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Customs agents find 957 pounds of marijuana in pipe shipment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection field operations officers working at the El Paso port of entry seized 957 pounds of marijuana early Friday afternoon.

Gene Discovery May Have Alzheimer’s Link

University of Miami researchers have discovered genes that have the potential of developing into Alzheimer's.

New Ebola cases in the Philippines

Transmission from pigs to humans has not yet been ruled out as health officials investigate the source of the Ebola-Reston virus. The new discoveries bring the total cases to five and is the first time the Ebola-Reston virus has been discovered in pigs although it is normally found in monkeys from whom it has previously made the jump to humans.

Canada’s Stonehenge: scientist says Alberta sun temple has 5,000-year-old calendar

EDMONTON - An academic maverick is challenging conventional wisdom on Canada's prehistory by claiming an archeological site in southern Alberta is really a vast, open-air sun temple with a precise 5,000-year-old calendar predating England's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids.

Cessna Confirms Latest Round Of Job Cuts

Disney/ABC TV Group cuts 400 positions

LOS ANGELES: The Walt Disney Co.'s television division is cutting 400 jobs, or about 6 percent of the unit's work force, due to the slumping economy.

Japanese firms report huge losses and job cuts

A number of Japanese companies have announced losses running into the equivalent of billions of euros, and large-scale job losses. Electronics giant NEC is cutting 20,000 jobs, while Hitachi is to shed 7,000 workers. On Thursday Sony and Toshiba also announced they were heading for huge losses.

US-EU trade war looms as Barack Obama bill urges ‘Buy American’

The prospect of a trade war between the US and Europe is looming after "Buy American" provisions were added to President Barack Obama's $820 billion (£573 billion) stimulus package.

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LAPD: Dad Who Killed Family, Himself Was Awash in Debt, Heading to Kansas

Detective David Cortez said Wednesday that Ervin Lupoe was at least one month behind on his mortgage. He says the 40-year-old Lupoe owed at least $15,000 to the Internal Revenue Service and thousands more on a line of credit.

Australian Throws Daughter Off Bridge to Death, Police Say

Witnesses said Arthur Phillip Freeman, 35, suddenly stopped his family car – which also had his two young sons inside – and, with young Darcey Iris in his arms, walked to the side of the West Gate Bridge, just after 9 a.m.

Car industry to fight Barack Obama’s green proposals

Car industry groups are gearing up for a long fight and the likelihood of legal action against proposals by President Barack Obama to allow California and other states to set their own regulations on greenhouse gas emission from vehicles.

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Judge Says American Co-Ed Killed to Satisfy ‘Sexual Instincts’

ROME — An Italian judge wrote in a decision that a British student killed in Perugia was the victim of a plan by her assailants to "satisfy their sexual instincts" that then got out of control, a news agency reported Monday.

Kentucky Coach Pleads Not Guilty in Player’s Heat Death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky high school football coach on Monday pleaded not guilty to reckless homicide in the heat-related death of a 15-year-old player who collapsed while running sprints at a sweltering August practice.

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What OPEC Teaches China

At his confirmation hearings last week, Tim Geithner branded China a currency manipulator. This is a designation that the Bush Treasury Department never formally affixed to the Chinese. It may signal a nerve-racking shift in how the United States manages its most pivotal relationship.

GM cuts 2,000 US jobs as production slashed

CHICAGO (AFP) — General Motors announced plans Monday to cut 2,000 jobs at two US plants as it slashes production in the wake of a sharp drop in demand and amid a deepening recession.

Home Depot, Sprint, GM, Caterpillar and Pfizer slash jobs

Five blue-chip companies announced today that they are cutting their workforces by about 45,000 jobs, the latest losses to an already reeling economy.

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