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Newly empowered Republicans want spending cuts of $5 billion to $6 billion a month as a condition for extending emergency unemployment benefits that are scheduled to expire next month for millions of Americans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors moved on Friday to dismiss charges against two of four FBI employees accused of lying about use of performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormones.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alaska Air Group Inc said in a regulatory filing on Friday that the airline and its chief executive are “cooperating voluntarily” with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in an insider trading probe.
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Just three days after getting the worst drubbing of his career, Barack Obama flew off for a 10-day spin around AsiaIt is, to say the least, an odd time to be taking the longest trip away from the Oval Office of his presidency. Just three days after getting the worst drubbing of his career, Barack [...]

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Alan Garcia led thousands of marchers through the streets of Lima on Friday to demand that Yale University return archeological treasures taken from Machu Picchu in the early 1900s.

MSNBC suspended liberal television host Keith Olbermann indefinitely on Friday for making donations to three Democratic politicians, a violation of NBC News policy against such contributions without prior approval.

MSNBC has suspended prime-time host Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for contributing to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season.

The Johannes Mehserle sentencing was carried on on Friday. Johannes Mehserle, the ex-BART police officer who had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the case of Oscar Grant, 22, who was unarmed during the 2009 New Year’s Day shooting.

Scientists returning from an expedition off the Gulf Coast said Friday they found dead and dying deepwater coral near the BP oil spill site that was covered in a brown substance.
 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Employment surged much more than expected last month as private companies hired workers at the fastest pace since April, a sign the sluggish economy is finally starting to tick up.

Gay voters displeased with the Obama administration’s record on GLBT issues joined in with the rest of the electorate in making their anger known at the ballot box on Nov.

MSNBC journalist held to be in breach of company rules after he admitted giving money to three candidates in midterm electionsA prominent US television anchorman, Keith Olbermann, was suspended today for making donations to three Democratic candidates in this week’s midterm elections, in breach of company rules.US journalistic ethics are extremely strict, barring media employees [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Almost all states have had to cut spending on services and more than half have raised taxes since the recession began, according to a think-tank report released on Friday that warned more tax hikes could be on the horizon.

Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s first female House speaker, said Friday she will try to keep her spot as leader of the House Democrats despite huge election losses that cost her party the majority.

The U.S. stood accused Friday of human rights violations ranging from racial discrimination to prison overcrowding and abuses by its troops, as friends and foes lined up to chide Washington in a U.N. forum the U.S. has pledged to be an equal member …