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Trustee seeks $19.6 billion from Madoff 'soul mate'

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST

The trustee seeking to recover money for investors who lost billions of dollars in jailed financier Bernard Madoff's fraud has filed civil charges for some nearly $20 billion.

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Missing Va. girl found unharmed after 1 week

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST

A 12-year-old girl who had been missing for one week was found unharmed Friday, and the man she was with was taken into custody.

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Judge rules against Miller in Alaska Senate race

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:00 PM PST

Ketchikan Superior Court Judge William Carey gathers his documents after hearing arguments from attorneys representing the state of Alaska, Joe Miller and Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday.A judge has ruled against Republican Joe Miller's lawsuit challenging how Alaska counted write-in votes for rival Lisa Murkowski in their U.S. Senate race.




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At Obama's side, Clinton backs tax deal

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:10 PM PST

President Barack Obama looks on as former President Bill Clinton speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Friday.Former U.S. President Bill Clinton endorsed President Barack Obama's deal with Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts after the two men met at the White House on Friday.




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Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:10 PM PST

Mexico: La Familia drug cartel leader killed

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:46 PM PST

Mexican federal police stand by a blockade set up by gunmen overnight in Morelia as the government hunted down La Familia drug cartel leaders.The eccentric leader of the notorious La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting, the office of Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Friday.




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Comparing Obama in '10 and Clinton in '94

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:29 PM PST

First Read dusts off the record books and compares President Obama's current approval ratings to those of former President Clinton after the mid-90s midterm shellacking of the Democratic Party.

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U.S. envoy Holbrooke hospitalized

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 03:00 PM PST

Richard Holbrooke was appointed special envoy by President Barack Obama in the early weeks of his administration.Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, felt ill at the State Department and went to the hospital, the State Department said on Friday.




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Custer's 'Last Flag' sells for $2.2 million

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:07 PM PST

Custer's "Last Flag" is one of the few remnants of the famous 1876 battle in which Gen. George Custer and his men were slaughtered by a band of Native American warriors after he staged a misgiuded attack.The only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana sold at auction Friday for $2.2 million.




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Video: Guns for teens?

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:06 PM PST

Dec. 10: Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence talks about a Texas teen's crusade to carry a hidden handgun.  (Other)Ladd Everitt of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence talks about a Texas teen's crusade to carry a hidden handgun. (Other)




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Bolivia lowers retirement age to 58

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 11:21 AM PST

Bolivian President Evo Morales signs the new retirement law in La Paz, on Friday. Bolivia enacted a law Friday lowering the country's retirement age to 58, bucking a global trend in which countries push people to work longer due to rising life expectancies and strained national treasuries.




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Newsweek: Moonshine goes upscale

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 01:59 PM PST

Modern moonshiners are among the artisanal, locavore, do-it-yourself foodies who made home-brewed beer, rooftop chickens, and at-home pickling part of the modern lexicon.

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Newsweek: Are London protests being hijacked?

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:06 PM PST

Ostensibly, the demonstration, which attracted some 25,000 to Westminster, was called to protest government plans to hike university tuition fees. But the language and the violence suggest a wider challenge to authority from anarchists and far left groups looking to hijack the student cause.

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Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:06 PM PST

McCartney offers up 'Yesterday's' scrambled eggs

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 10:36 AM PST



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Video: 4-month-old hoping for holiday medical miracle

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 12:26 PM PST

Dec. 10: An infant in Indiana is being denied Medicaid coverage for a fatal condition that prohibits the boy's ability to fight infections. The baby's father, Tim Petreikis, joins msnbc to talk about the situation. (Other)An infant in Indiana is being denied Medicaid coverage for a fatal condition that prohibits the boy's ability to fight infections. The baby's father, Tim Petreikis, joins msnbc to talk about the situation. (Other)




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DeMarco: Baseball's little guys lose big at meetings

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 01:32 PM PST

Losing Carl Crawford's defense and solid offense hurts the Rays, but seeing him go to another AL East team stings even more, NBCSports.com contributor Tony DeMarco says.DeMarco: If this offseason's developments are telling us anything, it's that economic disparity still is in charge here.




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Video: Soccer final turns into brawl

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 09:15 AM PST

Dec. 10: Punches fly as members of two Peruvian soccer teams fight during a recent match in Huanuco, Peru. Msnbc's Chris Jansing reports. (Other)Punches fly as members of two Peruvian soccer teams fight during a recent match in Huanuco, Peru. Msnbc's Chris Jansing reports. (Other)




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Reid's push for online poker riles lotteries

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 11:24 AM PST

Sen. Harry Reid, the majority leader from Nevada, is pushing ahead with his efforts to legalize Internet poker before Congress adjourns this year, despite new criticism from state lottery officials, including a former Democratic National Committee chairman, that Reid's plan was an "outrageous" reward for big Las Vegas casino interests that heavily backed his campaign for re-election.

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Even if U.S. indicts, Assange extradition not certain

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 11:06 AM PST

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, back to camera, is driven into Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Tuesday after being arrested on a European arrest warrant.A lawyer for Julian Assange expects the U.S. to indict him soon, but the prospect of Assange being sent to Sweden in a sex-crimes inquiry may make it less likely that he'll wind up before a U.S. judge.




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