Rina set to weaken; not forecast to become major hurricane - CNN.com

Rina set to weaken; not forecast to become major hurricane - CNN.com: "After strengthening to just below Category 3 status, Hurricane Rina was set to begin weakening on Wednesday and was no longer forecast to become a major hurricane before making landfall near Cancun, Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said."

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Obama unveils new student loan measures - CBS News

Obama unveils new student loan measures - CBS News: " President Barack Obama has announced new executive actions to lower student loan payments. He told a crowd at the University of Colorado that it's never been more important for Americans to get a college education, but that it has never been more expensive to do so."

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Boeing's Net Rises 31% on Defense-Segment Growth - WSJ.com

Boeing's Net Rises 31% on Defense-Segment Growth - WSJ.com: "The aerospace company lifted its full-year profit forecast, but cut projected deliveries of its new 787 and 747-8 aircraft this year by about 10 planes, or about a third of its earlier projection."

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Nurse Making $270K on California’s OT Binge - Bloomberg

Nurse Making $270K on California’s OT Binge - Bloomberg: "Keller got more overtime in 2010 than any other state employee. In all, California’s public workers collected $1.7 billion of extra pay last year, more than half of it in overtime, state payroll data show. The rest was for unused vacation and union-negotiated benefits such as clothing allowances, physical-fitness incentives and special compensation in recognition of a “complex work load.”"

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Argentina Orders Oil, Gas, Mine Companies to Repatriate All Export Revenue - Bloomberg

Argentina Orders Oil, Gas, Mine Companies to Repatriate All Export Revenue - Bloomberg: "Argentina ordered oil, gas and mining companies such as Xstrata Plc to repatriate all future export revenue as the government struggles to stem accelerating capital flight from South America’s second-biggest economy."

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Cops Hunt Man Who Firebombed Taco Bell Because His Chalupas Had Too Little Meat | The Smoking Gun

Cops Hunt Man Who Firebombed Taco Bell Because His Chalupas Had Too Little Meat | The Smoking Gun: "Georgia police are hunting for the aggrieved Taco Bell customer who threw a Molotov cocktail at the restaurant’s drive-thru window after phoning in a complaint that there was not enough meat in the chalupas he had purchased."

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EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role In 'Occupy' Movement | Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role In 'Occupy' Movement | Fox News: "The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com."

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Disruptive Denver Snowstorm to Push South

Disruptive Denver Snowstorm to Push South: "A tree-bending, travel-disrupting snowstorm continues in Denver with conditions set to worsen southward along the I-25 corridor into northeastern New Mexico through tonight.
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Less than 36 hours after Monday's record warmth, a winter wonderland has unfolded across northeastern Colorado and neighboring southeastern Wyoming."

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Huffington Post Launches Parentlode Blog - Digital - Media - WWD.com

Huffington Post Launches Parentlode Blog - Digital - Media - WWD.com: "Times lawyers fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Arianna Huffington on Monday, claiming that The Huffington Post’s new blog, Parentlode, is a rip-off of the Times blog Motherlode and she better change the name or else. Longtime Times writer and Motherlode founder Lisa Belkin decamped to The Huffington Post earlier this month and began writing for the new blog on Monday in a post titled, “Welcome to Parentlode.” "

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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan condemns killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi - chicagotribune.com

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan condemns killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi - chicagotribune.com: "Controversial Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan condemned the killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Tuesday, warning that America and other Western powers will soon face severe consequences for their support of the uprising that led to the dictator's death."

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News from The Associated Press

News from The Associated Press: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The euro is plunging against other currencies after European leaders and banks appeared deadlocked over how much of Greece's debt should be forgiven."

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Italian deputies in fist fight over reforms | Reuters

Italian deputies in fist fight over reforms | Reuters: "At least two deputies from the Northern League, a member of the ruling center-right coalition, fought with members from the opposition FLI party of speaker Gianfranco Fini. Two deputies grabbed each other by the throat as other parliamentarians rushed to separate them."

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