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| House Republican says has big support for Obamacare delay | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conservative Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday said that he and 61 colleagues will push for a one-year delay in Obamacare as part of a government funding measure the chamber will consider this weekend. |
| Westwood turns on Twitter trolls | | | After a nightmare final round at the PGA Championship, former world No. 1 golfer Lee Westwood received a torrent of abuse on Twitter -- and he could not resist hitting back at the "haters." |
| Tale of White Widow Fills British Press | | | While there is no evidence that Samantha Lewthwaite was involved in the Kenya mall attack, British newspapers remain fascinated with the woman they call the white widow. |
| 'Big brother' tech watches over Rio | | | Rio de Janeiro's state-of-the-art Operations Center is gathering real-time information on traffic jams and environmental emergencies around the clock. It's part of the mayor's vision to make the city safer and more sustainable. |
| Pakistan bus blast kills at least 17 | | | At least 17 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in an explosion that ripped through a bus carrying government employees in northwest Pakistan on Friday, authorities said. |
| Pentagon finalizes $7.8 bln in F-35 contracts with Lockheed | | | WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday said it had finalized two contracts with Lockheed Martin Corp valued at $7.8 billion for 71 more F-35 fighter jets, citing what it called significant reductions in the cost of new radar-evading warplane. |
| Playoff Chase Tribe, Rays, Texas Seek Last Spots | | | Now that the St. Louis Cardinals have clinched the NL Central, the six division winners are set along with eight of the 10 playoff berths. Cleveland, Tampa Bay and Texas are competing for the final two the AL wild cards. |
| IRS rides 1884 'dead horse' law to defense of tax preparer rules | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday defended its effort to regulate the tax return preparation business for the first time in U.S. history, basing its case largely on a 19th century law dealing with horses lost or killed in the Civil War. |
| The advert that changed a life | | | Some people take many years to find their calling -- but for Adam van Koeverden, it was right in front of him in black and white. On a small section of his local newspaper, the boy who would become an Olympic champion saw his future flash before him. |
| Rouhani to change U.S. relations? | | | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has made a series of gestures in an effort to end Iran's nuclear row with the West. But why has the move come and can it succeed? |
| Pilots snoozed at 30,000 feet | | | Cruising at 30,000 feet, pilots snoozed in the cockpit of a 300-passenger airliner en route to Britain last August, UK aviation authorities told CNN on Thursday. |
| Have-Nots Squeezed and Stacked in Hong Kong | | | In a city with some of the highest living costs in the world, those at the bottom of the income ladder increasingly resort to cupboardlike living spaces, a dozen or more to an apartment. |
| As Washington debates, some U.S. states proceed with food stamps cuts | | | KANSAS CITY, Kan., Sept 28 (Reuters) - As Congress and the White House debate proposed cuts in the federal food stamps program, Kansas and Oklahoma are going ahead with reductions that could leave thousands of people without subsidies for food if they do not find work, or sign up for job training. |
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