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		<title>IMF Says U.S. Financial System May Need $76 Billion in Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sandrine Rastello and Rebecca Christie - 





U.S. President Barack Obama. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg



The U.S. financial system remains fragile and banks subjected to additional economic stress might need as much as $76 billion in capital, according to the results of International Monetary Fund stress tests.
The findings, released today as part of a broader IMF report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Media Watchdog Issues Ethics Challenge to Washington Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 30, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer


L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center – the parent organization of CNSNews.com
(CNSNews.com) – Conservative media watchdog L. Brent Bozell III has issued an open letter to Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli calling on the Post to fully divulge the involvement of its employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Who Ended D.C.’s Voucher Program, Talks About Improving Education for Children ‘Born in the Wrong Neighborhood’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 30, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration is phasing out a program that allows underprivileged children to get scholarships to expensive private schools in Washington, D.C., such as Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama girls attend, where tuition runs about $31,000 a  year.
 
Nevertheless, Obama on Thursday spoke about his “obligation to lift [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Detergent Stalking You?  GPS Inserted Into Packaging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AdAge.com) &#8212; Unilever&#8217;s Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors. 

 
Starting next week, consumers who buy one of the GPS-implanted detergent boxes will be surprised at home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Creating Back-Door for Amnesty of Illegals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Times
by Stephen Dinan
With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants &#8211; what a draft government memo said could be &#8220;a non-legislative version of amnesty.&#8221;
The memo, addressed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and written by four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Sued by U.S. in Case Claiming Overcharges</title>
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By Justin Blum and David Voreacos





July 29 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Oracle Corp., the world’s second- biggest software maker, was sued today by the U.S. Justice Department, which claimed the company overcharged the government on a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Oracle defrauded the government on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volvo CEO Says China Plant Key to Success With Geely</title>
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By Ola Kinnander



July 30 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Volvo Cars’ success after its sale to Zhejiang Geely Holding Co. will hinge on building a manufacturing plant in China, the Swedish carmaker’s chief executive officer Stephen Odell said.

“When you look at the car industry in China, if you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on IPad</title>
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By Hugo Miller





July 30 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc’s iPad, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.
The device will have roughly the same dimensions as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia signs law to expand KGB-style power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Thomas &#124; IRN/USA News
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has widened the power of the Federal Security Service, giving it Soviet-era KGB powers.  Rights groups are criticizing the new law saying it could be used to stifle protests and intimidate the Kremlin&#8217;s political opponents. 
Under the new law the FSB, the main successor to the KGB, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/07/29/russia-signs-law-to-expand-kgb-style-power/</link>
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		<title>China conducts naval drill in disputed southern seas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani &#124; Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese naval forces have carried out a series of drills in the South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, strategic waters which are disputed by a number of Southeast Asia countries.
The exercises were overseen by General Chen Bingde, Chief of General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I&#8217;ll Enforce Arizona&#8217;s Immigration Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By  Jim Meyers &#124; Newsmax
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial top cop in Maricopa County, Ariz., tells Newsmax he will jail any protesters who attempt to block his jail on Thursday when provisions of his state’s tough new immigration law take effect.
Arpaio also says it’s “great” if undocumented aliens react to the new law and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAO: Some Mexican Drug Traffickers ‘Specialize’ in Smuggling Aliens From Countries With Ties to Terrorism Into the U.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Edwin Mora &#124; CNSNews.com
Some Mexican drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs) are involved in smuggling potential terrorists across the southwestern border, according to the Government Accountability Office.
 
“Aliens from countries of special interest to the United States such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan (known as special-interest aliens) also illegally enter the United States through the [southwest border] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Cut Back on Visits to Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Avery Johnson, Jonathan D. Rockoff and Anna Wilde Matthews &#124; The Wall St. Journal
Insured Americans are using fewer medical services, raising questions about whether patients are consuming less health care as they pick up a greater share of the costs. 
The drop in usage is showing up as health-care companies report financial results. Insurers, lab-testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dunstan Prial &#124; FOXBusiness
So much for transparency.
Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics chairwoman disputes reports that she met privately with Rangel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Susan Crabtree and Molly K. Hooper &#124; The Hill
House ethics committee chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Tuesday disputed media reports stating she met privately with Rep. Charles Rangel to negotiate a deal with the embattled New York Democrat.
Republicans are privately threatening to derail any deal after several media accounts reported that Lofgren met with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Weather Forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stormy day for Northeast
By Kevin Roth, Lead Meteorologist &#124; The Weather Channel
Jul. 29, 2010 5:46 am ET

Northeast &#124; 

Showers and thunderstorms stick around into the afternoon from southeastern New England to western Virginia. In central and eastern Virginia and along the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula the stormy conditions should hold off until the early afternoon, but will not end there until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times, Billionaire Buffett and the Weeping Abortionist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Blackwell
 


It can’t be news that the Gray Lady—the unofficial title of the New York Times—is militantly pro-abortion. It might even be called a house organ of the abortion lobby.
But a recent lengthy story in the Times (“The New Abortion Providers,” July 12, 2010) is a goldmine of information for pro-lifers about this execrable traffic.
Did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/07/29/the-new-york-times-billionaire-buffett-and-the-weeping-abortionist/</link>
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		<title>Only in Washington Is This Transparency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Debra J. Saunders


The Senate Democrats&#8217; &#8220;DISCLOSE&#8221; Act &#8212; &#8220;DISCLOSE&#8221; stands for &#8220;Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections&#8221; &#8212; represents perhaps the baldest, if failed, power grab attempted this year. But you wouldn&#8217;t guess it reading news stories on the bill.
As The New York Times reported, &#8220;The Senate on Tuesday refused to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/07/29/only-in-washington-is-this-transparency/</link>
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		<title>Pro-Life Groups Seek Probe Into Kagan’s Clinton-Era Role in Partial Birth Abortion Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

Washington (CNSNews.com) – More than 30 pro-life organizations are calling on senators to investigate Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s record with regards to partial-birth abortion while serving as a Clinton administration attorney.
 
The Senate Judiciary Committee already sent Kagan’s nomination to the full Senate for a vote, which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irnnews.com/2010/07/29/pro-life-groups-seek-probe-into-kagan%e2%80%99s-clinton-era-role-in-partial-birth-abortion-debate/</link>
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		<title>Michelle Obama&#8217;s Request for Birthday Wishes for Her Husband Links to Donation Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor

(CNSNews.com) &#8211; It seems like a nice gesture – an e-mail message from a loving wife, urging thousands of people to join her in wishing her husband a happy 49th birthday by signing an electronic birthday card.
 
But in Washington, D.C., nothing is that simple.
The wife, in this case, is First lLdy Michelle [...]]]></description>
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