniversary yesterday of the birth of the modern movement by welcoming its leaders to the White House and reaffirming his commitment to...
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IDG News Service - The owners of The Pirate Bay have agreed to sell the site to a Swedish Internet cafe operator for 60 million Swedish kronor (US$7.8 million), the company said on Tuesday....
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(Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co. will pay Hong Kong $3.5 billion ($452 million) to add rides like “Toy Story Land” and “Grizzly Trail” at its Hong Kong theme park and raise its stake in the project, said its partner, the city’s government....
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Security forces were everywhere, all leave cancelled, for fear that the bombers might strike again....
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Two of members of the Obama Administration would not rule out the possibility of a tax on health benefits to pay for a system-wide overhaul in TV interviews.Secretary of Health and Human Service Kathleen Sebelius appeared on Fox News Sunday (June 28), ind...
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A body of 12 clerics declared Iran's disputed presidential vote valid and free of major fraud, paving the way for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be sworn in next month despite claims of vote manipulation that sparked weeks of massive protest....
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TAMPA - "Pitch Man", father and husband Billy Mays was found dead Sunday morning. His wife, Deborah, woke up next to him just before 8 a.m. and found him without a pulse....
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has asked for an immediate federal investigation into news reports of children turning up with brain tumors in one small area of South Florida.Nelson, D-Fl, sent a letter last Thursday to the Obama administration alerting both the En...
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Rising sea-levels could one day leave significant portions of the Florida Keys underwater, experts say....
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CHICAGO, June 29 (Reuters) - Michigan has to close prisons to save money. California's are bursting at the seams....
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The Obama administration on Monday announced that it would put solar energy development in the West on a fast track, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signing an order that sets aside more than 1,000 square miles of public land for two years of study a...
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San Francisco (CA) - Apple CEO Steve Jobs has returned to Club Cupertino after a six-month medical leave of absence."Steve is back to work," a company spokesman confirmed in a statement obtained by Reuters. "He's currently at Apple a few days a week and w...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's family moved quickly Monday to take control of his complicated personal and financial affairs, winning temporary custody of his three children and asking a judge to name the King of Pop's mother as administrator of h...
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The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a discrimination ruling involving a group of white Connecticut firefighters has provided critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with some fresh ammunition.Republican senators and conservative groups contend th...
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras came under pressure on Monday to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya as many Latin American leaders agreed to withdraw envoys, Washington called his overthrow illegal and street protests turned violent....
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The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn fraud that wrecked the lives of thousands of investors....
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Billy Mays, the bearded infomercial pitchman with the trademark shout, has died in his sleep at home.
“Everyone [who knew] him was aware of his larger-than-life
personality, generosity and warmth,” the Discovery Channel (which aired
his series, Pit...
