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Obama Pick Engages Supreme Court Battle
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Merrick B. Garland to be the nation's 113th Supreme Court justice, choosing a centrist appellate judge who could reshape the court for a generation and become the face of a bitter election-year confirmation struggle.
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Air Force One Is Obamas Favorite Perk, And In 2016 Hell Be Using It A Lot
With Washington increasingly consumed by the November elections, President Barack Obama will spend much of his final year in office traveling the country and the world.
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Student Clockmaker Visits White House
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas boy who became a cause celebre after he was detained and handcuffed for taking a homemade clock to school, visited the White House on Monday for its second astronomy night.
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NYT's Gardiner Harris Writes 'Delhi's True Menace Come From Its Air, Water, Food and Flies'. Do You Agree?
These perils sicken, disable and kill millions in India annually, making for one of the worst public health disasters in the world, writes The New York Times' Gardiner Harris.
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Pregnant Women in India Are Dangerously Underweight: Study
A child raised in India is far more likely to be malnourished than one from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe or Somalia, the world's poorest countries.
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India's Aam Aadmi Party Sweeps Elections in Delhi
Less than a year after Narendra Modi won a historic victory to become India's new prime minister, a smaller political earthquake struck the capital Tuesday as Modi's governing party lost badly in local elections to a young political organization led by an anti-corruption crusader.
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A Tournament Intent on Leading the World in Pampering Players
From berries and sushis to exquisite salons and awe-inspiring plunge pools, Australian Open has one of the world's best facilities in line for competing players
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Communist Leader in India Stands Firm as His Party Shrinks
Trademarks include unimpeachable honesty, a nearly empty bank account.
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Rival economists in public battle over cure for India's poverty
The battle between Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winner and Harvard professor, and Jagdish Bhagwati, an eminent professor at Columbia University, has broken out just as India's economy seems to be coming undone.
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India's top tennis players agitate for better support
In comments to the news media, association officials have said they will no longer negotiate with the players and may cut off government grants to those who refuse to play next month. Some players receive government training grants of as much as 1.5 million rupees, or a little more than $27,000.
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India's Olympic Association suspended by the International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday suspended the Indian Olympic Association for chronic violations of the international Olympic Charter, creating one of the most embarrassing episodes in Indian sports history.
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Who's the dog hero of the raid that killed Osama?
The identities of all 80 members of the American commando team who thundered into Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed Osama bin Laden are the subject of intense speculation, but perhaps none more so than the only member with four legs. Little is known about what may be the nation's most courageous dog. Even its breed is the subject of great interest, ...
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Glaxo to pay $750 million for sale of bad products
GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant -- the latest in a growing number of whistle-blower lawsuits that drug makers have settled with multimillion-dollar fines.Altogether, G...
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US Judge rules against Obama's stem cell policy
A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos. The ruling came as a shock to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and at universities across the country, which had viewed the Obama admini...
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Diabetes drug maker hid test data on risks, files indicate
In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia's success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barren of new products. But the study's results, completed that same year, w...
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Obama Pick Engages Supreme Court Battle
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Merrick B. Garland to be the nation's 113th Supreme Court justice, choosing a centrist appellate judge who could reshape the court for a generation and become the face of a bitter election-year confirmation struggle.
-
Air Force One Is Obamas Favorite Perk, And In 2016 Hell Be Using It A Lot
With Washington increasingly consumed by the November elections, President Barack Obama will spend much of his final year in office traveling the country and the world.
-
Student Clockmaker Visits White House
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas boy who became a cause celebre after he was detained and handcuffed for taking a homemade clock to school, visited the White House on Monday for its second astronomy night.
-
NYT's Gardiner Harris Writes 'Delhi's True Menace Come From Its Air, Water, Food and Flies'. Do You Agree?
These perils sicken, disable and kill millions in India annually, making for one of the worst public health disasters in the world, writes The New York Times' Gardiner Harris.
-
Pregnant Women in India Are Dangerously Underweight: Study
A child raised in India is far more likely to be malnourished than one from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe or Somalia, the world's poorest countries.
-
India's Aam Aadmi Party Sweeps Elections in Delhi
Less than a year after Narendra Modi won a historic victory to become India's new prime minister, a smaller political earthquake struck the capital Tuesday as Modi's governing party lost badly in local elections to a young political organization led by an anti-corruption crusader.
-
A Tournament Intent on Leading the World in Pampering Players
From berries and sushis to exquisite salons and awe-inspiring plunge pools, Australian Open has one of the world's best facilities in line for competing players
-
Communist Leader in India Stands Firm as His Party Shrinks
Trademarks include unimpeachable honesty, a nearly empty bank account.
-
Rival economists in public battle over cure for India's poverty
The battle between Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winner and Harvard professor, and Jagdish Bhagwati, an eminent professor at Columbia University, has broken out just as India's economy seems to be coming undone.
-
India's top tennis players agitate for better support
In comments to the news media, association officials have said they will no longer negotiate with the players and may cut off government grants to those who refuse to play next month. Some players receive government training grants of as much as 1.5 million rupees, or a little more than $27,000.
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India's Olympic Association suspended by the International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday suspended the Indian Olympic Association for chronic violations of the international Olympic Charter, creating one of the most embarrassing episodes in Indian sports history.
-
Who's the dog hero of the raid that killed Osama?
The identities of all 80 members of the American commando team who thundered into Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed Osama bin Laden are the subject of intense speculation, but perhaps none more so than the only member with four legs. Little is known about what may be the nation's most courageous dog. Even its breed is the subject of great interest, ...
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Glaxo to pay $750 million for sale of bad products
GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant -- the latest in a growing number of whistle-blower lawsuits that drug makers have settled with multimillion-dollar fines.Altogether, G...
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US Judge rules against Obama's stem cell policy
A federal district judge on Monday blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order that expanded embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos. The ruling came as a shock to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and at universities across the country, which had viewed the Obama admini...
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Diabetes drug maker hid test data on risks, files indicate
In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia's success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barren of new products. But the study's results, completed that same year, w...
