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Americans woefully unprepared
financially for retirement
An increasing number of Americans say they will not be able to save enough money for their own retirement, if they are saving at all.
FCC considers free
wireless internet for US
The United States could soon offer an enticing perk: free Wi-Fi.
Ex-Edwards aide narrowly
avoids jail over sex tape
A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter.
Vatican faces widening
sex abuse scandals
As the pope's brother apologizes for boxing pupils' ears, far graver allegations face the Catholic Church in many countries.
PETA's euthanasia rates
have critics fuming
The animal rights group defends the high number of dogs and cats put down at its Virginia headquarters.
Obama pushing on
health care end game
President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.
Reconciliation bill will
be hard for GOP to derail
Democrats are tying the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul to a fast-track process that will make the bill tough for Republicans to derail in the Senate.
Runaway Prius driver:
Brakes were 'almost burned'
 Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.
Poll: Americans hate
inept, paid-off Congress
Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care.
>> Voters still prefer Obama over Bush
Israel apologizes for
embarrassing Biden
Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem.
Shoddy and dangerous: More
attacks against Liz Cheney
Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday attacking Liz Cheney's "Al-Qaida 7" logic as "shoddy and dangerous."
New senator bucks party
to end filibusters
Barely a month in office, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, is putting some muscle behind his independent image by twice voting against his own party and questioning the use of the filibuster.
MySpace outlines makeover
after exec shake up
Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.
Google adds bike lane with
latest mapping feature
Google Inc. is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option.
Assisted suicide network
members indicted in GA
A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they helped a 58-year-old man with cancer kill himself, clearing the way for a trial that could not only decide their fate but also help validate -- or repudiate -- their work.
Lovesick man who caused
airport breach pleads guilty
A lovesick graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to worldwide flight delays, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Tuesday and apologized publicly for the first time.
Limbaugh: I'm leaving the
country if health care passes
If Democrats didn't have all the incentive they needed to pass health care reform already, then conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh may have provided the final push they needed by vowing to flee the country if the reform bill is passed.
Massa under investigation for allegedly groping male staffers
Former Rep. Eric Massa has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, according to three sources familiar with the probe.
Senate drops funding for
summer jobs program
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans -- along with some Democrats -- defeated a measure to provide $1.3 billion for summer jobs for young people this year and a $1.3 billion extension of enhanced subsidies for poor families with children.
Crist would do
better as a Democrat
"Our general election Senate numbers, which we'll release tomorrow, find that Crist is a good deal more popular with Democrats now than he is with Republicans. His path to any future electoral victory may come as an independent or perhaps even as a Democrat."
Democrats fail on
filibuster reform effort
One vote shy of 60, frustrated Democrats are talking about changing Senate rules to make it easier for them to overcome Republican filibusters.
Class-action lawsuits could
cost Toyota $3B-plus
Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.
Washington DC weddings
begin for same-sex couples
Tuesday is the first day same-sex couples can pick up marriage licenses and tie the knot in the city. Some couples planned quick ceremonies at a church or gay rights group's office while others said they'll wait and have more elaborate celebrations.
Sony to start selling
3-D TVs in June
Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace the technology for their living rooms.
Detroit wants to turn decayed
areas into farmland
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
Naked Senator is
working on a memoir
 Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican and former Cosmo centerfold, is working on a memoir scheduled to hit shelves in 2011. He may be stuck in Teddy Kennedy's old seat, but he'll become the male Sarah Palin, yet.
Packard: Fiorina
almost destroyed HP
The granddaughter of one of Hewlett-Packard’s founders wrote a letter Monday trashing California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina's leadership of the company.
Eric Massa reveals tickle
attack to Glenn Beck
 Salty Eric Massa did not disappoint on Glenn Beck. Did Massa "grope a male staffer"? Yes, he says. In fact, he jumped on top of him and "tickled him until he couldn't breathe." Because it was his birthday.
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Home-school textbooks market
skeptical of evolution
According to the Associated Press, home-schooling parents seeking textbooks that include evolution are finding the dominance of Christian-based materials to be isolating and frustrating.
Spotted: Anderson Cooper
shaking his groove thing
 Anderson brought his boyfriend to Oscar afterparties, and they got down. "At one point, [the host] stopped the music and said unless Anderson Cooper started dancing, he wouldn't play any more music. Luckily, the CNN anchor quickly hit the dancefloor!"
Democratic congresswoman proposes
pay cut for members of Congress
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) introduced a bill last week to cut pay for members of Congress by $8,700 a year -- or five percent -- and freeze their automatic cost-of-living increase.
Tobacco lobby underwriting
conservative anti-tax rally in GA
Today, conservative groups Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Americans for Tax Reform are organizing a rally at the Georgia State Capitol to protest the state's upcoming budget.
Palin admits going to
Canada for health care
In November of 2009, Sarah Palin -- who is always suggesting that health care reform will lead to socialism -- insisted that Canada needs to reform its health care system to "let the private sector take over."
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