Getting aid to Haiti right away to save lives is the first goal of the fund-raising initiative headed by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the two former U.S. presidents say.
In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Bush and Clinton said the new fund created by President Barack Obama also seeks to ensure that money keeps coming in aft…
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Google has unveiled plans today to allow Google Docs to store any type of files, and revealed a new tool from Memeo to enable users to access, migrate, and synchronize files between their desktop and Google Docs. These announcements signify a broader strategy by Google to help business customers bridge the gap between the desktop and the cloud.
Google has been aggressivel…
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina loaned $2.5 million of her own money to her campaign for the U.S. Senate, an indication she's willing to invest significant personal resources to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Fiorina also raised nearly $1.1 million in donations during her first two months in the race. After expenses, that gives her about $2.7 million go…
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China completed a resurgent 2009 with a huge rise in exports establishing China as the world's biggest exporter, ahead of Germany, for the first time. The juggernaut Chinese economy also revealed record monthly imports of crude oil and a vast renewed appetite for iron ore and copper.
Trade in December, according to figures from China's customs office, showed a massive 17.7% ye…
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British MP George Galloway has been deported from Egypt, say activists working with him to take an aid convoy into Gaza.
The Bow and Bethnal Green MP had been with international activists trying to take 200 aid trucks into the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Egypt had refused some of the vehicles access and there have been protests and clashes on the Egypt-Gaza borde…
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives briefed party members on Thursday on healthcare talks with the Senate, with competing approaches on taxes and the shape of new insurance exchanges topping the list of priorities.
About 175 House Democrats participated in a conference call with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders d…
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Three people were killed and five others wounded Thursday in a shooting at a St. Louis, Missouri, transformer manufacturing company, police said.
It was unclear whether the suspect was among those killed at ABB Inc., St. Louis Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
A law enforcement official identified the suspect to CNN as Timothy Hendron.
Hendron is one of a group of ABB e…
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Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), with a little help from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, showcased their much-ballyhooed tablet PC, dubbed Slate, at CES Wednesday night. But the device is being ridiculed hard by Apple fanboys in the blogosphere who say it has nothing on Steve Jobs' latest creation and is not so much a tablet as it is an attempt from Micro…
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Google's Nexus One is a nice phone. It's fast, attractive, and can run some great software. The Android Market may currently offer less than a fifth as many apps as Apple's iTunes Store and the phone itself my lack the multitouch support that makes iPhone interaction so intuitive, but Nexus One users have access to Google Voice, Google Goggles, and system-wide speech i…
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No, this isn't an April Fool's prank. According to both The Times' Hero Complex blog and the Hollywood Reporter, Sam Mendes, the wonderfully cerebral and cultured filmmaker who once upon a time won an Oscar for directing "American Beauty," is in discussions to make the new James Bond film, which could go into production as early as this June. Daniel Craig would be onb…
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that U.S. officials had all the intelligence needed to keep Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding a Detroit-bound flight but "failed to connect the dots," putting at risk the lives of nearly 300 people on board in an alleged bombing attempt.
Calling it a "potentially disastrous" failure, Obama delivered his sternest words yet on the…
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Microsoft's new Office 2010 suite is coming soon. The company says 2 million people are already using the beta (and claims 9 out of 10 beta users consider it "an improvement over their current productivity suite.") So it's time to find out just how much it'll cost you to get it. The new SKUs include:
Office Professional, $499 boxed or $349 via Product Key Card. Includes 2…
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Vanity Fair's new cover boy Eldrick "Tiger" Woods, Major League Baseball World Champion Alex Rodriguez and Timbaland. The last guy on that list says all three famous dudes have at least one thing in common: They've been the subject of frequent gossip on the Internet and tabloids. While the aforementioned jocks have seen their love lives become fodder for the rumor mill, the sup…
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Opening a new chapter in planet hunting, scientists reported Monday that they had discovered five worlds orbiting nearby stars by using the Kepler space telescope.
"These planets orbit quite close to their stars, so they're quite hot," said Kepler science team leader William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who made the announcement at the Ameri…
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A gunman opened fire Monday morning in the lobby of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas, killing a court security officer and wounding a deputy United States marshal before fleeing. He was then shot in the head and killed nearby.
“The suspect was in the lobby, but he never made it past the security checkpoint,” said Barbara Morgan, a spokeswoman for the L…
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British commuters may have shivered, cursed and slid as they headed back to work after the Christmas break today, but the UK has been spared the worst of the cold weather that is gripping much of the northern hemisphere, bringing freezing temperatures and record snowfalls to parts of north Asia, Europe and the US.
The punishing winter weather has brought transport c…
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Box-Office Top Five
#1 "Avatar" ($68.3 million)
#2 "Sherlock Holmes" ($38.4 million)
#3 "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" ($36.6 million)
#4 "It's Complicated" ($18.7 million)
#5 "The Blind Side" ($12.7 million)
The third time isn't just the charm for "Avatar" — it marks yet another notch in the science-fiction epic's ever-increasi…
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Iranian media reported Tehran would conduct a large-scale defensive military exercise next month, coinciding with what Tehran officials now say is a deadline for the West to respond to its counter-offer to a nuclear-fuel deal.
The commander of Iran's ground forces, Brig. Gen. Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan, said the drill would be conducted by Iran's army, in conjunction with some units of the Is…
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Global alarm over climate change and its effects has risen manifold after the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, many of the 2,500-odd IPCC scientists have found climate change is progressing faster than the worst-case scenario they had predicted.
Their studies will be considered for the next IPCC report, but since that will come out only in…
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After his regular early morning workout at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii and following a secure conference call with top aides investigating what went wrong with anti-terror programs, President Obama took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, and some other members of his family to the Sea Life Park, a privately owned marine park about ten miles down the coast from the Obama…
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