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Buffett pledges $30 billion to Gates foundation Billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway Chief Executive Warren Buffett is donating about $30 billion in stock to a charitable foundation started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the firm said Sunday. In a letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Buffett said he will set aside 10 million shares of class B common stock for the foundation. |
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Bush ignores laws he signs, angering Congress WASHINGTON - A bill becomes the rule of the land when Congress passes it and the president signs it into law, right? Not necessarily, according to the White House. A law is not binding when a president issues a separate statement saying he reserves the right to revise, interpret or disregard it on national security and constitutional grounds. |
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Flag amendment fails by one vote WASHINGTON - A constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration died in a Senate cliffhanger Tuesday, a single vote short of the support needed to send it to the states for ratification a week before Independence Day. The 66-34 tally in favor of the amendment was one less than the two-thirds required. The House surpassed that threshold last year, 286-130. |
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Deadly Northeast deluge prompts evacuations WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the Northeast. Thousands more were ordered to leave their homes in New Jersey, New York and Maryland. Rescue helicopters plucked residents from rooftops as rivers and streams surged over their banks, washed out roads and bridges, and cut off villages in some of the worst flooding in the region in decades, with more rain in the forecast for the rest of the week. Wilkes-Barre, a city of 43,000 in northeastern Pennsylvania coal-mining country, was devastated by deadly flooding in 1972 from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes. It is protected by levees, and officials said the Susquehanna was expected to crest just a few feet from the tops of the 41-foot floodwalls. |
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Bush and Koizumi Sing Diplomatic Duet WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's not every day that two world leaders croon to each other, "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." But clearly President Bush has special feelings for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and he put them on full display from morning until night Thursday at the White House. |
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A massive communications bill is taking shape in the Senate, and it promises to change the shape of the tech world. A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year. By an 11-11 vote, the Senate Commerce Committee failed to approve a Democrat-backed amendment that would have ensured all Internet traffic is treated the same no matter what its "source" or "destination" might be. This vote complicates Internet companies' efforts to convince Congress of the desirability of extensive new regulations. Republican committee members attacked the idea of inserting Net neutrality regulations in a massive telecommunications bill, echoing comments from broadband providers such as AT&T and Verizon, which warned the rules were premature and unnecessary. |
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REVEALED AT LAST... THE THINGS WOMEN REALLY THINK ABOUT WHILE HAVING SEX! TOP HUMAN sexuality research team has just revealed the answer to one of man's greatest, age-old quandaries about women -- namely, what women think about while having sex! The results of the five-year research study, published in the current Journal of Psychological Sexuality, make it clear that while in the midst of the typical act of intercourse, women have quite a lot on their minds. "This contradicts the popular theory that during sex, women's minds go blank so they can focus totally on giving and receiving pleasure," reveals research study leader Rana Thomas, of the Spaulding Institute. "According to our research, the only time women's minds actually go blank is when they're attempting to watch and understand a sports game." |
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IRS stalls rebates Lisa Easter and Jonathan Sack filed their taxes back in January. But at the rate things are moving, the couple will be lucky to get their refund back in time to buy their four children Christmas gifts. Oddly enough, it’s the children who stand between the couple and about $4,800 the Internal Revenue Service owes them under the Earned Income Tax Credit program. The $4,800 is one third of what the family lived on last year — roughly $15,000 that Sack made as a crew manager at a Petco store in Bellevue. Though he’s never married Easter and files his taxes separately, Sack fathered the couple’s three youngest children, ages, 11,8 and 7, and had no problem getting the credit before. But this year, the couple got very unlucky: The algorithms of an IRS computer program that was set up to detect fraud spit out Sack’s return for human review. Given short staffing at the IRS, that’s where the refund remains: in limbo, waiting for human eyes, without a word from the IRS as to what’s happened to their refund or when they’ll ever get it. Easter and Sack aren’t alone. According to a report issued in December by the National Taxpayer Advocate Service, an arm of the IRS that acts as an ombudsman for people with tax problems, tens of thousands of low-income tax credit filers had their refunds “frozen” last year for months on end with no notification — and no finding of fraud. |
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North Korea Vows 'Annihilating' Nuclear Strike WASHINGTON — North Korea vowed on Monday to respond with an "annihilating" nuclear strike if it is attacked pre-emptively by the United States. The Bush administration responded sternly, saying while it had no intention of attacking, it was determined to protect the United States if North Korea launched a long-range missile. |
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N. Korea official: Missile test a right SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean foreign ministry official defended North Korea's missile tests as a matter of national sovereignty, a Japanese TV report aired in South Korea said. The footage, by the Japanese TBS network and broadcast by South Korea's YTN, showed Ri Pyong Dok, a researcher on Japanese affairs at the North's Foreign Ministry, saying no one can interfere in Pyongyang's missile program. "The missile launch is an issue that is entirely within our sovereignty. No one has the right to dispute about it," he said. "On the missile launch, we are not bound by any agreement." The report did not name the official or provide further details. The confirmation would be the first by the North, which is believed to have launched at least six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong 2, early Wednesday morning. The long-range missile failed shortly after launch, and the others fell into the Sea of Japan, according to U.S. officials. |
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N Korea vows more missile tests North Korea has confirmed that it test-fired a series of missiles, and said it would continue launching them. It also warned of "stronger physical actions" if the international community tried to put pressure on Pyongyang. To foreign alarm the North tested seven missiles on Wednesday, one of which was an abortive launch of a long-range Taepodong-2, capable of hitting Alaska. US President George W Bush has been rallying Asian support for a unified response to the launches. |
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Nation prepares to remember 7/7 The UK is preparing to mark the first anniversary of the London bombings that claimed 52 lives and injured hundreds. At midday, a two-minute silence will be observed across the country, including Wimbledon and other events. The bells of St Paul's Cathedral will toll for those who died, at the times of the bombings and after the silence. A public ceremony will be held later in London's Regent's Park, with musical performances and readings, and a recital of the names of the dead. |
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