Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, in control of almost half the seats in parliament, announced on Saturday it was fielding its own presidential candidate. It was a reversal of an earlier decision to stay out of the race and could put the group on a collision course with the nation’s ruling generals.
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Egypt’s Brotherhood fields presidential candidate
The Christian Science Monitor – Two human dramas are continuing to unfold in the nationâs coldest state.
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Alaska’s tale of two cities: one desperate for fuel, another for big shovels
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The Christian Science Monitor – Mother Nature poured bitter Arctic temperatures into the eastern third of the nation Wednesday, reminding people from Maine to Florida that theyâll need their parkas this winter after all.
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The scold in Mother Nature’s cold: It’s winter! Wear a coat! (VIDEO)
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AP – Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians turned out in long lines at voting stations Monday in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, a giant step toward what they hope will be a democracy after decades of dictatorship.
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Reuters – President Barack Obama will challenge the Congress to preserve an expiring payroll tax cut on Tuesday as he travels to New Hampshire to seize the initiative in the wake of a collapsed effort to reduce the nation’s budget deficit.
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Obama pushes payroll tax cut after debt panel fails
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AP – If the deficit-cutting supercommittee fails, Congress will face a crummy choice. Lawmakers can allow payroll tax cuts and jobless aid for millions to expire or they extend them and increase the nation’s $15 trillion debt by at least $160 billion.
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Deficit deal failure would pose crummy choice
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AP – Large new cuts in defense spending would “terribly weaken” U.S. national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday as he and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used a rare joint interview to argue that the nation cannot afford to keep playing partisan chicken with its finances.
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AP – Republicans and Democrats quickly doled out blame to each other for the first-ever downgrade in the nation’s sterling credit rating, an expected but unsettling move that further clouds prospects for the recovery of the fragile U.S. economy.
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S&P downgrades US credit rating (AP)
Reuters – A Norwegian right-wing fanatic who killed at least 92 people believes his acts were atrocious but necessary, his lawyer said, as the nation mourned victims of its worst attacks since World War Two.
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Norway gunman deems killings "atrocious,"necessary" (Reuters)
AP – Lawsuits brought by four young men who accused a Georgia megachurch pastor of sexual misconduct have been resolved, attorneys for both sides said Thursday, bringing a quiet end to a blockbuster legal complaint that targeted a powerful national religious leader.
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Lawyer: Sex lawsuit involving Ga. pastor resolved (AP)