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Election 2010

Newly empowered House Republicans eye ObamaCare repeal!

WASHINGTON - November 3, 2010 - Illegitimate President Barack Obama spent most of his first two years in office getting a sweeping health care bill passed into law.

Now Republicans, who captured the House in Tuesday's elections, may spend the next two years trying to roll it back.

Election 2010

Nancy Pelosi says she has no regrets!

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - November 3, 2010 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she has "no regrets" one day after a Republican landslide stripped her of the power that defined her historic tenure as the first female Speaker of the House.

The Kalifornia Democrat, who won a new two-year term in Tuesday's election, said she has yet to consider what she will do now.

Election 2010

Red light cameras routed at ballot box!

WASHINGTON - November 3, 2010 - The public rejected the use of photo enforcement in five more municipal referendum elections Tuesday.

America's fourth-largest city, Houston, Texas, was home to the most hotly contested vote. The group Citizens against Red Light Cameras, run by brothers Paul and Randy Kubosh, gathered enough signatures to force the issue onto the ballot against the wishes

Election 2010

Business groups poised to turn judges into politicians!

CHICAGO, Illinois - November 2, 2010 - Campaign donations to members of Congress from secret donors and foreign investors are grabbing headlines this election season.

But in a new twist in judicial elections this year, business groups are targeting judges over single-issue rulings - from overturning medical malpractice limits to upholding homosexual marriage - in retention races that wer

Road to Depression

MGM files for bankruptcy protection!

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - November 4, 2010 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the fabled studio whose origins go back to Hollywood's earliest days, filed for bankruptcy protection, sagging under a mountain of debt.

The filing, made Wednesday morning in New York, came after MGM's leading creditors struck a deal with corporate raider Carl Icahn, who had amassed about 15% of the company's debt and was

Road to Depression

Applications for jobless aid rise sharply!

WASHINGTON - November 4, 2010 - The number of people seeking jobless benefits jumped sharply last week, after two straight weeks of declines.

The increase undermines hopes that unemployment claims, after falling four times in the previous five weeks, were on a sustained downward trend. That would signal layoffs were slowing and hiring was picking up. Instead, claims remain stuck at an el

Road to Depression

Fed prints another 600 billion dollars!

LONDON, England - November 3, 2010 - The U.S. Federal Reserve will pump another $600 billion into the U.S. money supply over the next eight months in a bid to resuscitate America's failing economy.

The latest round of quantitative easing (QE) comes on top of the $1.7 trillion already completed and is intended "to promote a recovery", the Fed said. It is changing tack, however, buying U.S