1. China Slams U.S. for sending Uighurs to Palau
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...    The transfer leaves 215 detainees at the detention camp that President Barack Obama has pledged to close by January 22, though political and legal hurdles are making it difficult for his administration ...

2. Stay-at-home consumers bite into pricey steaks
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... Now you can get it in the grocery store," Merrill Shugoll, president of Shugoll Research, told Reuters on the Expo sidelines.   Supermarket sales of all meat have improved this year, which had Shugoll ...

3. Who Is Quashing the Birth Certificate Issue?
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Back in October of 2008, when the subject of Obama’s Constitutional eligibility to be president of the United States was just a blip on the radar screen of public awareness, I wrote an article about how ...

4. Obama declares swine flu a national emergency
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has declared 2009 H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, the White House said on Saturday. The declaration will make it easier for U.S. medical facilities ...

5. Deserted shopping mall bleak symbol of Fed bailout
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... toward government intrusion into the private sector, complicating President Barack Obama's efforts to reform financial regulation and healthcare. The controversial action to save Bear Stearns ...

6. Southeast U.S. exposed to climate change impact
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... like income and race do not determine who will be hit by a natural disaster, but they do determine a population's ability to prepare, respond, and recover when disaster does strike," Oxfam America President ...

7. USDA monthly report, weather in spotlight for CBOT grains
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... numbers?” said Dan Basse, president of AgResource, a Chicago-based ag markets consultant. Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast a 2009 U.S. corn crop at 12.954 billion bushels, with ...