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Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ single debuts online

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

Oct. 12: TODAY gets a sneak preview of a previously unreleased song by Michael Jackson called “This Is It.” (Today Show)Michael Jackson returned to the airwaves Monday with a new song — the first from an upcoming musical documentary featuring the troubled superstar.





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2 Americans win Nobel in economics

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

Elinor Ostrom celebrates winning the Nobel Prize in economics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics on Monday, sharing it with an expert on conflict resolution.Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson on Monday for analyzing economic governance .





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Tropical storm in Pacific strengthens off Mexico

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Patricia has strengthened out in the Pacific, hundreds of miles off Mexico's Baja California peninsula.



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Cubs file for Chapter 11 protection

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

The Chicago Cubs baseball team filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday, a step that will allow its corporate parent to sell the team in an $845 million deal.



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NYT: U.S. can't trace overdue visitors

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, seen in this undated image provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's department, was arrested on charges he plotted to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper. Smadi entered the United States legally, but then overstayed his visa.Despite repeated mandates from Congress, the U.S. still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors on temporary visas have left the country.





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At 4, a case study in swine flu fears

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

Isabella Ragan was hospitalized with complications of an H1N1 flu infection. Doctors expect Isabella Ragan, 4, of Tishomingo, Miss., to recover completely from swine flu, but the previously healthy preschooler is an example of rare complications of H1N1 infections — and every parent's worst fears.





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Report: N. Korea fires 5 short-range missiles

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast on Monday, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor.



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Clinton: ‘Absurd’ to call me marginalized

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

Oct. 12: TODAY’s Ann Curry talks exclusively to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who says she thinks speculation that she has been marginalized in the Obama Cabinet is “absurd.” She also discusses the president’s Nobel Peace Prize win. (Today Show)Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that suggestions that she has been marginalized on foreign policy in the Obama White House are “absurd.” “I believe in delegating power,” she said. She also ruled out any future presidential ambitions.





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Suicide car bomb kills 41 in Pakistan

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

A man injured in a bomb attack in Shangla district is carried to Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday.A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a week,





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Two Americans win Nobel economics prize

October 12, 2009 by MSNBC News   Comments (0)

Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson have won the Nobel economics prize for their work in economic governance.



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