December 7

2012

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• <a id="yui_3_5_1_1_1354900840872_920" title="WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers hired more workers than expected in November, with the labor market showing little apparent impact from Superstorm Sandy and jobs growth remaining on a steady but slow path. At the same time, the jobless rate fell to a near four-year low, but that was only because so many Americans gave up the hunt for work, tempering the surprising news on jobs growth. A big plunge in consumer confidence in December also offered a cautionary note on the economy's health. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/superstorm-sandy-temporarily-dampen-u-payrolls-050438812--business.html;_ylt=ApoVKu95M5HSuK9uDb4L5uCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTQyZ2Nza2xtBG1pdANTZWN0aW9uTGlzdCBGUCBVUwRwa2cDYWUzNTI1ZGUtZTJmYy0zOTVmLTlmYTYtYTMxMzljZjAxYmM0BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNNZWRpYVNlY3Rpb25MaXN0BHZlcgM2OTUwOGNjMS00MDg5LTExZTItYWZmZS0zNWYwMDgxMDk4YjM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3">Employment shrugs off Superstorm Sandy</a>
• <a title="WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of pushing the country toward the "fiscal cliff" Friday and of wasting another week without progress in talks. With three weeks left before a combination of steep tax hikes and spending cuts kicks in unless Congress intervenes, Boehner said the administration had adopted a "my way or the highway" approach and was engaging in "reckless talk" about going over the cliff. "This isn't a progress report because there is no progress to report," Boehner told reporters at the Capitol. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/fiscal-cliff-talks-down-obama-republican-boehner-143346673--business.html">Boehner says Obama pushing country toward 'fiscal cliff'</a>
• <a title="WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner said on Friday that talks this week with President Barack Obama produced no progress, and he renewed his demand that the president provide a new offer to avert "the fiscal cliff." At a Capitol Hill news conference, Boehner accused the president of "slow-walking the economy" toward a crush of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes at year-end. (Reporting By Thomas Ferraro and Kim Dixon; Editing by Doina Chiacu)" href="http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-says-stalemate-persists-fiscal-cliff-talks-162341831--business.html">Boehner says stalemate persists in "fiscal cliff" talks</a>
• <a title="WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner called a news conference for 11 a.m. ET (1600 GMT) on Friday to discuss stalled efforts to cut a bipartisan deal to avert the fiscal cliff, an aide said. With less than three weeks to go before a year-end deadline, negotiations have essentially come down to Boehner, the top Republican, and President Barack Obama. (Editing by Doina Chiacu)" href="http://news.yahoo.com/house-speaker-calls-11-m-et-news-conference-150832523--business.html">House Speaker calls 11 a.m. ET news conference on fiscal cliff</a>
• <a title="SEATTLE (Reuters) - Hundreds of marijuana enthusiasts huddled near Seattle's famed Space Needle tower on Thursday night with pipes, bongs and hand-rolled joints to celebrate Washington's new status as the first state in the nation to legalize pot for adult recreational use. The public gathering at the downtown Seattle Center, like a smaller turnout at a nearby spot hours earlier, defied a key provision of the state's landmark marijuana law, which allows possession of small amounts of cannabis but forbids users from lighting up outside the privacy of their homes. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/marijuana-goes-legal-washington-state-amid-mixed-messages-022036795.html">Marijuana goes legal in Washington state amid mixed messages</a>

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• <a title="CAIRO (Reuters) - The crisis unleashed by President Mohamed Mursi's bid to wrap up Egypt's transition on his own terms has eroded his nation's faith in their nascent democracy and will complicate the already unenviable task of government. His effort to drive through a constitution against the wishes of major sections of society, including a Christian minority, has damaged prospects for building consensus needed to tackle challenges ahead, such as fixing a broken economy. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-struggle-seen-costing-mursi-even-wins-101958390.html">Egypt struggle seen costing Mursi, even if he wins</a>
• <a title="GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal ended decades of exile on Friday with a triumphal first ever visit to the Gaza Strip that underscored the Islamist group's growing confidence following its latest conflict with Israel. After passing through the Egyptian border crossing, Meshaal knelt and touched the ground with his forehead, offering up a prayer of thanks. He was then greeted in the warm December sun by dozens of Palestinian officials from an array of factions. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-leader-meshaal-ends-exile-arrives-gaza-strip-111016824.html">Hamas leader ends long exile, visits Gaza Strip</a>
• <a title="BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared Damascus International Airport a battle zone on Friday, while Moscow and Washington both sounded glum about the prospects of a diplomatic push to end the conflict. Fighting around the capital city has intensified over the past week, and Western officials have begun speaking about faster change on the ground in a 20-month-old conflict that has killed 40,000 people. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/russia-u-talk-syria-events-accelerate-ground-091440977.html">Rebels circle Damascus airport; Russia, U.S. downbeat</a>
• <a title="TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong quake centered off northeastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo on Friday and triggered a one-meter tsunami in an area devastated by last year's Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports of deaths or serious damage. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate to higher ground, but the tsunami warning was lifted two hours after the tremor struck. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/strong-earthquake-hits-northeast-japan-083131360.html">Strong quake hits off Japan near Fukushima</a>
• <a title="JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch urged Israel on Friday to provide a full account of its air strike on a house in the Gaza Strip that killed 12 civilians last month, saying the action appeared to have been illegal. The November 18 attack on the three-storey home of the Dalu family was the bloodiest of the eight days of fighting between the Jewish state and Gaza's Islamist Hamas-led armed factions, in which around 170 Palestinians and six Israelis died. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/hrw-demands-israel-justify-gaza-strike-killed-12-122455858.html">HRW demands Israel justify Gaza strike that killed 12 civilians</a>

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• <a title="Maybe for the imprisoned, any plan to break from jail sounds like a good one. But for this oversized inmate, what could have been a great escape turned into a big disaster. The Brazilian prisoner was trying to squeeze out of a hole in the wall smashed open with a shower pipe by fellow escapees. [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/prisoner-gets-stuck-trying-break-jail-210622937.html">Prisoner gets stuck trying to break out of jail</a>
• <a title="A suspected burglar called 911 after the owner of the home he broke into caught and held him at gunpoint. The suspect, Christopher Moore, placed the emergency call in Springtown, Texas, during the botched burglary attempt early Tuesday after James Gerow, the homeowner, and Gerow's son pointed guns at him as he sat in his [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/burglar-calls-911-himself-163618126.html">Burglar calls 911 to save himself from gun-wielding homeowner</a>
• <a title="What makes the perfect compliment to a container of bacon-scented shaving cream? How about a new perfume from Pizza Hut? The pizza perfume started as a joke on the Pizza Hut Facebook page but evolved into the real thing after enough people signed up as fans on the site. Pizza Hut's director of marketing says [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/pizza-hut-created-limited-edition-perfume-013851186.html">Pizza Hut has created a limited-edition perfume</a>
• <a title="It seems borderline sacrilegious. A group of vandals destroyed millions of dollars worth of Case Basse di Soldera wine in Italy's Tuscan hills. No bottles were stolen. [Related: Wine compound may halt bowel cancer] About 16,500 gallons of future Brunello di Montalcino were lost. The winery's owner posted a statement following the destruction, which read [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/vandals-destroy-millions-dollars-worth-italian-wine-223030589.html">Vandals destroy millions of dollars worth of Italian wine</a>
• <a title="The vacuum of space was a minor inconvenience, but the poisonous atmosphere in Washington, D.C., proved too much for the world's first "spidernaut." After just four days at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, "Nefertiti," a Johnson jumping spider, was found dead in its enclosure. But as the Daily Camera notes, the spider's passing [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/spider-survives-trip-outer-space-not-washington-dc-212111421.html">Spider survives trip to outer space but not Washington</a>

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• <a title="Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Senior Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod started his Friday facing a straight razor as he made good on his promise to shave his mustache for charity live on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I just wanna leave with the same woman I came in with," [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/charity-axelrod-shaves-mustache-msnbc-170319670--politics.html">For charity, Axelrod shaves his mustache on MSNBC</a>
• <a title="Has it been a month already? The White House released this photograph of President Barack Obama taking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's telephone call to concede the 2012 White House race. The official caption reads: "President Barack Obama talks on the phone with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the Presidential Suite at the Fairmont [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-releases-picture-obama-taking-romney-concession-152520819--election.html">White House releases picture of Obama taking Romney’s concession call</a>
• <a title="Three major national unions are targeting Democratic Senators Mark Warner of Virginia and Claire McCaskill of Missouri — and two Republican congressmen — with a barrage of ads warning against cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid as part of any "fiscal cliff" deal. The ads mean to hammer home that the negotiations could to [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/unions-target-democratic-senators-warner-mccaskill-fiscal-cliff-121315514--politics.html">Unions target Democratic Senators Warner, McCaskill on fiscal cliff</a>
• <a title="There's some reason Friday for optimism in the ongoing "fiscal cliff" negotiations — at least, optimism that the two sides will actually side down and negotiate about the potentially devastating tax increases and spending cuts that will automatically take effect in January if no deal is reached. While no formal discussions have been scheduled, both [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/weekend-politics-fiscal-cliff-football-shaving-more-115359227--politics.html">Weekend in politics: ‘Fiscal cliff,’ football, shaving, and more</a>
• <a title="WASHINGTON—While President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner negotiate a deal to avoid a series of automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to begin next year, both camps continue to publicly tangle over whether to increase taxes on the wealthy. But within Boehner's caucus, there is a small group of Republicans who say [...]" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-boehner-holding-firm-tax-increases-congress-call-214142305--election.html">Obama and Boehner holding firm on tax increases, but some in Congress call for c …</a>

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• <a title="Nearly 200 countries haggling over how to stop climate change — and how to pay for it — failed to reach a deal on schedule Friday, setting the stage for the wrangling to continue late into the night." href="http://news.yahoo.com/un-climate-talks-overtime-qatar-162015562--finance.html">UN climate talks go into overtime in Qatar</a>
• <a title="A team of former NASA executives is launching a private venture to send people to the moon for a price that is definitely out of this world." href="http://news.yahoo.com/moon-firm-hopes-sell-1-5-billion-trips-181057374--finance.html">To the moon? Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion trips</a>
• <a title="Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance for the United Arab Emirates." href="http://news.yahoo.com/middle-east-beginning-embrace-solar-energy-063409749--finance.html">Middle East beginning to embrace solar energy</a>
• <a title="California has transformed into a major player in stem cell research, but the taxpayer-funded institute responsible has "significant deficiencies" in how research dollars are distributed, experts said Thursday." href="http://news.yahoo.com/report-calif-stem-cell-agency-needs-overhaul-205000185.html">Report: Calif. stem cell agency needs overhaul</a>
• <a title="Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the risk of dengue fever in the tourist town of Key West." href="http://news.yahoo.com/gene-altered-mosquitoes-could-used-vs-dengue-101105808.html">Gene-altered mosquitoes could be used vs. dengue</a>

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• <a title="MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police have been carrying out checks at the Milan offices of Facebook to assess whether it regularly declared its income in Italy, an investigative source and the U.S. company said on Friday. Italian officials have stepped up their efforts to collect taxes in recent months and have already targeted other big corporate names such as Google to check whether they are paying their dues. The investigative source said tax officials first went to the offices of Facebook in Milan nearly a month ago to collect documents. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/italian-tax-police-visit-facebooks-milan-offices-124310595--finance.html">Italian tax police visit Facebook's Milan offices</a>
• <a title="BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Technology is a fairy tale for nerdy entrepreneurs. Less than three years after its founding, the smartphone maker is valued at $4 billion and evokes Apple-like adoration from its fans, some of whom are desperate enough to skip work for a shot at buying the latest product the day it goes on sale. Founder Lei Jun dresses like the late Steve Jobs, in jeans and a black top. He has created a fervent fan base for Xiaomi's moderately priced high-end smartphones by mimicking Apple Inc's marketing tactic of attaching an aura of exclusivity around its products. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-mini-apple-takes-slice-smartphone-pie-093815873--finance.html">China's mini Apple takes slice of smartphone pie</a>
• <a title="NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems laid out its mid-term growth strategy on Friday, betting on increased demand for software, services and security as it strives to become the world's leading information technology company. Cisco, whose business roots in routers and switches that move Internet traffic still generate about 50 percent of its revenue, has been steadily expanding its other offerings including data centers, network security and video conferencing. ..." href="http://news.yahoo.com/cisco-bets-software-services-mid-term-growth-170021444--finance.html">Cisco bets on software and services for mid-term growth</a>
• <a title="Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour ($6.99)" href="http://news.yahoo.com/test-4th-generation-ipad-9-games-185230930.html">Test Your 4th Generation iPad with These 9 Games</a>
• <a title="While viral sensation Carly Rae Jepsen basked in the glory of her two Grammy nominations late Wednesday night, her record label's founder and Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun used Twitter to rant about Bieber not earning any nominations." href="http://news.yahoo.com/justin-biebers-manager-goes-twitter-rant-grammy-snub-172517998.html">Justin Bieber's Manager Goes on Twitter Rant About Grammy Snub</a>

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