Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Stock futures head to higher open AP - 6 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Wall Street looked to extend its gains Wednesday after another drop in oil prices blunted reaction to a mixed set of earnings reports.

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  Yahoo CEO remains upbeat despite lackluster quarter AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO - With Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid off the table and his company's stock price down 20 percent during his 13-month reign as Yahoo's CEO, Jerry Yang has a message for his exasperated shareholders: Things aren't as bleak as they look.

• Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard AP - 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home.

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  Omarosa: Wendy Williams is 'a fake and a phony' AP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Omarosa is not sorry for sparring with Wendy Williams. "I stand by everything I said," Omarosa told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

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  Phillies rally for 6 runs in 9th to beat Mets AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - So Taguchi and Jimmy Rollins had two-run doubles in a six-run ninth, and the Philadelphia Phillies rallied against the New York Mets' makeshift bullpen for an 8-6 victory Tuesday night, taking over first place in the NL East.

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  Obama calls Israel a "miracle," vows staunch support Reuters - 52 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged staunch support for Israel on Wednesday in Jerusalem, describing the Jewish state as a miracle and holding only a low-profile meeting with Palestinian leaders.

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  Hurricane Dolly strengthens as it nears Texas Reuters - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

  HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly strengthened on Wednesday as it churned toward southern Texas, and was expected to lash low-lying areas on the U.S.-Mexico border with torrential rains when it comes ashore around mid-day.

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  Majority of economists see McCain better for stocks Reuters - 16 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market would fare better in the first year after a victory by Republican presidential candidate John McCain than by his Democratic rival Barack Obama, according to a majority of economists at U.S. banks and research groups polled by Reuters.

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  Karadzic to conduct own defense, asks for shave Reuters - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

  BELGRADE (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defense in the Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be cleared of the charges of genocide, relatives and associates of the war crimes suspect said on Wednesday.

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  Ahmadinejad says U.S. envoy showed Iran respect Reuters - 44 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday praised U.S. participation in last week's talks with Tehran on its disputed nuclear program as "a positive step" and said its arch foe had shown respect.

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  Texas grand jury indicts 6 in polygamist ranch case Reuters - Tue Jul 22, 10:23 PM ET

  HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Tuesday charged the jailed polygamist leader of a breakaway Mormon sect with sexually assaulting a child and indicted five followers after state officials raided a polygamist ranch near Eldorado in April.

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  Vote looms in Congress on housing rescue plan Reuters - Wed Jul 23, 12:22 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major rescue package for the U.S. housing market is scheduled to come to a vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, with lawmakers agreeing final language late on Tuesday and congressional analysts putting a $25-billion potential price tag on a new provision.

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  Cleric Hamza loses bid to stop extradition to U.S. Reuters - 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri lost a legal bid on Wednesday to block his extradition from Britain to the United States where he is accused of trying to set up an al Qaeda camp and faces other terrorism charges.

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  US, NKorea meet at nuclear talks amid tough tone AFP - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

  SINGAPORE (AFP) - The United States and North Korea sat down Wednesday for their highest level meeting in four years at six-country talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament.

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  Karadzic to defend himself, mirroring Milosevic AFP - 48 minutes ago

  BELGRADE (AFP) - Captured Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic is to defend himself before the UN war crimes court, his lawyer said Wednesday, raising memories of the trial of his late ally, Slobodan Milosevic.

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  Ahmadinejad vows no Iran concessions in nuclear crisis AFP - 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

  TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday vowed that Iran would not yield in the crisis over its nuclear drive as world powers awaited a response from Tehran to a proposal aiming to end the standoff.

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  Amnesty urges Pakistan to resolve 'enforced disappearances' AFP - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Human rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Pakistan to reveal the details of hundreds of so-called enforced disappearances during the US-led "war on terror".

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  Consumer spending: Why nine is the magic number AFP - Tue Jul 22, 8:18 PM ET

  PARIS (AFP) - Retailers' belief that customers like a price ending in a nine rather than a rounded-up zero -- 199.99 instead of 200.00, for instance -- has been borne out by scientific research on a restaurant menu.

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  Brinkmanship, not breakthroughs, dominate WTO talks AFP - 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

  GENEVA (AFP) - High-stakes brinkmanship took hold on day three of crucial WTO trade talks on Wednesday, with both advanced and developing countries demanding concessions to avert another failure.

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  VW leads European automakers to surprise profit gains AFP - 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker, reported on Wednesday a surprise jump in profits, alongside Peugeot Citroen PSA in France and Italy's Fiat as all three benefited from strong overseas sales.

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• How a feisty Florida town fends off malls The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Jul 21, 5:00 AM ET

  EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. - A fisherman turned drug smuggler turned retired old salt, Floyd Brown claims he can find his way back here – one of the last Florida frontiers – without a compass from anywhere in the Gulf of Mexico. It's a skill, he says, he put to use more than once when he ferried bales of marijuana from Latin America to the Shark River in the 1970s.

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  Primped Peru guinea pigs tossed in frying pans Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 3:18 PM ET

  HUACHO, (Reuters Life!) - Furry guinea pigs squared off in Peru as their breeders tried to claim top prize for raising the fattest, fastest, most fashionable or tastiest rodent.

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  Economic stimulus, Part 2? The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Jul 21, 4:00 AM ET

  No one can remember the last time Congress enacted two major economic stimulus packages in one year. But 2008 may see a sequel to the $100 billion worth of checks that started filling individuals' bank accounts in early spring.