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Video: Budget battle heats up on Capitol Hill

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:48 PM PST

Feb. 17: As tempers flared Thursday over talk of a debt-driven government shutdown, leaders from both political parties dug in over how deep spending cuts need to be. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.  (Nightly News)As tempers flared Thursday over talk of a debt-driven government shutdown, leaders from both political parties dug in over how deep spending cuts need to be. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. (Nightly News)




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Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:48 PM PST

Video: Clinton rebukes Bahrain for deadly crackdown

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:42 PM PST

Feb. 17: As the wave of revolution continues to spread across the Mideast, another U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf unleashed deadly force on Thursday against anti-government protesters in the capital's main square. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reports from Bahrain.  (Nightly News)As the wave of revolution continues to spread across the Mideast, another U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf unleashed deadly force on Thursday against anti-government protesters in the capital's main square. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reports from Bahrain. (Nightly News)




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Egypt, Bahrain protests differ in key ways

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:49 PM PST

Bahraini protesters shout slogans at the funeral of Shiite Fadel Salman Matrouk on Thursday in Manama, Bahrain. Matrouk was shot dead in front of a hospital a day earlier when mourners gathered for the funeral of another protester.The unrest in Bahrain resembles early stages Egypt's revolt, but experts say there are big differences in several key respects. Msnbc.com's Mike Brunker reports.




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Alaska gov. refusing to enact health care law

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:44 PM PST

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said he will not implement the federal health care overhaul after a judge in Florida struck down the law as unconstitutional.

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Probe of Mubarak family finances sought

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:00 PM PST

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak waves during the opening session of the annual conference of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in Cairo in this October 31, 2009 file photo. Anti-corruption campaigners pressed Egypt's chief prosecutor for an investigation into the assets of Mubarak and his family.Anti-corruption campaigners pressed Egypt's chief prosecutor Thursday for an investigation into the assets of Hosni Mubarak and his family.




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Video: Kristof: 'Grim scene in Bahrain'

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:30 AM PST

Feb. 17: Bahrain's army has come down hard on anti-government protesters, locking down the capitol and violently attacking protesters. The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof in Bahrain describes the scene to NBC's Andrea Mitchell. (Other)Bahrain's army has come down hard on anti-government protesters, locking down the capitol and violently attacking protesters. The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof in Bahrain describes the scene to NBC's Andrea Mitchell. (Mitchell Reports)




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Giffords is alert, one of first words was 'better'

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:23 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 5, 2011 file photo shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Giffords was shot on Jan. 8, 2011 while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is laughing at jokes and eating sushi and even spoke the word "better" when asked recently by her husband how she was doing. Her doctor describes her as a hard worker who diligently completes her therapy each day.




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Video: $20 Million home sweet home

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 01:17 PM PST

Feb. 17: KXAS's Grant Stinchfield tours an elaborate Texas mansion that just came on the market to see what $20 million can buy. (NBC News Channel)KXAS's Grant Stinchfield tours an elaborate Texas mansion that just came on the market to see what $20 million can buy. (NBC News Channel)




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Mega solar flare disrupts communications, GPS

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:14 PM PST

The image of the powerful Class X2 solar flare of Feb. 14, 2011, shows how it appeared to both the Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light (center sun disk) and the SOHO's C2 coronagraph. This was the largest flare in more than four years. A whopper of a solar flare that fired up earlier this week is wreaking havoc on some radio communications on Earth, and could spark exceptional auroras soon.




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Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:14 PM PST

Permafrost in name only — thaw adds to warming

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 01:38 PM PST

The permafrost around the top of the world is irreversibly thawing and within two decades will emit more greenhouse gases than it absorbs, scientists calculate in a new study.

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Does airplane air really make you sick?

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 06:50 AM PST

Cold germs can live for up to 24 hours aboard a plane. To lessen your risk of getting sick, try to avoid touching seatbacks, armrests and especially tray tables that may harbor infectious germs.As it turns out, airplane air is no worse than what you'd encounter in your average office building. It's that coughing or sneezing seatmate that you need to worry about.




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Palin rejects new gun laws, vague on 2012 plans

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:52 PM PST

Sarah Palin, in a rare public appearance at which reporters were allowed, praised lawmakers threatening to vote against raising the federal debt ceiling. She stuck to her guns on "death panels" Thursday and continued tweaking the first lady's efforts to fight childhood obesity, but she chided some of her own supporters for sustaining the "annoying" claims that President Barack Obama is foreign-born and Muslim.

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Hope for human hibernation heats up

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:51 AM PST

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: New research shows that bears keep surprisingly warm during their months of hibernation — and that suggests humans could take advantage of similar biochemical tricks.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: New research shows that bears keep surprisingly warm during their months of hibernation — and that suggests humans could take advantage of similar biochemical tricks.




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PFT: Union, league agree to 7 straight days of talks

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:40 PM PST

The NFL and union have agreed to seven straight days of negotiations, the second straight bit of good news in the labor situation.The NFL and union have agreed to seven straight days of negotiations, the second straight bit of good news in the labor situation.




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Mom takes off with infant on car's trunk

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:55 PM PST

A baby boy is recovering after taking a tumble from the back of his mother's car.

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NYT: Feds, business at odds over value of a life

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:37 PM PST

New York Times:  To protests from business, one agency after another has ratcheted up the price of life, justifying tougher — and more costly — standards.

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Video: Golf course neighbors teed-off over balls

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:54 PM PST

Feb. 17: A Florida couple who live next to a golf course, is fed up with the thousands of golf balls that have found their way into their yard, as well as through windows and screens. WBBH's Paul Gessler reports. (NBC News Channel)A Florida couple who live next to a golf course, is fed up with the thousands of golf balls that have found their way into their yard, as well as through windows and screens. WBBH's Paul Gessler reports. (NBC News Channel)




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Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:54 PM PST