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Budget proposal predicts record $1.6 trillion deficit
“The $3.8 trillion blueprint Obama plans to submit to Congress focuses on combating unemployment, slashes programs, raises taxes on banks, wealthy.
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Has Obama lost Jon Stewart?
“MEDIA NOTES | It was inevitable that Obama would become a late-night target, but Stewart is a pop-culture bellwether. » Howard Kurtz
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China fumes after U.S. arms sales to Taiwan (Reuters)
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Reuters - Chinese state media laid into the United States on Monday after the Obama administration unveiled its first arms package for Taiwan, a move that prompted China to impose sanctions on the firms involved.
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Beyonce wins 5 Grammys, including song of the year (AP)
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AP - Beyonce led the Grammys with five trophies including song of the year early in Sunday night’s award program, where she was the favorite with 10 nominations.
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Baptists say they were trying to do good in Haiti (AP)
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AP - Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
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Lady Gaga leads Grammys’ galactic fashion parade (AP)
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AP - All eyes on the red carpet at Sunday’s Grammy Awards went straight to Lady Gaga and her solar-system gown that was totally out of this world.
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Egypt set to unveil Tutankhamun DNA results (AFP)
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AFP - One of the great remaining mysteries of ancient Egypt, the lineage of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, may soon be solved, the country’s antiquities supremo hinted on Sunday.
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Newly Discovered Amateur video of Challenger explosion
“On a chilly January morning 24 years ago, Corydon optometrist Jack Moss raised his new video camera to the sky over central Florida and captured one of the darkest moments in American space exploration – the explosion of the shuttle Challenger.“
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Haiti holds Americans accused of smuggling children (AFP)
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AFP - Haitian police detained 10 members of a US Christian charity group after they allegedly tried to leave the country with more than 30 children who survived the country’s devastating earthquake.
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Beyonce wins 4 Grammys in pretelecast show (AP)
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AP - Beyonce, the year’s top Grammy nominee with 10 bids, was the early leader Sunday as she won four trophies during the pre-telecast ceremony including best R&B song for her omnipresent hit, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).”
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