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S&P Puts 'Negative' Outlook on US Credit Rating
BusinessWeek
By Rebecca Christie and Ian Katz April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Standard & Poor's
put the US government on notice that it risks losing its AAA credit rating
unless policy makers agree on a plan by 2013 to reduce budget deficits and
the national debt. ...
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Lawmakers witness damage from tornados that left 45 dead
The Hill
By Debbie Siegelbaum - 04/18/11 05:09 PM ET Lawmakers on Monday continued
to visit communities in their districts devastated by a string of tornadoes
that left an estimated 45 people dead. "I'm seeing nothing but utter
devastation. ...
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Poll: Best way to fight deficits is to raise taxes on the rich
MiamiHerald.com
By STEVEN THOMMA WASHINGTON - Alarmed by rising national debt and
increasingly downbeat about their country's course, Americans are clear
about how they want to attack the government's runway budget deficits:
raise taxes on the wealthy and keep hands ...
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Boehner hires top lawyer for fight over marriage law, sources say
CNN International
By Bill Mears, CNN Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans have hired a
prominent conservative attorney to defend the federal Defense of Marriage
Act in a pending lawsuit, legal sources say, and will make an effort to
divert money from the Justice ...
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Thousands demand Assad's overthrow
ABC Online
Thousands of Syrians used the funeral of eight protesters killed in the
central city of Homs to demand the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad.
Unrest is swelling in Syria despite Mr Assad's promise to lift emergency
law. Activists in Homs said the ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/19/3195275.htm?section=world>
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Riots Hit North Nigeria As President Declared Winner
Voice of America
Electoral officials in Nigeria say President Goodluck Jonathan has won
reelection in a vote that has sparked rioting in northern states that
backed his leading opponent. With results from all of Nigeria's 36 states
reporting, electoral commission ...
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Anniversary quake measures 3.8 on San Francisco peninsula
San Jose Mercury News
By Lisa M. Krieger On the 105th anniversary of the giant 1906 San Francisco
earthquake, the San Andreas fault woke up with a small shrug. A 3.8
magnitude quake was reported at 2:57 pm on Monday afternoon, with an
epicenter 8.5 miles deep located ...
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VIDEO: Misrata injured shipped to safety
BBC News
A ship carrying injured people and migrant workers from the besieged Libyan
city of Misrata has arrived in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Aid
workers and Misrata residents have said the situation there is "dire". They
have reported shortages of food ...
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Questions abound for new CPS CEO, media kept at bay
ABC7Chicago.com
April 18, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- When public officials refuse to answer or
even entertain questions that is normally a red flag for the I-Team. So
when Chicago Public Schools superintendent-appointee Jean-Claude Brizard
was muzzled Monday by ...
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EU border deal under threat in row over Italy's migrant burden
The Independent
By John Lichfield in Paris An angry dispute over the "roaming rights" of
refugees from North Africa threatens to undermine the 16-year agreement
that removed systematic identity checks at continental European Union
borders. The Italian Ambassador to ...
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