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The Stock Market has always been a barometer of financial times..and Tuesday, ahead of the Senate approving the budget debt ceiling bill, stocks fell significantly.

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While the US, and part of the world, focus on the American debt ceiling vote, and economic issues, the struggle to repair, rebuild and refoot continues in Japan, where now workers are finding a new deadly surprise inside the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Maybe you were not familiar with Amy Winehouse's music (she only won FIVE Grammy award for her 2006 release Back to Black and was accalimed  to be one of the most talented but self-destructive artists of a generation), but you probably saw at least one her meltdowns....

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With much anticipation, and some sadness, NASA blasted off the Atlantis Space Shuttle, marking the final flight for the decades-old shuttle program that revolutionized space exploration.  A perfect launch under partly sunny skies this morning saw Atlantis rocket to space for the final time.

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It's being billed as a Texas showdown, between Governor Rick Perry and President Obama.  At the center of the controversy is the pending midnight execution of Mexican citizen Humberto Leal, who is set to die by lethal injection for the 1994 rape and murder of 16-year old Adria Sauceda of San Antonio. 

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The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The city was named the Olympics' host in a Wednesday announcement in Durban, South Africa.

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In a story that sounds like it came straight out of a Nicolas Cage movie, archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of of jewelry, coins and precious stones estimated to be worth $10 to $20 billion.

Parsed among five vaults in the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala, the bounty represents centuries worth of gifts from the temple's devotees.

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Numerous News sources, from FOX to CNN are reporting Obama and the US are considering entering into negotiations with the Taliban to end hostilities.  But is Obama the 'worst' negotiator ever?

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According to White House sources, when President Obama addresses the nation tonight, he will be announcing that 10,000 of the 30,000 "surge" troops sent to Afghanistan will be home by the end of 2011.

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The FBI has issued new warnings and is closely studying an Al-Qaida website that today published a "hit list" of American politicians, business leaders, and locations, calling for terrorists to hit Americans in their own homes.

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