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Poll: Dems want compromise, GOP prefers resolve

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:28 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner leaves the Capitol for a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington on April 5.The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll offers this explanation why the federal government is on the verge of a shutdown: Democrats want their leaders to compromise, while Republicans want theirs to stand their ground.




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Speaker Boehner: No deal yet on budget

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:40 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday after meeting to work on a budget deal and avoid a government shutdown. Surrounded by Republican leaders, House Speaker John Boehner said his party would continue to fight for the largest spending cuts they could get and are still in conversations with congressional Democratic leaders on finding a way to avert a government shutdown by Friday .




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Feds seize $6 million in products from wipe-maker

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:04 PM PDT

Federal officials on Wednesday seized more than $6 million in medical supplies distributed by a Wisconsin firm whose potentially contaminated drug products are blamed for serious infections and death.

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Body of missing US teacher 'Monty-san' found in Japan

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:47 PM PDT

The body of a popular American teacher known as "Monty-san" has been found in the tiny coastal Japanese town where he worked, more than three weeks after the country was rocked by a powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami, his sister said Wednesday.

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Video: Museum organizes 'touch tour' for blind guests

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:17 AM PDT

April 6: Beauty is in the hands of the beholder at the Miami Art Museum, which put together a "touch tour" that allowed blind guests to feel selected artwork. WTVJ's Diana Gonzalez reports. (NBC News Channel)Beauty is in the hands of the beholder at the Miami Art Museum, which put together a "touch tour" that allowed blind guests to feel selected artwork. WTVJ's Diana Gonzalez reports. (NBC News)




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Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:17 AM PDT

Video: Virgin Atlantic leads space tourism

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:47 PM PDT

April 6: British entrepreneur Richard Branson discusses his announcement that Virgin American and Virgin Galactic will be the first to land in San Francisco International Airport's new British entrepreneur Richard Branson discusses his announcement that Virgin American and Virgin Galactic will be the first to land in San Francisco International Airport's new "Terminal 2." (Dylan Ratigan Show)




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NBC/WSJ poll: Trump tied for 2nd in 2012 GOP field

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:22 PM PDT

"You're fired" isn't a message Republican primary voters and Tea Party supporters are telling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, at least not yet.

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Defiant GOP blames Obama, Dems for potential shutdown

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:18 PM PDT

Less than three days away from a government shutdown, House Republican leaders stood defiant today, laying blame on President Barack Obama and Democrats if the lights go out.

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Yellowstone buffalo to roam again

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:20 AM PDT

Bison are kept in a pen inside Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont., on March 17.Bison from Yellowstone National Park will roam freely across 75,000 acres in Montana where for years the animals were shipped to slaughter by the hundreds, under a breakthrough agreement.




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E-mails show US nuclear safety concerns

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 11:35 AM PDT

The Peach Bottom nuclear energy plant outside Lancaster, Pa., is of similar in design to the stricken plant in Japan. It was also cited in an e-mail by a federal regulator concerned about plans in case of an emergency there.U.S. regulators privately expressed doubts some of the nation's nuclear power plants are prepared for a Fukushima-scale disaster, newly released e-mails show.




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Gbagbo forces push back assault on palace

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:26 PM PDT

Soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara prepare to deploy at a checkpoint at one of the principal entrances to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Wednesday.Ivory Coast's strongman remains holed up in a subterranean bunker after his forces pushed back an attack by fighters backing his rival, diplomats and witnesses said.




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South Beach 'B-Girls' busted for tourist scam

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:14 PM PDT

Seventeen people have been charged in an alleged scheme to defraud out-of-town visitors by using so-called "B-Girls" to lure them to shady South Beach private clubs, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Synthetic drugs sent thousands to ER

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT

David Rozga, shown here in a photo displayed at his parents' home, killed himself last summer after getting high on a marijuana look-alike product called K2. After taking the drug, he told a friend "that he felt like he was in hell," said his father, Mike Rozga.Synthetic substances that mimic marijuana, cocaine and other illegal drugs are making users across the nation seriously ill, causing seizures and hallucinations and even killing some people.




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Posted: 06 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Life Inc.: When most bank robberies happen

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Life Inc.: We offer a quick word of advice. If you need to go talk to a teller this Friday about 11 a.m. and you live in Alabama … don't. Life Inc.: We offer a quick word of advice. If you need to go talk to a teller this Friday about 11 a.m. and you live in Alabama … don't.




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Dust Bowl states see farms dry up, fires rage

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 09:44 AM PDT

This river bed along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park in Texas was dried up on March 25. It had not rained in the area since last September.A major drought stretches from the Louisiana Gulf coast to Colorado, and conditions are getting worse.




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NBC/WSJ poll: Plenty of blame in case of shutdown

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 10:04 AM PDT

If there's a government shutdown, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that there will be enough blame to go around.

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Gadhafi to Obama: Please end airstrikes

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:18 PM PDT

Libyan rebel fighters prepare rockets for use at a position west of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday.Moammar Gadhafi has appealed directly to President Barack Obama to halt what the Libyan leader called "an unjust war" and wished Obama good luck in his re-election bid.




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Government shutdown could slow your tax refund

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 11:26 AM PDT

Life Inc.: If the budget standoff in Washington leads to a government shutdown, you may not get your tax refund as soon as expected.

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