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Senators to cast crucial vote on health legislation

By: DAVID ESPO

Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.

More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving

By: NAFEESA SYEED

The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

Venezuela seeks to annul pharmaceutical patents for antibiotic produced by Bayer HealthCare

Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming

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Closed communist-era factories reap windfall profit for Ukraine but problem for climate deal

Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.

Hewlett-Packard's 4th qtr likely fueled by PC rebound, but printer and ink worries persist

Hewlett-Packard Co. is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Monday after the market closes. Below is a summary of key developments and analyst commentary related to the period.

Thousands of Spanish farmers protest low prices paid for their agricultural produce

Several thousand farmers protested the low prices Saturday they receive for their products, saying that commercial middlemen take too high a cut.

13 charged in $19M Central Oregon bank fraud

Wyoming files new lawsuit challenging Yellowstone snowmobile rules

NC state treasurer issues gift ban for employees, limits on soliciting for charity

UConn officials say health center merger with Hartford Hospital not feasible

MLB selling 20-DVD set of World Series films for $2,229 — including autographs

Monsanto installs water management system at leaking Idaho mine dump cited by EPA

FDA OKs Bristol-Meyers' Abilify to treat irritability linked to autism in children, teens


 



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