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 | | | Good Morning Aron, | TUE 22 Dec 2009 | | | | |  |  | |  | | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | December 22, 2009 09:08 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats cleared the second of three 60-vote hurdles on President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul on Tuesday, moving the landmark legislation one step closer to passage by Christmas.  | |  |  | December 22, 2009 09:12 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy grew at a much slower pace than previously thought in the third quarter, restrained by weak business investment and a slightly more aggressive liquidation of inventories, data showed on Tuesday.  | |  |  | December 22, 2009 09:28 AM ET  | VILNIUS (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison in Lithuania and al Qaeda suspects may have been held there, a parliamentary probe in the Baltic state found on Tuesday.  | |  |  |  | December 22, 2009 07:24 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leaked memo appearing to show Tehran's efforts to design an atomic bomb trigger was forged by the United States, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.S. news program.  | |  |  | December 22, 2009 07:46 AM ET  | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States plan unprecedented cuts to their Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons under a new arms reduction deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Tuesday.  | |  |  | December 22, 2009 07:58 AM ET  | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The biggest changes to home loan disclosures since the 1970s are around the corner and many in the industry are warning that misunderstandings will create a logjam of confusion just as housing tries to recover.  | |  |  |  | December 22, 2009 04:47 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has picked former Bush administration adviser Howard Schmidt to serve as national cybersecurity coordinator, The Washington Post reported on Monday.  | |  |  |  | December 22, 2009 08:38 AM ET  | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian troops and police on Tuesday hunted for a state governor kidnapped by gunmen dressed in military uniforms in what authorities said appeared to be a surprise attack carried out by leftist FARC guerrillas.  | |  |  |  | December 22, 2009 08:53 AM ET  | LONDON (Reuters) - Cross-Channel Eurostar trains began running between London and continental Europe on Tuesday after four days of cancellations blamed on powdery snow left tens of thousands stranded just before Christmas.  | |  |  |  | December 22, 2009 09:18 AM ET  | PARIS (Reuters) - France urged Iran on Tuesday to deliver a swift verdict in the espionage trial of a young French teaching assistant, saying that she was innocent and a prisoner swap was out of the question.  | | | | | |   | | | |

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