Saturday, 30 July 2011

43 Republican senators announce opposition to Reid debt-limit plan

Forty-three Republican senators on Saturday penned a letter outlining their opposition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill to raise the country’s debt ceiling, a move that ensures the measure will fall short of the 60-vote threshold necessary to avoid a filibuster. Senate Minority Leader ...


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Tropical Storm Don Offers Little Rain for Dry Texas

McALLEN, Texas – The storm that many had hoped would bring some relief to parched areas of South Texas passed Saturday after dropping less than an inch of rain -- good news only for the cotton farmers who were ready to resume their harvest. The National Hurricane Center said its 4 a.m. CDT ...


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Crime and Courts: Investigators hope playing cards will shed light on cold cases

The state Department of Justice is using a new tactic in the effort to solve cases that have gone cold: distributing playing cards to inmates. Each card will feature a photo of a missing person or homicide victim and information about their case. The cards will be distributed to state prisons and ...


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Democrats try to break debt impasse

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats aimed to seize the initiative in efforts to head off a ruinous debt default by pushing their deficit-cutting plan on Saturday toward a possible compromise with a divided Republican Party. Entrenched differences were still hampering a compromise as Democratic ...


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GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A Caribbean Airlines plane with 140 passengers aboard crashed while landing in Guyana early Saturday and broke in two, causing several injuries but no deaths, said President Bharrat Jagdeo. The plane apparently overshot the 400-foot (123-meter) runway at Cheddi Jagan ...


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Set against the stalemate of the debt-ceiling debate, President Obama on Friday hailed agreement on an ambitious increase in auto fuel-economy standards as evidence that compromise and progress are still possible. The agreement, which Obama called "the single-most important step we've ever taken as ...


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Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips is marrying England rugby star Mike Tindall in the country's second royal wedding of the year. But the union of 30-year-old Philips, who is 13th in line to the throne but does not use a royal title, and Tindall, 32, will be a low key affair after the ...


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