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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | WED 20 Jan 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | January 20, 2010 05:34 AM ET
 | BOSTON (Reuters) - In a stunning blow to President Barack Obama, Republican Scott Brown won a bitter Senate race in Massachusetts on Tuesday and promised to be the deciding vote against his sweeping healthcare overhaul.
| | | | January 20, 2010 09:11 AM ET
 | PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital on Wednesday morning, creating panic among survivors of last week's devastating quake camped out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.
| | | | January 20, 2010 09:07 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pick to head the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers, withdrew from consideration on Wednesday amid Republican concerns that he would attempt to unionize the security force.
| | | | | January 20, 2010 06:31 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will order federal agencies on Wednesday to take measures to prevent companies that are delinquent in paying taxes from obtaining new government contracts, the White House said.
| | | | January 20, 2010 07:28 AM ET
 | VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has notified the U.N. nuclear watchdog it rejects key parts of a draft deal to send abroad most of its enriched uranium, designed to ease fears the material could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Tuesday.
| | | | January 20, 2010 02:46 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has had multiple meetings with Chinese authorities over Internet freedom and will have more in the coming days, a top State Department official said on Tuesday amid continuing tensions between Google and Beijing.
| | | | | January 19, 2010 05:43 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI collected more than 2,000 records on U.S. telephone calls by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or by persuading phone companies to provide them, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
| | | | | January 20, 2010 07:00 AM ET
 | SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has launched an air strike on the house and farm of a leading Yemen-based al Qaeda militant, a security official said on Wednesday, but there was no immediate word on casualties.
| | | | | January 20, 2010 06:19 AM ET
 | GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian high-school student Fida Hejji died of cancer waiting for Israeli permission to go to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
| | | | | January 19, 2010 03:01 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an appeal by prosecutors and set aside a ruling that invalidated the death sentence of black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
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In blow to Obama, Republican wins in Massachusetts
