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The U.S. House passed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Thursday evening, despite a new veto threat and continued opposition from many Republican representatives.
House lawmakers voted 265-142 to approve the new plan, known..
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Apple(R) today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes(R) Store ( http://www.itunes.com). The move follows NBC's decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple decline..
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This is the first installment of a two-part series on ABC News, which features the pacesetting evening-news show and "Good Morning America."
ABC News has staged an improbable rise.
When longtime news anchor Peter Jennings succumbed to lung cancer in..
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Ed Homan, an orthopedic surgeon representing a central Florida district in the state legislature, thought an amendment touting open-source document formats he tucked into a 38-page bill wouldn't draw much attention.
But within an hour of the proposed b..
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U.S. home prices continued to fall in February, with prices down 1.5% in 10 major cities compared with a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday.
Home prices depreciated year-over-year for the second straight month..
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Verizon Communications on Monday reported a 37% drop in fourth-quarter profit after divesting several businesses, but the phone company added 2.3 million net wireless subscribers during the last three months of 2006...
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Apple Computer Inc. shares touched an all-time high Monday, before falling amid a broad market sell-off, as the company's line of iPod music players remained the most popular electronic gadget sold over the Internet during the key holiday weekend...
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Home builders retreated on a massive scale in October, dashing hopes that the bottom has been found in the troubled housing sector...
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I have a confession to make: After one of my articles appears I immediately check the most popular and most e-mailed boxes on the right of the screen to see how much or how little readers liked my story...
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Crude-oil futures fell under $60 a barrel Friday to close with a loss of nearly 3% for the session after the International Energy Agency trimmed its 2006 global oil-demand growth forecast, citing lower third-quarter demand from China and some industrializ..
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The odds of a recession in the United States in the next year are now greater than 50-50, according to a simplified version of a model developed by an economist at the Federal Reserve...
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Time Warner Inc. reported Wednesday a sharply higher third-quarter net profit as revenue increased about 7% on improved results turned in by its cable systems and television networks, while AOL revenue declined due to the ongoing loss of dialup access cus..
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