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Investors eye the 'cliff' as Obama gains in polls
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:39PM September 30, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — As President Barack Obama widened his lead over Mitt Romney in polls this month, traders at hedge funds and investment firms began shooting emails to clients with a similar theme: It's time to start preparing for an Obama victory.
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Royal Dutch Shell shuts down Nigeria oil pipeline
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:31PM September 30, 2012 CommentLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has shut down a pipeline in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta after a fire and a suspected attempt to steal crude from one of its lines.
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MidAmerican to buy 2 Calif. wind farms
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:14PM September 30, 2012 CommentMidAmerican Energy has agreed to buy two wind projects under construction about 120 miles north of Los Angeles from the wind developer Terra-Gen Power.
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Work resumes at Okla. refinery after deadly blast
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:56PM September 30, 2012 CommentOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An oil refinery employee remained in critical condition Sunday at an Oklahoma City hospital as work resumed at the facility where an explosion earlier in the weekend left him injured and another worker dead.
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Next cold war? Gas drilling boom rattles Russia
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:16PM September 30, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — The Kremlin is watching, European nations are rebelling, and some suspect Moscow is secretly bankrolling a campaign to derail the West's strategic plans.
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'Hotel Transylvania' checks in with $43M debut
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:00PM September 30, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Sandler's monster mash-up "Hotel Transylvania" has brought the weekend box office back to life after a late-summer slump.
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Thousands march in Paris against austerity
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:30PM September 30, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators marched peacefully Sunday in Paris to denounce austerity measures in Europe that have sparked violent protests in other EU countries struggling to avert fiscal crises.
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Why US economy is flashing conflicting signals
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:21PM September 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Anyone puzzled by the most recent U.S. economic data has reason for feeling so: The numbers sketch a sometimes contradictory picture of the economy.
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WHY IT MATTERS: Social Security
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:57PM September 30, 2012 CommentThe issue:
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Time Warner flips switch on new Lakers channels
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:07PM September 30, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A few months ago, Time Warner Cable Inc. was crying foul at the high price it had to pay to air Knicks and Rangers games in New York. Now, the shoe is on the other foot.
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Shell hopeful on Arctic drilling despite setback
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:06PM September 30, 2012 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The stars lined up — almost — for Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells this year in waters off Alaska's north coast.
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Medicare fines over hospitals' readmitted patients
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:48AM September 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — If you or an elderly relative have been hospitalized recently and noticed extra attention when the time came to be discharged, there's more to it than good customer service.
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Ryan: Explaining tax plan math too time-consuming
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:50AM September 30, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Ryan says it would take too long to explain the numbers behind the tax plan that he and Mitt Romney are proposing.
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Madrid anti-austerity protests turn violent again
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:34PM September 29, 2012 CommentMADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of Spaniards and Portuguese rallied in the streets of their countries' capitals Saturday to protest enduring deep economic pain from austerity measure, and the demonstration in Madrid turned violent after Spaniards enraged over a long-lasting recession and sky-high unemployment clashed with riot police for the third time in less than a week near Parliament.
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Calif dairies going broke due to feed, milk prices
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:56PM September 29, 2012 CommentHANFORD, Calif. (AP) — In nearly six decades of running a dairy in central California, Mary Cameron made a name for herself in a male-dominated industry: She led several dairy organizations and was honored as Outstanding Dairy Producer of the Year.
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Ex-NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:41PM September 29, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Few moments in American journalism loom larger than the one that came in 1971, when New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger had to decide whether to defy a president, and risk a potential criminal charge, by publishing a classified Defense Department history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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NFL refs approve deal, ready for Sunday games
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:25PM September 29, 2012 CommentIRVING, Texas (AP) — NFL referees are ready to go unnoticed again, just as they prefer.
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Buffett's kids use dad's ideas to invest in giving
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:27PM September 29, 2012 CommentOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As they work to give away part of Warren Buffett's roughly $47 billion fortune, his three children have adopted an approach that looks remarkably similar to their father's technique for making all that money.
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GM recalling 40,859 cars for potential fuel leaks
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:40AM September 29, 2012 CommentDETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. is recalling more than 40,000 cars sold in warm-weather states because a plastic part might crack and cause a fuel leak.
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Analysis: Candidates' deficit plans don't add up
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:02AM September 29, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Here's the rap on the presidential candidates' plans for cutting federal deficits: Mitt Romney's is too bold and the numbers don't add up, while President Barack Obama's is too timid and his numbers don't add up, either.
